Silent Hill 2’s new patch fixes the latest patch in possible meta-commentary on recursive horror

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Remember the Silent Hill 2 remake’s 1.04 patch? The one that messed up James’ wide range of magic powers, like matter phasing and teleportation? As it turns out, it not only broke our protagonist’s connection to the mysterious, but also broke some players’ ability to complete Silent Hill 2. It introduced a bug that affected players who loaded a save in the Labyrinth area that would essentially block further progression.

That’s not great. Fortunately, Bloober Team was quite quick with the draw: the studio has one new hotfix for the game just a few days later. Patch 1.05 is now out and has “implemented a fix by adding a safeguard that forces the proper activation of necessary triggers” for anyone loading a save into the Labyrinth, “ensuring smooth progress in the future.”

But now you can also sync that storage across multiple devices: your Steam Decks, desktops, laptops, and anything else you can install Steam on. Bloober has flipped the Steam Cloud switch, meaning your saves will now be transferred across devices. In theory, that 1.04 patch improved the game’s performance on Deck, where the game was virtually unplayable when I booted it up at launch. That might make the feature a bit more immediately useful for those of us who own Valve’s portable version.

But having just booted up the game on my own deck, I think SH2 might need a few more patches before I can comfortably call it ‘playable’ on the handheld.

Anyway, I’m glad to see Bloober responding quickly to issues with the game. The Silent Hill 2 remake turned out a lot better than even me – that one good time with a taste– would have expected. At PCGs Silent Hill 2 reviewKerry Brunskill called it a “fun but flawed take on an impeccable gem”, with a score of 78%. Of course, that was before Bloober solved the teleportation problem. Maybe it would be higher now. Or lower? Hard to say.