Free-to-play game Silent Hill: The Short Message launches today

Konami revealed details about its Silent Hill titles — including a new game that launches today — at the State of Play event. Its newest Silent Hill game is a free-to-play title called The Short Message, which launches today on PlayStation 5. It also revealed a new trailer for the Silent Hill 2 remake, although that title did not get a release date.

It’s a first-person horror title reminiscent of the defunct P.T. Motoi Okamoto, a producer at Konami, said on the PlayStation Blog that the title is experimental and created in part by fledgling developers. Konami also partnered with HexaDrive on its development. According to Okamoto, the game’s central theme is about cyberbullying and the pressure of living under a barrage of online negativity.