Silent Hill - Native PC Port
Latest release is here for singleplayer, or here for online coop/living world
A native PC port built on the Silent Hill PSX decompilation. What started as an experiment has become a fully playable port with a large feature set, built-in mod support, an active community, and fan translation/multilingual support. It uses PsyCross (a PsyQ SDK compatibility layer originally written for REDRIVER2) as its hardware abstraction layer, which we now maintain our own fork of. Care has been taken to leave the original game code intact wherever possible and to work around it where needed, so game logic and feel still match the PSX original. Most if not all enhancements are optional, and always will be.
The game runs as a real Windows/Linux executable compiled from decompiled C source. It is not an emulator and not a static recompilation: no part of the original binary is translated by a tool. NOTE: Linux and Mac support are a WIP. On Linux, it is recommended to use wine for the time being.
Development is heavily AI-assisted (Claude Opus 4.6, 4.7 and the newer Fable model), and we're open about that. It is not automated translation of the game. Every change is a reviewed, hand-directed edit to real source, tested against the original behaviour.
Project Website: https://sh1pc.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/JWuNzVsQbr
Play on the web: https://sh1pc.com/play/
Latest Features
- See the whole town. Turn the fog/visibility slider in the launcher below 1.0 and the outdoor maps render all the way out instead of fading into fog. It needs PGXP, and the launcher offers to turn that on for you.
- High-poly character swaps. Replace Harry or Cybil with a skinned glTF model: full skeletal animation, lip sync driven by the voice lines, blinking, shape keys, optional ragdoll deaths, and per-model tuning in an ini. Extra
HERO_* models show up as playable characters in Play As.
- Realtime updates. Every change is built automatically for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android as soon as it lands. Grab the newest build from the Realtime builds page, or, from the next release on, tick Realtime updates in the launcher's Build Settings to follow them and roll back to any of the last 30.
- Native menus. A new Controls screen and an in-game Achievements screen, with button prompts that match the controller you are using.
- Natural diagonal movement. In the alternate cameras, Harry's legs now turn to follow the direction he is walking or running.
- Quick weapon switching. Optional, including the mouse wheel.
- Play in your browser. Try it without installing anything at https://sh1pc.com/play/.
Features
The game is fully playable start to finish. Every map, boss, cutscene, ending, and system works. You can complete the full game today, and the remaining known bugs are minor. Enhancements are optional and always will be: at default-faithful settings the port plays like the original PSX game (same logic, same feel, same look), and everything beyond that is opt-in.
- Faithful core. Original decompiled game logic, PSX fixed-camera system 1:1, original movement/combat/AI behaviour; play it exactly like 1999, just natively.
- Graphics. Any resolution, widescreen 16:9/21:9+, high refresh / uncapped FPS, optional rewritten PGXP perspective correction, MSAA, texture filtering, tone mapping and post-process looks (CRT, scanlines, film grain, and more).
- Flashlight & lighting. Four flashlight modes (Classic / Modern, each with optional per-pixel shadow mapping up to 8192x8192).
- Cameras. Classic fixed cameras plus a full alternate suite: third-person, over-the-shoulder with free-aim, and first-person, each with FOV/aim options and its own control scheme, plus a mouse-look free camera for exploring.
- Audio. Optional surround 5.1/7.1 with true 3D positional SFX and reverb; XA cutscene voices streamed straight from the disc image; FMV playback with HD AVI & MP4 override support.
- Quality of life. Mouse-clickable menus, quick save/load, reload key, quick-heal, an in-game PC Options menu and an F10 quick-options overlay (graphics / HUD / audio / cheats / debug, live while playing), minimap options, low-health screen glow (off by default), uncensored toggle.
- Cheats & tools. In-game console (warps, spawns, god/noclip, live tuning of nearly everything), cheat menu, play as any of 14 characters, spawn any monster in any map (global monster pool), raised enemy cap, collision visualizer, keyframe inspector.
- Modding. Built-in Mod Manager (extract the disc, texture packs, loose-file replacement, DuckStation-style packs), character retextures, full character model replacement (ILM <-> OBJ / Blender), modern glTF inventory item models, VAB audio extraction/repacking, AVI FMV replacement. See Game Files / Modding.
- Integrations. RetroAchievements and Discord Rich Presence.
- Experimental. A Lua-scripted Randomizer mode, and a TrenchBroom-based level-editing pipeline in development.
- Languages & regions. USA, PAL/EUR (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) and NTSC-J (Japanese) discs all supported and auto-detected; fan-translation discs work via the launcher's disc picker; Russian and Polish translation packs; Chinese playable on NTSC-J; the launcher UI itself is localized into 10 languages.
- Multiplatform. The same codebase runs on far more than PC. Windows is the primary target; Linux and macOS builds exist (WIP); and ports are in development for , , , , , and even an (Expansion Pak required).
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