For the first half of the game, the room restores Henry's " health" (a measure of the amount of damage that he can endure before 'dying') in the second half of the game, however, the room becomes possessed by hauntings that drain his health. The other areas of the game are reached through holes formed in the apartment. Gameplay centers on the apartment, which is shown through a first-person perspective and contains the only save point. The objective of Silent Hill 4: The Room is to guide player character Henry Townshend as he seeks to escape from his apartment. Upon its release, the game received generally favorable critical reaction, but its departure from the typical features of the series received a range of reactions. Silent Hill 4 features an altered gameplay style with third-person navigation and plot elements taken from previous installments.
During the course of the game, Henry explores a series of supernatural worlds and finds himself in conflict with an undead serial killer named Walter Sullivan. Unlike the previous installments, which were set primarily in the town of Silent Hill, this game is set in the southern part of the fictional city of Ashfield, and follows Henry Townshend as he attempts to escape from his locked-down apartment. On October 2, 2020, it was re-released on GOG.com with patches to make it playable on Windows 10. In 2012, it was released on the Japanese PlayStation Network. Its soundtrack was released at the same time. Silent Hill 4 was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows. The fourth installment in the Silent Hill series, the game was released in Japan in June and in North America and Europe in September. Silent Hill 4: The Room is a 2004 survival horror game developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, and published by Konami.