Everything is deathly silent as you explore the abandoned space station.
Silent Debuggers is an intense outerspace bug hunt... that'll keep you on the edge of your seat.
— Gamepro's comment as mentioned on the back of the U.S. cover.
Silent Debuggers is a first-person shooter made for the TurboGrafx-16 during 1991 and is of the horror genre. The game follows an unnamed member of the eponymous Silent Debuggers as they explore the Gane cargo station as the player destroys monsters while Leon hacks into the computer to find out what happened to the people onboard while a mysterious person in red armor tries to antagonize them in response to their efforts.
Examples:
- An Arm and a Leg: The monsters can have their limb shot off by the player. Leon later grabs a machine gun and uses it to shoot the left arm of a mutated Charles Smith off.
- Bad Boss: As he was behind the monster attacks that overrun OMHE, Charles Smith gave no care that his employees got caught up in the chaos with Steve being one of the confirmed kills and Ray being implicitly being killed next.
- Big Damn Heroes: When a mutated Charles Smith tries to turn the player character into a bioroid, Sarah Bentury and Leon arrive to gun him down which leads to him losing an arm and netting the player an opportunity to shoot off his head.
- Death by Materialism: Many debuggers arrived on the station in search of treasure, but were killed by monsters. The treasure was revealed to be a lie to entrap victims and find the best test subject for the strongest bioroid.
- Evil All Along: Charles Smith first seemed concerned about the dangers of the monsters, but in reality, they were all people he turned into bioroids.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: The mutated Charles Smith gets shot with machinegun fire before his head gets shot off, when the game was available on the Virtual Console, it was rated E by the ERSB.
- Given Name Reveal: The individual with red armor who antagonized the main duo? Not only was she a woman, her name was Sarah Bentury.
- Good All Along: Despite being hostile to the player and his partner Leon, the person in red armor turns out to be Sarah Bentury who knew that the bioroids were more what they seemed and was trying to chase them out of a trap then arrived in time to stop a mutated Charles Smith from turning the player into a bioroid.
- The Man Behind the Monsters: Charles Smith instigated the monster attacks after mutating a group of humans into mindless Bioroids and had a lie spread over the universe to draw in more victims.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Charles Smith talked about how mankind should be reborn as a stronger race, but the fact that he sends his mutated victims to die quashes any positive claims he made. The protagonist was even disgusted by how low Smith stooped in search of creating a Master Race.
- Red Is Heroic: Sarah Bentury dons red armor and arrives in time to help kill Charles Smith as he tried to make the player into a bioroid.
- Off with His Head!: The Player Character shoots off the head of Charles Smith in response to his plan to turn mankind into monsters.
- Samus Is a Girl: While the person with red armor who acted antagonistic was referred with male pronouns, they were revealed to be a woman after she escapes from the station alongside Leon and the player.
- Was Once a Man: The monsters were all revealed to have been people transformed into bioroids by Charles Smith who himself was no longer human by the time he revealed his true colors.
- Worthless Treasure Twist: The treasure that was supposedly in the station was actually a lie to lure in victims and turn them into monsters.
