Silent Hill Homecoming
Skip · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 9.4h
- Value
- $4.25/hr
- Reviews
- 47% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
In Silent Hill Homecoming, Alex Shepherd has returned to his hometown of Shepherd's Glen to investigate the sudden disappearance of his brother. From Shepherd's Glen to the foggy streets of Silent Hill, Alex will face the darkest of horrors while struggling with his own grip on reality.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
October 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 63 in the 14 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. On the same math The Evil Within 2 ($39.99, scores 66) and Tormented Souls ($1.99, scores 84) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Critics scored it 64, but players land 17 points lower at 47 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 23 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 27 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 23 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 823 reviews written there were positive, against 47 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
Players
14 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The game crashes a lot has a few frame drops in the 10s, everything makes it unplayable. Just at the beginning it crashed like 3 times and I had to play over and over again.
I really wanted to like this game and thought, even looking at the reviews it couldn't be that bad? I was sorely mistaken... The game port itself is REALLY poorly optimised. It constantly froze whenever it had to load a cutscene/ area transition or even open up the save menu, especially in the later portion of the game. It crashed multiple times because of it, so I almost had a heart attack every time it froze...
What do you say about an 18 year old game that still sits on it's steam page at full price? A game riddled with game-breaking bugs that constantly impede your progress? Stuttering, freezing, heavy sound issues, display issues (resolution settings changing frequently), and last but not least at roughly 80% of the way through the game when I collected a new version of a weapon that acts as a key, NONE of my attacks...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Silent Hill Homecoming scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/19000/silent-hill-homecomingThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 3, price as of Sep 24.
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