Silent Hill: Homecoming
Silent Hill: Homecoming is the sixth installment in the Silent Hill survival horror series. The gameplay is the same as it's previous entries, where the player searches for objects and uses weapons to defend…
Silent Hill: Homecoming is an adventure developed by Double Helix Games, released 30 September 2008 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $5.99 at Fanatical. The main story takes about 14 hrs to finish.
What Silent Hill: Homecoming is
Silent Hill: Homecoming is an adventure game developed by Double Helix Games and released in 2008. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Slayer.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story follows Alex Shepherd, a young man who returns to his hometown of Shepherd's Glen following a supposed military discharge and time spent in a hospital for combat related injuries. Alex returns home only to find that his father and younger brother, Joshua, have vanished without a trace, as have many others throughout the town. He finds his mother in a depressive, near catatonic state. Alex searches through the town for his missing brother while uncovering the causes behind the strange events and the dark secrets of the neighboring town of Silent Hill.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Silent Hill series
Silent Hill: Homecoming is the 18th of 39 entries we hold in the Silent Hill series. The next entry was Silent Hill: Shattered Memories in 2009. Its critic score of 67 is 7 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Silent Hill 2 at 90.
How it was received
Silent Hill: Homecoming holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 2 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 67, across 180 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 14 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $5.99, that works out to about $0.43 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual core CPU such as Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 1 GB (XP) or 2 GB (Vista) of RAM and DirectX 9.0c compliant video card such as ATI Radeon HD-series graphics card (minimum 256 MB) or NVIDIA GeForce 7800-series graphics card (minimum 256 MB). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 10GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $5.99 at Fanatical, 85% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Silent Hill: Homecoming launched on 30 September 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Dead Space, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut and World of Goo. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Dead Space, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, World of Goo.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Silent Hill: Homecoming yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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