{"rewrite":{"id":"r_dfd9058741e6bcf3774a51b5","clusterId":"c_a5a86bd3ad03319159857bf9","slug":"silent-hill-townfall-builds-st-amelia-from-a-scottish-fishing-village","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Silent Hill: Townfall Builds St. Amelia From a Scottish Fishing Village","summary":"Konami and Annapurna Interactive released Silent Hill: Townfall on September 24, 2026, a first-person psychological horror game from developer Screen Burn. Its setting, the fogged island of St. Amelia, draws on the real fishing village of St Monans in Fife, Scotland. The game turns the village's stone harbor, low sea walls, lobster creels and pastel cottages into a grey, abandoned town. Simon Odel washes ashore there in 1996.","whyItMatters":"Townfall's version of St Monans is a study in subtraction: the same harbor walls, lamp posts and Shore Street cottages that survive in Fife are rendered as a drained, depopulated town, which is how the series keeps converting recognizable coastal architecture into dread.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe setting of Silent Hill: Townfall is St. Amelia, a fog-bound Scottish island that the game\u0026#39;s developer, Screen Burn, built partly from a real place. St Monans is a fishing village on the East Neuk of Fife, known for 17th to 19th century fishermen\u0026#39;s houses, a stone harbor protected by three breakwaters, and rows of pastel cottages along Shore Street and West Shore. Townfall keeps the harbor layout and the lobster creels and swaps the blue water and red pantiles for haar, grey and boarded windows.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Silent Hill: Townfall sets Simon Odel's 1996 arrival in St. Amelia, and the real St Monans details (stone harbor, lobster creels, pastel cottages) sit under that fog. The game uses the geography as a mask, not a backdrop.","twitterPost":"Silent Hill: Townfall turns St Monans' real pastel cottages and lobster creels into St. Amelia's grey ruins. The horror needs the original to stay legible.","threadsPost":"Silent Hill: Townfall takes St Monans, a working Fife fishing village, and rebuilds it as the fogged St. Amelia. The stone harbor, low sea walls and lobster creels are all real, which means the game's dread comes from slightly distorting a place that still exists. Simon Odel washes ashore there in 1996.","newsletterBlurb":"Silent Hill: Townfall arrived September 24, 2026 from Konami, Annapurna Interactive and developer Screen Burn. Its island setting, St. Amelia, draws on St Monans, a fishing village in Scotland's Fife region whose harbor breakwaters and pastel cottages the game renders as a grey, depopulated town.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/10/04/173153.html\",\"title\":\"美しい漁村は\\\"霧の町\\\"となった─『SILENT HILL:Townfall』のモデル地区「セント・モナンズ」の原風景を紹介【特集】\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":6355,"outputTokens":619,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791261727,"createdAt":"2026-10-06T04:36:13.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-06T04:41:05.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-06T04:41:05.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_a5a86bd3ad03319159857bf9","canonicalTitle":"美しい漁村は“霧の町”となった─『SILENT HILL:Townfall』のモデル地区「セント・モナンズ」の原風景を紹介【特集】","representativeArticleId":"a_64403cf94c1125e22ab82099","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Silent Hill: Townfall\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-04T09:45:03.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-04T09:45:03.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-06T04:41:05.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/10/04/173153.html","title":"美しい漁村は“霧の町”となった─『SILENT HILL:Townfall』のモデル地区「セント・モナンズ」の原風景を紹介【特集】"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Silent Hill: Townfall"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}