Karnage Chronicles Review: A Polished, Meaty Co-Op Dungeon Crawler Prone To Repetition

Karnage Chronicles is now out of Early Access. Does this VR dungeon crawler hold up years after initial release? Find out in our Karnage Chronicles review!

Despite having braved the wilds of Early Access and survived unscathed, Karnage Chronicles seems to be flying a little low on the radar in the PC VR scene. True, it sticks close to Vanishing Realms in tone and gameplay, but you’d think a meaty dungeon-crawling campaign with up to four-player co-op would be enough to raise an eyebrow.

If not, allow me to raise it for you, because there is enough to Karnage Chronicles to warrant a look, especially with a friend or three.

On paper, there’s a lot to love; Karnage Chronicles offers a fantasy world of ghouls and goblins with the expected, swiftly-dismissed lore and, more importantly, a winding series of corridors littered with fiendish foes off all shapes and sizes to slay with gradually improving gear. There’s a significant amount of content to Karnage Chronicles – I’ve spent six hours hacking and slashing my way through its really rather pretty world and I’ve still got plenty to go back to. Not only that but it’s impressively polished, with lush vegetation decorating complex caverns and grueling, imaginative enemy designs.

Even with a scope bigger than most VR games, though, you might still consider this something of a lite dungeon crawler. There are only two classes to speak of and only specialties in swords or archery to separate them. Even then, whichever class you pick, your secondary weapon will cater to the other weapon type to make sure you can still snag out-of-reach enemies and fend off swarms in close proximity.

Having released in Early Access a few years ago, you might expect the game’s combat to be pretty simple and, well, it mostly is with a few appreciated intricacies. You could survive most encounters with the dreaded sword waggle, but melee action definitely responds better to more considered, heavier swings and, right from the start, enemies are miraculously — and annoyingly — good at last-minute arrow dodges. Plus there’s a welcome dash of strategy, like shooting an enemy in the leg to momentarily slow them down and deal with closer foes. It’s pretty standard VR fantasy action — and I would have loved to have seen a more experimental mage class — but it does have its own little quirks to enjoy.

What raises Karnage Chronicles above a lot of other VR dungeon-crawling adventures, though, is its attention to detail. On top of the excellent visuals, there are really nice touches like having to pull arrows out of hands when you’re hit, and levels are peppered with occasional variety like puzzles or some surprisingly fun boss fights.

Even with those considered, though, Karnage Chronicles’ long stretches of minion murder can get repetitive pretty fast. The vast majority of the game boils down to running backwards while firing arrows in an attempt to separate enemies from the pack and picking them off one-by-one. Plus developer Nordic Trolls is fond of cheap tricks, like spawning enemies from behind in areas you’ve already cleared to surprise you in the middle of a fight or simply piling the odds overwhelmingly against you. It’s forgivable right up until the game starts dropping exploding mushroom people on your head without warning, creating sudden and frustrating trips back to the moderately-paced checkpoints.

The more difficult the game gets — and it gets difficult pretty quickly — the more of a slog this becomes. Deep into the second level I really began to tire of the endless shooting gallery, especially when so many smaller minions became so adept at either blocking or dodging my arrows.

Plus, progression in the game is tied entirely to the loot system, meaning if you kill a bad guy and don’t get any money or extra items, you really don’t benefit. When I reached the second environment, I immediately bought the best bow I could find, but I didn’t get a better one for the entirety of the rest of the level, meaning my main weapon was only inflicting a tiny amount of damage by the end of the level and there was nothing I could do about it. It would have been nice to see a leveling system that boosted your chances even incrementally to help fuel the big chunks of gameplay between upgrades. That guilty draw of pushing on in hopes of better loot is ever-present, though, even if upgraded bows and blades only change in look and not feel.

All of this makes co-op practically essential to the Karnage Chronicles experience. Even with increased enemy numbers, the game feels much more manageable and alive with a friend and, with support for up to four players, there’s no denying that this is one of VR’s most robust cooperative experiences. If you have three other friends looking to kill hours together inside a headset, then the game’s an easy recommendation. I did encounter some issues with lag while playing; mainly that players joining the host might experience a very minor delay between their attacks being performed and them landing, however, which is something to be aware of.

Karnage Chronicles Review Final Impressions

Karnage Chronicles impresses with its wealth of polished content, offering hours of rock-solid VR dungeon-crawling action that really comes alive if you have a friend or three to play with. Ultimately the game’s combat is too simple, its progression too sparse and its tricks too cheap to stave off repetition but, if you’re wanting to form a Fellowship and wage war with your friends, you won’t find a much meatier option than this.


3 STARS

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Karnage Chronicles is available on SteamVR and Oculus Rift now. For more on how we arrived at this score, check out our review guidelines.

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Karnage Chronicles Co-Op PC VR Dungeon Crawler RPG: Giveaway Livestream!

For today’s livestream we’re playing the co-op dungeon crawler RPG, Karnage Chronicles! If you’re curious about how we livestream the way we do then look no further than this handy guide for general tips and this guide specific to our Oculus Quest setup.


Karnage Chronicles has been in Early Access for years but is now finally fully released. Today, Jamie will be joining me in VR as we embark on our quest together to slay monsters and uncover valuable loot in this co-op VR dungeon crawler RPG.

We’re also giving out four Karnage Chronicles Steam keys during the stream so you’re not gonna want to miss it!

Our Karnage Chronicles livestream is planned to start at about 9:30 AM PT and will last for around an hour or so, give or take, depending partially on how well-behaved my small toddler child will be while left alone. We’ll be hitting just our YouTube and I’ll likely be streaming from my Oculus Rift S. Zeena will also be there on webcam and audio to help with chat.

Check out the Karnage Chronicles stream embedded right here and down below once live:

You can see lots of our past archived streams over in our YouTube playlist or even all livestreams here on UploadVR and various other gameplay highlights. There’s lots of good stuff there so make sure and subscribe to us on YouTube to stay up-to-date on gameplay videos, video reviews, live talk shows, interviews, and more original content!

And please let us know which games or discussions you want us to livestream next! We have lots of VR games in the queue that we would love to show off more completely.

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Karnage Chronicles: Multiplayer-Update für bis zu vier Spieler/innen veröffentlicht

Entwicklerstudio Nordic Trolls veröffentlichte ein neues Multiplayer-Update für das Fantasy-RPG Karnage Chronicles für Oculus Rift, HTC Vive und Windows-VR-Brillen. Der Patch ermöglicht es, ab sofort mit zwei bis vier Mitspielern und Mitspielerinnen in die Kampagne einzutauchen und gemeinsam gegen die Monster in die Schlacht zu ziehen. Zudem gibt es einige Tweaks und Fehlerbehebungen.

Karnage Chronicles – Neues Multiplayer-Update veröffentlicht

Der Early-Access-Titel Karnage Chronicles lässt euch in eine Fantasiewelt eintauchen, um dort im Hack-and-Slay-Stil Goblins, Trollen und weitere typischen und untypischen Genrevertretern den Garaus zu machen. Dafür stehen euch diverse Klassen, wie Krieger und Schütze zur Auswahl. Nebenbei erfüllt ihr verschiedene Aufgaben und kämpft euch so durch die Story des Spiels.

Die Entwickler/innen von Nordic Trolls veröffentlichten vor wenigen Tagen ein neues Update, welches den lang ersehnten Multiplayer-Modus in den VR-Titel integriert. Dadurch ist es nun völlig unkompliziert möglich, gemeinsam mit zwei bis vier Freunden oder Fremden die Kampagne zu bewältigen. Dafür muss man lediglich einen Charakter erstellen und mit diesem, das Tutorial abschließen. Daraufhin kann die gemeinsame Monsterjagd beginnen.

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Um das Balancing aufrecht zu halten, wird die Anzahl und Stärke der Feinde an die Menge der Spieler und Spielerinnen angepasst. Dadurch erhält jeder Held genug Futter für seine Waffen und die Herausforderung bleibt bestehen. Neben der viel gewünschten Koop-Option wurden zudem einige Tweaks, Verbesserungen und Bug Fixes integriert. Die gesamte Liste der Änderungen findet sich hier.

Karnage Chronicles ist im Early Access für 22,99 Euro auf Steam für Oculus Rift, HTC Vive und Windows-VR-Brillen sowie im Oculus Store erhältlich.

(Quellen: Road to VR | Steam Patch Notes | Video: Nordic Trolls YouTube)

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Fantasy VR Adventure ‘Karnage Chronicles’ Gets 4-Player Co-Op in Latest Update

Karnage Chronicles, the sword and sorcery VR adventure in Early  Access from Beijing-based Nordic Trolls, recently received a long-awaited update that now includes multiplayer co-op for up to four players.

The co-op mode lets players team up with friends or strangers to experience the campaign together. The game is also said to include “drop-in/drop-out” support, so you can simply create a character, complete the tutorial, and head into the goblin-shooting and bashing action. Depending on the number of people in the party, monsters’ strength and number scales to keep things challenging.

The news was announced via a Steam update post, which includes a host of improvements, tweaks, and bug fixes to hit the game this month.

Karnage Chronicles first launched into Steam Early Access back in April 2017, boasting support for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR headsets. The co-op mode was first made available on the game’s test branch early last month, although now it’s been deemed stable enough for the base game. There’s still no word on when Karnage Chronicles is headed out of EA, although the addition of co-op certainly helps flesh out the episodic action RPG’s feature set.

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In case you’ve never heard of it, here’s how Nordic Trolls describes Karnage:

Every five thousand years the planets align and create a rift in the fabric of cosmos. It’s prior to such an event that this story unfolds. Play as a Murkwraith, an undying knight barred from Death’s domain, and cursed to eternal servitude for sins committed eons ago. Experience a rich story that takes you on a perilous journey through dark dungeons filled with monsters, traps, puzzles, treasure and more.

Karnage Chronicles, priced at $25, currently has over 150 reviews on Steam, which has earned it an aggregate score of ‘Very Positive’.

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Karnage Chronicles Adds Multiplayer In Latest Update

Back in July of this year developer Nordic Trolls revealed that their virtual reality (VR) fantasy action role-playing game (RPG) Karnage Chronicles would begin testing the multiplayer portion of the title. Now, following a few weeks of testing multiplayer has come to the title in the latest update allowing friends to team up to overcome the challenges of this fantasy world.

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Thanks to this most recent update players will be able to enjoy the campaign together in groups of two, three or even four as friends and random players come together. Featuring full drop-in/drop-out support players will be able to freely join a friend or another player at anytime after they have created a hero and gone through the tutorial. Monster strength and the number of monsters spawns will now also scale automatically based on how many players are in a party so get ready for a harder challenge. Of course, as players leave a party the challenge will scale back down as well so don’t worry to much.

Alongside the release of multiplayer a number of additional improvements and changes have come to the title as well. This includes a new system which will see players respawn after death with less than maximum health, with the value depending on the difficulty. New changes to the user interface make it more clear when their is more text to read and closing the inventory also now automatically closes the paperdoll. These are just some of the new changes, along with numerous bug fixes, which you can read in full here.

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VRFocus’ Editor Kevin Joyce previewed Karnage Chronicles saying: “Karnage Chronicles plays much like you’d imagine a VR rendition of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim to, however based on evidence of the early build VRFocus has been hands-on with its significantly more linear. Karnage Chronicles is more about the pacing of the adventure than choosing your own, which is a fair interpretation of the exploration-heavy style of RPG given the relative youth of VR as a medium.”

Karnage Chronicles is currently available on Steam Early Access for £18.99 (GBP) with support for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality. VRFocus will be sure to bring you all the latest on the title in the future so make sure to stay tuned for more.

Karnage Chronicles Is A Surprisingly Solid VR Co-Op Dungeon Crawler In Early Access

Karnage Chronicles Is A Surprisingly Solid VR Co-Op Dungeon Crawler In Early Access

Karnage Chronicles has been in Early Access for a while as a simple little single player action RPG dungeon crawler, but after trying the recent closed multiplayer beta we’re very impressed. I won’t go so far as to say that it’s like the co-op Skyrim VR of my dreams or anything like that, but for such a small team the folks at Nordic Trolls appear to have really outdone themselves here.

I first tried the game all the way back at GDC 2017, almost a year and a half ago at this point, in a quick little dungeon delve on the show floor. Since then they’ve dramatically polished things, improved AI, scubbed up the visuals, added a ton of new systems like equipment, an inventory, lots of loot, a shopkeeper, and a lengthy first dungeon that took us nearly a full hour to clear on Normal.

You can see our full co-op livestream right here (the bug with Jamie’s avatar not facing the right direction has since been fixed) –

Right now there are two classes: Warrior and Archer. I picked Archer because I have perfect aim (note: I do not have perfect aim) and Jamie from UploadVR selected Warrior because he’s a bully (note: he just likes hitting stuff in VR.)

There’s a brief tutorial not shown on our stream that walks you through the basics of smooth locomotion, teleporting, rotating your view, accessing your inventory, and everything else. Having played lots of VR dungeon crawlers like Vanishing Realms and Mage’s Tale for single player and VR Dungeon Knight for similar co-op gameplay, Karnage Chronicles feels incredibly polished — especially for an Early Access game.

The art direction is superb with excellent use of darkness, bold colors, and ambient lighting throughout. While the art style itself is a bit cartoonish by nature, it does a great job of selling the atmosphere.

And like most really good VR experiences, it’s all about the subtleties. For example, when an enemy dies, a chest opens, or a pot shatters, you don’t just automatically inherit the coins. Instead, they erupt outward like a pinata and you have to physically touch them with your hands or body to nab them for yourself.

Then in terms of combat, the enemy AI kept surprising me the longer I played. Not only do shielded enemies hold up their shield and wait for an opening to attack, but if you aim an arrow at an enemies head and they see you, they’ll just duck and avoid it. If you hit their weapon, even the wood of their bow, arrows bounce off. Warriors can stand and hold the line with a shield and I could even flip my daggers around in my hand to more easily perform a stabbing attack. The ragdoll on enemies when you blast them in the head with an arrow for the kill shot is so delicious.

From my short hour with it I kept noticing small little touches like this that not only helped immerse me in the experience, but just felt really good in action. VR Games like Left Hand Path felt marred by trying to squeeze in too many obscure game mechanics that never felt natural, whereas Karnage Chronicles lets me fight goblins, slash spiders, and avoid traps intuitively and naturally with a friend by my side.

Back at base you can spend the money you’ve earned on better weapons, upgraded armor, healing items, teleportation scrolls, and more. I had a strong urge to explore every nook and cranny of the dungeon to find all the shiny loot that I could — an addictive gameplay loop that’s been proven successful for decades in the gaming world.

There’s only the one dungeon so far, but the developers tell me at least three more are in the works, some shorter and one even longer, which will help mix up the content.

As it stands the biggest drawback is only having the single dungeon, but once multiplayer is live on the public Early Access version it’s still a fun romp even without a swath of options. The solid combat, litany of lootable areas, and gear system keep things fresh and fun.

Karnage Chronicles is still very much in active development and in Early Access so we’re not rendering final judgement yet, but if it continues down this path, we’ll be extremely impressed with the final product. If you want to get in on the action, you can check the game out on Steam for $24.99 with official support for Rift, Vive, and Windows VR.

Let us know what you think down in the comments below!

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Karnage Chronicles Livestream: Co-Op Dungeon Crawling RPG

Karnage Chronicles Livestream: Co-Op Dungeon Crawling RPG

Karnage Chronicles is a VR RPG currently in Early Access on Steam. For today’s livestream, we’re taking the multiplayer beta update for a spin for some co-op dungeon crawling action!

Since the content we’re playing is designed for multiplayer, I’ll be joined by our very own Jamie Feltham to assist on this livestream. We played the game originally over a year ago and it’s come quite a ways since then.

We’ll be livestreaming Karnage Chronicles on PC today using an Oculus Rift with Touch starting very soon as of the time this is being published (which means we’ll start at approximately 1:30PM PT) and aim to last for about an hour or so. We’re going to use Restream to hit both YouTube and Twitch at the same time! You can see the full stream embedded right here down below once it’s up:

You can see our archived streams all in this one handy Livestream playlist over on the official UploadVR YouTube channel (which you should totally subscribe to by the way). We’re also using our Twitch channel more too.

Let us know which games you want us to livestream next and what you want to see us do, specifically, in Karnage Chronicles or other VR games. You can follow the game on Steam or Oculus Home for more details. Comment with feedback down below!

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Karnage Chronicles Multiplayer Features Have Entered Testing

Developer Nordic Trolls released their virtual reality (VR) fantasy action role-playing game (RPG) Karnage Chronicles into Steam Early Access back in April 2017. Since then the title has received a number of updates including support for Oculus Rift. Now, the developers have published an update on the titles promised multiplayer portion along with how they plan to get the community involved.

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Karnage Chronicles puts players into a fantasy world full of monsters and creatures that will stand in their way of exploring dark dangerous and finding all the treasure that awaits inside. With a world full of swords, sorcery and hack and slash gameplay, players will quickly find themselves letting loose in this immersive world full of opportunity. Taking on the role of Murkwraith, players are tasked with wrestling back a world under siege by dark forces and sinister plotters all while keeping your eye open for loot along the way.

Now developer Nordic Trolls have revealed more details on the multiplayer side of the title. The plan is to get two to four player coop integrated into the title with the possibility of some player-versus-player action at some point. To help ensure the implementation of these features go smoothly the team has a three stage plan. Stage one will see them carrying out closed testing on a Steam Test Branch which is expected to be a buggy messy with plenty of latency issues. Stage two will be an open test on the Steam Test Branch, open to anyone and will hopefully be less problematic then stage one. Finally, stage three is the update to the live version of the title which will bring multiplayer to all players with few if no issues.

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Those who are waiting to take part in the testing of the multiplayer can do so by following the Steam community forums for the title and keeping their eyes open for submission. Furthermore, the team at Nordic Trolls have released an hour long gameplay video that shows an early multiplayer test working in action. You can find that below.

VRFocus’ Editor Kevin Joyce previewed Karnage Chronicles saying: “Karnage Chronicles plays much like you’d imagine a VR rendition of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim to, however based on evidence of the early build VRFocus has been hands-on with its significantly more linear. Karnage Chronicles is more about the pacing of the adventure than choosing your own, which is a fair interpretation of the exploration-heavy style of RPG given the relative youth of VR as a medium.”

Karnage Chronicles is currently available on Steam Early Access for £18.99 (GBP) with support for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality. For more on the title in the future, keep reading VRFocus.

Nicholas Cage VR Experience, The Gallery & Space Pirate Trainer Among Cinequest Film & VR Award Winners

If you haven’t already gathered from the dramatic upswing in posts on VRFocus about it, virtual reality (VR) is definitely finding a home in amongst the independent film festivals. Last night might have seen the results from this year’s Academy Awards (aka The Oscars), but this weekend also saw the results from another award ceremony settled. Not in Tinseltown but care of Silicon Valley based organisation Cinequest. They’re midway through this year’s event which runs until Sunday March 11th, but they have already passed judgement on the most recent edition of the Cinequest Film & VR Festival’s awards for the medium of immersive entertainment.

As you might surmise from that it isn’t just films, documentaries and so forth that are celebrated as part of the awards. But all manner of creative media that uses virtual reality (VR) technology as well as the people involved in it. Some familiar names cropped up this year in the twenty award categories that recognised “achievement in storytelling, technical artistry and immersive design”.

A full list of winners has now been published and you can read these below:

Best VR Film, Feature
Speed Kills VR Experience
Starring Maverick Spirit Award recipient John Travolta and Katheryn Winnick, speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire Ben Aronoff (Travolta) leads a double life that lands him in trouble with both the law and drug lords. Directed by Travis Cloyd. Produced by Travis Cloyd, Guy Griffithe, Richard Del Castro and TopDogVR.

Best VR Sci-Fi
The Humanity Bureau VRevolution
Starring Nicolas Cage, this dystopian thriller set in the near future sees the world facing serious environmental problems as the result of global warming. The standalone episodic virtual reality series released on March 2nd, followed by the theatrical film release of the sci-fi action-thriller, The Humanity Bureau on April 6th. The Humanity Bureau VRevolution was directed by Rob W. King and Josh Courtney. Produced by Travis Cloyd. Josh Courtney, Kevin DeWalt and Rob Bryanton. Written by Dave Schultz and Travis Cloyd.  The experience is a Mind’s Eye Entertainment Presentation. Distributed by OneTouchVR.

The Humanity Bureau / Nicolas CageBest Cinematography
Boxes (Directed by Matt Naylor)
James is tasked with clearing out the last boxes from his childhood home after his father’s death, but memories are recalled in painful vignettes in this empowering story.

Best Documentary
Revoked (Directed by Stevo Chang)
In an American future, when the President revokes the green card of Iranian-born Jane Manesh, she must flee to Canada with the help of her childhood friend.

Best Social Activism
Behind the Fence (Directed by Lindsay Branham & Jonathan Olinger)
The Rohingya Muslims must survive a Government led campaign to eliminate them.

Best Educational VR
Meeting Rembrandt: Master of Reality (Directed by Bridget Erdmann & Ingejan Ligthart Schenk)
What if you had the chance to meet the famous 17th century master painter? Get close up and personal as he changes history forever with his controversial painting, the Night Watch in this immersive experience.

Best Short VR Film
Best Storytelling
La Camila (Directed by Jak Wilmot)
When the storms of nature threaten her very existence, a young shepherd girl, Camila, struggles to fill her papa’s shoes and create new clouds for the dying world below.

Best Action VR
Space Pirate Trainer (Directed by Dirk Van Welden, I-Illusions)
Hone your offensive and defensive battle skills with awesome space age weaponry against an ever-increasing barrage of killer fighting drones.

Best Episodic VR Game
The Gallery – Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone
After receiving your Gauntlet, you must travel to a long-forgotten world where the past holds many secrets and reveal the true intentions of the dark figure in the Starseed.

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Best Music Video
Apex (Directed by John Albert, Wevr)
A surreal, apocalyptic vision set to an original score from artist and musician Arjan van Meerten.

Best Animation VR
Best Production Design / Art Direction
Allumette (Directed by Eugene Chung, Penrose Studios)
Allumette tells a story about love, sacrifice and a deep bond between a young girl and her mother in a fantastical city in the clouds.

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Best Sports VR
To the Top (Directed by Richard Matey, Electric Hat VR)
A platforming game that gives you the freedom to move across the environment’s obstacles with superhuman abilities.

Best VR Experience
Best Sound Design
FORM (Directed by Richard Matey, Electric Hat VR)
FORM is a puzzle adventure, mixing classic gameplay inspired by Myst and The Room, with surreal and spectacular visuals akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Best VR Game
Karnage Chronicles (Directed by Thorbjoern Olsen, Nordic Trolls)
A high fantasy RPG where you play a Murkwraith on a mission to defeat enemies of the lands and restore order to shape your future.

Best VR Interactive
Manifest 99 (Directed by Bohdon Sayre, Adam Volker, Flight School Studio)
Journey into the afterlife aboard a mysterious train inhabited by a murder of crows in this ominous and eerie experience.

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Most Innovative VR
Gary the Gull (Directed by Tom Sanocki, Limitless Entertainment Ltd.)
Developed by veterans from Pixar, Gary the Gull is VR Animated Interactive short film that puts you in the story. Respond to Gary’s questions by nodding, shaking your head, talking, and see how your decisions affect the story’s telling.

VR Visionary Award
Travis Cloyd
Fusing his expertise in both film and VR, Cloyd has served as cinematic VR producer for four feature films. Working with world-renowned talent like Nicolas Cage, John Travolta and Wesley Snipes, Cloyd continually bridges the gap between Hollywood and immersive storytelling, a connector and conduit between the fields of film and tech.

VRFocus will be bringing you more updates throughout the year as immersive technology continues to help creativity flourish.

Spells and Swordplay with New VR Discount Bundle on Steam

Winter is Here. For some that means an endless supply of Christmas cheer. For others who prefer to avoid the Holiday crowds and cold weather and are looking for something to fill the fantasy gap in their lives until Game of Thrones comes back, a new bundle on Steam might be just what is required.

Three studios are offering their high-fantasy themed virtual reality (VR) works for a discount rate to fill up the cold winter months with the joy of roasting enemies with fire magic, or chopping up bad guys with an axe or sword. Nordic trolls, Blackjard Softworks and Carbon Studio are offering three of the highest-rates fantasy VR titles on Steam as a bundle with a 15% discount on Steam.

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Karnage Chroncles, VR Dungeon Knight and The Wizards all share a high fantasy setting and a gameplay emphasis on action and adventure, with exploration being a key feature in all of them. VR Dungeon Knight offers co-operative gameplay so groups of friends can descend into procedurally generated dungeons to explore together. Karnage Chronicles offers intense melee-based combat, along with elements taken from RPGs and a heavy emphasis on story. The Wizards has drown much praise from Steam users for its use of hang gestures to cast spells.

“Our goal was to create an exciting, all-in-one package that delivers hours upon hours of adrenaline-pumping action and unforgettable adventures. We believe that it’s a perfect bundle for the adventurous soul with a hunger for crawling through monster infested dungeons, uncovering secrets, casting powerful spells and finding treasures.” said Thorbjørn Olsen of Nordic Trolls, the developer behind Karnage Chronicles.

The bundle costs £46.65 (GBP), a 15% discount on the full price. All the titles are compatible with Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Further information can be found on the Steam Store page.

VRFocus will continue to inform you about the latest deals and offers on VR products and services.