Loading...
Loading...
Zoe Ellis
August 20, 2026 at 02:32 AM
Initial version covering Zoe's role, her broadcasts, and the objects that trace her disappearance
Zoe is the second named character in SILENT HILL: Townfall and the person Simon Ordell is sent to find. Konami and Screen Burn introduced her at a State of Play on June 2, 2026, describing her as "an inhabitant of St. Amelia, she's a nurse from a local family clinic and dedicated to her job." A Steam announcement the same week called her "a mysterious woman who appears before Simon."
Her surname is given as Ellis, legible in the game itself on mail Simon picks up. No first-party text has printed it, so "Zoe" is the form used in prose here.
Zoe is the voice heard on the CRTV in the February 2026 reveal trailer. Screen Burn's own words: "We are finally able to put a face and name to the voice previously heard on the CRTV from our reveal trailer." She is heard calling for Simon to return to the island, and simultaneously asking him "what are you doing here?", a question first-party material notes is hard for him to answer.
The looping signal in the gameplay trailer repeats a short plea three times inside eighty seconds: "Come back to me. Let me leave here. I can't do this much longer. Let me go home." Konami's own material describes her begging Simon to come back to her through static.
Zoe has disappeared from her job by the time Simon arrives. Following her is what structures the opening: the signals on the CRTV relate directly to her past and to the town's, and each location gives up an object that says something about why she left.
Location | What Simon finds |
|---|---|
Her apartment | Empty. Her ID badge is here, and it establishes she is a nurse. |
The clinic office | A set of three scales, each waiting on an object that mattered to her and that she felt stood for one of her failures. The set doubles as a puzzle. |
The pharmacy | A prescription Zoe ordered, which turns out to have been called in at the wrong dosage. |
A coworker's apartment | Her medical bag, with a broken stethoscope inside, described as the symbol of her inability to truly hear her patients. |
Zoe's house | Its own chapter in the official gameplay trailer. A photograph of Simon is here, along with a flashlight that needs batteries. A human organ transplant card has also been described in the house, from one account of the press build only, and is not confirmed. |
The hospital | In the second section shown to press, Zoe has moved on to a separate medical centre elsewhere on the island. |
Zoe's story is tied to St. Amelia's, which appears to have suffered some sort of medical outbreak, and to Simon's, even though he does not know who she is. The clearest published evidence of a prior link is the photograph of Simon sitting in her house, in the home of someone he does not remember.
Beyond that, nothing is settled. First-party material says only that "Zoe is not someone he has encountered before," and nothing published establishes a relationship between them, so none is stated here until the game does.
The developers have been open that the town's affliction is the game's subject rather than a backdrop. Okamoto has described 1996 St. Amelia as a place where "the reality and delusions within the town slowly intertwine," and Zoe's three scales are the clearest example of that working through a single character: objects standing in for guilt, arranged as a puzzle Simon has to solve before he understands what he is looking at.
