Konami's Silent Hill franchise is the king of the genre. The reason it rules the horror gaming genre is that it is filled with terrifying sequences. There is an abundance of frightening video games on the market.

Silent Hill, with its first title released in 1999, is one of the most influential of the horror video game series. Perron situates the games within the survival horror genre, both by looking at the history of the genre and by comparing Silent Hill with such important forerunners as Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil.