The Complete SILENT HILL Timeline Explained!

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Published 2023-10-30
The Silent Hill franchise has a long and dense timeline, which spans hundreds of years of dark history across 8 mainline games, and a handful of spin-offs. And to confuse matters even more, one of those 8 games actually splinters off into a completely different timeline. 

With a remake of Silent Hill 2, a new mainline entry in the form of Silent Hill f, the streaming game Silent Hill Ascension, and anthology series, Silent Hill Townfall all on the horizon - this long dormant franchise has burst back to life. So what better time to dig back into the lore and timeline of Silent Hill. 

This is the Silent Hill franchise fully explained.

From the origins of the towns of Silent Hill and Shepherds Glen in the 17th century through to the epic saga between the Mason family and the cult of Silent Hill, this video breaks down the long and dense timeline of the Silent Hill franchise.

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Timeline Playlist -    • The Complete THE LAST OF US Timeline ...  

00:00 - INTRO
01:00 - THE PLACE OF THE SILENT SPIRITS - PRE-16TH CENTURY
02:02 - SILENT HILL’S HISTORY - 1607-1939
05:32 - SILENT HILL F - THE 1960S
06:11 - SILENT HILL: ORIGINS - LATE 1970S
09:46 - SILENT HILL - 1983
13:12 - SILENT HILL 2 - 1993
16:45 - SILENT HILL: THE ARCADE - 1993
18:09 - SILENT HILL 3 - 2000
20:55 - SILENT HILL 4: THE ROOM - 2003 (ish)
23:11 - SILENT HILL: DOWNPOUR (2004)
25:27 - SILENT HILL: HOMECOMING - 2007
28:09 - SILENT HILL: BOOK OF MEMORIES - 2010
29:38 - SILENT HILL: SHATTERED MEMORIES - 2008
31:15 - SILENT HILL: ORPHAN - ???
33:20 - SILENT HILL ASCENSION & TOWNFALL - ???

All Comments (21)
  • @Oxcymoron
    Its crazy to me that canonically, the combined joke endings are less confusing than the actual story.
  • @razorgash6953
    I’ll never forget playing as trucker Travis, fighting satan with a lamp post
  • @pilotman9819
    I'm so early James and Mary are still happily married and one of them isn't suffering from an illness... yet.
  • Thank you so much for explaining the whole Silent Hill franchise. This franchise is so terrifying for good reason. Not only is it psychological horror, it’s so hard to make sense of, which makes it even more terrifying.
  • You forget a massive ending from silent hill 2 called resurrection, so James takes Mary's body in a nearby island after you collect some strange items through the game so you perform a ritual and revive her!
  • @juanatenco453
    I think the ending where James dies in SH2 is the canon ending since in SH4 Henry comments that the superintendent's son and daughter in law went missing in Silent Hill. And since the super is James' father we can be sure that James died and his father never saw him again.
  • @nobleone8375
    A crazy silent hill fan here SH part of my life specially SH2
  • Silent Hill F may complicate things. I wonder if it will be a stand alone story set in Japan or have some actual connection to the town of Silent Hill.
  • @steveo0127
    I never realized Travis was the giving Alex a ride into silent hill you think 😂 Travis would tell Alex no to go into silent hill 😅
  • @dimeepal7258
    Really amazing job, well done. It's been a lot of years since the last time i played Silent Hill 1 to 4, so this video brought me back some memories.
  • @erik-bm4po
    I've been watching silent hill videos for years, and now that some new games are finally in the oven, we don't even get trailers for Halloween 🎃😂. So inept
  • @erickreyes7902
    I love this franchise but I dont understand it sometimes... sometimes its a PHYCOLOGICAL SURVIVAL HORROR, then it turns into TEMPLE RUN...
  • @drs8922
    we need a vid of what the enemies represent. kids in 1, wheelchairs in 2, shopping bags in 3. etc
  • @ThaDreamyDrizzle
    I could be wrong, but if you leave with Maria at the end of Silent Hill 2, it was always my understanding that she can't survive outside of Silent Hill, because she's a manifestation.
  • @flosius2469
    How can Silent Hill 1 be set in 1983 if we find "since 1987" written on a sign in a downtown shop? It's clear that the first SH is set in the 90s (i.e. when the game came out), the backdating to the 80s was an invention of the Homecoming devs