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Wych Elm · Published by Team17 · Official site ↗
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.
Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG · 2026 · More free games
Embark on a perilous journey through Silver Pines' eerie landscapes, battling terrors and solving puzzles as you navigate the town's secrets with limited resources.
About this game
Find Eddie Velvet.
Private investigator Red Walker finds himself in Silver Pines, a place half-abandoned, half-forgotten, in the middle of nowhere on a job to track down Eddie Velvet. A musician who has vanished. As the case begins to reveal a dark past, Walker soon slips into a strange and nightmarish descent beyond his control.
Embark on a journey filled with dread and atmosphere. Haunted by shadows of the past, Silver Pines is waiting to reveal its dark secrets.
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A love letter to classic survival horror. Fight or avoid the horrors of the town as you scavenge for resources and solutions to the puzzles blocking your way.
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Filled with locked doors and hidden paths, every turn holds an uncovered clue, a resource, or something waiting in the dark. With better tools and weapons more and more of the town becomes accessible.
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The horrors of the town include a large variety of challenging monsters and hulking bosses that keeps every encounter tense and dangerous.
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Inventory space is limited. Search everywhere for items because every bullet, bottle of medicine and upgrade matters.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4460 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NIVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti, AMD Radeon R9 270X
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 5 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 11
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NIVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, AMD Radeon R9 380
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 5 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Behind the Pines Dev Blog 1: Animation and Rotoscoping
Welcome to Silver PinesWelcome to the first of our Behind the Pines Dev Blogs! We're aiming to share more of these behind-the-scenes blogs in the lead up to Silver Pines' release on October 8th, covering a variety of different topics including the game's worldbuilding, inspirations, and metroidvania elements. But today we wanted to peel back the curtain on Silver Pines' animation and more specifically, the rotoscoping process.This is a topic that we've been asked about a lot, so grab a cup of black coffee and settle in! It's time to head Behind the Pines.What is Rotoscoping?All of the character animation in Silver Pines uses an old-school process called rotoscoping, where animations are first captured on film and then drawn over frame-by-frame. This method was invented in 1915 and was used across animated movies in the following decades, especially when animators wanted to capture the flow of realistic human movements. For example, rotoscoping was famously used in the dance sequences in Disney's Snow White. In the gaming world, the peak of the rotoscoping age was in the 90s, where games like the original Prince of Persia and Mortal Kombat used the method.The Rotoscoping Process in Silver PinesWe used every resource available to us in the early stages of Silver Pines' development, especially when it came to capturing the in-game animations. We made costumes, filmed ourselves performing animations and then drew over the footage frame-by-frame. It's an admittedly inefficient way to work, but it gets some great results you don't see anywhere else.The main benefit of rotoscoping is that we capture those little details, like the movement in the clothing, the way hair shifts when you move, the little imperfections in how a body moves; it has a quality that's difficult to get any other way.The main downside however, is that it's incredibly labor-intensive, and Mattias, our artist and studio co-founder, has lost more than a little sanity working on the game's animations.As y...Read full article on Community Announcements (Sheldon_Team17)AnnouncementsOfficial
Check out the IGN Preview of Silver Pines!
"The pixelated art is surprisingly fluid and expressive, the voice acting is off-putting and eerie, and every part of the small town you find yourself in is just so ominous and filled with little hair-raising details all over. It’s utterly Lynchian stuff if I ever saw it."Read the full IGN preview of Silver Pines:https://www.ign.com/articles/silver-pines-preview-it-plays-and-looks-like-if-alan-wake-were-made-in-the-90sWishlist Silver Pines on Steam:Click here to join the Silver Pines DiscordKeep up to date with Silver Pines:Follow Silver Pines on XFollow Silver Pines on TikTokFollow Silver Pines on InstagramRead full article on Community Announcements (Sheldon_Team17)Press Coverage
Taking A First Look At Silver Pines—SpooktroidVania
I genuinely didn’t know anything about Silver Pines when an opportunity to get a First Look at it was presented, but there were four words that genuinely caught my eye: survival-horror, side-scrolling Metroidvania (despite my disdain for the term). I genuinely haven’t played an interesting side-scrolling survival horror since Lone Survivor: Director’s Cut all the way back in the halcyon days of 2014, so I was eager to see what was new and exciting a full decade later. Thankfully, CGM was invited to sit down with Wych Elm’s co-founders Mattais Snygg and Linus Larsson to learn a little bit more about Silver Pines. What we were shown was a game that looks to be lovingly crafted as an homage not only to the genre of Metroid-likes, but also a cerebral experience that blends horror with mystery. Larsson began by talking about the inspirations that went into the design of Silver Pines, saying, “We took a lot of inspiration early on when we got started on this project from the ... Read moreRead full article on CGMagazine (Jordan Biordi)AnnouncementsOfficial
Silver Pines featured in the Convergence Showcase
Silver Pines was featured in the Convergence Showcase tonight! Watch the video above, as Linus Larsson, designer and co-founder of Wych Elm Games, explains the set-up for Silver Pines and how your journey through our strange little town will begin.What starts as a traditional detective story quickly turns into something more dreamlike as you dive deeper into the secrets of Silver Pines!Wishlist Silver Pines on Steam:Click here to join the Silver Pines DiscordKeep up to date with Silver Pines:Follow Silver Pines on XFollow Silver Pines on TikTokFollow Silver Pines on InstagramRead full article on Community Announcements (Sheldon_Team17)AnnouncementsOfficial
Silver Pines has passed 200k wishlists across all platforms!
Silver Pines has passed 200k Wishlists across Steam and consoles! Thank you for all of your support so far!We look forward to seeing you all on October 8th as Silver Pines releases and the hunt for Eddie Velvet begins in earnest.Find out more about Silver Pines and play the demo now:Read full article on Community Announcements (Sheldon_Team17)
