Remothered: Red Nun’s Legacy comes out today, 27 October, and brings Stormind Games’ horror trilogy to a close after Tormented Fathers and Broken Porcelain. The Italian studio sends players to an abandoned villa on the slopes of Mount Etna, following a mother who is searching for her missing daughter. Before you hit play, a few practical questions come up: when it unlocks, which platforms get it on day one, how much it costs, how much drive space it needs and which languages the voice cast covers. The first reviews, which went live yesterday, also give a clear idea of what a playthrough looks like, how long it lasts and what critics made of it.
At a glance
Red Nun’s Legacy unlocks at 2pm GMT on 27 October on Steam, and launches the same day on PS5 and Xbox Series, ahead of Switch 2 on 3 December.
Red Nun’s Legacy has full English voice acting, with French among the interface and subtitle languages.
Expect six to seven hours to reach the ending, with no difficulty settings to pick from, according to early reviews.
Out at 2pm GMT on Steam, with Switch 2 waiting until 3 December
According to the official Steam page for Remothered: Red Nun’s Legacy, the game unlocks on 27 October at 2pm GMT. Stormind Games confirmed in its third developer diary, posted on Steam on 22 October, that it launches the same day on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC through Steam, the Epic Games Store and GOG. The Nintendo Switch 2 version arrives on 3 December, more than a month after the others.
A demo of Red Nun’s Legacy was available during the October Steam Next Fest. For everything else landing this week, our video game release calendar lists every date alongside its source.
Red Nun’s Legacy needs 50GB on PC and costs €39.99 in Deluxe
The Digital Deluxe Edition costs €39.99, according to the announcement Stormind Games posted on Steam on 18 September. It adds a digital artbook of nearly 100 pages and the full 25-track soundtrack by Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka, working alongside Aram Shahbazians. Yamaoka is also behind the music for Dust till Dawn, a Japanese cleaning horror game.
On PC, the minimum specs call for a GeForce RTX 2070 Super or a Radeon RX 5700 XT, a Ryzen 5 3600X or a Core i5-11600K, 16GB of memory and Windows 11, according to the Steam page. The recommended specs step up to an RTX 3080 Ti or an RX 6900 XT with 24GB of memory. Either way, you’ll want 50GB of free space.
A mother follows her daughter’s trail to the foot of Mount Etna
The story of Red Nun’s Legacy begins thirteen months after six young girls vanished in Sicily, according to Stormind Games’ official synopsis. Susan and her partner Angelo receive a tape suggesting that their daughter Agata might still be alive. The lead takes them to a decaying noble residence, isolated on the slopes of Mount Etna and once owned by the Ashmann family. The Cristo Morente convent, where the myth of the Red Nun began, is among the places you’ll explore. Once inside, Susan loses track of Angelo, and her search soon covers two members of her family.
Real places shaped the setting of Red Nun’s Legacy. Palazzo Biscari, the ceramics of Caltagirone, traditional Sicilian playing cards and Mount Etna all served as references, according to the studio’s post from 7 October. Its cinematic influences come up in a post from 13 October, which names Dario Argento and Suspiria and points out that the first Remothered began as a love letter to Clock Tower, the same game that inspired Tenebris Somnia, another retro tribute to Clock Tower.
As for the cast, BAFTA Games Award winner Cissy Jones voices Susan, while Game Awards winner Maggie Robertson plays the Red Nun. Jeff Young, who reviewed the game for Analog Stick Gaming, found Jones’s Susan convincing overall, and noticed her jacket getting more and more torn as the story goes on.
Hiding under beds and swinging a club: what a playthrough looks like
Most of your time in Red Nun’s Legacy goes into avoiding the Stalkers, here a group of faceless nuns who comb the villa for you. In his Red Nun’s Legacy review for Analog Stick Gaming, Jeff Young likens them to more aggressive versions of Silent Hill’s nurses. You slip under a bed, behind a sofa or into a wardrobe. When a nun inspects your hiding spot, a small prompt asks you to keep a cursor inside a circle to stay quiet.
Once one of them spots you, she chases you from room to room. You can throw a plate to distract her, or stun her for a few seconds with a rock or a club, long enough to find somewhere else to hide. These weapons break quickly and the Stalkers are tough. Your inventory holds only three items, plus one slot for a knife or a pair of scissors, so every choice between healing and defence matters. The Bride, dressed in white, is more aggressive than the rest.
Between chases, Red Nun’s Legacy has you picking up keys, cranks and dolls to solve puzzles. Jeff Young found them fairly easy: arranging four dolls in the order of a story, copying symbols seen elsewhere onto a door, finishing a sliding puzzle. Metronomes act as save points, and they are also where Susan unlocks her powers.
Hypnosis makes objects and mirrors talk, but it comes at a price
The three hypnosis abilities in Red Nun’s Legacy are unlocked one at a time as the story progresses, according to Stormind Games’ post from 1 October. Retrocognition lets Susan hear voices from the past recorded in certain objects, so you can replay fragments of conversations and find, for example, a switch hidden in a mosaic. Secrets in Mirrors shows a distorted version of each space, revealing documents or doors that do not exist in the real world.
The studio wanted to keep Moth Manipulation a mystery. The reviews from Analog Stick Gaming and TheSixthAxis explain that it clears doorways blocked by cocoon-like growths. Every power comes at a cost: the deeper Susan goes into this heightened perception, the more she exposes herself to the dangers around her.
Antonio Cutrona, director of Red Nun’s Legacy, explains in the 22 October diary that the team gave players more tools to escape the Stalkers while keeping Susan vulnerable. He knows the series well: according to The Wand Report, he was a programmer on the first Remothered and a producer on the second.
Critics praise the story but find the gameplay too safe
Steve C gives Red Nun’s Legacy a 7 out of 10 at TheSixthAxis. He calls it a solid horror game that ties up the trilogy well, with nicely designed areas and great voice acting, but points to a lack of variety and a very linear structure. His playthrough took under six hours, and there are no difficulty settings to choose from; the only extra challenge comes from a few achievements, such as finishing without healing items. Jeff Young puts it closer to seven hours.
HorrorFuel is more enthusiastic. Daniel S. Liuzzi scores it 8.5 out of 10 and ranks this final chapter alongside Tormented Fathers, ahead of Broken Porcelain. He reports a few audio and visual glitches towards the end, and warns that the game deals with sexual violence. Analog Stick Gaming sums up Red Nun’s Legacy as a fairly basic survival horror game lifted by a fantastic story and strong performances. Metacritic had no aggregate score yet on the morning of launch.
The first two games help, and both return as remasters in 2027
Stormind Games pitches Red Nun’s Legacy at newcomers and long-time fans alike. Reviewers disagree on that point: TheSixthAxis feels the story works best for those who played the earlier games, while Jeff Young, who was new to the series, never felt lost. Rosemary Reed, the heroine of Tormented Fathers, is among the characters Susan meets at Villa Ashmann, according to the studio’s post from 23 October. The series has sold around 850,000 copies, according to Stormind figures quoted by The Wand Report.
Want to catch up before you start? Both earlier games are coming back as Unreal Engine 5 remasters in the first quarter of 2027. Anyone who owns Tormented Fathers or Broken Porcelain digitally will be able to upgrade to the remaster for free during the first seven days after it launches, according to Stormind Games’ announcement about the remastered editions.