Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama's Bokeh Game Studio is already at work on a new, still-untitled horror game, and according to MP1st the first details surfaced not through a trailer but through a motion-capture casting call. The studio is hiring performers for a large cast of characters, with full body, face and voice capture plus photogrammetry and likeness anticipated for nearly every role. MP1st reports that River, a high-strung young white man in his early 20s living at society's edge, appears to be the main character, with several other named characters positioned to attack him — the casting notes reference 'creature transformation.' Because the project is only now hiring for mo-cap, MP1st concludes it probably will not be released anytime soon.

The character breakdowns lean hard into mature crime-and-horror material. Per MP1st, nearly every casting sheet mentions drug-related content — trafficking, substance abuse, drug-related death — alongside sex-work context, 'fully clothed interrupted intimacy,' violence and creature imagery. The reference points are strikingly specific: River is modeled on River Phoenix and Kurt Cobain as tonal references, Lyra on actress Mia Goth, and Becca is written as a restrained, intelligent video streamer rather than a loud influencer. A child character, Mara, carries explicit minor-performer protections. Names and backgrounds could still change during development, but the tone is unmistakably darker psychological horror.

The project lands at a competitive moment for the genre Bokeh helped define. MP1st notes Konami has confirmed second and third waves of Silent Hill games are already planned, meaning Toyama's next game will face his own franchise's revival head-on. Veteran Japanese creators feel the pressure: at the Tenth Mosaic festival, designer Yoko Taro told attendees per WN Hub that competition intensified as AI and new tools made development easier, and that he fears the 'flame' of competition spreading from younger developers to his generation.