Silent Hill creator’s next game Slitterhead gets an early look at gameplay and a playable dog

While it’s just “early development footage,” Bokeh Game Studio has given us a look at the gameplay in their upcoming horror action game. severed head.

Announced in 2021, Slitterhead is the latest title from Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama. But since its announcement we haven’t seen anything from it, though developer Bokeh Game Studio has been uploading various behind-the-scenes videos on its YouTube channel for the past two years. Their latest video is about user testing, and in it we got a glimpse of what the game could be like, and most importantly, it showed that you can play as multiple characters, including a dog.

Most of the gameplay footage is recorded on one screen, and it’s all pretty brief. Unlike the Silent Hill series, which wasn’t particularly action-heavy, Slitterhead will apparently be more so, as one of the characters shown has what appear to be large claws sticking out of his hands, much like Wolverine from X-Men. Another character is seen wearing a long black coat and using a much more Silent Hill-esque bloody stick to fend off some sort of parasite-like enemy that uses an uncomfortably long tongue to whip you around.

According to the project’s director, Takuro Konno, “the game includes some unique mechanics”, although he did not detail what they are exactly. “From the tests we’ve had so far, most players say these are the best features. This means we can trust them.” He perhaps he could be talking about playing as the dog, who seems to have the ability to sniff out certain scents.

Slitterhead currently doesn’t have a release date, and it hasn’t been fully confirmed which platforms it will arrive on either. A interview in 2020 noted that a PC release is planned and that Bokeh aims to release it “on as many console platforms as possible”, so we can presumably expect it to be on Xbox and PlayStation at least.