Silent Hill: Townfall is certainly one of 4 new Silent Hill video games Konami introduced throughout its flooded showcase earlier this week, and maybe essentially the most mysterious. Details have been scarce exterior of a brief teaser trailer that includes a cryptic voice over and harrowing music, however followers assume they could have unlocked a clue hidden contained in the video’s audio file. And their minds are operating wild with the chances.

A spin-off by No Code, the studio behind the wonderful Observation and Stories Untold, and printed by indie art-house label Annapurna Interactive, Townfall is seemingly influenced by the unique Silent Hill but in addition probably a departure from the third-person motion footprint of the beloved horror collection. In the trailer, a person is speaking to somebody and describing mysterious however horrible occasions that observe them wherever they go as dread builds on the display screen of a handheld transportable CRT.

Fans might need been content material to digest it and transfer on from there, however artistic director Jon McKellan hinted that there was extra to the trailer than meets the attention. Enter Reddit consumer MilkManEX (by way of IGN) who ripped the audio from the file, transformed it to an MP3, and located a hidden message in the ensuing spectrogram:

“Whatever heart this town had has now stopped,” reads the complete coded phrase.

Creepy! And additionally extraordinarily obscure. “What has stopped though?” wrote one fan on the subreddit. They level out that elsewhere within the trailer, there’s the subtlest sound of a lady’s voice probably saying one thing like, “Wow, is that really Alessa?”

They go on to hypothesize that the person talking within the trailer may very well be Ok. Gordon, Alessa’s trainer. “The key is extremely similar to the classroom key but not close enough that I would feel comfortable saying that it is for sure,” they go on. “In any case I feel they are speaking to Alessa herself.”

Alessa is on the middle of the primary Silent Hill and a pivotal recurring character all through the collection, so it will definitely match with the remainder of the trailer. Elsewhere Morse code was translated to “SOS,” one other ominous however generic clue. Hmm, anybody else getting sturdy Silent Hill vibes from all this?

While the fan theories are nonetheless of their infancy, the mere existence of the clues has energized gamers for what they hope shall be an intense augmented actuality recreation (ARG) main as much as Townfall’s launch. “im literally so hyped for townfall because the format looks a lot like vhs type ARG (suspicions correct, thank u OP) that would be something you’d find on the dark side of yt AND I LOVE IT, works so well with the theme of silent hill, genuinely cannot wait,” wrote one participant.

This is all consistent with No Code’s previous work. Observation was a sci-fi journey recreation thriller about controlling a spaceship AI attempting to uncover the thriller behind its disappeared crew. Stories Untold, in the meantime, was an episode horror collection set within the Eighties within the vein of Black Mirror. Both centered on motion and puzzles mediated by screens, and the haunted CRT within the new trailer factors to a probably related strategy for Townfall. It’s clear for followers the true recreation has already began.