Published Sep 27, 2026, 7:45 PM EDT
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The Warrens have walked into enough haunted houses that **The Conjuring **fans know the warning signs by now. A family reports something they cannot explain, the investigation begins, and staying in the building starts to seem like a terrible idea. Watching Ed and Lorraine confront whatever is waiting inside has been the franchise’s appeal for more than a decade.
Soon, fans will be able to conduct a paranormal investigation themselves virtually. The case centers on a grieving family and an inn with something deeply wrong inside it. This time, finding out what haunts the place will be up to the player. The Conjuring is getting its first standalone video game, The Conjuring: Unspoken**, arriving on Netflix in October.** The cinematic game sends players to the Red Lion Inn to investigate strange events affecting a family and scan for paranormal signals. Netflix has not announced an exact release date, shown gameplay, or identified the game’s developer. Netflix also confirmed that Unspoken is a cloud game playable on televisions, according to Polygon’s reporting on the announcement.
Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what it would leave behind.
Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever won that particular argument.
Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.
Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.
The game’s brief description begins with a question: “What is haunting the Red Lion Inn?” Beyond the paranormal investigation and the family at its center, Netflix is keeping the story under wraps. It has not said whether Ed or Lorraine Warren will appear, where the game falls within the movies’ timeline, or whether the inn connects to any hauntings audiences have seen before. Those unanswered questions make the setting especially interesting. The Conjuring movies often begin with people trying to make sense of events in a place that should feel safe, then follow the Warrens as they uncover what happened there. Putting players in charge of searching for signals could let Unspoken build that same dread through investigation, though Netflix has not yet explained how the game will play beyond its short description.
Unspoken will be a new step for a franchise that has mostly expanded through movies. The original Conjuring introduced Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren in 2013, and the universe grew to include the Annabelle and Nun movies. Fans have encountered Conjuring tie-ins in games before, including a Fortnite experience promoting The Conjuring: Last Rites, but Unspoken is the first standalone video game built around the franchise. It is also coming at the right time for anyone who wants a new haunting to investigate during Halloween season. The Red Lion Inn is a fresh setting, and Netflix has left the identity of whatever is troubling its guests a mystery.
The Conjuring: Unspoken** arrives on Netflix in October**, with its specific release date still to be announced.
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