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Silver Pines Set to Refund Brazilian Players on PlayStation
Wych Elm confirmed that Silver Pines' price on the Brazilian PlayStation Store will be reduced on October 23.
Silver Pines Is A 2D Silent Hill Meets Alan Wake, And It Even Scares Me At Its Lowest Price
Starting in an empty diner, with no other people in sight, Silver Pines immediately grips you with an atmosphere reminiscent of Silent Hill and a sense of dread that Alan Wake would write about in one of his books. Especially during this spookily festive time of year, I sometimes find atmospheric...
Silver Pines Review – A Damn Fine Blend of Genres
As someone who tends to keep a close eye on upcoming indies, it’s rare for one catered to my tastes to sneak up on me. Yet, Silver Pines managed to seemingly come out of nowhere. A survival horror metroidvania openly wearing Lynchian influences feels like something designed in a lab to appeal to...
Silver Pines Second Hotfix Fixes Softlocks, Adjusts Nightmare Difficulty, and Boosts Photo Limit
Publisher Team17 and developer Wych Elm have announced that their survival-horror metroidvania, Silver Pines, has received its second hotfix, including softlock fixes, balancing, and more. The patch notes are below, with spoilers intact: Fixes Fixed various interactable objects no longer...
Silver Pines Hotfix 2 out now on Steam
The second patch for Silver Pines is now live on Steam. This patch fixes some of the softlock situations some players have experienced, increases the max photo count, tweaks the Nightmare mode balance, and more! Read the full patch notes below. Thank you for all your feedback over the last week....
Silver Pines Surpasses 100,000 Sales Across Consoles and PC
Publisher Team17 and developer Wych Elm have announced that their survival-horror metroidvania game Silver Pines has sold over 100,000 units across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. Players control private investigator Red...
Silver Pines has passed 100,000 units sold across all platforms!
Silver Pines has passed another major milestone as we reach 100,000 units sold! Thank you again for all of your support for Silver Pines. We're so happy that our little five person team has managed to create a game that has resonated with so many. We're also nearly at 1.8k Steam reviews and are the...
How to Unlock All Endings in Silver Pines
This is a detailed guide and walkthrough to all endings in Silver Pines.
Silver Pines Review – Magnificently Mysterious
Silver Pines blends the best of Silent Hill and Twin Peaks into a metroidvania that every horror fan should experience. The post Silver Pines Review – Magnificently Mysterious appeared first on COGconnected.
Silver Pines launch trailer – survival horror Metroidvania makes it to Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch
Going along with the debut of Silver Pines, we have the official launch trailer. This is a new survival horror Metroidvania title for Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch. For more information, read the following overview: Find Eddie Velvet. Private investigator Red Walker finds himself in Silver Pines, a...
Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 653
Course correction. While the release schedule continues in earnest, it's definitely been a quieter week for gaming news I feel. That's probably appreciated after a few dramatic periods of late. Here's what we're playing. Aaron Bayne I'll be trying to crack the case in Silver Pines this weekend....
Silver Pines Review – The Third Peak
Silver Pines can be a bit obtuse at points with its clues and certainly allows you to wander a bit too much too quickly, but it makes up for it with rewarding exploration, an intriguing world, and a great sense of cleverness in its progression.
Silver Pines Hotfix 1 out now on Steam
We hope you're all enjoying your time in Silver Pines so far! We've been listening to player feedback over the last 24 hours and have put together a hotfix to primarily address the performance and optimization issues some players are experiencing. To help performance, we have introduced a new...
Silver Pines Is the Silent Hill Metroidvania Mash-Up I Never Knew I Needed
This is an IGN opinion piece from Tristan Ogilvie, who plays survival horror games like it's his job (because a lot of the time, it very much is). While there’s certainly been a number of horror-themed metroidvanias released in recent years, from the savage executions of the Blasphemous series to...
Silver Pines Is the Silent Hill Metroidvania Mash-Up I Never Knew I Needed
Silver Pines Is the Silent Hill Metroidvania Mash-Up I Never Knew I Needed
PS5 GOTY Contender Hits PlayStation Store Today With PS Plus Discount
Swedish developer Wych Elm‘s new game is now available on the PlayStation Store. Four years in the making, Silver Pines turns a missing-person case into a survival-horror story. Silver Pines follows Red Walker, a private investigator who arrives at the titular town of Silver Pines to look for the...
Lynchian noir mystery Silver Pines takes the best bits from horror, the middling bits from Metroidvanias, and the worst bits from adventure games
I want, and not even especially deep down, to like Silver Pines more than I do. Wych Elm’s debut game – a Twin Peaks-inspired, neo-noir detective mystery that quickly repaints itself in survival horror red – is endearingly unusual, an angular mishmash of different genre staples that, nonetheless,...
PS5 Metroidvania Game Gets Perfect Reviews, New PlayStation GOTY Contender
An upcoming PS5 Metroidvania game has impressed critics ahead of its release, emerging as a potential GOTY contender. Wych Elm Games developed the title, while Team17 is the publisher. The atmospheric game Silver Pines has earned near-perfect reviews before its debut this week. At the time of...
Silver Pines Is Reviewing Exceptionally Well, Positioning It As One Of 2026's Best Games
Don't let this one slip under the radar! What a month it's been for gaming. Genuinely, it's only the first week of October and it's already been phenomenal, with the likes of Gears of War: E-Day, Ace Combat 8 and Star Wars: Galactic Racer all scoring very highly. And now, Silver Pines appears to be...
Silver Pines Review: A Sublime Twin Peaks-Inspired Fever Dream
A review of the indie game Silver Pines. The game is a love letter to David Lynch if there ever was one.
Silver Pines review: "This Metroidvania take on Silent Hill and Resident Evil is a mystery that's hard to put down"
Silver Pines review: "This horror Metroidvania take on Silent Hill and Resident Evil is a mystery that's hard to put down"
Survival Horror Metroidvania ‘Silver Pines’ Approaches October 8th Release With 300k+ Wishlists
Twin Peaks meets Silent Hill in upcoming survival horror metroidvania, Silver Pines. Developed by Wych Elm and published by Team17, this genre-bending mystery has garnered significant interest with over 300k wishlists reached across all platforms just a couple weeks prior to launch. The story...
The Duskbloods, Tides of Annihilation, Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 – Catch Up on IGN's Game Previews This Week ICYMI
Your one-stop shop for any game preview coverage you might've missed at IGN this week from The Duskbloods, Tides of Annihilation, Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, Star Wars: Smuggler's Gambit, and Silver Pines.
Silver Pines Preview: It Plays and Looks Like If Alan Wake Were Made in the ‘90s
Key Preview Takeaways: The unique visual style is instantly appealing. The '90s-style adventure-meets-survival-horror gameplay makes it feel unique in 2026. Monster variety is lacking in the short, early-game demo we played. I’m continually impressed with how many interesting and unique ideas for...
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