Silent Hill 2 Remake Rated for Xbox Series - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 November 2025 / 2,440 Views
Silent Hill 2 remake has been rated for the Xbox Series X|S by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).
The remake released for the PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam in October 2024.
Read the rating summary for the game by the ESRB below:
Silent Hill 2 is rated M for Mature 17+ by the ESRB with Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, and Violence. This is a horror adventure game in which players assume the role of a man returning to a mysterious town while being tormented by his past. From a third-person perspective, players explore the town of Silent Hill, interact with characters, and battle humans and creatures (e.g., Pyramid Head, mannequins, monsters). Players use pistols, shotguns, rifles, and knives to kill enemies. Combat is highlighted by realistic gunfire, cries of pain, and blood-splatter effects. Some environments depict large bloodstains and/or intestines/organs on walls, floors, and surrounding bodies. Cutscenes and illustrations depict further instances of violence and/or blood and gore: characters impaled; a character suffocated to death with a pillow; enemies with body parts sewn together. The game contains some suggestive/sexual material: characters pole-dancing in strip-club settings; posters of women in revealing outfits (e.g., bra and thong, deep cleavage); dialogue alluding to sexuality and/or sexual abuse/misconduct (e.g., “Remember that time in the hotel? You said you took everything. But you forgot that videotape we made”; “Don't touch me...You're only after one thing…Or you could just force me, like he always did.”). The word “sh*t” appears in the game.
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Those 2 logos for Silent Hill 2 that were missing on their site may have been Xbox Series and Windows and not Switch 2. Could be a Play Anywhere title like Silent Hill F.
Maybe it will come out next week as digital only?
Calling it now: shadow dropped during The Game Awards 2025 in December. This would have been a 1-year exclusive agreement between Sony/Konami, so it probably could have launched now on Xbox Series, but Konami had good business sense not do that since Silent Hill f just launched in September on PS5/Xbox Series/PC. Let that title have some time to shine before releasing the Silent Hill 2 Remake on other formats ;)
FYI - Silent Hill f is very, very, very good. Easily worthy of the Silent Hill franchise.
Will play on GamePass
Will it be on Gamepass?
Eventually
It's incredible how just simply getting a Xbox release leak means not more, but less sales thanks to GP.
Good job ruining everything, Microsoft.
With third-party games it's less of an issue as MS will be paying them to put the game in GP and that money will invariably count towards the game's sales income.
Right now, Konami is not being paid for putting the game on GP, and they're already losing potential sales.
I wouldn’t buy the game anyway. I have a PS5 Pro and didn’t buy it.
If Konami isn't being paid, why would they put the game on GP? Why would they agree to that?
I think he’s saying that GamePass is affecting the sales of the game even without the game being on GamePass. On one hand of course it is, just like PS+ affects sales of games on PlayStation and just like premium titles are affected by other premium titles and F2P titles.
On the other hand it’s not logical to assume that anyone waiting on a GamePass release equals a lost sale. It’s the same mistake music and movie execs used to make with piracy. Just because someone pirates something doesn’t mean they were going to buy it. In the same sense, just because someone plays something on GamePass/PS+, doesn’t mean they otherwise would have bought it. In fact that’s the best thing about those services, getting to play games you otherwise would have never given a chance.
In in the gamepass environment, you cant rely sold on sales as a metric of success because if a game is on GP then of course its sales will drop.
This is a mistake MS appears to make with its own games, but for them its harder to access its games. With third parties, they can make the call based on income, which the fee MS pays for putting a game on GP will count towards.
Playing through it right now on PS+ for Halloween. I like the game, but it's certainly has a dated feeling to it.
SH2 Remake was amazing
I'm enjoying it, I'm guessing I'm about half way through it. Like I said a bit dated, I don't like the run button being a trigger button.
