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Before we get to the meaty parts, fair warning: if you're squeamish about graphic violence, body horror, or generally deeply unpleasant things, you may want to skip this one. It’s not for those with a weak stomach.
Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games have dropped the first proper gameplay trailer for Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival, and it's safe to say that it’s earning every pixel of that inevitable 18 rating.
The short, 1-minute trailer showcases exactly what you'd expect from a Hellraiser game - visceral combat, nightmarish environments, and more than enough grotesque imagery. Chains, hooks, gallons of blood, and bodies feature prominently, alongside some of the most disturbing enemy designs that look ripped straight from Clive Barker's unsettling fever dreams.
A small disclaimer: The trailer above is a censored version without all the gory details. For the uncensored version, visit the official website.
What’s Clive Barker's Hellraiser about?
The game puts you in control of Aidan, a protagonist who finds himself wielding the Genesis Configuration puzzle box to rescue his girlfriend from literal Hell. Opening these mysterious puzzle boxes always works out brilliantly in horror fiction, doesn't it?
As you march throughout the campaign, you’ll fight all sorts of monstrosities, cultists, various types of “sex-crazed” deviants, as you can see in the trailer above, and infernal creatures whilst trying to save your soulmate. Doug Bradley returns to voice Pinhead after decades away from the role, which is surely something that fans of this franchise will appreciate.
Puzzle Box Powers and Weapon Arsenal
In terms of combat, you combine the Genesis Configuration's supernatural abilities with conventional weapons, a system that the devs call "instruments of misery and delight" - a very Hellraiser turn of phrase. The gameplay footage shows first-person melee combat that looks properly weighty and brutal, albeit not perfect yet, which is understandable, alongside environmental interaction and puzzle-solving elements across various demonic landscapes. You’ll get to cut off limbs, stick axes into enemies’ heads and that kind of disgusting stuff. Yuck.
When Can You Suffer?
Hellraiser: Revival launches sometime in 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam. Boss Team Games is also flogging collector's editions featuring an illuminated replica puzzle box, because apparently some people actively want cursed objects sitting on their shelves. Good luck with that.
The game's available to wishlist now across all platforms. Whether it successfully captures Barker's particular brand of philosophical body horror or just becomes another gory action game with a famous licence remains the question, but I have to say that the gameplay footage certainly looks the part.
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