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Deserving Life

Lukas Paul, Gabriel Mittermair · Deserving Life

Deserving Life

gameAppID 700170Released
Release dateOct 13, 2017

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Details

DeveloperLukas Paul, Gabriel Mittermair
PublisherDeserving Life
FreeYes
Required ageNone

Deserving Life is a room-scale virtual reality escape game for the HTC Vive and was developed by students in the Media Technology and Design program at the Hagenberg Campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. Can you find a way out of your misery?

Deserving Life is a room-scale virtual reality escape game for the HTC Vive and was developed by students in the Media Technology and Design program at the Hagenberg Campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. You awake to find yourself chained down in an unfamiliar house. Can you solve all the riddles and find your way to freedom? Interact with your environment and combine the available resources to overcome each obstacle and find a way out of your misery. Up to eight individual rooms await you, each packed with a series of challenges that were specially designed for the HTC Vive's room-scale features. You’re alive. But can you escape?

Genres and categories

Free To PlaySingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyFamily Sharing

Platforms and requirements

windows: yesmac: nolinux: no
PC
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