Silent Hill 2 Remake was a triumphant winner at the Horror Game Awards 2024

By: Anton Kratiuk | today, 15:43
New Horror Horizons: A look at the main art for Silent Hill 2 Silent Hill 2's main art. Source: Bloober Team

The Game Awards 2024 ceremony took place a few days ago. Bloober Team's excellent remake of Silent Hill 2 was Great job! Critics are excited about Silent Hill 2 Remake and give the horror film high marks, but it didn't win any awards at TGA, although it claimed them in several nominations.

But at the Horror Game Awards 2024 the Polish version of the cult Japanese game became the main star.

Here's What We Know

Silent Hill 2 Remake was announced as the best game of the genre in 2024 at a special event that only includes horror games. Mouthwashing and Still Wakes the Deep competed for the title, but were unable to determine Silent Hill 2.

The highest praise was awarded to the updated and expanded soundtrack Silent Hill 2 Remake by Akira Yamaoka, the game also won in the category of Best Survival Horror, and the actor Luke Roberts, who voiced James Sunderland was recognised as the best performer of the main role.

It should be noted that not only new products of this year, but also some games of the past years competed for the victory in various categories of Horror Game Awards 2024.

The full list of award contenders and winners in different categories looks like this:

Best Horror Game of the Year

  • Silent Hill 2 - Winner;
  • Mouthwashing;
  • Still Wakes the Deep.

Best Soundtrack

  • Silent Hill 2 - Winner;
  • Indigo Park: Chapter 1 - UniqueGeese;
  • Psychopomp GOLD - Fading Club.

Best Survival Horror game

  • Silent Hill 2 - winner;
  • Crow Country;
  • Until Dawn (re-release).

Most Accessible Horror

  • Dead by Daylight;
  • Mouthwashing;
  • Slay the Princess is the winner.

Best story

  • Silent Hill 2;
  • Mouthwashing - winner;
  • Slay the Princess.

Players' Choice

  • Mouthwashing - Winner;
  • Silent Hill 2;
  • Buckshot Roulette.

Best indie horror developer

  • Chilla's Art - Winner;
  • Puppet Combo;
  • Wrong Organ.

Best Indie Horror

  • Buckshot Roulette;
  • Mouthwashing;
  • Still Wakes the Deep is the winner.

Best multiplayer horror

  • Dead by Daylight;
  • Lethal Company - winner;
  • Phasmophobia.

Best Virtual Reality Horror

  • Resident Evil 4 (2023) in VR mode - winner;
  • Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2;
  • Phasmophobia.

Best Horror Developer

  • Capcom - winner;
  • Wrong Organ;
  • Puppet Combo.

Best Technical Achievement

  • Still Wakes the Deep - Winner;
  • Mouthwashing;
  • Silent Hill 2.

Most Anticipated Horror

  • Little Nightmares 3;
  • Resident Evil 9;
  • Alien: Isolation sequel is the winner.

Person with achievements in the horror genre

  • Masahiro Ito (Silent Hill 2) - winner;
  • Scott Cawthon (Five Nights at Freddy's);
  • Sam Lake (Alan Wake).

Horror Game Awards 2024 broadcast

Source: Horror Game Awards 2024