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Silent Hill: The Short Message is a 2024 psychological horror game co-developed by Konami Digital Entertainment and HexaDrive, and published by Konami. Written by Kiichi Kanoh from a story by series producer Motoi Okamoto, it is the first major installment of the series since Silent Hill: Downpour (2012), the first horror game developed by Konami since Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004), and the second short-form title after the defunct Silent Hills: Playable Teaser (2015). It sees the return of developers who worked on the earliest installments of the series, including creature designer Masahiro Ito, music and sound designer Akira Yamaoka, and translator Jeremy Blaustein.

Okamoto became the series producer after leaving another company in 2018 and subsequently joining Konami. The Short Message began as a research-and-development project. HexaDrive was initially approached to port the original Silent Hill games to modern platforms, but were unsatisfied with the offer and proposed a remake of Silent Hill 2 as a counter. Konami began developing a remake under Bloober Team in 2019 but later hired them as a co-developer on The Short Message.

The story focuses on a teenage girl named Anita, who is struggling with suicidal thoughts and searching an abandoned apartment complex for her friend Maya. She finds herself plagued by supernatural occurrences and stalked by a creature manifested from her subconscious thoughts. Okamoto and Kanoh wanted to tap into the fears of a contemporary audience and make a Silent Hill game that young people could relate to. Its themes include social isolation, cyberharassment, school bullying, and the psychological impact of social media.

The gameplay is presented from a first-person camera perspective, focusing on exploration, chase sequences, and communicating with other characters on an in-game cellphone. It was developed as a playable teaser for a full-length video game, but underwent revisions through production and truncated into a standalone story. Several plot points and alternate endings were removed, the level design was overhauled, and the cellphone mechanic was downsized from an earlier iteration.

The game was announced during a PlayStation livestream on January 31, 2024, and released worldwide digitally on the same day, coinciding with marketing for Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 remake. It received mixed reviews from critics. While praise was given to its premise and atmosphere, recurring points of criticism centered on the character models, voice acting, chase sequences, and implementation of its themes.

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