There are less than two months to go until Bloober Team's highly-anticipated remake of Silent Hill 2 drops, and if you are trying to figure out how long it will take you to beat Silent Hill 2 Remake from beginning to end, the game's director finally has some answers for you.
In a couple of replies posted on X/Twitter, Silent Hill 2 director Mateusz Lenart responded to two separate posts to explain how long it would take for someone to beat the game. According to Lenart, the first playthrough is expected to take players "around 16-18 hours" on average.
First playthrough is around 16-18 hours avarage :)
— Mateusz Lenart (@Mateusz_Lenart_) August 19, 2024
If you are the completionist type or an avid trophy hunter itching to get the platinum in Silent Hill 2 Remake, Lenart notes that you will need to put in a few more hours. Explaining those that "like to spend [their] time searching for everything" that you can find in-game, then it would take you "more than" 20 hours to complete. However, Lenart added a caveat that he was not factoring in new game plus or any of the alternate endings when disclosing that number.
If you like to spent your time searching for everything that we put into the game and things we've hidden for you, it will take you more than 20h for sure ?! I'm not couting the new game plus and all endings of course. I'm curious how fast will you get all of them??????♀️...
— Mateusz Lenart (@Mateusz_Lenart_) August 20, 2024
Regardless, Lenart's numbers are interesting, and it confirms that the remake will already be a longer game than Silent Hill 2. As IGN's sister site HowLongToBeat notes, the original Silent Hill 2, released in 2001, took roughly 9 hours if you only focus on the main story or 10 hours if you opt to do the optional stuff. If you wanted to 100% complete the original Silent Hill 2, it would take about 16 hours.
Silent Hill 2 Remake was officially announced in 2022. Like some recent remakes, most notably 2023's Dead Space Remake, Silent Hill 2 Remake's story will remain the same. Despite the plot remaining unchanged, the remake will, as you'd expect, provide visual and technological improvements, including "seamless" gameplay with no loading screens, according to the Blooper Team.
"Silent Hill 2 certainly needed a fresh coat of paint and a tune of the engine, and Bloober Team has provided that in spades, but everything else is an extremely faithful reimagining that mostly resists the urge to alter the successful formula of a stone-cold classic," my colleague Dale Driver wrote in his hands-on preview.
Silent Hill 2 Remake launches on October 8 for PC and PS5.
Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.
