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Squanchtendo’s ‘Accounting’ is Now Available on Steam (for Free)

Squanchtendo Games has released, Accounting, their first game as a new studio. While the game was originally scheduled for release in September, Squanchetendo decided to take a couple of extra weeks to squeeze in a bit more polish, and the game is now available on Steam.

Road to VR got an early peek at the game and found it to be a hilarious, narrative-driven adventure with Job Simulator-style interaction. It takes about half an hour to play though the whole thing, but it could be longer if you take the time to listen to all of the dialogue (which you probably should). The experience is well worth your time and is an exciting taste of what the future holds for Squanchtendo Games, which was founded by Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland and former Epic Games Executive Producer Tanya Watson.

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Here is how Squanchtendo describes the game in their own (less than completely accurate) words:

We want to welcome you as a new entrant to the very respected and very mature field of Accounting. You’ve been hired to be one of the first to experience the latest and greatest accountancy software in VIRTUAL REALITY.

In it, you do your Accounting. That is it. Nothing more. It is a serious game and Virtual Reality is the future. Don’t question it. Consume your nutrient packages and step into the 5th most immersive world. It is for adults. Not because there’s violence and sex – but because Accounting is so serious and has so many complex numbers, if a child played it they would probably die.

Accounting is a collaboration between Squanchtendo with William Pugh and Dominik Johann of Crows Crows Crows.

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‘Accounting’ From Squanchtendo Releases for Free On Steam Tomorrow

‘Accounting’ From Squanchtendo Releases for Free On Steam Tomorrow

The moment we’ve all been waiting for is finally almost here: tomorrow, on October 18th, Accounting finally releases on Steam, according to an official announcement Upload received via email. We went hands-on with the game at PAX West last month and came away quite impressed with its humor and fantastic writing. Soon, anyone with a VR headset and motion controllers will be able to enjoy the game for themselves — totally free of charge.

The game is being released for the price of ‘complimentary’ according to Squanchtendo, a new VR game studio founded by Justin Roiland, the creator of Rick & Morty, and Tanya Watson, a former Epic Games producer. Accounting was created in partnership with Crows, Crows, Crows, the indie development company behind The Stanley Parable.

Accounting plays out like one large, ongoing series of small room-based puzzles. One area has you simply listening to directions and manipulating the world around you, while another area might have you more directly interact with characters. It’s very short, but you get what you pay for. The tone and polish are indicative of what we should expect from future titles.

To get an idea for the tone of the game, all you have to do is read the official description:

In early 2016, three highly qualified Accountants came together to see what potential economic savings and visualisations could be achieved with The HTC Vive. These Accountants were quickly and discreetly discarded to be replaced by award-winning game studio Crows Crows Crows and the newly announced VR studio Squanchtendo, to create the ultimate electronic number-crunching program.

Let’s get one thing straight: Accountancy is a mature profession and is not for children.

As you can tell from the trailer and that description, this is a super serious game. Definitely not being sarcastic at all right now, as it’s all about Accounting and that’s it. There is no gratuitous violence, cursing, suggestive content, or anything else at all. Absolutely not.

For more about the game, be sure to read our detailed hands-on impression, the official Accounting website, and our big feature story about Squanchtendo, which includes interviews with Roiland and Watson.  Accounting releases on Steam tomorrow, Octoboer 18th, for the low price of free on the HTC Vive.

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Squanchtendo Announces First VR Title Accounting for HTC Vive

There’s been quite a lot of focus on PlayStation VR today, with Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia (SIEJA) holding a PlayStation Press Conference in Japan. So to give HTC Vive owners some interesting news, indie developers Squanchtendo and Crows Crows Crows have announced virtual reality (VR) title Accounting.

While the title conjures up images of spread sheets, endless stacks of files and paper, and tax returns, one look at the Accounting trailer will tell you that’s definitely not what’s in store for players. While actual gameplay mechanics and storyline haven’t been fully detailed, players do seem to start off in a drab accountancy office before putting on a headset transporting them to a weird and wonderful world where dark humour and strong language prevail.

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But that’s not surprising when you know who’s behind Accounting. Squanchtendo has only recently been setup – VRFocus reported on the announcement late last month – by Justin Roiland, Co-creator of Rick and Morty and voice actor for both Rick and Morty alongside Tanya Watson,  a “game veteran” who has worked on the Gears of War series, Bullet Storm, and Fortnite. While Crows Crows Crows another new studio, was form by William Pugh the designer behind IGF Winning Game: The Stanley Parable, Dominik Johann, Jack de Quidt, and Sean O’Dowd.

Accounting will launch later this month on Steam completely free of charge. As always when VRFocus learns any further details about Accounting we’ll let you know.

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Squanchtendo’s First VR Game ‘Accounting’ is Hilarious and Completely Free

What’s better than Justin Roiland making a VR game? Justin Roiland making a VR game and releasing it for free. That’s right, newly formed VR studio Squanchtendo’s first game, Accounting, will be completely free.

Road to VR got a brief sneak peak at Accounting while at this year’s PAX West in Seattle, and it is as hilarious as you would expect. Fair warning however, This article contains some minor spoilers from the first 15 minutes of the game, so skip it for now if that’s not for you. Also, despite what you may think about the field of number crunching, Accounting is not safe for work or children.

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See Also: ‘Rick and Morty’ Co-creator & Former Epic Games Exec. Producer Form New VR Studio, Squanchtendo

Accounting starts off in the messy, windowless office of an accounting firm named Smith & Smitherson. The accounting firm has brought you onboard in order to balance the books with the power of virtual reality. Your first task, shouted to you over the phone by your dubiously qualified coworkers, is to use your Windows 95 pointer hands to riffle through the mess and find a virtual reality headset.

After putting the virtual headset on, I was transported to an idyllic forest where a tree-dwelling cloud-person began shouting obscenities at me. It was surprising because not only was it the first time I can recall hearing an F-bomb dropped in a VR game, but it was directed at me with such visceral hatred. This angry little character (voice acted by Justin Roiland), and many others throughout the demo underscored how big of a role dialogue plays in Accounting. The voice acting is so engaging that it got to the point where I would deliberately stop moving the story forward just so I could listen to everything the characters had to say.

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I got the chance to got through two additional worlds during my time in Accounting. The first scene was a dungeon occupied by a horribly obese king. Eventually I found a knife and it quickly became clear that the only way to advance was to stab the king, pull another virtual headset out of his entrails, and put it on my face. Everything about it was delightfully absurd, and I wouldn’t expect any less from Squanchtendo and collaborator Crows Crows Crows.

Continuing on the theme of absurdity, the third room of them demo contained a xylophone made out of a human skeleton and two talking skulls. The skulls asked me to play them and to my surprise, their bones seemed to function as a fully capable xylophone. As I played their bones, their pleas to keep going became increasingly salacious. Just as the weirdness of the whole situation came to a crescendo, Justin tapped me out of the game and ended my brief tour of the varied and intricate world of Accounting.

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After the demo, I sat down with the dangerously competent trio of Roiland, Pugh, and Tanya Watson, the studio director and co-founder of Squanchtendo, to talk about what they had created. In the interview the team walk about what drove the creation of Accounting and reveals that Squanchtendo’s collaboration with Crows Crows Crows came about through a happy mix of tactical subterfuge and chance.

Squanchtendo is directing those interested in the game to visit the VR accounting web page here. At the time of this writing, the page simply has placeholder text, but Roiland says to watch this page, the Squanchtendo Twitter, and sign up for the Crows Crows Crows mailing list to be the first to know when the game will be released on Steam for the HTC Vive “very soon”.

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