All Hellraiser: Revival Endings Explained

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival caps off its roughly 8-10-hour campaign not with a traditional good-versus-evil split, but with a single irreversible choice. Once protagonist Aidan Lynch learns the truth behind his girlfriend Sunny’s disappearance into the Labyrinth, the game hands him one decision that determines how his story ends.

What Leads to the Final Choice in Hellraiser: Revival

Hellraiser: Revival Endings | Credit: Saber Interactive

Aidan’s descent into the Labyrinth begins at home, during an intense, charged encounter with Sunny that involves the Genesis Configuration, the game’s puzzle box, which they use as part of their relationship’s rougher edge. The box tears open a portal mid-scene, and Aidan follows Sunny through it into a nightmarish dimension tied to the Scarlet Church, a cult led by the wealthy, silver-tongued Marlowe and his prophet, Bruno, the group’s torturer and self-styled “artist” of pain.

The campaign eventually culminates in the birth of the Ascendant, when Aidan learns the truth: Sunny has been steering events toward this outcome all along, having struck her own bargain with the Cenobites. The Ascendant then drags everyone, Sunny included, through a portal into another realm, leaving Aidan alone on the floor, broken by the betrayal.

Two figures step in at that point: Deep Throat, the Cenobite offering him a place among them, and the Merchant, who urges him to hold on to what’s left of his humanity. The wall separating Aidan from the portal begins sealing shut, forcing a decision before time runs out.

Cenobite Ending

Hellraiser: Revival Cenobite Ending | Credit: Saber Interactive

To get this ending, cross to Deep Throat before the wall closes. Chains pin Aidan in place, and his tongue is taken first as an opening sacrifice. While it happens, he relives moments with Sunny, a last goodbye to his human self, before chains drag him fully through the portal, his body and eyes changing as he completes the transformation into a Cenobite.

Human Ending

Hellraiser: Revival Human Ending | Credit: Saber Interactive

This ending needs nothing more than waiting where you are until the wall finishes closing, which leaves Aidan behind the Merchant. The scene shifts to Aidan talking through what comes next for him, resolved to start over instead of following Sunny into the Cenobites’ world. It closes on him smoking quietly, signaling his intent not to repeat the same mistakes.

Neither outcome is framed as objectively correct, and that’s by design. Staying with the Merchant keeps Aidan human but leaves him isolated, still processing what Sunny did to him. Going with Deep Throat lets him follow Sunny into the world she chose for herself, at the cost of everything that made him who he was.

Which ending matched your take on Aidan’s arc? Did you walk away from the portal, or step through it?