Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival wastes almost no time before throwing a locked keypad in your path. Survival horror games love this kind of early test, and this one is no exception. The puzzle ties into two nearby paintings, and if you haven't clocked how the dates on the plaques work, the solution is not obvious at all. Here's everything you need: the code, how to find it yourself, and what you get for opening the container.
What is the code for the first keypad lock near the paintings?
The code is 9901. Enter those four digits in that order and the container opens immediately. If you just need to get back into the game and grab your supplies, that's all you need.
Once the doors open, the container holds:
- 1x Bandage
- 1x Coils
- 1x Gunpowder
A bandage is especially useful in the early hours before you have a solid handle on the combat. Don't sleep on picking up every resource you find in these opening sections.
Hellraiser Revival Guide: Painting Puzzle 1st Keypad Lock Code
How do the paintings reveal the keypad code?
The logic behind 9901 comes from two specific paintings hanging near the container. Each painting has a small plate beside it with text, and buried at the end of that text is an abbreviated year. Those two years, read in the right order, give you the four-digit code.
Here's the step-by-step breakdown:
- Turn around 180 degrees from the container so you're facing the paintings.
- Find the second painting along the wall: its plate reads Marlowe Succeeds '99. The '99 gives you the first two digits of the code.
- Move to the fourth painting: its plate reads The Prophet's Visions '01. The '01 gives you the last two digits.
- Combine them in the order you find them: 9901.
The process of elimination matters here too. There are only two realistic digit combinations from those two dates, so even if you mix up the order, a second attempt gets you in.
Hellraiser Revival Guide: Painting Puzzle 1st Keypad Lock Code
Why does this puzzle work the way it does?
Hellraiser: Revival is a survival-horror adventure game that leans on environmental storytelling to deliver its puzzle solutions. Rather than handing you a note with a code scrawled on it, the game hides the answer in plain sight on the painting plaques. It rewards players who actually read the environment instead of rushing past the artwork.
This first keypad is deliberately the easiest locked container in the game. Think of it as the tutorial for how these puzzles operate. Future keypads and safes use more obscure clues and require more lateral thinking, so understanding the mechanic here sets you up well.
Where to go from here
With the container open and your supplies collected, you're back in business. The bandage buys you breathing room in combat, and the gunpowder and coils feed into crafting as you push deeper into the game. This puzzle is a clean introduction to how Hellraiser: Revival hides information in its environments, so the instinct to examine everything you pass will pay off repeatedly.
For more solutions and strategies across the full game, the Hellraiser: Revival guides collection covers keypads, safes, and other challenges you'll hit as the difficulty ramps up.
