Silent Hill fans have been champing at the bit for a new game ever since the PT demo released back in 2014. Fans have been speculating about the series ever since the PT project was canceled only a year after the demo arrived. Guillermo Del Toro, who was originally involved with the project, recently made a joke about Silent Hill at The Game Awards and once again started a wave of hype among the fanbase.
PT had a massive effect on the gaming industry as it inspired many games despite never even fully releasing. This is why a simple joke made by Guillermo Del Toro basically stating that he wishes that another Silent Hill would release caused such a stir. Unfortunately, for fans of the series, it turns out that the joke was exactly that, a joke. Del Toro explained that he made the comment to poke fun at Konami for canceling the Silent Hill game that Hideo Kojima and him were working on.
Del Toro then went on to state that he does not see himself working in video games again, although, he did say that the way stories are told in games fascinates him. Fans are still discussing PT even 7 years after its release owing to how haunting the experience was. This was in part the result of how horrifying PT's antagonist, Lisa was.
Some fans have even gone as far as to recreate PT themselves. One PT fan even recreated the game in VR for the Occulus Quest to make the game just that little bit more terrifying. The recreation was made by Redditor ROBYER1 who recreated PT's hallway in Blender, which is a free 3D modeling and animation program. While ROBYER1's recreation of PT is not the full game, the Redditor did hide some secrets in order to scare curious players.
Hideo Kojima has done little to quell Silent Hill's fans hype as he made sure to include PT easter eggs in Metal Gear Solid 5 and more recently Death Stranding: Director's Cut. Unfortunately, Konami has not released any information to the public about a new possible Silent Hill game. Some speculate that it may be because any new Silent Hill game would most likely pale in comparison to the game that players were expecting to come out of Del Toro and Kojima's PT. It is unlikely that Konami would once again partner with Kojima to make a new Silent Hill game, so for now, fans will just have to wait for Kojima to announce a spiritual successor to PT or perhaps Konami to announce a new Silent Hill.
Source: Comicbook