Video Games
‘Silent Hill f’ Wins Big at The Horror Game Awards 2025, Including Game of the Year
Unlike The Game Awards 2025 last Thursday, Konami’s Silent Hill f was the big winner at The Horror Game Awards 2025. Nominated in six categories, NeoBard’s survival horror hit took home four awards, including the coveted Game of the Year.
Apart from Silent Hill f, the only other multiple award winner was Frankie Smile Show’s Look Outside, which took home Best Art Direction (beating out Silent Hill f) and Best Indie Horror Game. DOOM: The Dark Ages and The Midnight Walk added to their trophy cases from last week, winning Best Soundtrack and Best VR Horror Game, respectively. The Midnight Walk also won for Best AR/VR Game at The Game Awards 2025.
And unlike The Game Awards, there was no Grand Theft Auto VI to stop Resident Evil Requiem, which won Most Anticipated Horror Game.
Hosted by its co-creators Phil Dickens and Will Penkeyman, alongside co-producer Ash Millman, this year marked the first time that The Horror Game Awards was hosted live and in-person at at the Kensington Conference and Events Centre.
Here’s the rundown for the winners this year (thanks, Harrison):
- Game of the Year: Silent Hill f
- Player’s Choice: No, I’m Not Human
- Most Accessible Horror Game: Little Nightmares III
- Most Anticipated Horror Game: Resident Evil Requiem
- Best Performance: Konatsu Kato (Silent Hill f)
- Best Narrative: Silent Hill f
- Best Soundtrack: DOOM: The Dark Ages
- Best Art Direction: Look Outside
- Best Indie Horror Game: Look Outside
- Best Multiplayer Horror Game: R.E.P.O
- Best VR Horror Game: The Midnight Walk
- Horror Content Creator: Markiplier
- Best Indie Developer: Black Eyed Priest
- Best Developer: Red Barrels
- Technical Achievement Award: Silent Hill f
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Hideo Kojima
And speaking of Silent Hill…
From director Christophe Gans, the visionary filmmaker behind the 2006 Silent Hill movie, Return to Silent Hill will release in theaters nationwide on January 23, 2026.
You live here now….
Moon Studios dropped a new trailer during the Sony State of Play for their dark action-RPG No Rest for the Wicked, while also hinting at the long-awaited launch window for the full 1.0 release. The game, which has been in Early Access on Steam since April 2024, will be launching this October in full for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam, while versions for the Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 will arrive at a later date.
As a token of appreciation for supporters new and old, Moon Studios is offering an exclusive Early Access Founder’s Pack, a free limited edition bundle available for anyone who purchases the game on Steam prior to July 10, with rewards unlocking when 1.0 officially launches. PlayStation 5 users can receive the Early Access Founder’s Pack by pre-ordering the game once available, any time before launch day.
The Founder’s Pack includes:
- A New Secret Hideout: Spirit Cavern – The legacy of Moon Studios now lives inside No Rest for the Wicked, exclusively for Founders. A hand-crafted home that bridges both worlds.
- Sayer’s Vow: An all new Sword in the stone reserved just for the founders that only early adopters can extract in the game world.
- A Custom Founders Tag ensures players are clearly identified as early adopters.
- As a Founder member, players will get access to an exclusive Public Beta Test Realm reserved just for them, even after the 1.0 game launch.
As for the full 1.0 release, it will be a massive expansion of the core experience, introducing a staggering 60+ hours of new content, a new horde mode, powerful new weapons, bosses and enemies, new areas and a completely reimagined class system.
In No Rest for the Wicked, players take on the role of a “Cerim,” a member of a holy order imbued with mysterious powers, tasked with destroying the Pestilence, an ancient plague that has begun to consume the island Isola Sacra, itself already the site of great political upheaval and death.