Silent Hill Homecoming

Pretty awful game on it's own, but the fact that this port is completely busted and unplayable without fan patches makes this an experience you should skip.

Silent Hill: Homecoming is a vile stain on the Silent Hill name. It’s a betrayal to everything that made the franchise legendary. Whoever thought this was a good idea should’ve been banned from ever making a game again. The atmosphere? Nonexistent. The dread, the psychological horror that made Silent Hill a masterpiece? Completely butchered. What we’re left with is an embarrassing, soul-sucking mockery of a horror game that doesn’t deserve to share the same name as the classics.

The story is a convoluted mess that insults your intelligence, and the characters? They’re cardboard cutouts with as much personality as a wet rag. The combat is sluggish and frustrating, it’s like they took the most annoying parts of early Silent Hill games and amplified them to make you want to throw your controller at the screen.

This game is an absolute dumpster fire, a pathetic excuse for a Silent Hill title. Avoid this trash at all costs. Silent Hill: Homecoming is an insult to fans and a disgrace to the genre.

2/10
Pretend this game doesn't exist.

Great game great story and environment. But the steam version is sadly unplayable junk . They need to fix it

Silent Hill: Homecoming is a survival horror game in the Silent Hill series released in 2008, developed by Double Helix Games and published by Konami. The game follows Alex Shepherd, a former soldier who returns to his hometown of Shepherd's Glen to search for his missing brother and deal with his past traumas.
Although it was received somewhat easily for its story and tense atmospheres, the game was extremely criticized for several aspects. On Steam, it has a "negative" media review, with many players pointing out flaws in the gameplay design, imprecise controls, and a frustrating combat system. Furthermore, the game distanced itself from the psychological and atmospheric style of previous games in the series.
Although Silent Hill: Homecoming has been widely criticized for its bugs and technical flaws, there is an unofficial patch created by the community that aims to fix most of these problems. This patch, available on forums and websites dedicated to the series, resolves issues such as performance glitches, control issues and graphical bugs, providing a more stable and playable experience. However, it is important to note that, despite these improvements, the game still suffers from some limitations, such as the distance from the psychological style characteristic of the series and the combat that still does not please all players.

unplayable, apparently you have to fix it. Done that, took 15 minutes came back to the game typed in the code to joshes door, boom im stuck.. pick up a console to play this game instead

Please don't buy this game. It continually crashes, therefore making it unplayable. It's unfortunately been in my backlog too, so no chance of a refund for me.

Bought it for 1 dollar, should have spent it on a kebab.

Game is unplayable & trash, crashed few times and the last one even frozen my PC. After i looked into it why it does this i found out that it's a bad port... actually this is worse than bad.

terribile pc port and optimisation, not worth it

This is effectively one of the worst games I have played; so bad that I completely removed it from my account rather than just uninstall. It controls horribly and the story is not worth the migraine you'll endure.

My opinion for this game is somewhat neutral, I don't think its the worst thing ever, but its definitely not something I call "great".

I don't know, just don't buy this expecting it to be like other Silent Hill games.

awesome game, the story is great although the combat animations could use a bit of work. After all it is a classic so playing it at list once in your life is a must

Ok so the port isn't perfect its beyond buggy and maybe even randomly difficult (That one is a silent hill classic though) but i do think fans of silent hill especially the movie fans should at least take a look at it when its on sale. Or play the ps3 port as the story is actually quite interesting and the combat is kinda goofy but a little bit of fun shines through.

Honestly? I have mixed feelings about this game..

The story was really good and the plot twist was really good, caught me by surprise.
Gameplay wise.. i dont really know, the combat system is really bad and the enemies are really stupid, i mean they can keep u stun locked and you can't do anything.
You also have the ammo issue even on normal mode, by the time i got to the Scarlet boss fight (it was hell) i was low HP and left with only melee, struggled for 3 days to beat that boss fight.

I would still recommend getting the game just to experience it, because the story was good and so were the characters, its just that combat system/Scarlet boss fight that made me annoyed with the game.

So wanted to love this game.
Got it on the Playstation and love it.
Really wanted to play it on the PC, but it's unplayable.
If you want to play it with keyboard and mouse ! Don't, just don't.
The port to PC is utterly sh*t and not playable at all without a controller.

What a waste of $40. I downloaded the patch and it's still crashing, freezing, and let's not even talk about how the mechanics are complete garbage. I could enjoy the game if it would simply RUN! Can't believe they're asking for that kind of money when they KNOW the game doesn't even function most of the time. 0/10, do not waste your hard-earned money on this crap PC version of this game. This is a perfect example of why you should be able to request a refund. I feel like my money was stolen.

5 finales y ni uno bueno pero me salió menos que una coca chica asique dentro no sé. 5/10

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☑ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☑ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☑ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☑ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs (since 2.0)
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☑ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
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☑ 3
☐ 4
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☐ 10

Now that konami is trying to revive the Silent Hill saga with the remake if SH2, and new releases they should fix this piece of garbabage this port is. i give it a chance and bought it in an offer for like 2€ and still i feel robbed. Use the money to either buy 4 on GOG or SH2Re.

I see lots of complaints about this game, but i play other games(EVIL WITHIM) with the same issues, glitches and bugs, and guess what? They(other games) have an overwhelmingly positive reputation, so my advice is, if you have a real decent and updated system setup, just put a very decent ssd on it, because 80% of these issues(problems) will disappear.


And here is a fix for the black screen:

if you still experience black screen on launch.

Go to \Engine\
Open vars_pc.cfg file with a text editor.
Change ScreenResHeight=
ScreenResWidth= to the desired resolution.

Notes

Resolutions above 1920x1080 may cause the map and examined inventory items to not display properly.

if a vars_pc.cfg doesnt exist in engine folder create it and add desired screen resolution



OBS: It's the closest decent thing near the "OUTLAST" experience, but with guns. And if this isin't enough 4 u, then i advice you to watch a movie that goes by the name of, "House on Haunted Hill", the 1999 version, and look for a character that goes by the name of,
Dr. Richard Benjamin Vannacutt, and not a RPG game claiming to be a horror game.

great game, it crashes :3

Team Silent should never have stopped making SH games. I have been a fan of Silent Hill for 20 years, but I lost interest after Origins. I never played Homecoming or Downpour as the OG games (1-4) are simply king. I decided to try again, but Homecoming is a broken game to say the least. it does not support controllers, which for a start is scandalous, and trying to use the Steam Input Translation mapping does not work and leaves the combat knife constantly equipped, so I can't interact with the environment and just keep swiping the knife everywhere rather than reading documents or moving over obstacles etc. Also it appears that an equipped weapon cannot be unequipped, so I am immediately uninterested. Do yourself a favour and play the original and best games from the days of yore, and avoid this nonsense.

This port is god awful. Borderline unplayable. It would be nice if Konami would update the game and fix it but I doubt that will ever happen.

Loud Mountain: Welcome Mat is not very good.

Runs extremely poorly on my system, and not due to lack of specs. Combat is unsatisfying, the psychological scares are gone, the story is more fit for a D-list straight to DVD horror film than a Silent Hill game. Also, spoilers [spoiler]: You don't even play an actual war veteran. Your character just LARPS as one. Can you imagine what the OG team silent could have done with a war veteran's PTSD? [spoiler]

Fix probably is capping fps in the pc graphical options such as nvidia panel/graphic setting/program setting/silent hill homing/max fps 30 or 36 ... save... and still don't enjoy this game... but hey, OG experience without crash issue

Played through the game on xbox, was curious if the PC version offered more fixes for the graphics. It did 'kind-of-sort-of,' but an already lame carbon copy of a silent hill game won't be fixed by graphics. I don't know how to sugar coat this; the games bad. I used to describe it as a fan game made by a generic western studio. Now that time's passed, even the things that were good or passable about this game have shrunk. It's just boring and insulting to both the player and to Konami. Easily the worst game in the series. 3/10 for the crashes and how poorly it's aged, it's still a complete experience but man you can be doing literally anything else with your time.

Such a fun and scary game, there's so many twists and turns that make me jump out of my seat. 10/10 would recommend.

Terrible buy It glitches so much and kicks me out before i can save i had to re due so many parts of this game not worth 41 bucks

Please Remake This Game... pretty good story, cool monsters, interesting places to explore... but ruined because this game is broken as heck and riddled with technical issues!!!!

I love this game but once I got to the graveyard it just freezes and crashes the game. I tried using Unlnown projects patch to fix this and it helped a bit but now the screen just freezes on cutscenes and I have to restart from the last save just for it to freeze again. I play on a MSI PC and it’s new with high graphics card, so I don’t understand why this game isn’t working. I can easily play games like COD and Fortnite but not this. Id love for this to be fixed.

What can i say about SH that hasnt already been said before. Great game still worth playing today.

and i thought the xbox 360 is bad for a game like that but this was even worse on pc.

Add more Silent Hill games to steam

Got this game on sale, is worth the sale price not the original price. Controls are very sucky just another thing to get used to and dodge action is not always so helpful ecpically when it lags. But so far i have really enjoyed this game, very atmospheric and jumpscare like.

i love the silent hill series so i was very excited to see this one 40% off!! now i see why this game is broke it doesnt even work half the time the controls just wont work its so annoying having this game on my screen makes me irritated.

N O T O P T I M I Z E D.

I played some of the older games, but this.. this is completely unplayable for me. I played it for 42 minutes , trying to play with settings cuz my character would not even attack when i press it like 10 times, controles changed every time the game crashed. And crashing of this game.. oh my gosh. In that 42 minutes it crashed 8 times.. when i alt-tabed , when i tried to do controls in options, when i died cuz my character just would not attack.. i love silent hill with my whole heart but i probably never saw game this bad optimalized.

CIK

I can't even open my inventory when needing to use an object on a spot in the game. Doesn't tell me what button to press either. Steam says there's no controller support either but in the game there's an option to turn it on?? Tried viewing the settings to see what the button could be but didn't get far. Used all my mouse buttons, tried my keyboard but nothing. At least I can examine?? Cool I guess??

it's funny how the only silent hill games available on steam right now are the best game and the worst game

glitches make near unplayable

so i downloaded this while it was on sell nothing is really bad about it besides the fact im not able to use my combat so i cant even get into the game to enjoy it.

fantastic game when it came out but this port is unplayable, the constant crashes make it nearly impossible to progress unless youre running back to save the game every chance you get and even then it may crash while youre trying to make it to the save points. Its also blue screened my PC a few times now. OH and the game page states that it doesnt support controllers (it does), a console game? a ported console game doesnt support controllers? wtf is that?

As a fan of this game, it's disappointing to see such a broken and poorly optimized port sitting on Steam, asking for $40. On newer systems, it's nearly unplayable, with constant technical issues. The game crashes frequently, often setting you back far too much, I have crashed 2 times at the same point and it would put me back nearly 15 min of game-time and 1 fully unavoidable cutscene.

The story itself is decent, but it's hard to appreciate when you're fighting through bugs and performance problems. Considering the success of the Silent Hill 2 remake, some might be curious about this other title on Steam, its seriously odd that THIS is the only other title on Steam. This port just isn’t worth the frustration and headache. If you're interested, wait for a steep discount—I picked it up for $9. At $40, it's just absurd. Steam needs to reprice older games if their this broken.

The game actually just kind of sucks. I had 0 technical glitches or complains, the game is just meh.
4/10 Only buy if ur a big silent hill fan.


Edit: I played it A LONG TIME AGO, like 2010ish, so any patches that fucked up performance aren't taken into account in my review. If u own it u can just get another copy of an earlier version.

Not going to be one of those ultra negative reviewers.
Look, it's 2008 Silent Hill from the XBOX 360/PS3 era.

Decent game, but the port is definitely sub-par. Save often and you'll be fine. Here's the key things to do, to avoid a bad time.

Do NOT minimize the window, you'll crash when you try to reopen it.
Do NOT use the steam overlay, your cursor will get messed up and you'll have to minimize to fix it, and then crash.
There's a glitch where projectile weapons don't make collision, so test a save file. Shoot into a wall, bullet hole = good to go. No hole = reload the save file.

Above all, when the game freezes. DO NOT MOVE OR PRESS BUTTONS. Just let it load. Towards the end, the freezes take up to 60-90 seconds, but it will come back if you don't hit additional inputs.

I really don't know how this game is allowed to be on Steam given that it is difficult to get from a save point to a save point without it crashing.

I jokingly called the game lobotomy hill when I first started it but now I feel like getting lobotomized is actually the optimal way to get any enjoyment out of this port

hmmm NO
the combat system is horrible

it constantly crashes my pc can definitely handle it which is a real shame because it really is a good game. It'd be nice if they could release some patches.