High flying FPS Ultrakill will finally reach the 8th layer of Hell next week: 'Skip school. Call out sick from work. It's finally happening. And we're not lying'

High flying FPS Ultrakill will finally reach the 8th layer of Hell next week: ‘Skip school. Call out sick from work. It’s finally happening. 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Call out sick from work. It’s finally happening. And we’re not lying’ News By Ted Litchfield published 21 February 2026 Honest advertising for Fraud. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: New Blood) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter PC Gamer Get the PC Gamer Newsletter Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? 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Call out sick from work,” because “It’s finally happening. And we’re not lying.”One of the coolest things about Ultrakill is that each layer of Hell pretty much has its own art style: Lust is a dreamy metropolis, Gluttony is a Jabu Jabu’s Belly-style situation, Greed is a freaky golden desert filled with the monuments of humanity, it’s rad as hell. Related articles Thanks to one mad modder, we can now play Doom on an in-game terminal in Ultrakill ‘Happy Gloom Year!’: The new Gloomwood update is out, and it includes the game’s ‘largest, most vertical open area’ yet Fallen Aces’s second episode won’t be out this year, but it will feature a first-person car chase with a tommy gun in both hands and a foot-operated steering wheel Fraud looks like a real heater, with the unifying theme seeming to be illusion, funhouse tricks, and the sort of physics-defying spaces you can only explore in a videogame.New Blood’s early access projects⁠—Gloomwood, Fallen Aces, and Ultrakill⁠—continue to simmer like a fine gumbo. The long waits will be well-worth it in the end, I think: All three have been surprising me with their scale and ambition. ULTRAKILL – Layer 8 : FRAUD – First Look (Extended Cut) – YouTube Watch On Each new update unveils new layers (figuratively, in addition to Ultrakill’s literal layers of hell) of depth and complexity that genuinely excite me⁠. Gloomwood’s monster transformation serum system is a great example. The feeling kinda reminds me of that point we all reached in Elden Ring in 2022 where it was like “Oh, the map keeps going? What is this game?”Ultrakill seems the closest to a full 1.0 release, with just one more layer to go after Fr