Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival lives up to the horror franchise’s name by delivering indescribable suffering. Unfortunately, it’s inflicted on the players, and there’s no ecstasy to be found in what’s often a miserable experience. Despite boasting an alluringly dark, faithfully gore-filled presentation and borrowing from a successful first-person survival horror blueprint, the game stumbles both intentionally and functionally thanks to a litany of bugs.

Aiden Lynch is the uninteresting lead at the center of this tale. He must rescue his girlfriend, Sunny, after she unlocks the series’ dreaded puzzle box and is whisked away into the hellish Labyrinth by the Cenobites, led by the iconic Pinhead (with Doug Bradley reprising the role and unsurprisingly killing it). To restore Sunny's mortal body, Lynch must navigate the Labyrinth's dangers while battling a Cenobite-obsessed cult in the human world.…