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Silent Hill: Townfall review scores

Metacritic and OpenCritic both list critic scores for Townfall, and Metacritic splits PS5 from PC. The aggregator pages are the live numbers; the figures here are a snapshot that will drift as reviews arrive.

Metacritic, PS581 (Generally Favorable)
Metacritic, PC82 (Generally Favorable)
OpenCritic, Top Critic average82
Three critic scores on one 0 to 100 axis. Each bar is drawn from the figure printed beside it, so a bar and its number cannot disagree. Original chart for this site.
A man in a knit hat holding his head in his hands.
A man in a knit hat holds his head in his hands. Screenshot from the game's Steam store page. Owned by Screen Burn, KONAMI and Annapurna Interactive.

The aggregators

MeasureFigureLive page
Metacritic, PS581 (Generally Favorable)Metacritic: PS5 critic reviews
Metacritic, PC82 (Generally Favorable)Metacritic: PC critic reviews
OpenCritic, Top Critic average82OpenCritic
OpenCritic, critics recommend86%OpenCritic

Metacritic lists the PS5 and PC versions separately, which is why there are two rows; the platform pages are PS5 and Steam, and when each one unlocks is on the release-date page. Reviews were up before the Deluxe 48-hour early access window opened, which the early-access page sets out. Publication time in the metadata of IGN review Early access start: Steam store API (release timestamps)

How the counted reviews divide

Each bar is one Metacritic page, its counted reviews cut into Metacritic’s own groups, with the count inside each cut. The negative group is empty on both pages, so it has no segment. Original diagram for this site.

The figure above counts reviews, not opinions: each bar is a Metacritic page, and each cut is one of Metacritic’s own groups. PS5 counts on Metacritic: PS5 critic reviews PC counts on Metacritic: PC critic reviews What the critics actually wrote is in their reviews, linked further down; this page does not summarize it.

Two numbers that differ between pages

Top: one measure, two printed values, drawn on a 10-point slice of the axis so the gap is visible. Bottom: the same page lists 3 more reviews than it counts. The hatched piece is the 3 with no score. Original diagram for this site.

Critics recommend. OpenCritic’s own page prints 86% for the share of critics who recommend the game. Wikipedia gives 89%, and a Game Rant page embeds a widget showing 89%. No page explains the gap. 89% appears on Wikipedia: Silent Hill: Townfall

Review count. Metacritic’s PS5 header counts 64 critic reviews while the list on the same page shows 67; 3 carry no score. The PC page likewise lists one more than it counts. Printed on Metacritic: PS5 critic reviews

Scores from individual outlets

These are each outlet’s own numbers. What a score means is in the review itself, which is why each tile links to it. If you are weighing how critics treated the game’s length or its place in the series, those questions have their own pages: how long it takes to beat and whether it is a mainline game.

8IGN, out of 10

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8.25Game Informer, out of 10

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7Push Square, out of 10

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Player scores

0Steam user reviews, in Steam’s own summary while the game was still locked.

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tbdMetacritic’s user score, as its page printed it before players had rated.

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0/20OpenCritic player ratings. Its page shows a player score only after twenty.

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Scores say nothing about price. What the game costs in each region is on the price page, and the open question of why it costs what it does is on its own page.