The last major milestone hit by the game was back in October 2025, when Konami had confirmed that it had shipped more than 2.5 million units worldwide, counting physical and digital sales.

Silent Hill 2 is a psychological horror game that revolves around James Sunderland having spent three years mourning the death of his wife, who passed away from a terminal illness. However, one day, he gets a strange letter signed by his wife, Mary, asking him to meet her in their “special place”—the town of Silent Hill. The remake was released on PC and PS5 back in October 2024, and eventually made its way to Xbox Series X/S in November 2025.

The original release of the game happened back in 2004 on PS2, Xbox and PC, and saw an immensely positive critical reception thanks to how it handled its horror aspects, including a tense atmosphere, as well as its deep storytelling and well-written characters.

Being such a beloved game, Bloober Team had spoken about having to dive into plenty of fan theories for the purposes of research during the development of the remake. Level designer Anna Oporska-Szybisz noted during a GDC talk last year that one of the core areas of this research was the Labyrinth.

“I can’t tell you how many hours we spent watching, reading, discussing all the elements that we can [find] on the internet,” Oporska-Szybisz said. “Our main goal has always been to respect the fans and never, ever disregard any of their theories.”

“I don’t like everything that I found there, to be honest, but when we started analyzing them and finding all the cons and pros behind them, I started to love the way that people were thinking about the Labyrinth, and wanted to incorporate as many things as I can in it.”

Since then, Bloober Team has gone on to develop and release another horror title—Cronos: The New Dawn. Director Jacek Zięba spoke about how the studio felt like underdogs until the release of Silent Hill 2 Remake.

“We are starting to stop feeling like underdogs all the time after Silent Hill,” he said. “The Silent Hill era wasn’t so easy in the eyes of the public. There were a lot of voices: ‘Oh no, Bloober is doing this. They will destroy that.’ It was very tough for the whole company to stick to our guns and put all our heart into that thing, even if most people don’t want it. We proved people wrong, so that’s nice.’”

For more details about Silent Hill 2 Remake, check out our review from back when it first came out. Also take a look at why we loved it enough to make it our game of the year for 2024, amidst heavy-hitters like Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Astro Bot, and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.

While one of the production teams is currently in the pre-production stages of a new original project, much of the team that worked on Cronos: The New Dawn, is now helping another team with polishing its projects.

“The creative part of the team is currently conducting pre-production work on a new original project,” said Babieno (via machine translation). “At the same time, most of the [‘Cronos‘] production team is currently supporting the polishing process of selected projects implemented within our second-party segment. After completing the pre-production stage, the team will gradually transition into full production of the new project.”

After the support work has been wrapped, the team behind Cronos: The New Dawn will work on Project H, which has been described as the one in pre-production. The budget for this project is also not expected to exceed the budget for Cronos.

“One of the advantages of specializing in a single genre is the ability to leverage many elements of our production pipelines and the experience we’ve gained in subsequent projects,” said Babieno. “At the same time, from the outset, we’re designing this game as a project with significantly greater sales potential. In this regard, we’re conducting numerous analyses and market research to help us best tailor the project’s scale and positioning. As for the release date, it’s still too early to provide specific dates.”

As for Layers of Fear 3, which was announced back in February, Babieno revealed that Bloober Team is co-developing it with another studio, while the studio itself continues to offer “significant input”. He also went on to note that, aside from one project that it is working on alongside an external publisher, all of Bloober Team’s in-development games are being financed by its own funds.

“Importantly, except for one project implemented in collaboration with an external publisher, all other projects are currently financed from the company’s own funds,” he said. “This means that in recent years we have made a number of investments, the effects of which should be visible in the coming years.”

Layers of Fear 3 was officially unveiled after a long, mysterious countdown on a strange website. However, no details had been revealed about the title, including release platforms or a release window. Its announcement coincided with Bloober Team celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Layers of Fear franchise, which saw its first release all the way back in 2016.

As for Bloober Team’s other works, the studio had released Cronos: The New Dawn just last year on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Check out our review for more details. The studio has also confirmed that it is working on a remake of the original Silent Hill.

During the series’ 10th anniversary showcase, Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno said, “Layers of Fear isn’t just a title from our past. It marked the moment when we understood what kind of studio we want to be – what type of games we want to create. Tonight, we want to honor that legacy and show you that Layers of Fear is still alive, still evolving, and still finding new ways to haunt.”

“Layers of Fear was imagined as a tribute to artists and the thin line between inspiration and obsession. Creativity can be both beautiful and destructive while shaped by ambition and the fear of failure. Our goal was to show that by placing the player inside an artist’s unravelling mind, we invite empathy rather than judgment, changing horror into a deeply human experience.

“When we started making the game in 2015, we were a team of around 20 people. It was a very personal project for us, and everyone put their own inspirations and experiences into the game’s art style and narrative themes. We are extremely grateful that the game resonated with so many people throughout the years. Layers of Fear is the game for the artist within you. And as every artistic journey, the deeper you go into it, the more you discover about yourself,” said creative director and lead designer Mateusz Lenart.

Interestingly, the team also announced a series of books inspired by the series, with the first releasing later this year and written by Marta Bijan. Subsequent entries will involve other Polish authors, and if that’s not enough, you’ll be able to pick up the Layers of Fear OST in physical form at some point.

As for the next game in the series, your guess is as good as ours on how it could play. The last entry, Layers of Fear, launched in 2023 and served as a remake of the first two games, connecting them via a new character, The Writer. It also features two new DLC side stories – The Final Note and The Final Prologue. Check out our review for more details.

Aside from Layers of Fear 3 and Project M, Bloober Team is working on a remake of the first Silent Hill with Konami.

The post is a the latest iteration of the Xbox Excellence Awards, which was created last year to celebrate how players engaged with various releases on Xbox. The Store Rating category lists 2025 games with the best ratings on the Microsoft Store, with an added requirement of the title having at least 500 ratings. Player Engagements is about the average number of hours spent on a game by each player within the first six weeks of a game’s release. Daily Active Users celebrates titles, expansions or updates with the highest single-day active users throughout the year. And finally Units Sold is fairly self-explanatory.

Going down the lists, you’ll find many of the biggest releases of the year, from ARC Raiders and Battlefield 6, as well as award-winning RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Indie titles have also been well-represented, with games like Crime Scene Cleaner and Satisfactory making it into the lists. There also doesn’t seem to have been a singular genre to dominate the lists, since everything from sports games like EA Sports Madden NFL 26, to fantasy adventure life sims like Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, and even fighting games like Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics are well represented.

Curiously, none of the games was present in all four of the categories. At most, we got to see titles like Borderlands 4 being able to make it on to three of them: Player Engagement, Daily Active Users and Units Sold. Even ARC Raiders, which has seen quite a bit of success, is only on the Units Sold and Daily Active Users lists.

Microsoft has also emphasized that the lists represent a diverse collection of games developed by studios of varying sizes. All in all, it represents 48 unique developers based out of 13 countries, with 24 publishers having had a hand in their release. 19 of the games were self-published. “Taken as a whole, it’s an encapsulation of development on Xbox – we want gaming to reach you wherever you are, and for the teams making those games to find you from wherever they are,” wrote the company.

Full list of games:

Store Rating:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Crime Scene Cleaner
• Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles 2
• Digimon Story: Time Stranger
• Dreamcore
• Dynasty Warriors: Origins
• Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
• Final Fantasy XVI
• Lies of P: Overture
• Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
• Little Nightmares III
• Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
• Minami Lane
• Mullet MadJack
• Poppy Playtime Chapter 4
• Satisfactory
• Silent Hill 2
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
• The First Berserker: Khazan

Player Engagement:

• Borderlands 4
• Digimon Story: Time Stranger
• Dynasty Warriors: Origins
• EA Sports College Football 26
• EA Sports FC 26
• Elden Ring Nightreign
• Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
• Farm Together 2
• Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles
• Helldivers 2
• Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
• MLB The Show 25
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• NBA 2K26
• NHL 26
• Rust
• Satisfactory
• The First Berserker: Khazan

Daily Active Users:

• Arc Raiders
• Avowed
• Battlefield 6
• Borderlands 4
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
• DOOM: The Dark Ages
• Elden Ring Nightreign
• Fortnite
• Forza Horizon 5
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Grounded 2
• Helldivers 2
• Marvel Rivals
• Minecraft
• NBA 2K26
• Rematch
• Roblox
• Rocket League
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege

Units Sold:

• Arc Raiders
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows
• Battlefield 6
• Borderlands 4
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
• EA Sports Madden NFL 26
• EA Sports College Football 26
• EA Sports FC 26
• Elden Ring Nightreign
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Helldivers 2
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• MLB The Show 25
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• NBA 2K26
• PGA Tour 2K25
• Ready or Not
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
• WWE 2K25

“If this is teasing a Rule of Rose remake by Blooper Team that would actually be insane,” wrote social media user Radec. However, Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno has ended this speculation by confirming that there will be no remake. “Nice guess, but no. It definitely doesn’t refer to any remake,” he wrote on LinkedIn.

The studio may continue to maintain its silence over what the website is counting down to, but some speculation indicates that it is going to be Project M, which Bloober Team had announced in February 2023. The project is slated to be a survival horror game coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch, and Babieno said that it will “introduce a bold twist” that hasn’t been done in the survival horror genre before. He also called it a “vision that could only exist on Nintendo hardware”.

Just last week, the countdown website had been updated with some new text, and a mysterious distorted voiceover of a man reciting lines from William Blake’s poem “The Sick Rose“. The text said: “Some things never leave the walls. They only learn to wait.” At the time of publishing, the countdown timer still has 12 days remaining.

Owing to a recently spotted European trademark, the mysterious game is believed to be titled “Onyx: The Dark Grip“. This trademark was applied for all the way back in March 2024, with the registration going through later that year in August (with the latest update being last January).

Aside from Project M or Onyx (whatever it ends up called), Bloober Team has confirmed that it has started development on the remake of the original Silent Hill had begun back in October.

“We have two first party production teams, one of which is working on the Silent Hill 1 project and the other has started work on the next project,” said the studio during a Q&A session with investors. “As part of the second party, there are currently 5 projects.”

The latest Bloober Team game is Cronos: The New Dawn, which was released on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S in September. The survival horror game saw some early success, with 200,000+ launch-day sales and hitting the 500,000 sales milestone by November. For more details, check out our review. Also take a look at the free PC demo. And if you decide to pick it up, take a look at our guides on how to unlock all three endings, and where you can find all 37 cores.

The text states, “Some things never leave the walls. They only learn to wait.” Pressing the play button will reveal some scratchy audio, followed by a man reciting lines from “The Sick Rose” by William Blake. “Thou art sick. Invisible flies in the night. Howling storm has found out thy bed of crimson joy. Dark secret thy life destroy.”

Not the most coherent of hints, but at the very least, we’re getting closer to a reveal. It’s worth noting that Bloober Team trademarked Onyx: The Dark Grip in Europe in 2024. This could be the name of its next project, and may even refer to the “dark secret” that players must carry.

While Bloober Team has Silent Hill 1 Remake in the works and whatever the Cronos: The New Dawn team is working on (besides an Easy mode), it’s also teased Project M. Exclusive to the Nintendo Switch 2, studio CEO Piotr Babieno promised a “bold twist” and a “vision that could only exist on Nintendo hardware.”

He also singled out Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Limbo and Eternal Darkness fans specifically as those who would feel “immediately at home” with it. Time will tell, but given that it’s Switch 2-exclusive, it could show up at the rumored Nintendo Direct, reportedly set to air next week. Perhaps a reveal trailer, followed by a deeper dive on February 15th? Stay tuned for more updates.

However, a recent trademark in Europe, as discovered by Reddit, may have already spoiled the surprise. Titled “Onyx: The Dark Grip,” Bloober Team applied for the trademark in March 2024 – it was registered several months later in August and seemingly updated today. Unless this is a codename, you might want to dash those hopes for a new Eternal Darkness.

So what is it? Perhaps it’s Project M, a Nintendo Switch-exclusive survival horror title announced back in February 2023. In a recent interview with Nintendo Insider, Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno said that it would “introduce a bold twist” that hasn’t been seen in any other horror titles. It’s apparently a “vision that could only exist on Nintendo hardware.”

Whatever it may end up being, Babieno promised that fans of “Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Limbo, and Eternal Darkness will immediately feel at home.” A new twist on the Sanity system, perhaps? One could certainly hope.

In the meantime, Bloober Team is also working on a remake of Silent Hill 1. It also recently released Layers of Fear: The Final Masterpiece for Nintendo Switch 2 and is working on an Easy difficulty for Cronos: The New Dawn called Temporal Diver, launching in early 2026.

While he didn’t go into too many details about what we can expect going forward, Okamoto noted that Konami wants to release a new game—both announced and unannounced—every year.

“Following the release of Silent Hill 2 in October 2024, we were able to deliver Silent Hill f ​​in September 2025, and the Silent Hill series is now back on track,” said Okamoto (via Google Translate). “We aim to release about one title per year, including both announced and unannounced titles. We’re not sure how far we can achieve this, but we’ll do our best as the producer of the Silent Hill series. Ideally, we’d like to keep the buzz around Silent Hill constant.”

Konami kickstarted this just a few years ago when it announced three new titles in the series—Silent Hill 2’s remake, Silent Hill f, and Silent Hill: Townfall. While the first two launched to wide critical acclaim, the third has received little by way of marketing so far. However, a recent leak had indicated that Silent Hill: Townfall will be coming out on March 26, 2026, which would further fall in line with Konami’s plans for a new Silent Hill game every year.

Back in October, Okamoto had noted that the three titles were announced at around the same time in 2022, so that Konami could affirm its commitment to bringing the classic horror franchise back. He said that the company wanted fans to “feel how serious we were about reviving the series.”

“Three years ago, in 2022, we announced three titles: Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill f, and Silent Hill: Townfall,” wrote Okamoto. “We didn’t want to just announce a single remake to ‘test the waters.’ We wanted people to feel how serious we were about reviving the series. Developing a remake and a new title simultaneously naturally involves risks, but we wanted to convey our commitment first and foremost.”

With Silent Hill: Townfall‘s rumoured release happening in just a few months, the future of the series is also being further expanded with developer Bloober Team once again taking on its past, this time around with a remake of the original Silent Hill. The studio, having previously worked on the Silent Hill 2 remake, confirmed that development on a remake of the original had begun all the way back in October.

In the meantime, check out our review of Silent Hill f. The title is available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Showcased in a rather cheesy trailer, which features a Traveler intercepting “complaints,” such as those who’d like to play through the survival horror for its story, this mode makes things easier. How? Well, you’ll need to wait for more details on that front, but such is the studio’s calling that it recognizes those who want a less punishing experience.

Cronos: The New Dawn is available for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2. As a Traveler, players venture to the past to capture and transport the essences of key individuals to their present – a brooding wasteland where horrible monsters roam. Resident Evil and Dead Space are clear inspirations, but it still stands out as a compelling experience – check out our review for more details.

Yes, it shares the same name as the first game and even includes it alongside Layers of Fear 2 and all the DLC. The key difference is that the new version connects all these stories courtesy of a new protagonist, The Writer.

There’s also the new DLCs, namely The Final Note, focusing on The Painter’s Wife and The Final Prologue, which answers lingering questions about the second game’s Director. Check out our review for Layers of Fear (2023) to learn more. It’s currently available for PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S.

As for Bloober Team’s other projects, it’s working on a remake of Silent Hill 1 and an unannounced project.