This guy spent the night in the Silent Hill 2 remake in VR

Sometimes, I come across a game with such impeccable vibes, I just want to climb into my monitor and live in it. Though, generally speaking, the games that make me feel this way are cozy titles like Stardew Valley, not nightmare-riddled hellscapes like Silent Hill 2. But for YouTuber Dredile, 2024’s Silent Hill 2 remake was the perfect spot to stop in for a nap.

Understandably, Dredile’s first words upon starting up the game are a resounding, “Oh fuck.” As it turns out, this is his first time playing the Silent Hill 2 remake, and he finds the game’s updated graphics both beautiful and extremely unsettling. But he quickly pulls it together and lays out his goals for the evening: find somewhere safe to set up camp, have tea with Pyramid Head, and successfully spend the night in Silent Hill.

“Navigating Silent Hill with no direction in VR was like putting on drunk goggles and building a Rube Goldberg [machine] in the Cheesecake Factory for me,” Dredile says of his experience exploring the early hours of the game.

After smashing his way through some enemies and solving a few puzzles, Dredile gets a hold of the key to Wood Side Apartments, which is where players first encounter Pyramid Head. Thankfully, this encounter is a harmless one in which players can see the iconic monster, but he can’t actually reach the player due to some metal bars blocking his path. Thus, Dredile decided this was the perfect moment to step away from the game, brew a cup of chamomile tea, pop his Vive headset back on, and enjoy an impromptu tea party with one of the most infamous antagonists in all of horror gaming.

“He’s the silent-but-deadly type, so it was mostly a one-way conversation,” Dredile says of the experience.

After that, Dredile decides it’s time to find a place to rest. Wood Side Apartments seems as good a spot as any. The problem is that some of its rooms are full of monsters, while others are safe, but contain dead bodies. Dredile eventually spots a room with a couch near a window, and decides it’ll be his campsite for the evening, setting up blankets on his real-life couch to simulate the experience as closely as possible, and checking another goal off his list. Now, all he’s got to do is successfully fall asleep.

“Thankfully, nothing ambushed me, and the ambient noise wasn’t too scary, so I slept pretty well, actually,” Dredile says. “I slept for about five hours, which is respectable.”

Dredile, who frequently posts videos about VR games, is no stranger to spending the night in spooky VR environs. He’s spent the night in loads of horror games, including Resident Evil 7, Outlast, and Alien: Isolation. This isn’t even his first time in Silent Hill — last year, he spent the night in a VR-modified version of the original Silent Hill.

Regarding the general quality of his impromptu Silent Hill slumber part, Dredile says, “Overall, the graphics and the atmosphere were probably some of the best I’ve ever experienced in VR.”

Personally, I think Dredile is onto something here. Why pay for admission to an overpriced haunted house when you can just sleep in an extremely cursed fictional town?