Sam Barlow (game designer)

Sam Barlow
Barlow in 2015
Alma materUniversity of Bristol
OccupationVideo game designer
Years active1999–present
Employer(s)Strategy.com (2000)
MicroStrategy (2000)
Vitalspring (2000–2001)
Climax Studios (2002–2014)
Eko (2016–2017)
Half Mermaid (2017–present)
Notable work

Sam Barlow is a British video game designer, best known as the writer and designer of Her Story, the two British Silent Hill games (Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories), Telling Lies and Immortality. He previously worked as a game director at Climax Studios before leaving in 2014 to become an indie game developer. He published his first independent game, Her Story, in June 2015, his first venture in a genre he has called the "desktop thriller". In 2017, he founded Half Mermaid, a video game production company based in New York.