{"id":90143,"date":"2026-09-24T19:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T23:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90143"},"modified":"2026-09-24T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:39:07","slug":"the-best-news-for-saw-genesis-is-we-have-to-wait-longer-to-play-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90143","title":{"rendered":"The Best News For Saw: Genesis Is We Have To Wait Longer To Play It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saw: Genesis was set to be the next asymmetrical multiplayer horror game to debut, but its 2026 early-access launch has been pushed to 2027, developer Bloober Team announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The horror-focused studio said it needs more time to get Saw: Genesis to a place the team is satisfied with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s an interesting admission, since some teams use Steam Early Access for exactly that purpose: to get the game in good shape. But in the increasingly competitive and crowded space of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/how-hollywoods-iconic-monsters-kicked-off-a-horror-game-revolution\/1100-6527506\/\">licensed multiplayer horror games<\/a>, a bad first impression may be more damaging than a reverse bear trap strapped to your face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve seen a lot of games like this since Dead by Daylight kicked off a wave of them in 2016, but my appetite remains insatiable because no two are really quite alike. It&#8217;s exciting to see how studios transpose different horror movies&#8217; signature elements into interactive experiences, but when I checked out Saw: Genesis at Summer Game Fest, I came away underwhelmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1896195\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"1024\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jpjeoik87irh1.jpeg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1896195\" \/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 3v1 gameplay loop wasn&#8217;t easy to follow in my hands-off demo. It&#8217;s set about a century before the movies, with one person playing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw: Genesis was set to be the next asymmetrical multiplayer horror game to debut, but its 2026 early-access launch has been pushed to 2027, developer Bloober Team announced.\u00a0 The horror-focused studio said it needs more time to get Saw: Genesis to a place the team is satisfied with. It&#8217;s an interesting admission, since some teams&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":90145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90146,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90143\/revisions\/90146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}