New Knightmare game: a free point-and-click adventure with the original cast is coming in 2027

New Knightmare game: what has been announced

A new Knightmare game is in development: a free, officially licensed point-and-click adventure fully voiced by the original stars of the cult British TV show, due in 2027. It is being made for PC by a small team led by writer and designer Ewen Watson, with the blessing of the show's creator, Tim Child.

The news broke on October 24, 2026, when Video Game Chronicle reported the project, and the game's own website, knightmaregame.co.uk, describes it as "A free point-and-click adventure game" and carries the line "coming 2027". VGC says it is a short adventure of roughly one to two hours, and that there are no plans for a console release.

That is the whole of what has been put on the record so far. There is no Steam page we could open, no named publisher and no firm release date, so everything below is limited to what the developers and VGC have stated.

The original Knightmare cast is returning

The headline draw is the voice cast. The official site says the game is "Fully voiced by the original stars of Knightmare", and the credited names include Hugo Myatt, who played the dungeon master Treguard throughout the show, and Mark Knight, who played the villain Lord Fear.

The full list on the site is Hugo Myatt, Mark Knight, Clifford Barry, Katharine Bennett-Fox, Edmund Dehn, Iona Kennedy, Paul Valentine and Alec Westwood. VGC names several of the roles: Clifford Barry as Brother Strange, Edmund Dehn as Gumboil the Knight, Iona Kennedy as Greystagg, Paul Valentine as Motley the Jester and Alec Westwood as Folly the Jester.

For anyone who watched the show as a child, that is the appeal. Treguard's voice and Lord Fear's menace were as much a part of Knightmare as the dungeon itself, and hearing them in a game is the sort of detail a licensed project can only get with the original performers.

How a free point-and-click Knightmare game will play

The site pitches "A simple point-and-click gameplay system", with "Hand-drawn artwork and animation" and "Deadly puzzles" listed as features. Artwork and animation are credited to Sathya Schlösser, while Watson is credited as the person who wrote and designed the game.

VGC reports one deliberate design change from the television format: players no longer have a life force that drains unless they find food, which the report says was changed to make the game more entertaining. Watson says the team wants players to take their time and explore, rather than race a clock.

On art, Watson told VGC that nothing in the game uses generative AI. As quoted by VGC, he said: "Everything you see and hear is made by real humans." That is a claim we have only from VGC's report, not from the game's own page, so treat it as the developer's stated position.

Why Knightmare suits a video game

Knightmare was a British children's programme that ran on ITV's children's strand from September 7, 1987 to November 11, 1994, across eight series and 112 episodes. Hugo Myatt played Treguard in every series, and Mark Knight's Lord Fear led the villains from series five.

Its format was a video game before most British homes owned a good one. A team of four children worked through a fantasy dungeon: one, the Dungeoneer, wore the Helmet of Justice, which blocked their sight to little more than their feet, while three advisers watched the dungeon on a screen and shouted directions. The dungeon itself was a blue-screen composite that only the viewers and advisers could see.

That structure, a blind player guided by others through puzzles with a life-draining clock, maps naturally onto a point-and-click adventure, which is why the team's decision to drop the life force is worth noting. It removes the pressure the show was built on and swaps it for exploration.

Knightmare's earlier video games

This would be at least the third Knightmare video game. Activision published a Knightmare adaptation in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST. A 1991 role-playing game for the Amiga and Atari ST followed, described as similar to Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder. A PC version proposed for 1995 was cancelled.

Fans have also kept the idea alive unofficially. Time Extension reported in 2024 on a fan-made Knightmare game for the ZX Spectrum, and the show's own site has long hosted a community around it. The new project differs because it is officially approved and brings back the original performers.

Activision's 1987 game was mainly known at the time for its extreme difficulty and trial-and-error play, according to Time Extension. In February 2024 that site also covered an unofficial ZX Spectrum Knightmare game by the hobbyist developer QuentinPSausages, who jokingly blamed a 37-year-old grudge over his disappointment with the Activision original. Its 40-second preview showed players defusing bombs, collecting keys to open gates and answering riddles.

Why the 40th anniversary matters for Knightmare fans

The television show first aired on September 7, 1987, so a 2027 release lines up with its 40th anniversary, which is the link VGC draws. For a show that ran only until 1994, the fact that its cast is still willing to record new lines three decades later says a lot about how fondly it is remembered.

Time Extension describes the series as a major hit that retains a strong cult following, and it points out that its blue-screen dungeons mixed computer-generated imagery with hand-drawn elements. A hand-drawn game is a natural fit for that look, which is probably why the team has leaned on illustrated art rather than 3D.

What we do not know yet about the new Knightmare game

Several basics are still missing. There is no exact release date beyond 2027, no named platform storefront, and no confirmation of whether the game will be downloaded from Steam, itch.io or the site itself. The official site does not state a running time, so the one-to-two-hour figure rests on VGC's report.

There is also no word on whether Treguard will frame the whole adventure or how many of the cast appear in each scene. We will update this piece when the developers publish a store page or a date. For now, the confirmed picture is simple: free, PC, fully voiced by the original cast, and aimed at the show's 40th anniversary year.