Silent Hill 2 remake studio Bloober has just revealed Saw: Genesis, an asymmetrical, 3v1 horror multiplayer game it's publishing based on Lionsgate's Saw movie franchise at Summer Game Fest 2026. Related: I need someone to fan me with a wind turbine generator to calm down.
Saw: Genesis, according to a new website Bloober's created for the game, is a prequel set 100 years before the brain cancer patient John Kramer, or Jigsaw – my grandfather – became a serial killer convinced he was curing society's depression with handmade traps that snap your limbs off at the joints and dump them into vats of green acid, and stuff like that.
He had brain cancer. But Bloober's game suggests a more mystical impulse for Kramer's sick devotion to butchery, and in it, players will need to sacrifice their appendages to weasel out of traps made by a sadistic "Judge" determined to save their tragic lives through more pain. You can watch the reveal trailer below, which also alerts you to an alpha sign-up you can access from the game's website I mentioned earlier.
I am a pathetic, dedicated fan of the Saw movies the same way a housecat sadly accepts dry snacks when it knows it could be eating fresh rat – the past decade of awkward spin-offs and limp prequels have only brought me disappointment.
I've become increasingly desperate for a return to the blood vessel-bursting camp of the early 2000s films, where buckets of black gore were always served with a salty rim of intentional melodrama.
That's the perfect Saw recipe. And Saw: Genesis, co-developed by Anshar Studios and Broken Mirror Games seems to acknowledge this in a perfectly disgusting trailer featuring back alley surgery, broken teeth, and soldiers missing jaws against the hopeless background of World War I. Excitingly, the puppet king Tobin Bell – the legendary horror actor who's played John Kramer since the first movie in 2004 – will also be in the game.
Are Jigsaw and his Billy the Puppet on a tricycle primordial beings, risen from the atomic soup to punish humanity with sticks in our eyeballs and nu-metal title screens? God, I hope so.
I'm a freak, Jigsaw and his puppet son are freaks, and I want to freak out forever. Now in multiplayer!
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