Gungrave G.O.R.E: Blood Heat returns with a new action trailer
A new trailer puts IGGYMOB's Unreal Engine 5 rebuild of Gungrave G.O.R.E back in view, with the gun-fu action reworked and no release date announced yet.
Grave is back under the streetlights. A new action trailer for Gungrave G.O.R.E: Blood Heat was published on 18 September on PlayStation's YouTube channel, giving the rebuilt shooter its first real look at the action since IGGYMOB started teasing the project.
The Steam store page is unusually candid about what this is: a full rebuild in Unreal Engine 5 that delivers new visuals and an evolved action system, fusing the series' Bullet Ballet and Gunkata gunplay into what IGGYMOB describes as an adrenaline-pumping action spectacle. The release date on the listing still reads simply "coming soon", and Windows is the only platform the publisher has committed to.
A rebuild rather than a remaster
The studio has been documenting the work in its own Steam posts. A developer note arrived in January 2026, the first monster designed by Trigun creator Yasuhiro Nightow was revealed in February, a new character look followed in April, and IGGYMOB sat down for an interview at Summer Game Fest in June. Taken together, this is a studio reworking an existing game from the ground up rather than polishing it for a re-release.
Gungrave has been around since the early 2000s, and Gungrave G.O.R.E arrived in 2022 as a deliberately unfashionable throwback: a corridor of gunfire, a gravel voice and a coat. The Blood Heat project keeps the setting and rebuilds everything underneath it.
What is still missing
There is no release date, no price and no word on consoles beyond what the trailer's hosting implies. Treat the trailer as evidence of how the game looks now, not as a promise about features, performance or which machines it will ship on.
Our opinion
There is something admirable about a small studio looking at a game that did not get the reception it wanted and deciding the answer is a second, more expensive attempt at the same idea rather than a cheap remaster. The trailer is all attitude and no mechanics, which is exactly what a teaser should be, and Unreal Engine 5 is doing the heavy lifting on a character design that was always the series' best asset. The risk is obvious: a rebuild of a 2022 game competes for attention with genuinely new shooters, and "coming soon" is doing a lot of work on that store page. But a Gungrave with Nightow's monsters in it and a combat system that finally matches the swagger of its hero is a niche worth serving, and I would rather watch IGGYMOB swing again than watch the series quietly disappear.