VirtuaVerse

$14.99

Release Date:: May 12, 2020
Metacritic:: 75
Developer:: Theta Division
Publisher:: Blood Music
Platforms:: Windows Mac Linux

Indie Adventure Steam Achievements Full controller support Family Sharing Single-player Steam Cloud

About This Game

In a future not too far away, one Artificial Intelligence has prevailed over all other AIs and their governments. Society has migrated to a permanently integrated reality connected to a single neural network that continuously optimizes people's experiences by processing personal data.

Nathan, an outsider still refusing to comply with the new system, makes a living off the grid as a smuggler of modded hardware and cracked software. Geared with his custom headset, he is among the few that can still switch AVR off and see reality for what truly is.

He shares an apartment in the city with his girlfriend Jay, a talented AVR graffiti writer whose drones have been bit-spraying techno-color all over the augmented space in the city.

Waking up one morning, Nathan discovers that Jay disappeared overnight, but not before leaving a cryptic message on their bathroom mirror.

Having accidentally broken his custom headset, Nathan is now disconnected and determined to find out what happened to Jay, but he soon finds himself tangled up in an unexpected journey involving Jay's hacker group and a guild of AVR technomancers.

Travelling around the world, he'll have to deal with hardware graveyards, digital archeology, tribes of cryptoshamans, and virtual reality debauchery.

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User Reviews

Mixed

5 user reviews

60%

Positive

User #235816 english

7 hrs at review

Recommended

Very interesting story, lot's of references. Characters drawn a bit clumsy, but this game totally worth every penny! Thank you so much! PS: OST TOTALLY ROCKS!

User #607920 english

8 hrs at review

Not Recommended

Overall good art, banging music by MBR, some fun references, good style, feel, gritty, adult scenes instead of a sanitised cartoon, all in all, many of the things you're looking for in a cyberpunk game... but unfortunately a bad game. The first hour of the game left me smiling several times with nostalgic references to many of the things that made being a geek in the 90s so fun, and the game starts off strongly. But the puzzles are arbitrary, have obscure clues or no clues at all, or conversely are so simple that they might as well have not made me go through the additional six clicks. Oh, put the key I just got now in this room I just found into the locked box also in this room? What a payoff! It's technically a puzzle game in that you need to arrange the right objects in the right order to progress to the next stage, but if you're looking to solve the puzzles by completing a pattern or the reward you'd feel for some deductive reasoning to correctly guess the next step, you won't fi...