Silent Hill 4 Joins GOG Preservation Program With Cut Content Previously Unavailable on PC

The GOG Preservation Program is increasing with a coagulated database of inductees, including classical titles similar Silent Hill 4: The Room, Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption, Fallout 2, Deus Ex, and more.

The PC integer storefront elaborate however it planned to grow its retro-gaming-focused work yesterday, providing fans with a lineup of games it has committed to enactment for the foreseeable future. It’s a database of 26 titles that GOG says volition “remain playable successful their champion versions” that players tin safely presume they’ll person entree to for years to come.

Silent Hill 4: The Room is 1 rubric that volition payment from the GOG Preservation Program successful much ways than one. In summation to securing its future, GOG says the entry’s presumption with the work means it comes with “missing contented that was ne'er disposable connected PC before.” This includes the reintroduction of Hauntings, which spruce up that iconic Silent Hill ambiance with spooky effects, specified arsenic flickering lamps and possessed telephones. Modern controller enactment has besides been added.

F.E.A.R. Platinum, which was promised past month, arrives arsenic an particularly bully addition, too, arsenic its archetypal developer, Monolith Productions, was shuttered by Warner Bros. past month. As much workplace closures hap and the manufacture leans toward a integer future, it’s a cleanable illustration of what GOG aims to execute with the Preservation Program.

You tin spot the March 2025 additions to the GOG Preservation Program, on with discounts arsenic portion of the existent Spring Sale, below.

• Silent Hill 4: The Room (-35%)
• F.E.A.R. Platinum (-80%)
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption (-50%)
• Tomb Raider: Underworld (-89%), Anniversary (-89%) and Legend (-86%)
• Alone successful the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3 (-75%)
• Ultima™ 1+2+3 (-75%)
• Ultima™ 4+5+6 (-75%)
• Ultima™ 8 Gold Edition (-75%)
• Wing Commander™ 1+2 (-60%)
• Deus Ex GOTY Edition (-86%)
• Jagged Alliance 2 (-60%)
• Fallout 2 (-75%)
• Privateer 2: The Darkening (-75%)
• Port Royale 3 Gold (-70%)
• Alien Breed + Tower Assault (-80%)
• Cannon Fodder (-75%) and Cannon Fodder 2 (-75%)

The GOG Preservation Program is simply a comparatively caller inaugural from the CD Projekt Red-owned storefront that serves arsenic the company’s committedness to support a enactment of games up-to-date and disposable for PC players. More than 100 games are supported done the program, and judging by today’s announcement, the database volition lone proceed to grow.

"The GOG Preservation Program is our committedness to preserving gaming history," GOG said astatine the clip of its uncover precocious past year. "Through the program, players tin spot that their games volition ever beryllium up to day and acceptable to tally connected existent and aboriginal PC setups.

"Whether it’s manuals, DLCs, oregon missing features, we’re offering the astir implicit mentation possible, backed by GOG’s tech enactment and offline installers, truthful you tin safeguard these classics for years to come."

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