Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival Reviews
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is an excellent horror game. By blending survival horror, shooter elements, a bit of platforming, and a work simulator, Saber Interactive has achieved what until now seemed impossible: the perfect Hellraiser game. This is a series beloved by horror fans that had never had its own video game and seemed almost impossible to adapt into a video game. While it’s true that the pacing may feel slow to fans of certain types of games, the game is a delight to savor for fans of the series and classic horror in general. We should also note the game’s graphic nature. It doesn’t shy away from depicting all kinds of mutilations, blood, dismemberments, and extremely graphic sexual acts. That’s why it’s not for all audiences.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival is fine. There's some fun to be had with its puzzles, but doesn't do anything outstandingly well or offer anything innovative. Fans of Hellraiser may revel in some nostalgia but there are better games in this genre.
An appropriately mixed bag of grisly body horror, Hellraiser: Revival is a strange, scrappy, and never less than fascinating game.
While the studded scalp of otherworld antagonist Pinhead absolutely looks the part, it’s a shame that little else in Hellraiser: Revival has been nailed to anywhere near the same extent.
But the overall experience is one of a narrative that puts too much trust in its consumers to respect who or what’s being consumed, and the result is a beautiful-at-moments maze with sadly nothing at its center.
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival feels like a statement piece in both sex and violence.
I am pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed Hellraiser: Revival. Its respect for its source material is apparent throughout, with the Labyrinth, the Cenobites, and the Genesis Configuration being standout pieces of the puzzle. The rest of the game isn't reinventing the wheel for first-person horror, but the "don't fix what isn't broken" approach works just fine here.
While this game should probably be banned, there are some solid gameplay elements here that borrow from popular franchises.
If you're someone who adores Clive Barker's horror franchise, Hellraiser: Revival might be worth a look for its faithful visuals and intriguing story. As a gameplay experience, however, it falls at several hurdles, with awkward camera controls, bang-average combat mechanics, and a plethora of bugs throughout.A few hefty patches could iron out the wrinkles and make Revival an adaptation worth experiencing. For now, I can't help but wonder if a new movie would have been a wiser use of resources.
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival does the iconic horror franchise justice with its story and atmosphere, both of which are top-notch and enough to justify its existence.
It may not reinvent the wheel, but it effectively combines its gameplay elements in a way that's incredibly engaging.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Hellraiser: Revival is everything I wanted from a game based on Barker's series. The extremity of its depiction of the slippage between pain and pleasure, the visualisation of both the Cenobites and the Labyrinth, even the sheer visceral nature of the combat and environment. I might be a little biased as I am such a fan of the source material, but this stands out to me as one of the best horror tie-in games I can remember and is essential for anyone with even a slight fondness for the Cenobites and their dark delights.
Hellraiser: Revival offers a well-paced survival horror experience that's packed with fan-service, but also a Labyrinth-load of bugs.
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival definitely does not waste your suffering.
Clive Barker's Hellraiser Revival is a frustrating experience, as for every one thing it does really well, it does two things that will annoy the life out of you. Part of me was willing to see past the jank, as you have a pretty niche horror title coming to life in a new medium, and I certainly respect it for giving it a go.However, too often its design choices would irritate me, hold me back from progressing, or just straight up make me not want to play. While it's got little sparks of something special in there, Hellraiser: Revival is more pain than pleasure.
The atmosphere and characters spawned by Clive Barker's imagination are beautifully rendered, and the game has no qualms about showing extreme events uncensored.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival had all the components to become a hit. However, stylish design and well-written characters are unable to save mediocre gameplay and irritating puzzles combined with outdated mechanics. On top of that, in 2026 what's happening on screen is incapable of scaring an audience that has lived through a pandemic, an AI boom, and numerous military conflicts.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival combines numerous ideas; however, not all of them come together seamlessly.
If you are a Hellraiser fan then you are already waiting for release day, but for those that are new and curious; if you can handle the extremes that this game offers then I invite you to check it out, they have SUCH sights to show you.
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival isn't a perfect outing. Some of the creative choices, like adding in explorable sections, add more bloat for the sake of gameplay variety without adding significant substance. To boot, enemy AI in these parts of the game is very simple and offers little challenge. With that said, the true potency of this game comes from the more focused, linear areas, where the concepts and scares get the chance to really show themselves. There are some cool ideas in Hellraiser: Revival, and every Hellraiser fan needs to check it out.