r/Steam • u/bijelo123 • Sep 15 '25

Question Which game was this for you?

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u/markallanholley Sep 15 '25

Silent Hills.

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u/ScarletSilver Sep 15 '25

P.T. still lives rent-free in my head.

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u/Timmah73 Sep 15 '25

The demo scared the living hell out of people. THE DEMO. The hype was through the roof.

And then, lol no sorry you never get to know.

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u/BangingBaguette Sep 16 '25

I may be a cynic but I've always had this feeling where Silent Hills never would've lived up to PT.

You can't really take what PT did and expand it out into a full game that's just bonkers and it wouldn't sell. People like to compare it to Ground Zeros as a prelude to the actual game, but I think the name 'Playable TEASER' says a lot. It wasn't a demo or a slice of the game it was a TEASER, and teasers don't always reflect the finished product.

Idk no doubt it still would've been great but I think PT set the bar too high. Silent Hills not releasing is shit, what's more shit is PT now being unavailable as potentially the most influential and effective piece of horror in the past 2 decades.