“A Rogue Escape” is now available on Oculus Quest, Rift and SteamVR platforms

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Press release:
10 JUNE 2021.
The US-based indie games publisher Armor Games Studios and indie games developer Spare Parts Oasis, today announced with great delight and excitement that their enigmatic VR adventure game “A Rogue Escape” is now available on Oculus Quest, Rift, and SteamVR platforms.

To celebrate, Armor Games Studios is delighted to reveal a new launch trailer, providing a closer look at A Rogue Escape’s imposing steampunk mech setting.

A Rogue Escape invites players to don their VR headset and step inside the hulking multi-level cockpit of a Nauticrawl. With no knowledge of how to operate this mechanical beast, players must turn to clues left behind by former operators in order to figure out and master the inscrutable controls found in five distinct areas of the mech to pilot themselves to safety.

Recently awarded “Best XR/VR Game” at the Brazil Independent Games Festival 2021, A Rogue Escape delivers a beautifully constructed environment where exploration and experimentation is absolutely key.

A Rogue Escape is a reimagining of 2019’s critically acclaimed PC rogue-lite puzzle game Nauticrawl, which tasked players with commandeering the eponymous machine, by learning how to use its seemingly inscrutable control deck.

In contrast to Nauticrawl’s challenging and at times unforgiving gameplay, A Rogue Escape has been constructed from the ground up to deliver a fully explorable, atmospheric experience which more resembles an escape room than the original’s rogue-lite gameplay.

To bring A Rogue Escape’s gorgeous setting to life, Spare Parts Oasis partnered with VR development studio Sylphe Labs, who redesigned the Nauticrawl as a completely 3D inhabitable space.

Spare Parts Oasis’ Andrea Interguglielmi said “I hope people will enjoy diving into this experience to uncover the mysteries of this colossal machine, just as we enjoyed crafting all the intricacies that form the unique gameplay of A Rogue Escape. A game that stands at the intersection of escape room and cockpit-sim with dungeon crawling elements, is not something you experience every day in VR!”

A Rogue Escape launches today on the Oculus Store and via SteamVR, with compatibility for Oculus Quest and Rift platforms, HTC Vive, and Valve Index.

About A Rogue Escap
It was your only way off this forsaken planet, but standing aboard a colossal stolen mech, you find yourself surrounded by unfamiliar buttons, levers, and monitors. In full VR, push, pull, press and hack everything you can find in an attempt to activate this lumbering beast and make your escape.

Features:
– Feel what it’s like to pilot a colossal steampunk mech
– Test your intuition by mastering 5 distinct control centers
– Wheel and deal with merchants of ill repute
– Discover field notes from fallen pilots and previous fugitives who tell your story
– In-game adjustable floor for players of all heights
– Playable in 9 languages

About Spare Parts Oasis
Andrea Interguglielmi is an Italian game designer who has been making games since the early 2000s, which included designing adventure games for the GameBoy Color. After a detour working as a Hollywood effects artist, he’s now back making games, armed with experience from his time in the film industry. Andrea’s passion is bringing new and unique experiences to the games industry that he and his younger self would love to play. Follow him at @andreintg on Twitter.
About Sylphe Labs

Sylphe Labs is an indie game company based in Sicily, founded in early 2010 by Luca Alba, Paolo Gallo and Filippo M. Vela. The team has been making games since the era of the Game Boy Color and Amiga, collecting a broad set of skills in 3d graphics and VFX for b2b application, advertisement and tv productions along the way. For the past ten years, along with traditional game development, they’ve been focusing their talents on VR content creation for entertainment and professional use. They love to develop their projects from concept to the release, merging art and technology to follow their passion: creating innovative games. https://www.sylphelabs.com/

About Armor Games Studios
From its roots as a popular portal for online gaming, Armor Games Studios is a publisher that aims to work directly with and help foster talented indie developers to create unique and engaging games of all types for all platforms. For more information, visit www.armorgamesstudios.com, and follow the company on Twitter @ArmorGameStudio.
About Oculus

The Oculus team at Facebook Reality Labs lets people defy distance—connecting with each other and the world—through world-class VR hardware and software. The Oculus content team pursues the creation of best-in-class games, narrative experiences, and new VR use-cases like fitness, productivity, and travel. Oculus joins other teams at FRL dedicated to cutting-edge research, computer vision, haptics, social interaction, and more. Facebook Reality Labs is committed to driving the state of the art forward through relentless innovation.