SILENT HILL: Townfall System Requirements and Recommended Specs

The classic Silent Hill franchise is iconic and even if you have never played it, you recognize the name. It all started in small town of Silent Hill in 1999, and we’ve been struggling through the fog, isolation, and psychological horrors ever since.

While we have seen changes in the lead and the story, the theme remains the same with complex puzzles, a detailed storyline addressing often hard hitting topics with complex twists and turns throughout with a healthy dose of horror, jump scares and monsters. This time we take a trip to Scotland. Specifically, the far east side of Fife to visit the fictitious perpetually foggy St. Ameila which the developers based on the real-world location of St. Monans.

If you’re a returning fan or curious about the game, it’s certainly worth looking at the steam store page for SILENT HILL: Townfall for even more details.

• OS: Windows 11 x64
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X / Intel i7-9700K
• RAM: 32 GB RAM
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 / AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
• Storage: 75 GB available space
• DirectX Version: 12

• OS: Windows 11 x64
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 / Intel i7-8700K
• RAM: 16 GB RAM
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super / AMD Radeon RX 6600
• Storage: 75 GB available space
• DirectX Version: 12

Playing on recommended requirements should enable play on High settings at 4K 30fps (using DLSS, FSR, or TSR Balanced mode).

While the system specs are not overly stressful, being a single player game, the emphasis is on graphics and due to the sheer level of detail, 32 GB of RAM is recommended due to the size and complexity of some of the textures.

So, if you are looking to upgrade, go for RAM, then a graphics card. This would be a good path as the world and textures are pre-loaded to the RAM so if you have a powerful GPU but minimal RAM, you will see stuttering as the RAM has to load parts and feed it to the GPU. Upgrading your RAM first will reduce this as the RAM can preload more of the content before the graphics card needs it.

If you have both, you can improve the game further with our XENEON 34WQHD240-C which is an excellent QD-OLED curved display producing those inky blacks perfect for a game that is going to be heavy on shadows, and fog, lot and lots of fog.

Silent Hill has always straddled a host of genres basically carving out its own in doing so. With emphasis on resource management, exploration and at times some very clever and complex puzzles, it's certainly a thinking game.

That said you do still have your usual array of at times some disturbing monsters you can evade or attack. It is at its core a very good psychological horror series throwing your unsuspecting character and you in at the deep end with the bare essentials and little to no clue why you're there in the first place.

As a change from the norm, this time around, Silent Hill: Townfall is first person, don't let the cut scenes fool you. For those of us who played the previous titles it will be a little different, and likely even more immersive.

St Amelia promises to be both eerie and picturesque which is pretty accurate for that part of Scotland to be honest. The game developers Screen Burn who are based in Glasgow certainly know the weather and the feel.

The storms will feel oppressive driving you to seek cover inside where you'll no doubt encounter puzzles and fearsome enemies to avoid or fight, making this one of the most realistic depictions of Scotland we've seen in videogames.