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Deserving Life

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?

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October 13, 2017
8 years and 295 days ago
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Very Positive146 reviews82.2%

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About the Game

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?