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The VR Game Launch Roundup: Masking the Horror

VR Game Roundup

April has been a jam-packed month for virtual reality (VR) videogames and it just keeps getting better. Not only does next week have some big arrivals but there’s the Oculus Gaming Showcase to look forward to, with more details set to arrive for Resident Evil 4 and more. First, take a look at what VR titles are about to keep you busy with their puzzles and creative tools.

Maskmaker

Maskmaker – InnerspaceVR

The next puzzle title from A Fisherman’s Tale team InnerspaceVR, Maskmaker is set to be the studios’ biggest VR title to date. Taking place in a magical world where masks transport you to new locations, you play a mask maker’s apprentice, learning this ancient craft. Part puzzler, part exploration and part crafting, you need to explore 8 regions to uncover the Maskmaker’s secret, picking up new resources on route to create new masks. As you do so you inhabit the inhabitants’ bodies, switching between them via the masks they wear.

Cards & Tankards – Divergent Realities

A Steam Early Access title, Cards & Tankards is a strategy card game set in a pub. With two factions to choose from (4 in the final version) players will have 80 cards to customise their decks from before going into battle, either in the Solo mode against AI or via the cross-platform multiplayer.

Cards & Tankards

Argil – Valkyrie Industries

Not a videogame as such, Argil is a sculpting app for creating organic 3D models quickly and seamlessly. It provides a range of tools so that it almost feels like manipulating real clay. Offering a meditative and relaxing space so creators can focus on their models, they can pinch, squeeze, carve and stretch their designs as they see fit.

Yupitergrad: Sneaki Peaki – Gamedust

Everyone loves free stuff, right? Well, Gamedust’s swinging puzzle title, Yupitergrad, which launched last year is about to offer a slice with Yupitergrad: Sneaki Peaki. The free, standalone edition features a short version of the tutorial as well as selected Time Attack levels giving new players a nice taster of the mechanics. 

Yupitergrad

Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife – Fast Travel Games

Now time for some good old-fashioned horror from Fast Travel Games. Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife is set within the World of Darkness universe, putting you in the shoes of Ed Miller, a photographer who dies during a seance at the luxurious Barclay Mansion. Stuck between the living world and the afterlife, you have to roam the hallways looking for clues as to what happened. However, being dead doesn’t mean to say you’re entirely safe. As a wraith, you can walk through walls and pick items up at a distance but you must also avoid Spectres. These are spirits of wrath and vengeance. With no way to defend yourself from them, you must tread carefully and hide.

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Sculpt Awesome Organic Models This April With Argil for PC VR

Argil

There are a number of immersive solutions for those that want to get artistic in virtual reality (VR) and soon there will be another. Valkyrie Industries has announced a sculpting app called Argil, with plans to launch the software next month for PC VR headsets.

Argil

Designed to make sculpting organic 3D models quick and seamless, Argil provides a range of tools so that it almost feels like manipulating real clay. Offering a meditative and relaxing space so creators can focus on their models, they can pinch, squeeze, carve and stretch their designs as they see fit, before utilising the colour palette to bring their creation to life.

“Our mission is to enable people to create 3D objects in virtual reality in the most intuitive way, specifically using hands and haptic gloves. Our first product Argil will work with regular VR controllers and will be released on Steam to get to a wide community of VR users, learn from them and improve our product,” said Ivan Isakov, CTO at Valkyrie Industries, in a statement. “Since Argil was designed with hands in mind, In the future we are planning to integrate Argil with various haptic gloves for more natural feel and fuller immersion.”

Creators can start from scratch or import models to manipulate. Once crafted and finalised the design can be exported as an OBJ to be 3D-printed into a real sculpture.

Argil

When it arrives, Argil will join the likes of SculptrVR, Gravity Sketch, Medium – which was acquired by Adobe from Oculus in 2019 – and most famous of all, Tilt Brush, as immersive ways to digitally unleash those artistic skills.

Valkyrie Industries will launch Argil on Steam for HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality and Oculus Rift headsets (Oculus Quest via Oculus Link) on 21st April 2021. For further updates on Argil as well as the latest artistic VR apps, keep reading VRFocus.