ChainStaff is an adventure developed by Mommy's Best Games, released 8 April 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What ChainStaff is
ChainStaff is an adventure game developed by Mommy's Best Games and released in 2026. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Control is a 2019 action-adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment. It follows Jesse Faden, the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), a secret U.S. government agency that investigates and contains phenomena that violate the normal laws of reality. As Jesse, the player explores the Oldest House–the FBC's headquarters–and uses paranormal abilities and a shapeshifting gun known as the "Service Weapon" to combat the Hiss, a hostile, otherworldly entity that has invaded and corrupted the FBC. Players unlock new powers by locating Objects of Power, mundane objects imbued with energies from another dimension. The Oldest House has four sectors that can be explored at a…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 17 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
ChainStaff holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Quad Core CPU, 4 GB RAM and GT 1030. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it costs, and where
Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Brazil is the cheapest region we track at R$29.99 (about $5.96), while United Kingdom pays £12.79 — 2.8 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 7 on Steam, which is about $6.99.
What it launched against
ChainStaff launched on 8 April 2026, within three weeks of Crimson Desert Enhanced, Pragmata, Replaced and Mouse: P.I. For Hire. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Crimson Desert Enhanced, Pragmata, Replaced, Mouse: P.I. For Hire.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for ChainStaff yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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