Silent Hill 2 Remake Studio Now Juggling 7 Horror Games

Seven horror games. That's what Bloober Team, the Polish studio behind 2024's Silent Hill 2 remake and 2025's Cronos: The New Dawn, currently has in active development. CEO Piotr Babieno confirmed the number in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, alongside news that the studio is restructuring its leadership to handle the workload.

The split is two and five. Two first-party single-player horror titles are being developed internally by Bloober's core teams, while five more are in various stages of co-development under the studio's Broken Mirror Games label. Of those five, Layers of Fear 3 has already been confirmed, with Anshar Studios rumoured to be collaborating on it. The two first-party projects are believed to be "Project H," a new original IP from the Cronos: The New Dawn team, and "Project M," a Nintendo console exclusive. A Silent Hill 1 remake in collaboration with Konami reportedly entered full production back in October 2025, though Bloober hasn't specified which of the seven slots it occupies.

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Babieno framed the expansion as a survival strategy rather than an ambition play. "We don't want fewer than two productions, because relying on a single title creates too much risk in today's market," he told GamesIndustry.biz. "But we also don't want more, because quality, focus, and creative oversight would inevitably suffer." He also pushed back against the idea that seven projects means a content flood: "We're not interested in growth for the sake of numbers. We believe players don't need a constant flood of releases."

To support the shift, Bloober appointed three new executives: Thaine Lyman, a veteran of Activision and Wargaming, as head of studio; Katya Baukova, with experience at CD Projekt and Techland, as director of business development; and Michał Gembicki, formerly CEO of indie publisher Klabater SA, as head of publishing. The studio currently employs nearly 270 people.

I get the logic. Silent Hill 2's remake reviewed well, Cronos landed, and Bloober finally has the credibility to scale up. But seven simultaneous horror projects from a 270-person studio is a lot, even with five of those being co-developed. Babieno says all the right things about sustainable growth and not solving problems through layoffs, and I hope he means it. The games industry has heard that speech before from studios that later gutted their teams. What Bloober has going for it is focus: every single one of these projects is horror, which means shared expertise across the board rather than a studio pulling itself in five different genre directions. Project H is reportedly still in pre-production, and neither Layers of Fear 3 nor the Silent Hill 1 remake have release dates.