Silent Hill: Townfall

Screen Burn's first-person Silent Hill takes the series to 1996 Scotland. Our review, the run plan, and all 37 trophies explained in depth — all five endings, the full collectible sweep and the challenge trophies.

7.8PixelForge Score

Developer: Screen Burn  ·  Genre: Psychological Horror
Platinum: 4/10 · 15–20h · 2 runs · offline · several missables (plan your runs)
Trophies: 1 · 5 · 9 · 22

A bold, unsettling left-turn for Silent Hill

Silent Hill: Townfall is the series' most experimental swing in years. Developed by Screen Burn and published by Konami and Annapurna Interactive, it drops the fixed cameras and over-the-shoulder combat for a tense first-person descent, set against the cold isolation of 1996 Scotland and the fictional town of St. Amelia. You play Simon Ordell, waking with no clear tie to a place that clearly has designs on him, sliding between the town and a nightmarish Otherworld.

It leans into dread over action. Encounters with the Widows reward evasion — hiding, throwing bottles, luring foes with radios and even car alarms — over standing and fighting, and improvised weapons and a light crafting system keep you scavenging to survive. The heart of it, though, is pure Silent Hill: choice and consequence. There are five endings, and the main three are decided not by a menu prompt but by how you play — whether you explore and uncover Discoveries or cut a bloody path through everything you meet.

It's short and it's divisive by design — this is an art-horror experiment more than a traditional survival-horror romp, and it won't land for everyone. But it's dense, atmospheric and genuinely replayable, and for trophy hunters it's a tidy, thoughtful platinum built around seeing every side of its story.

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The whole platinum in 20 minutes

All 37 trophies and all five endings: a no-save speedrun under four hours, a New Game Plus run with a 28-kill budget, one save for four endings, and a monster called Gary.

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The road to Doing The Right Thing

A 4/10 platinum that's about planning, not difficulty — it's offline and the game is short, but several trophies are missable and the endings hinge on hidden counters. Two runs plus a quick NG+ restart, roughly 15–20 hours.

In-depth guides by category

All 37 trophies grouped and explained in depth — the story, all five endings, the full 139-collectible sweep, the combat/weapon feats and the stealth challenges. Verified grades (1P/5G/9S/22B) and real trophy art throughout.

All 37 trophies — explained in depth

Doing The Right Thing

Details

Collect every other trophy. The plat is about planning: a no-save run under 4 hours, then a New Game+ run that collects everything and gets four endings from one manual save, then a fresh NG+ start for the Pistol-3000. The full route is in our platinum walkthrough.

Every story-beat trophy across the Otherworld and St. Amelia, plus New Game Plus and the sub-4-hour speedrun. All are mandatory except the timed run — follow the main missions and they pop in order.

Welcome To St. Amelia

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Story, unmissable. Escape the Otherworld Haldane Hotel (bathroom date lock 18/01/1996, Room 204 Key on the front door) and leave through the foyer to get back to the town square.

Resignation

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Story, unmissable. Solve the scales in Z. Ellis's room at the Shorefront Family Clinic: Broken Stethoscope left, Prescription Dosage Error Note middle, Zoe's Lanyard right. Scales puzzle solution.

A Long Night Ahead

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Story, unmissable. After calling Dr. Glenn (496 0556, extensions 3-2-2-1), go round the hospital to the Ambulance Service Building, press the gate button in the office and walk in through the Medical Centre's main entrance.

The Patient

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Story, unmissable. Finish the Surgery: monitor readings, X-rays, the three infusion pumps, then bring up the Medical Intubation Kit (call 5353 for the lift) and intubate. All Surgery solutions.

Many Into One

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Story, unmissable. Collect the blood bags in the Otherworld hospital, slot them clockwise from the phone (Watson, Clark, McEwan), solve the Ordell dial and open the far door with the Room 204 Key.

Key To The Castle

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Story, unmissable. Get the three Mechanical Parts from CEG lockers 17, 204 and 94 (barcodes from South, North and Upper Braes), combine them and insert the device left of the gate at the east end of Atlas Way. All locker codes.

Find Yourself

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Story, unmissable. Repair the boardroom projector on floor 5 and load the slides in the order D, F, B, C, E, A, then ride up to floor 10. Projector slides solution.

Can't Change Things

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Story, unmissable. Finish the SWDP section: console commands, the patched pipe puzzle, Valve F and the clamp release console, then go through the door at the red junction.

Eraser

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Story boss: beat The Weight on the access road. Shoot it until it staggers, then win the QTE to pull out a spear; three times. Two shotgun blasts and a flare, reloading while it burns, works well. Boss tips.

Reliving A Nightmare

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Finish a New Game+ run on any difficulty. Our 100% run is on NG+, so it pops with the first ending from the final manual save.

Fleeting Visit

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Finish a run in under 4 hours. Do it on the first playthrough on Story difficulty with Hinted puzzles, ignoring collectibles. Reloading a checkpoint keeps the clock running; quitting to the main menu first and then loading resets it to the checkpoint's time.

All five endings and exactly how to steer to each. The three main endings come from a hidden points score (discoveries +1, kills −2, revives −4, surgery mistakes −3); Dog and Sci-Fi need NG+ items. Four of them come from one manual save.

For St. Amelia

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Justice: finish with 20+ points (discoveries +1, Simon's kills −2, revives −4, Zoe surgery mistakes −3). From the 100% run's final save, skip the guide dog and the card panel, don't kill the five enemies that spawn in the boss fight and grab the Crew Patch afterwards. Endings guide.

Here To Stay

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Forever: finish with 1 to 19 points. Reload the final save, kill all five enemies that spawn during the boss fight and leave the Crew Patch behind; with all discoveries and kills in the high twenties that lands you in range. Endings guide.

Just Making Things Worse

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Abandoned: finish with 0 points or less. The no-save speedrun gets it naturally. As a fallback, burn revives (−4 each, craft Filled IV Bags and let enemies kill you) from a late save. Endings guide.

Let's Talk This Out

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Dog ending: put the Bronze, Silver and Gold coins in the three guide-dog boxes (before the Pharmacy, in the Laundrette, and straight on at the final red junction), then beat The Weight. Coin locations.

Sci-fi-lent Hill

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Sci-Fi ending (NG+): collect the three Strange Books and the Strange Access Card (behind the hotel symbol door), then at the red junction turn right and use the card panel on the left before opening the door. Item locations.

All 139 collectibles — 85 documents/clues, 13 phone numbers, 15 strange postcards, 19 CRTV signals and 7 resource containers. One NG+ pass banks every collectible trophy, and the discoveries push you into Justice.

Cold Calling

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Call all 13 phone numbers and let each call finish. Three are logged in the first phone scene, the rest come from notes and are dialled at the Town Square, Mr. Stewart's, Station Road, hospital reception and Atlas Square phones. All 13 numbers.

Observation

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Half the discoveries (43 of 85). On our route it pops on the Harbour Notice, which is missable if you walk past the van first. All discoveries.

Thorough Inspection

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All 85 discoveries (documents + clues). Read every email and file on each computer: they count individually. The last one, the Crew Patch, is on the coast after the final boss. All 85 with screenshots.

Blur Your Eyes

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All 15 strange postcards. The last one is at a dead end in the CEG HQ floor 4 vents (second right, then left). All 15 locations.

Sweeping Signals

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Tune all 19 CRTV signals. Hold the radio out for static, or calibrate the tuners on tables to the channel. Several only exist at one story moment. All 19 channels and spots.

Resourceful

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Open all 7 resource containers, each with a Lock Box Key found nearby. The last two are in the SWDP control room and basement room 621. Every key and box, with screenshots. All 7 locations.

The weapons and combat feats — the Pistol-3000 and the Axe, the seven-weapon killstreak, the trick headshots, and silencing the Widows. Most fit onto your collectible run; Creative Process must be a single playthrough.

Future Hardware

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Pick up the Pistol-3000. It unlocks after you finish a New Game+ run; start another NG+ and it's behind a door in the garages next to the Axe, a minute from the start.

Here's Simon!

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Pick up the Axe on New Game+: through the white gate to the garages just before Main Street, in the open garage by the red bicycle.

Creative Process

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Kill at least one enemy with the Plank, Pipe, Pistol, Shotgun, Flare Gun, Bottle and Brick in one playthrough. Zoe's Plank kill in the newsagents counts; the last one we needed was the pistol kill on CEG HQ floor 4.

Long-Range Masonry

Details

Brick headshot from over 15 m. Grab the Brick by the metal gate off Atlas Way, stand behind the 'Store Closing' sign outside Atlas Computers and lob it in a high arc onto the dormant enemy to the west. Reload the autosave if you miss.

Pinpoint Inaccuracy

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Flare Gun headshot from over 10 m. After getting the Boltcutters, stand in the south-east corner of the CEG playground by the slide and shoot the enemy hanging from the lamp post on the level above. Reload if you miss.

Missing The Point Entirely

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Kill 30 Widows. Widow kills carry over when you reload, so farm the five Widows around the CEG HQ floors from the Mezzanine autosave and reload until it pops.

Pull!

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Throw a bottle into the air and shoot it with the pistol. Easy spot: in the Flemington Street gardens (Otherworld), look straight up, throw and fire.

Hiding, distractions, crafting — and the two easy-to-fail challenge trophies: Reject The Help (no phone saves after Richard) and Save It For The Patients (no healing in two missions). Plan a run around those two.

From Scratch

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Combine items 20 times. Every Alcohol + Gauze, IV Fluid + Empty IV Bag and similar counts; if you're short near the end, craft everything you're holding right after the final manual save.

Isolating Experience

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Stay in a hiding spot for 60 seconds. Easiest in S Block room S01 of the Otherworld hospital: kill the enemy, get in the locker and wait.

Static Distractions

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Distract 10 enemies with a radio. In Mr. Stewart's house, when the monster appears, flick the kitchen radio off and on repeatedly; each flick counts. Reload the autosave if it reaches you.

Lured Off Track

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Distract 20 enemies with a bottle. On Station Road, throw a bottle into the road and wait a few seconds (it pulls about three enemies), then reload the autosave and repeat.

Alarmingly Effective

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Set off a car alarm to distract an enemy. Right after the Dr. Glenn phone call on Station Road, throw the Bottle at the car in front.

Reject The Help

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After meeting Richard, never save on a phone for the rest of that run. It comes naturally on the no-save speedrun.

Save It For The Patients

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Use no healing items during the missions Rounds and The Patient (both played as Zoe). Zoe's sections are mostly stealth; reload the autosave if you get badly hurt.

Silent Hill: Townfall platinum — quick answers