Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival

Revival plays as a story-driven survival horror shooter seen through Aidan's eyes. Moment to moment you are juggling two toolsets. In one hand sits the Genesis Configuration, which channels hellish abilities: Saber's screenshots show it throwing fire and crackling with blue energy. In the other you carry earthly weapons, and the trick is chaining the two so the box opens enemies up and conventional firepower finishes them.

The enemies are the faithful of Hellraiser: wretches, deviants, a cult devoted to the Cenobites and, eventually, hell's own priests. Many of them are masochists who seem to welcome the pain, which suits a game where brutal, bone-breaking violence is the main verb. Encounters swing between close-quarters scraps in tight corridors and larger brawls in places like a graveyard and a neon-lit club.

Between fights you explore shifting, architectural spaces that only a puzzle box could build, and the Labyrinth's geometry is a big part of the dread. Progression is tied to the story, so expect a linear campaign rather than an open map.

There is no multiplayer. The game supports full controller input with DualShock and DualSense pads, saves to Steam Cloud and offers 69 achievements for completionists.

Aidan never meant to start anything. When he gets hold of the Genesis Configuration and strikes a deal with Pinhead to rescue his girlfriend Sunny from the Labyrinth, he unwittingly kicks off a ritual that Pinhead intends to use to unleash more pain and pleasure on the world than ever before.

Saber describes it as a new chapter in Hellraiser's canon rather than a retelling of the films, so you do not need to have seen them to follow it. Fans will still recognise the furniture: the puzzle box, the Cenobites and the cult that worships them, and a hell built out of impossible stone.

The narrative goes to dark places. Alongside violence and gore, it deals with suicide, domestic abuse, BDSM and addiction, all flagged in the store's content warning. It is horror in Clive Barker's tradition, where the monsters are as interested in sensation as in slaughter.

Hellraiser: Revival is available now on Windows PC through Steam at US$39.99. Regional Steam prices are RM109 in Malaysia, S$49.90 in Singapore, ₱1,445 in the Philippines, ฿990 in Thailand, Rp 419,000 in Indonesia and 600,000₫ in Vietnam. It ships with eight languages, among them English, French, German, Russian and Simplified Chinese, with no Southeast Asian language support. Minimum hardware is Windows 10 22H2, a Ryzen 5 1500X or Core i5-8400, 8 GB of RAM and a GTX 1660 or RX Vega 64, with 80 GB of storage and an SSD recommended. Full controller support is included.