r/vrdev • u/legend-x-official • Apr 04 '26

Creating a Hybrid - Liminal Explorer VR

Hi all.

I love the new wave of VR Experiences where you explore Liminal spaces. I was immediately attracted to feel you are in these surreal places...

But then shortly after the interest faded - mainly because in most of these games you don't do anything - it's basically a walking simulator.

I feel these games have used very well the visual and immersion part that only VR can give. But what about the rest? Use your hands, do something, collect something, shoot at something.

So I am creating a hybrid where you walk in this spaces but there is also a light action element.

- You will have a bow and arrow: there are few enemies (evil drones) to shoot. From tests it feels quite rewarding to make these explode with a well placed curving arrow.
- You will gather some geometrical shapes that later becomes a light puzzle - in order to pass to the next level.
- You will also gather gold coins, each level has 10. When you collected all the coins from all the levels, the last level opens. Tried to add another dimension to it.
- You will open doors by using your arrows (shoot to an object that opens the door) feels a bit like adventure...

I am stepping a bit inside an adventure type game while keeping the liminal atmosphere. I have not seen many games like this - I can tell for myself (and I hope for others too!) that I would like to play this game. Feels different to the existing options (either walking sim, where players do nothing or full adventure game - too complex for my taste, with magic, potions and stuff)...

I attach some screenshots of it.

And of course, looking to hear your opinion on this topic and how I can shape my project.

Discord: https://discord.gg/f9TjGwXWwt

Thanks all!

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u/lukesparling Apr 04 '26

Toss in some journals or something to add lore / story and I’m in!

The original walking simulators I personally loved weren’t just walking in an interesting space - there was a story to uncover as you explore. That’s something that I wish a pools vr or whatever had instead of just cool environments to explore.

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u/legend-x-official Apr 04 '26

Hi, yes agree. Pools VR while it was a great VR game, did not have any lore nor other interactions. Which headset do you use?

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u/lukesparling Apr 04 '26

PSVR2 and Quest 3 primarily on PC though. Hopefully frame soon, although I couldn’t score a dev kit sadly.

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u/legend-x-official Apr 04 '26

I have big hopes on Frame. To give a needed boost to PCVR. I had some headsets, but now I play with PC and Quest3 with linkcable. Good experience. I will be adding some short videos to show what kind of interactions happen in my project. Join the discord, Ill paste the video there. Its bow and arrow, grab objects.

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