The Metascore for Konami’s upcoming horror title Silent Hill: Townfall has landed at 81. On 5ch’s “Hardware/Industry” board (nicknamed “Geha,” short for ゲームハード, “game hardware”), posters immediately started comparing the score to Sony’s Marvel’s Wolverine, which launched around the same time, with reactions split between “higher than Wolverine” and “guess that’s about average.” The thread also noted that IGN and Eurogamer each scored the game 80, with some posters zeroing in on how individual outlets scored it. Meanwhile, with the September 24 release approaching, reports of weak first-week sales forecasts surfaced too, and plenty of posts voiced worry about how well the game will actually sell.
What people said
1AnonymousSep 22, 2026 14:57
Guess that's about average?
4AnonymousSep 22, 2026 14:58
Wolverine caused such a frenzy that nobody on Geha even remembered this series was launching.
5AnonymousSep 22, 2026 14:58
After a 77, this feels high somehow (´・ω・｀)
6AnonymousSep 22, 2026 14:59
Guess they'll get a black guy to stream this one too, huh? (jab at viral streamer clips that drove Wolverine hype)
7AnonymousSep 22, 2026 14:59
It's on the lower side, but yeah, about what you'd expect.
8AnonymousSep 22, 2026 14:59
10AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:00
Re: #8
This game's already become a toy for the 'gaijin bros' (外人ニキ, slang for enthusiastic overseas fans) huh.
63AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:51
Re: #8
lol (草, literally "grass" — net slang for LOL) same deal here, holding up a Wolverine disc
pretty sure there was even one of a guy being led to a toilet with it
9AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:00
Maybe Marvel should've just had Konami make the Wolverine game — might've sold better.
11AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:00
Total shovelware, worse than Wilds (Monster Hunter Wilds).
15AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:01
Re: #11
But it scored higher than Sony's 'masterpiece' Wolverine though? 😤
13AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:01
Any game launching right now is lucky honestly — the 'at least it's better than Wolverine' effect makes it look more competent than it really is.
16AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:02
If 81 is without any 'Sony bonus points,' it's probably decently fun for real.
Wolverine's 77 already includes the Sony bonus, so its real score is more like 60. (recurring forum theory that first-party Sony titles get score inflation)
17AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:03
Konami's low-budget game beats Wolverine.
18AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:04
Too plain to care about compared to 'Silent Hinamizawa' (a joke mashup nickname combining Silent Hill with Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, set in the village of Hinamizawa).
19AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:04
At this score range, which outlets gave what actually matters, no?
22AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:08
Guess nobody cares — there weren't even many threads about it on Geha.
23AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:08
Cranking these out cheap via outsourcing is a solid strategy.
26AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:10
Re: #23
Except the IP's credibility is tanking though.
25AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:09
Took a quick look —
IGN 80
Eurogamer 80
Feels like a pretty average game.
28AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:10
Re: #25
Still better than a 60-rated game…
36AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:14
Re: #25
That's rated better than 'Sell-verine' (売るヴァリン, a mocking pun on 売る "to sell" + Wolverine) though
Guess the gameplay system just hasn't changed much.
Smells like a 4-digit opening week for this one (i.e. under 10,000 units, considered weak for a AAA title) (´・ω・`)
33AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:12
So it's more fun than that $300 million blockbuster!
34AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:12
Lol, there's officially a 'Wolverine line' now (using it as the benchmark for every other game's score).
35AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:13
A game that's merely 'better than Wolverine' lmaooo.
38AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:15
Black protagonist, photorealistic, single-player adventure, well-known franchise — exactly the type of game Metacritic tends to favor, so you'd hope for something more like 85.
39AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:16
Preorders are pretty dire — looks like it'll open around 10-15k units, roughly 20% of [Silent Hill] f's numbers (referring to the prior series entry, Silent Hill f).
40AnonymousSep 22, 2026 15:17
Another legend added to the pile of 'Bomb-station 5' flops? (爆死ステーション5, a mocking nickname for the PS5 over its string of commercial flops)
84AnonymousSep 22, 2026 16:10
The big outlets that all gave Wolverine around 60 are giving this one 80, so it's probably not as bad as Wolverine was, right?
Might as well just wait and buy the Xbox version — this seems like the type that ends up half price eventually.
85AnonymousSep 22, 2026 16:12
Re: #84
Just buy it on Steam — domestically in Japan it was showing up pretty high on the 'coming soon' popularity list.
Globally though it was losing badly to Control: Resonant, which is competing with Onimusha (鬼武者, Capcom's samurai action franchise) around the same time.
90AnonymousSep 22, 2026 16:14
Re: #84
That 60 for Wolverine was basically the big outlets warning, 'pay up for ad spend or we'll dock your score' 😂 (a recurring conspiracy theory about pay-for-review-score deals)
97AnonymousSep 22, 2026 16:17
The nerve to sell a costume as a preorder bonus… in a first-person game where you'd never even see it.
100AnonymousSep 22, 2026 16:19
Re: #97
Seriously? lol
That's kind of hilarious.
Background and Discussion Points
Metascore is a weighted average, compiled by Metacritic, of scores from major review outlets. There are long-running claims that some overseas publisher deals tie bonuses or clauses to hitting certain score thresholds, and suspicion that review outlets skew scores to reach those targets is a recurring topic of discussion in the games industry. The main axis of debate in this thread was a comparison with Marvel’s Wolverine, which launched around the same time — opinions split over whether 81 looked high or low next to that game’s score. The thread also flagged that IGN and Eurogamer each gave the game 80, drawing attention to how the major outlets tend to score things. There was also discussion of weak first-week sales forecasts and how the game is being marketed, but since that’s a separate topic from how the game itself was received critically, this article focuses mainly on reactions to the review scores.
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