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The Otherworld
August 20, 2026 at 02:32 AM
Initial version covering the Otherworld as shown in Townfall's own material
The Otherworld is named by Konami and Screen Burn as appearing in SILENT HILL: Townfall. Producer Motoi Okamoto has referred to "the town's atmosphere and the portrayal of the Otherworld" as part of what players will find here, and a first-party post describing the June trailer places a creature "stalking Simon in the darkness of the Otherworld."
Only the name is carried over. Nothing about how the Otherworld worked or looked in earlier games has been confirmed for Townfall, and this page records only what this game's own material shows.
Detail | Source of the description |
|---|---|
An underground structure hued in red light | Where Simon is transported during the prologue, after answering a ringing pay phone in the empty town square. Exploring it leads him, impossibly, to an apartment. |
The Otherworld invading the streets | A later section of the press build, running through the yards and alleys of a neighbourhood on St. Amelia, rather than a separate place Simon travels to. |
A tenement building | An explorable Otherworld location, marked as its own chapter in the official gameplay trailer. |
Entered with a pistol in hand | Another official chapter marker describes Simon entering St. Amelia's Otherworld carrying a pistol. Firearms are covered on Combat and Stealth. |
Red is the dominant colour. Environments in the Otherworld have been described as bathed in oppressive red light, in contrast to the fog of the ordinary town, and ray tracing is used on both. The red and black pairing runs through the game's whole palette, and McKellan has said the two colours carry a symbolic significance for Simon that the story eventually explains. More on the visual treatment is on Art Direction and Presentation.
The ranged creature that fires tentacles from its chest was encountered during the section where the Otherworld invades the streets. Like every other creature in the game, it has no published name. Descriptions are on Combat and Stealth.
Townfall is a self-contained story set on a Scottish island in 1996. It is not set in the town of Silent Hill, and no established figure, faction or creature roster from a previous game in the series has been confirmed to appear. Anything about the Otherworld beyond what is listed above stays out of this article until the game shows it.
