I hope your stomach's ready for Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival. The upcoming horror game will be launching us into a first-person adventure set in the harrowing world of one of the best horror movie franchises ever, and after our first hands-on preview session at Gamescom 2025 that saw developer Saber Interactive having sick bags at the ready, it's safe to say it's one of the most brutal new games in the works right now.
Sure, I'm a little sad that Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival isn't already booked to release on Halloween this year. But at least its release window has been confirmed, and it looks like we'll be getting our Cenobite-obsessed hands on it soon. To tide us over in the meantime, the latest Love Story trailer gives us a decidedly grislier take on a romance for the ages... and we can hardly wait to find out how it all ends.
So, whether you're a diehard fan of the sadistic IP or can't get enough of the best horror games and want to know if this one is your (blood) bag, we've got you covered. Here's everything we know right now about Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival, from trailers to gameplay details and the newly announced release date!
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival release date speculation
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival will release on October 8, 2026. The announcement came in a Steam post where developer Saber Interactive shared the latest trailer.
It's exciting to know that the new Hellraiser will be launching just weeks before Halloween itself, so I know exactly how I'll be gearing up for spooky season!
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival platforms
The new Hellraiser game is set to launch on PS5, PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and Xbox Series X/S. Unfortunately, that means PS4 and Xbox One owners will be out of luck, since Saber Interactive will not be launching Hellraiser on last-gen consoles after all.
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival trailer
The first Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival trailer opens with an expectedly risque scene. Snapshot flashes of a dimly-lit home interior cut to scenes of a man and woman in the throes of passion, with BDSM gear glimpsed on the floor. This is pretty standard for Hellraiser – it's essentially a franchise about the pleasures and horrors of sadomasochism – and we hear Pinhead himself speak over these images, promising to slake the couple's "thirst for excruciating pleasure."
Once again, some poor unfortunate soul has opened The Box, an artefact that summons the Cenobites by opening a portal to their hellish dimension. Pinhead and the Cenobites whisk the woman away to their world, and urge her partner to follow her there.
One of the more recent glimpses of Hellraiser: Revival comes by way of the Love Story trailer, released just ahead of Valentine's Day 2026. In it, we see the game's sweethearts getting cozy, with the male lead professing his adoration for wife Sunny as a romantic montage plays out... before picking up the lament configuration and sealing their fate at the hands of the cenobites. The alluring words of one such demonic entity shows how the couple's passion for one another ultimately plays right into Pinhead and co.'s hands.
We've seen the bulk of this trailer before, really, but there are some flashes of interesting new environments (including the infamous Labyrinth where Sunny has been imprisoned) that Aiden will have to fight through to reconnect with his beloved. Aww! Now that's what I call a romantic Valentine's Day tale!
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival gameplay
In the trailer, we also see some glimpses of the kind of first-person action we can expect in the new Hellraiser game, with scenes of nightclubs, doctors' surgery, and gnarly combat encounters against humans, Cenobites, and hell-bound Leviathan alike.
In one scene, the player character reaches through the chest of a corpse whose torso has been split in two. In another, we see him pulling chains through the eye sockets of a flayed skull. Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival looks like a rescue mission that won't hold back on the gore and carnage, making this a truly delectable first look. If you have a strong stomach, of course. We're still waiting to see Hellraiser gameplay, but this gives us an indication of what's in store.
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival setting
Much like past Hellraiser films, Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival seems to be set in a liminal space between our world and Hell – the world from which the Cenobites originate.
The real world portions could be anywhere in the Western world, likely the USA or UK, given the look of the homes and other indoor locations we glimpse in the trailer. There's little else confirmed right now about those technicalities, but we'll be keeping an eagle eye peeled for more news as we draw closer to the unknown release date.
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