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Silent Hill

Turned hardware fog into psychological atmosphere, splitting horror from Resident Evil's action lineage.

Released 1999 Developer Team Silent Publisher Konami Platform PlayStation Genre Survival horror Era The 3D rupture

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Silent Hill inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

In-Engine Cutscene 1984Adaptive Dynamic Music 1991Environmental Storytelling 1994Analog Free-Roam 3D Movement 1996

The Silent Hill series in this dataset

1999
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2001
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