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Scythe Dev Team’s VR Horror Title ‘Return to Northbury Grove’ Available Now for Free on Steam! [Trailer]

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If you’re a fan of tinyBuild and Scythe Dev Team’s fast food horror cooking sim Happy’s Humble Burger Farm, the team has a treat for you with their follow-up to their first-person horror game, Northbury Grove. Not only is Return to Northbury Grove, Scythe’s new immersive VR horror title, available today on Steam, it’s also available for free!

Return to Northbury Grove puts players in the virtual shoes of Liam Murphy, an aspiring actor who’s looking to land the role of a lifetime at the infamous Rock the Warehouse music festival. However, after arriving at the concert grounds, Liam ends up kidnapped and thrown into the basement of the Spector Forest Slasher’s infamous killing house. Now, Liam must use his wits and bravery to survive the various traps within the house and escape with his life.

The title is an obvious love letter to the slasher genre that requires you to practice stealth in order to avoid catching the ire of the Spector Forest Slasher. Not only are you required to keep an eye (and ear) out all around you, but the game is 100% physically simulated, requiring you to keep from bumping into anything that might cause unwanted noise. Your choices while you try to escape also matter. You’ll have to make decisions that impact your survival in real-time.

To add even more replay value, Return to Northbury Grove features adaptive AI, making no two playthroughs the same, with the killer adapting to your actions in real-time. There are also modifiers that you can unlock by beating the game to add even more challenge. That also includes something called “Happy the Humble Heifer”.

And if you’re keen on checking out the previous game in the series, you can download Northbury Grove from the team’s itch.io page.

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Survios Announces VR Title ‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’, Coming This Year [Trailer]

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Remember back in 2022 when developer Survios had announced that they were teaming up with 20th Century Games to develop a new Alien title? Well seeing as it’s Alien Day, Survios has announced their brand-new VR title, Alien: Rogue Incursion. Coming “Holiday 2024” to the PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, and Quest 3, Rogue Incursion will feature an original story that “fully surrounds players within the terrors of the Alien universe”.

Details on the game are light at the moment, but the official site describes the upcoming title as being “designed by Alien fans for Alien fans”, with Survios aiming to craft a “technically advanced, and frightfully immersive Alien virtual reality game.”

Seeing as Alien: Isolation never got official VR support when it was released, this is obviously a welcome announcement. In the meantime, if you’re keen to experience an Alien game in VR, you can always check out the fan-made mod for Alien: Isolation by Nibre_, which allows both the Steam and Epic Games Store version of Alien: Isolation to be played using the Oculus.

And speaking of Alien: Isolation, as you might expect, it’s got a hefty 80% discount going on at the moment on Steam until May 1. So if you still haven’t grabbed it after all these years, this is as good a time as any.

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