Silent Hill: Townfall Scores 81 With Critics but 69% on Steam as Konami Promises a PC Patch

Silent Hill: Townfall has an 81 Top Critic Average on OpenCritic, but only 69% of its Steam reviews are positive, and most of the gap comes down to PC performance. Konami said on 24 September, in a notice on its Steam page, that it is working on an update for "performance-related issues affecting the Steam version", with no date yet.

This story is built on Konami's official Steam notices, the public score pages on OpenCritic, Metacritic and Steam (all read on 25 September 2026 at around 06:40 UTC), Steam's public review data and published reviews from VGC, Push Square, PC Gamer and IGN.

What do critics and Steam players score it?

Critics are positive but not unanimous. PC Gamer gave it 89 and IGN 8/10, while Push Square landed on 7/10, finding combat too easy once learned, and VGC gave 3/5, praising the atmosphere but saying the stealth sections with a pursuing monster ruin the pacing.

Why are Steam players less positive than critics?

Part of it is language. Steam's Mixed label covers every review: English-language reviews alone are 74% positive, while all other languages combined sit at 62%, with Simplified Chinese at 46% (73 of 157) and Korean at 37% (17 of 46). Those groups pull the headline figure down.

To see what the complaints are about, we pulled the 800 most recent English reviews through Steam's public review API (posted between 22 and 25 September) and counted keywords. It is a rough count rather than a sentiment model, but the pattern is clear.

Performance comes up even among players who recommend the game: nearly two in five positive reviews mention it. Reviewers had a median of 5.3 hours played when they posted, so these are early impressions rather than finished playthroughs.

What has Konami said about a PC patch?

Konami's Upcoming Update Plans notice, posted on Steam at 01:15 UTC on 24 September, says a patch for performance problems in the Steam version is in the works and that its release date will be announced on the official Townfall website and Silent Hill social channels. It does not list specific fixes.

The only other launch-day notice fixed an issue that stopped some pre-order and Deluxe Edition DLC from unlocking; affected players are told to restart Steam while online.

The PS5 version is not mentioned in the notice. Push Square's reviewer played in Quality mode on PS5 Pro, which targets 30fps (a Performance mode targets 60fps), and reported a smooth playthrough.

How does Townfall compare with Silent Hill f and Silent Hill 2?

Konami's two previous big Silent Hill releases both have higher critic scores and, today, stronger Steam ratings. Their Steam figures are lifetime totals built up over a year or more, so treat this as context rather than a like-for-like launch-week comparison.

Townfall is also a different kind of game: a first-person, stealth-leaning horror from a small Scottish studio, where Silent Hill f leaned on melee combat and Silent Hill 2 remade a classic. A performance patch could narrow the Steam gap; it is less likely to change the critics' split over stealth.

Should PC players wait for the patch?

If you haven't bought it on PC, waiting costs nothing: Konami has confirmed a fix is coming. If you already own it and it runs badly, our Townfall PC settings guide explains what helps in the meantime, and Steam's refund policy covers requests made within 14 days of purchase with under two hours played; Valve says it will still look at requests outside those limits.

We will update this story when Konami dates the patch, and our full critics-versus-players review follows once the Steam score settles. Everything else we publish on the game lives on our Silent Hill: Townfall hub.