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After launching in Early Access on February 13, Dark Trip — a psychedelic VR horror escape room — has been steadily evolving with regular updates and new content.
On April 24, the game will reach a major milestone with the release of Episode 1 on Meta Store. This update introduces a fully featured experience, bringing Dark Trip closer to its retail vision with polished mechanics, expanded gameplay, and immersive narrative elements.
Key features of the Episode 1 Milestone Build:
Unique Psychedelic Gameplay. Solve puzzles by willingly shifting between sobriety and drug-induced hallucinations. Your state of mind becomes your primary tool.
Multiple Puzzle Solutions. Each room can be completed either sober or under the influence, offering drastically different puzzle dynamics and narrative perspectives.
Immersive Hallucinatory Visuals. Intoxication transforms the environment with vivid VFX, shifting mechanics, and surreal visuals.
10 Intricately Designed Rooms. Episode 1 includes ten carefully crafted rooms — delivering roughly two hours of twisted escape room gameplay.
Evidence Collection Mechanics. Discover clues that vary depending on your mental state, adding depth to the story and encouraging replayability.
Polished VR Locomotion. Enjoy a complete movement system that supports teleportation, smooth motion, joystick navigation, and roomscale interaction.
Lovecraftian-Inspired Narrative. Dive into a dark, mind-bending story connecting Nazi experiments, psychedelic rituals, sadomasochistic imagery, occult science, and time travel.
Six Language Localizations. Now available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian.
Early Access gives players a chance to experience Dark Trip’s unique gameplay while supporting the team in fine-tuning core features. Game’s page on Meta Store: https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/dark-trip/27793698076945636/
Dark Trip Secures Presence on Steam After Bureaucratic Nightmare
Around two weeks ago after more than two months of bureaucratic back-and-forth with Steam’s review team, Dark Trip finally secured its presence on the Steam platform. Despite the page being merely a "Coming Soon" listing, Steam reviewers insisted on a full demo build due to the game's psychedelic narrative involving Nazi themes. Without a complete build for review, Steam refused to approve the page’s publication. The most absurd hurdle came when Steam demanded that iTales VR upload the build via SteamPipe – only for SteamPipe to malfunction until the page was first approved. This created a frustrating catch-22, which the developers ultimately circumvented by packaging the build into a password-protected archive and sending it via Google Drive to Steam’s review team.
The game’s Steam “coming soon” page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3492640/Dark_Trip/
Dark Trip is the DevGAMM Gdańsk 2025’s Game Roast Winner
Two months before approaching Episode 1 version, Dark Trip emerged victorious at DevGAMM Gdańsk 2025’s Game Roast competition, where industry veterans like Alex Nichiporchik, Jon Carnage, and Michael Kuzmin delivered a comedic roast of upcoming indie games. The Game Roast is a comedy segment of the DevGAMM conference where game developers face off in a light-hearted, yet intense battle of wits. Experts roast the chosen games, critiquing everything from gameplay to design, while developers must defend their projects in a quick one-minute rebuttal.
Dark Trip’s Media Kit
The complete Dark Trip Episode 1 Media Kit includes some new promo character art pieces and is available here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B9edE9QiaXxR1HVYvRTtx8IBFpYtHjdD?usp=sharing
Check the Episode 1 Media Kit
Watch Dark Trip Early Access Trailer
About Dark Trip
Dark Trip is a indie psychedelic escape room where a detective eats pills to solve puzzles and relies on own hallucinations to investigate an eerie crime case.
Enter the surreal horror! Welcome to one of the most unique and bizarre VR experiences, where you take on the role of an investigator searching for a missing woman — and are forced to consume drugs during your mission. The boundaries between reality, virtuality, and hallucinations dissolve, immersing you in a Lovecraftian nightmare when in a small German town, the only daughter of a retired businessman vanishes without a trace. Hired to investigate the case, the player discovers a seemingly abandoned laboratory. As you explore room after room, you uncover evidence of twisted experiments, scattered notebooks of employees, and disturbing accounts from test subjects. The gameplay revolves around solving intricate puzzles while piecing together the unsettling truth of the past.
Experience mind-bending psychedelic trips that distort perception and twist your surroundings!
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Solve Puzzles in an Eerie Environment. Dive into a haunting world filled with grotesque biotechnological machinery and the wicked remnants of dark experiments.
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Experiences Psychedelic Trips. Immerse yourself into mind-bending psychedelic trips that distort perception and twist your surroundings.
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Use Hallucinations to Find Missing Evidence. Search for clues, artifacts and diary pieces to discover the dark story behind the gruesome events.
Dark Trip Early Access Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBtLNCTL8sM
The game is available via Early Access on Meta Store: https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/dark-trip/27793698076945636/
The game’s Steam “coming soon” page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3492640/Dark_Trip/
Dark Trip’s official website: https://vr.itales.mobi/dark-trip
Follow Dark Trip on Social Media to stay updated:
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/italesvr/
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Telegram: https://t.me/italesvr
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Discord: https://discord.gg/h5xnewgMXE
About iTales VR
iTales VR is a Bulgaria based indie virtual reality game development studio focused on creating immersive and engaging VR experiences that blend innovative storytelling with cutting-edge technology. Our mission is to redefine the gaming landscape through compelling narratives and unique gameplay mechanics. Like if David Lynch or Terry Gilliam would have started up a VR studio.
For more information about iTales VR and our upcoming projects, visit http://vr.itales.mobi