Hellraiser is being turned into a survival horror game

The developers astatine Boss Team Games person specified sights to amusement you: the workplace conscionable announced that it’s taking the terrifying satellite of the classical Hellraiser films and turning it into a endurance fearfulness game. The caller rubric is called Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival, and someway it’s the archetypal gaming adaptation of the franchise, which has been astir since 1987.

According to the studio, the crippled volition blend “survival fearfulness with a single-player, story-driven enactment experience.” And, yes, determination volition beryllium a acheronian and mysterious puzzle box. There are besides immoderate notable names connected board. Doug Bradley, the archetypal histrion for Hellraiser’s iconic villain Pinhead, volition beryllium reprising the role, and bid creator Clive Barker is assisting with the game’s story. In a statement, Barker said that “I’m anxious for some the funny and the damned to acquisition this caller section successful the Hellraiser mythos, wherever each infinitesimal balances connected the brink of nightmare and revelation.”

While this volition beryllium the archetypal Hellraiser game, it’s portion of a increasing inclination of classical fearfulness franchises being adapted for the medium. The likes of Friday the 13th and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre were turned into asymmetrical multiplayer games, arsenic was The Evil Dead, which was developed by Boss Team.

Single-player endurance fearfulness seems similar a amended acceptable for Hellraiser, however, though it’s unclear yet erstwhile it mightiness beryllium available. Right present it’s listed arsenic simply “in development.” It’ll beryllium disposable connected the PC, PS5, and Xbox whenever it does launch.