Silent Hill 2 Remake could have been robbed of the awards it was nominated for at The Game Awards, but it surely took residence the highest Game of the Year prize on the 2024 Horror Game Awards final evening.
Konami’s horror recreation additionally received Best Survival Horror, Best Soundtrack, and awarded James Sunderland mocap and voice actor, Luke Roberts, Best Performance within the third annual horror recreation showcase, however did lose out in a number of different classes it was nominated for given the glut of sensible horror video games we have seen this 12 months.
Best Indie Developer went to Chilla’s Art, Best Multiplayer went to the sensible Lethal Company, and the Chinese Room’s Still Wakes the Deep took residence Best Indie Horror, in addition to Best Technical Achievement.
Pyramid Head designer Masahiro Ito additionally secured a person lifetime achievement award.
Here’s the total checklist of nominations and winners:
Best Performance
- Alec Newman/Caz – Caz in Still Wakes the Deep
- Luke Roberts/James Sunderland – Silent Hill 2 (WINNER)
- Vito Z. Holmes/Rambley the Raccoon – Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Most Accessible Horror Game
- Dead By Daylight – Behaviour Interactive
- Mouthwashing – Wrong Organ
- Slay the Princess – The Pristine Cut – Black Tabby Games (WINNER)
Best Narrative
- Silent Hill 2 – Bloober Team
- Mouthwashing — Wrong Organ (WINNER)
- Slay the Princess – The Pristine Cut — Black Tabby Games
Best Soundtrack
- Indigo Park: Chapter 1 – UniqueGeese
- Psychopomp GOLD – Fading Club
- Silent Hill 2 – Bloober Team SA (WINNER)
Players’ Choice
- Mouthwashing – Wrong Organ (WINNER)
- Silent Hill 2 – Bloober Team SA
- Buckshot Roulette – Mike Klubnika
Best Survival Horror
- Crow Country – SFB Games
- Silent Hill 2 – Bloober Team (WINNER)
- Until Dawn – Ballistic Moon
Best Indie Developer
- Chilla’s Art (WINNER)
- Puppet Combo
- Wrong Organ
Best Indie Horror Game
- Buckshot Roulette – Mike Klubnika
- Mouthwashing – Wrong Organ
- Still Wakes the Deep – The Chinese Room (WINNER)
Best Multiplayer Horror Game
- Dead By Daylight – Behaviour Interactive Inc.
- Lethal Company – Zeekerss (WINNER)
- Phasmophobia – Kinetic Games
Best VR Horror
- Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2 – Steel Wool Studios
- Phasmophobia – Kinetic Games
- Resident Evil 4 VR – Capcom & Armature Studio (WINNER)
Best Developer
- Capcom (WINNER)
- Wrong Organ
- Puppet Combo
Horror Content Creator of the Year
- IGP
- ManlyBadassHero
- Markiplier (WINNER)
Technical Achievement
- Mouthwashing – Wrong Organ
- Still Wakes the Deep – The Chinese Room (WINNER)
- Silent Hill 2 – Bloober Team SA
Lifetime Achievement Award
- Masahiro Ito (WINNER)
- Scott Cawthon
- Sam Lake
Most Anticipated Horror Game
- Alien: Isolation Sequel – Creative Assembly (WINNER)
- Little Nightmares III – Supermassive Games
- Resident Evil 9 – Capcom
Horror Game of the Year
- Silent Hill 2 – Bloober Team SA (WINNER)
- Mouthwashing – Wrong Organ
- Still Wakes the Deep – The Chinese Room
The awards additionally showcased a number of world first premieres of upcoming indie horror video games, together with Shiver, Cold Abyss: Directors Cut, Deadcam, Feed the Pit, Bye Sweet Carole, and Animal Use Protocol.
“Against the chances, Bloober Team has delivered a remake that each expands Silent Hill 2 in simply the correct locations, and provides cautious consideration to what it preserves,” I wrote in Eurogamer Silent Hill 2 Remake assessment, awarding the sport a powerful 5 out of 5 stars.
In associated information, Silent Hill 2 Remake gamers are nonetheless ready for a repair for the sport’s poor efficiency on PS5 Pro.
Although Bloober Team deployed an replace to handle graphical glitches affecting the horror recreation on PS5 Pro after Silent Hill 2 Remake gamers referred to as on Konami to handle the technical points nonetheless plaguing the sport on PS5 Pro weeks on from the Pro’s launch, all of the patch has carried out is take away PSSR and fails to handle any of the underlying points.
