<Tr> <Th> First release </Th> <Td> Silent Hill January 31, 1999 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Latest release </Th> <Td> P.T. (Silent Hills demo) August 12, 2014 </Td> </Tr> <P> Silent Hill (Japanese: サイレント ヒル, Hepburn: Sairento Hiru) is a Japanese survival horror video game franchise created by Keiichiro Toyama, developed and published by Konami, and published by its subsidiary Konami Digital Entertainment . The first four survival horror video games in the series, Silent Hill, 2, 3, and 4: The Room, were developed by an internal group called Team Silent, a development staff within former Konami subsidiary Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo . The later five games, Origins, Homecoming, Shattered Memories, Downpour and Book of Memories, were developed by other unrelated groups . The Silent Hill franchise has expanded to include various print pieces, two feature films, and spin - off video games . </P> <P> Silent Hill is set in the series' eponymous fictitious American town . The series is heavily influenced by the literary genre of psychological horror, with its player characters being mostly "everymen". </P>

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