Studio Chyr, the team behind the trippy puzzle exploration game Manifold Garden, has announced its next project, and it's a similarly cerebral experience built for PSVR2.
The game is called Hotel Infinity, and as the name suggests, you'll be exploring a mysterious hotel filled with impossible spaces. Here's the announcement trailer:
Developed with a "roomscale-first" philosophy, Hotel Infinity is designed to be playable without the direct need for sticks or teleportation to get around.
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It should be noted, however, that while roomscale (physically moving around a predetermined zone in your room) is the intended way to play, there will be options for those playing in stationary standing or sitting positions.
Anyway, the game is a first-person exploration title that, as the trailer shows, is full to the brim with head-scratching puzzles and impossible architecture. Producer August Brown writes on the PS Blog:
Hotel Infinity’s halls are filled with architectural contradictions and enigmatic puzzles. Whether you’re exploring the hotel’s guest-facing areas like the luxury suites and atrium, the employee-only kitchens and service tunnels, or the darker secrets that hide beneath every nook and cranny is packed with plausibly-impossible interactions.
While the core experience is all about exploring the hotel, we couldn’t follow up Manifold Garden without cooking up some absolutely mind-bending puzzles. All of the game’s interaction mechanics take advantage of the unique expressive nature of the PS VR2 Sense controllers. In Hotel Infinity, something as mundane as a briefcase can contain nested layers of surprises, requiring you to push, pull, twist, and slide objects through impossible space in order to get at their secrets.
The game will make full use of PSVR2, taking advantage of haptic feedback in both the headset and the controllers. And, as mentioned, "robust alternative locomotion controls" mean you won't be forced to use roomscale if you can't or don't want to.
We reckon this looks great — hotels are sometimes quite maze-like places to explore anyway, so this looks like a great fit for an environment stuffed with puzzles.
There's no firm release date, but it is pencilled in for 2025. Are you interested in Hotel Infinity? Check in at the comments section below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
Comments 7
I remember there was an article a few days ago asking if the PSVR2 is dead or something. Meanwhile out of the last 5 articles, 3 are about PSVR2 games.
Maybe there’s enough games, they just dont know how, or aren’t willing to market for it anymore,.
Edit: And the article that followed this one, is also about a game coming to PSVR2. So make that 4 PSVR2 games in just the past 2,5 hours.
From the thumbnail I thought this was the Overlook hotel
@LogicStrikesAgain The PSVR2 is still getting games (mostly indie titles), but I think it's sold less than a million units worldwide. Sony hasn't done a great job of marketing it.
@Questionable_Duck its not even about marketing, the simple point is that they charge more for a peripheral than the actual console, it was never gonna do well at that price.
@Uromastryx I believe at the time of release it was cheaper than other VR headsets on the market, could be wrong though
@Questionable_Duck That's what the tech costs if you want a premium VR experience. I get it though when you first see the price. It's an amazing piece of kit that's very under appreciated. Niche product for VR enthusiasts. It's not for everyone, I just can't stand the unjustified pile on regarding available games. Plenty of good quality games for it. Just a shame Sony didnt back one of their one products......again. I'll be playing mine for a good few years still 👌
@Uromastryx PSVR2 has been consistently priced at $350-400 since November of last year, other than a brief blip in January returning to the "normal" price. That's not more than the console.
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