SILENT HILL: Ascension is the new interactive game and streaming series from Genvid and Konami set to premiere on Oct 31. Read on to learn more about this new SILENT HILL installment and how it would play out.
SILENT HILL: Ascension Premiers Oct. 31
An Interactive Streaming Series for Mobile and PC
SILENT HILL: Ascension is a new free-to-play/watch interactive game and streaming series set to release on mobile and PC on October 31, 2023. The latest SILENT HILL installment gameplay seems to be a mix between Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead where players or the audience will decide what happens next based on their choices. This new “game” allows the global audience to influence decisions made by series characters and shape the SILENT HILL canon forever.
How SILENT HILL: Ascension Works
In SILENT HILL: Ascension, there will be daily live streams where players will see new scenes and the outcome of the previous scene based on the audience’s decisions. Each live stream ends with a part where the audience must help a main character navigate dangers and choices. If a character fails enough in these challenges, they may die. It is up to the players to make decisions, succeed in endurance sequences, and solve puzzles to determine the fate of the characters.
These choices, according to the developers, once decided upon by the audience, become canon.
In addition, Influence Points or IP can be earned and used to participate in narrative-changing decisions. The more IP a player has, the stronger their influence is on certain decisions. IP can also be used to enter a daily cameo contest where players have a chance to make their avatars be a permanent part of SILENT HILL canon.
The Story
SILENT HILL: Ascension’s narrative will focus on the Hernandez and Johansen families as they deal with the aftermath of the deaths of their loved ones. Taking place in Pennsylvania and Norway respectively, these families have to survive by overcoming their darkest impulses and the machinations of a cult, leading to the horror that connects them.
