Virtual Virtual Reality 2 To Launch Next Week From Tender Claws
The studio behind The Under Presents returns to their absurdist first series
It’s no secret that we here at NoPro are fans of the innovative game studio Tender Claws and their humorous takes on virtual and augmented reality. (Disclosure: enough so that our Executive Editor worked with the studio as part of her graduate studies.)
On February 10th the latest release from the studio, a sequel to their original cult hit Virtual Virtual Reality, will launch on the Meta Quest 2 and Rift, with a bow on Steam VR following on the 17th.
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Tender Claws Announces New Action/Adventure VR Game Virtual Virtual Reality 2
Sequel to fan favorite Virtual Virtual Reality coming soon to Quest 2, Rift, Steam VR
Los Angeles, CA (February 3, 2022) — Independent creative studio Tender Claws has officially announced its next project: Virtual Virtual Reality 2 (VVR2), the highly-anticipated sequel to 2017’s groundbreaking VR game Virtual Virtual Reality (VVR). VVR2 will launch February 10 on the Meta Quest 2 and Rift, and February 17 on Steam VR. Watch the trailer for VVR2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL1VlirII8M
This darkly funny dystopian mech platformer game takes place a few years following the reset of Activitude at the end of VVR. VVR2 introduces players to the newest virtual network: the peaceful retirement metaverse of Scottsdale, where both humans and AIs have uploaded their consciousness for a digital afterlife. As players begin settling into this virtual utopia, suddenly, Scottsdale’s VC funding is pulled and its servers begin to shut down one by one. Players have no choice but to outrun the data deletion — ultimately escaping the metaverse and finding a new home back in meatspace.
In VVR2, Tender Claws once again immerses players in a thoughtful and multi-layered narrative, while innovating new action gameplay mechanics such as operating a mech in conjunction with a host of other NPCs, and enabling players to switch seamlessly between the external world of Scottsdale and the internal world of the mech hive-mind. Through ten+ hours of gameplay, players will navigate the crumbling metaverse and recruit new characters to take refuge inside the mech. Each new mech-roommate brings unique tools to help the escape mission — but also emotional baggage. What will it take to overcome the digital destruction and interpersonal drama before being logged off for good?
VVR2 will be priced at $29.99. To pre-order, visit:
Oculus store URL
Steam store URL
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About Tender Claws
Tender Claws is an award-winning art and games studio based in Los Angeles. We are directors, writers, designers, and coders that bring a critical playful eye, a commitment to the compellingly unique, and creative innovation in tech, gameplay and narrative. Our projects include hybrid novel PRY, narrative VR games Virtual Virtual Reality and Virtual Virtual Reality 2, mobile AR game Tendar, and immersive adventures The Under Presents and Tempest. Visit http://tenderclaws.com/ and follow @TenderClaws on Twitter and Instagram.
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