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New Cinematic Trailer Revealed for Psychological Horror Title ‘Haunted Bloodlines’ [Watch]
Despite not making its Q4 2025 release window, developer Horrified Triangles is still plugging away with Haunted Bloodlines. To keep the game on everyone’s radar, the developers have released a brand new cinematic trailer.
Describing itself as channelling the haunted-house dread of Stephen King‘s “Rose Red” with the psychological tension of Hideo Kojima‘s P.T., Haunted Bloodlines is a first-person survival and psychological horror experience that drops players into the eerie depths of an ever-shifting mansion. After the sudden death of your father, you inherit a sprawling estate hidden deep within a dark forest, only to begin questioning your sanity as you uncover disturbing truths about your family’s legacy. Is your bloodline who you believe them to be? And can you face the truth without losing your mind?
The deeper you go, the less the house makes sense. Rooms rearrange themselves. Memories that aren’t yours start to surface. And the further you dig into your family’s past, the harder it becomes to tell what’s real and what the mansion wants you to see.
With no way to defend yourself, your only options are to hide or run. Stay silent, stay hidden, and keep track of the mansion’s shifting layout. You’ll solve puzzles by stepping into the past and move between the living world and its haunted reflection, where each side holds both pieces of the truth and horrors you’d rather not face.
Along with a release on Steam (where you can still check out the demo), Haunted Bloodlines is also in development for the PlayStation 5.
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Bloody Body Horror Revealed in ‘Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’, Currently in Development [Trailer]
Shift Up has shifted things dramatically from 2024’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade, offering up a body horror bonanza in the newly announced sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The sequel is currently early in development, but if the trailer is any indication, players will be in for plenty of body horror.
Continuing the story from the original Stellar Blade, Blood Rain will star a new protagonist named Eve. Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of humanity has fled to a Colony in outer space.
Shift Up had mentioned during a Q&A following its latest earnings presentation last month that development on Blood Rain (which was still unannounced at the time) was progressing smoothly, and was on track to meet their targeted quality standards.
Shift Up stated that with this new title it would be transitioning to a first-party service model, effectively moving away from the restrictions the game experienced with original publisher Sony, which had the game under an exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 5. “This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP, and we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively.”
Whether this means that Xbox Players will finally be able to play the original game (or its sequel) is still not clear. Meanwhile, Stellar Blade is reportedly being ported to the Nintendo Switch 2, but no official confirmation has been made.