Silent Hill is a Japanese survival horror video game franchise created by Keiichiro Toyama, developed and published by Konami, and published by its subsidiary Konami Digital Entertainment. The first four survival horror video games in the series, Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4: The Room, were developed by an internal group called Team Silent, a development staff at Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo.
The last five games, Origins, Homecoming, Shattered Memories, Downpour, and Book of Memories, were developed by other, unrelated groups. The Silent Hill franchise has expanded to include several print pieces, two feature films, and spin-off video games.