Fireproof Video games – the studio behind eerie puzzle field journey The Room and its equally stellar sequels – has introduced a launch date for its paranormal VR thriller Ghost City. It is coming to Meta Quest on twenty fourth April, with a PCVR/PSVR2 launch due later this yr.
Ghost City, in case you’re unfamiliar, whisks gamers again to 1983, the place they’re going to tackle the function of ghost hunter Edith Penrose. Edith runs a profitable paranormal detective company in London along with her flatmate and, as Fireproof places it, “she’s virtually up-to-date along with her lease and the ghosts in her rest room mirror have been much less demanding than typical.”
Sadly, Edith’s world is turned the wrong way up when her brother goes lacking – and so begins a quest to find his whereabouts, first taking her to a distant Scottish island looking for a gifted clairvoyant, and later by means of the supernatural underbelly of London.
All this unfolds throughout “massive navigable environments” the place gamers will work together with totally motion-captured characters, each alive and useless. “Discover quite a lot of atmospheric areas with a controller in every hand and a torch to gentle your manner,” Fireproof explains. “Use the dexterity of your palms to beat tactile puzzles, forged spells and even summon troubled spirits to maneuver them on to the subsequent world.”
Fireproof’s The Room collection was an absolute pleasure, mixing cleverly tactile head scratchers with some deliciously sinister atmospherics – and the studio’s most up-to-date recreation, 2020’s The Room VR: A Darkish Matter, was a selected spotlight. So I am genuinely excited to see how Ghost City performs out. And with a 24th April release on Meta Quest now confirmed (and PSVR2/PCVR to observe), there is not for much longer to attend. Oh, and in case you’re on the lookout for extra goggle-based leisure, this is everything announced in this week’s VR Games Showcase.
