Bloober Team publishes (and also sort of helps develop) the new Saw game.
Saw: Genesis transforms the horrific film series into a first-person multiplayer horror experience where you torture your friends or run away from a friend who is trying to torture you. This looks like fun, seriously. It will arrive on Steam Early Access in 2026 and you should be able to sign up for the closed alpha now.
The horror experts at Bloober Team publish Saw: Genesisand it is developed by their long-time collaborator Anshar Studios and their own publishing arm, Broken Mirror Games. Three players are the accused and one is the judge, setting traps to create a maze of pain for victims to escape.
Saw: Genesis takes place in the aftermath of World War I, and the Judge is one of the first to adopt Jigsaw Killer’s sadistic worldview. In procedurally generated levels, the judge sets traps and manipulates the accused with secret passages, noise detection, hallucinogenic gases, paralyzing toxins and an accomplice. The accused work together to complete challenges and collect the keys before time runs out. If they find themselves stuck in a trap, they must sacrifice part of their body or rely on their teammates to rescue them. Choices have permanent consequences for each match.
The game’s Steam page suggests it will hit Early Access “later this year” and then stay there for about a year.
Bloober Team recently rolled out its publishing business, Broken Mirror Games, starting with the announcement of I hate this place by Rock Square Thunder. Broken Mirror takes a co-development approach to supporting its curated titles, which explains the double billing on Saw: Genesis.
The new Saw game (because yes, there were others) looks like a competitive version of Red Barrels. The Outlast eventswhich proved that there was a lot of juice in this interactive, multiplayer horror genre.
