DreamBack VR – Augmented & Virtual Reality Confabulation

June 5, 2020

The VR Game Launch Roundup: Nature, Ghosts and a Little Pottery

As it’s the end of the week VRFocus takes a look forward at what’s to come in the next seven days. There’s a nice mixed selection covering horror, stealth, the animal world and even pottery.

Ecosphere – PHORIA

Not really a videogame more an interactive collection of 360-degree videos, Ecosphere nature documentary series. Featuring content from the jungles of Borneo to the rich coral reefs of Raja Ampat, viewers will be able to see a diverse selection of wildlife created in collaboration with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Supported platforms: Oculus Quest and Oculus Go
Launch date: 8th June

DreamBack VR – Come Over Gaming

A psychological horror where you have to escape an abandoned Victorian mansion, DreamBack VR doesn’t feature action elements like guns. You’ve got to hold your nerves and explore the building, solving puzzles and looking for clues to last the night.

Supported platforms: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality
Launch date: 10th June

Spectro – Borrowed Light Studios

Released as an Early Access title in October 2019, Spectro is a colourful ghostbusting experience where you play the owner of a ghost detective agency, going out to explore haunted houses and ridding them of their malevolent spirits.

Supported platforms: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality
Launch date: 11th June

République VR – Camouflaj

Originally a Gear VR experience, République VR was Camouflaj’s first VR title, exploring the perils of government surveillance in the internet age. The stealth videogame has been upgraded with new 3D assets and immersive puzzles to make use of the more powerful PC VR hardware.

Supported platforms: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Valve Index
Launch date: 12th June

Let’s Create! Pottery VR – Infinite Dreams

The only PlayStation VR game on the list, Let’s Create! Pottery VR is exactly as you’d imagine. Sit down, get comfy and create some pottery in a nice chilled environment, great for winding down from a stressful day.

Supported platforms: PlayStation VR
Launch date: 12th June (US & Canada), 9th June (EU)

June 1, 2020

June VR Games 2020: The Biggest Releases This Month

Need a way to cool down this summer? Well we definitely don’t recommend VR; it makes you really hot. But with the new June VR games, it’ll be hard to stay away.

We’re rounding up the biggest releases of the month below, including the long-awaited launch of Phantom and the return of The Wizards. Don’t forget that we’re also hosting the Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition on June 8th, and there’s bound to be some surprises in there, too!

June VR Games 2020

The Wizards: Dark Times – June 4th (Rift, SteamVR)

Carbon Games’ popular spell-casting series returns with an all-new campaign. In The Wizards, you use gesture-based controls to summon elemental weapons. This started out as a standalone expansion to the original game but now Carbon says it’s grown into a full sequel.

Premium Bowling – June 4th (Quest)

Bowling… on Quest! Premium Bowling is a popular take on the sport that finds its way onto the standalone VR headset. With a raft of improvements made over the course of Early Access on PC VR, you can expect this to be a solid experience.

DreamBack VR – June 10th (SteamVR)

A brand new psychological VR horror. Haunted by suppressed memories of a terrifying night in a mansion, you face the events head-on with the help of a psychiatrist. The game was designed specifically for VR, so let’s hope it offers some real scares.

Spectro – June 11th (Rift, SteamVR)

This cutesy VR ghost game moves from Early Access to full release. You complete floors in a haunted house, ghost-busting your way to the top.

Mini Motor Racing X – June 20th (SteamVR)

Already available on PSVR and Oculus platforms, Mini Motor Racing X is a Micro Machines-style racer in which players can either speed tiny cars around miniature tracks, or take the driver’s seat too. A raft of options makes this a palatable, if not essential experience.

Rinlo – June 23rd (SteamVR)

An Early Access launch of a new third-person adventure game from a new studio. Rinlo has you controlling Agatha in a quest to find her parents. Expect this to be the first steps in an intriguing new VR game.

Phantom: Coverts Ops – June 25th (Rift, Quest)

nDreams returns with its most promising VR game to date. Phantom is a stealth game set entirely within a kayak; you infiltrate a Cold War-era naval shipyard, avoiding detection with realistic movement and interactions. Plus it has David Hayter!

Which June VR games are you most looking forward to? Let us know in the comments below!

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May 29, 2020

Step Into DreamBack VR’s Nightmarish Victorian Mansion in June

At the beginning of the month Come Over Gaming revealed its virtual reality (VR) psychological horror DreamBack VR for PC VR headsets. Now the studio has announced the launch will take place in a couple of weeks.

DreamBack VR is designed to be a spine-chilling experience of psychological terror so there are no guns or action-style sequences. You’re stuck in a very creepy looking Victorian mansion with one goal, trying to find a way out with your trusty flashlight.

As an electrical engineer your firm was called to fix a broken electrical line at the Rickfford Mansion and you’re the lucky person assigned to repair it. The estate is old and abandoned (supposedly) but you soon find yourself in a nightmarish world. The story is told after the fact, where your character has lost their memories of that fateful night, suffering nightmares and hallucinations in the aftermath. Trying to make sense of it all you revive those memories through hypnosis, reliving them all over again.

With no combat to worry about all you need to do is brave the dark corridors of Rickfford Mansion, look for clues and solve puzzles.

Come Over Gaming wants to make DreamBack VR as scary as possible, employing dynamic lighting and harrowing audio and spatial sound effects.

Come Over Gaming will release DreamBack VR via Steam for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality headsets on 10th June 2020. It’ll retail for $24.99 USD/€24.99 EUR with a launch discount of 10%.

Take a look at the new announcement trailer below and for further updates on DreamBack VR, keep reading VRFocus.

May 4, 2020

Psychological Horror DreamBack VR Slated for Q2 2020 Release

There’s nothing like a good virtual reality (VR) horror title to get the heart pumping, yet there haven’t been many new videogames in this genre; the last being Lies Beneath. So it’s welcoming to see Come Over Gaming announce psychological horror DreamBack VR which is expected to arrive fairly soon.

DreamBack VR goes for the classic scary mansion tale where you play an engineer called out to fix a downed electrical line in an old abandoned Victorian estate called Rickfford Mansion. Suffering a frightening night on the estate, you survive but are left with haunting yet fuzzy memories which torment your dreams.

The videogame is set in these memories, as a psychiatrist try’s to help you face these terrors through hypnosis, unlocking what happened in the house that fateful night.

As a psychological horror DreamBack VR isn’t likely to feature jump scares as this style of scary videogame delights in the stuff you can’t always see, playing with lights, shadows and sound. Thus creating a tense atmosphere which was players continually on edge.

Gameplay revolves around solving elaborate puzzles, exploring the abandoned building for clues to unravelling its secrets whilst looking for a way out. There aren’t any combat or action sequences to break the nerve-wracking mood.

As the launch of DreamBack VR is slated for Q2 this year via Steam, horror fans shouldn’t have too long to wait. It’ll support Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality headset when it does. As further details are released, VRFocus will keep you updated.

May 1, 2020

DreamBack VR Is The Latest VR Horror Game To Nope Out Of

As if we all needed something to terrify us right now; indie developer Come Over Gaming has announced its first title, a horror game called DreamBack VR.

In this psychological horror, players embody an electrician still in shock (pun not intended) after being called to a mysterious mansion to repair an electrical power line. It’s not long before your routine job transforms into a nightmare, one that the protagonist suppresses from their mind. That is until they seek our a psychiatrist to reawaken those memories and face them head-on, which is where you come in. Check out the trailer below.

Yup, looks like another chance to ‘nope’ out of a VR game! Gameplay will be comprised of exploration and puzzle-solving; there’s no combat. DreamBack is built for VR using Epic’s Unreal Engine 4. Judging by the trailer and screenshots, the world appears detailed and fully interactive. We’ll have to wait and see if it will really send shivers down our spines, though. Let’s hope it’s more Resident Evil 7 than it is Weeping Doll.

For now, DreamBack is aiming to release in 2020. It will carry official support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index and Windows VR headsets. No word on possible Oculus Quest or PSVR versions yet. Elsewhere in VR terror, stealth horror game Follia is launching on headsets today. Because what could we all use more right now than a little existential threat?

We’ll keep you up to date with DreamBack VR as we hear more. For now, the game is available to wishlist on Steam.

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