Escape Simulator Adds Free VR Mode In Latest Update
Flatscreen game Escape Simulator has now added a new Virtual Reality mode in its latest update on April 3, 2024. Escape Simulator VR is free as long as you own Escape Simulator, so you can play this escape room game in Virtual Reality via PCVRor on the flatscreen as long as you have it.
Escape Simulator is a puzzle game that puts you, and some friends too with the game’s multiplayer, into a number of escape rooms with different themes and puzzles. You’ll have to solve these puzzles and use your intelligence and wit to escape from these rooms. There are even new rooms to escape from added as well for long time fans.
While Escape Simulator VR has not come to standalone platforms like the Quest yet, it’s a great addition to the puzzling genre on the PCVR platform. The following is a quote from the press release given by developer Pine Studio:
“The popular first-person escape puzzler Escape Simulator and all its additional content is now available in VR! Following the great success of the original Escape Simulator with more than 2 million players worldwide, developer Pine Studio rebuilt the game from scratch for the VR version. You can now experience it in VR with any set that supports Steam VR either by yourself or with up to 8 players (optimally 2-3). Don’t know anyone with a compatible VR headset? You can also team up players who aren’t using VR!
Even more so than the original version, Escape Simulator VR is a highly immersive and interactive gaming experience. Pick up and examine every item you can find as if you were in the room yourself and toss (literally!) everything you deem irrelevant. Supported locomotion types are controller-based movement, smooth move and teleporting, as is the full room-scale setting and snap-turning. It is also possible to play the game while seated.
Escape Simulator VR is included in the base game, meaning that everybody who already owns the game can now access the VR version for free! For those who have yet to purchase the game, this update will be their last chance to gain access to the vast amount of content it offers at a lower price. After April 14th, the price will increase in accordance with the impressive increase in content.
All 29 rooms from the base game are escapable in Escape Simulator VR, consisting of the tutorial room, the four original theme packs, the 2 Versus rooms, the 6 extra one-off rooms such as Leonardo’s Workshop. What’s more, all the original DLCs — the Steampunk, Wild West and Magic DLCs — are receiving similar updates. Everyone who already owns these can now also play them in VR at no additional cost! The same goes for the free Portal Escape Chamber and Among Us DLCs.
The VR update comes with good news for Escape Simulator’s passionate community and all its room-makers: besides the Pine Studio’s content, most of the 4.000 community-made rooms are now also available to enjoy in VR! With all these additional rooms at your disposal, there is more than enough content to keep you and your friends busy for a long time to come.”
For fans of the puzzle and escape room genres that experience Virtual Reality via PCVR, check out Escape Simulator VR for more puzzles and a lot of rooms to escape from alone or with your friends.
