Silent Hill 4: The Room

Silent Hill 4: The Room is the fourth installment in the Silent Hill survival horror series. The game was developed by Team Silent and published by Konami. It launched in North America on September 17, 2004, for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC. SH4 began as a side story with loose connections to the series before becoming a full-fledged sequel. Because of its tangential origins, Team Silent was able to experiment and innovate on some of the core ideas in the series, sometimes scrapping them altogether. The Room’s biggest achievement is that it makes mundane, every day living, horrifying. SH4 brought the terror home. Henry Townshend is stuck inside of his own apartment and can’t leave. To highlight the feeling of familiarity, all the sequences in the apartment are in first person mode. It’s you who’s chained in and taken captive with no explicable reason. A claustrophobic atmosphere pervades and in the tight space you call your apartment, there’s no food, the phone is disconnected, and the television is shut off.