Silent Hill: The Escape is a Silent Hill spin-off game, featuring first-person shooter-style gameplay. Its characteristic feature is a gameplay mechanic called gesture technology, which is a method of controlling the actions in the game via image feedback from the mobile device's built-in camera. The game objective is for the player to make their way through ten levels by finding the key and bringing it to the locked door at the end of each level. The player must slide their fingers to move the character in a first person perspective and tap the screen to shoot enemies.
There are four different characters to play as a human, alien, a woman named Mira, or Robbie the Rabbit. Each character is unlocked after beating the game with the previous character. The game is a simple way to pass time, featuring several different monsters