Archive EntryPreservation Record
Silent Hill 2
Shelf markLIB-0065
Editorial StandingCatalogued · Permanent Record
2024Game
Catalog Information
- Original Title
- Silent Hill 2
- Release
- October 7, 2024
- Developer
- Bloober Team
- Publisher
- Konami
- Medium
- Digital edition · Steam
- Subjects
- Action · Adventure · Survival Horror · Silent Hill · Digital Preservation
Archival Status
- Custody
- Permanent archive holding
- Reference Copy
- Steam digital edition · Konami build
- Condition Report
- Account-bound license on the archive Steam account. No physical media is part of this accession.
- Acquisition
- Digital acquisition · July 2026
- Filed
- August 8, 2026
Acquisition Record
How this digital copy entered archival custody — provenance for the holding, not the identity of the work.
- Source
- Steam
- Acquired through
- Digital library holding
- Entered
- August 8, 2026
- Steam App ID
- 2124490
Technical record
- Holding reference
steam-2124490- Provenance reconciled
- August 8, 2026
- Recorded playtime
- 65 hours 30 minutes
- Store listing
- Steam store listing
Curator Notes
Collection Documentation
Preservation Notes
- Access Hardware
- Windows PC through Steam under archive custody
- Original Hardware
- PC · Steam digital edition
- Playback Compatibility
- Continued access requires the archive account and Steam’s ongoing support for the title.
- Preservation Concerns
- As with other account-bound Steam holdings: platform dependency, policy change, and the absence of a retained offline installer.
- Edition History
- Bloober Team remake released on Steam October 7, 2024. This accession records the licensed digital remake and does not replace the North American PlayStation 2 Silent Hill 2 reference copy (LIB-0044).
- Access Status
- Playable from the archive Steam library for as long as that license and storefront path remain intact.
Connections
- Archival Lineage
- LIB-0030Silent Hill (1999)
- LIB-0044Silent Hill 2 (2001)
- LIB-0043Silent Hill 3 (2003)
- LIB-0042Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004)
- LIB-0040Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2010)
- LIB-0065Silent Hill 2 (2024)this filing
- Series
- Silent Hill
- Editorial Record
- Reserved for future critical writing in Bloodsoaked Media.
Artifact Documentation
This filing is retained as a digital edition. Physical collection photography does not apply to the holding itself.
Supplementary archival media may be entered if documentation is later filed. Nothing is forced into the record.
Stewardship History
A permanent chronology of this archival record — filed, revised, and tended over time. Entries accumulate; none are erased.
Filed into the Library
Accessioned as LIB-0065.
Collection Documentation entered
Connections established
Official artwork entered
Steam library artwork filed under the Library accession path.
Editorial revision
Catalog identity, authority references, and digital-holding documentation aligned for publication.
Preservation Notes entered
Published to the Bloodsoaked Library
Digital accession curated from Steam custody and set to Catalogued · Permanent Record.