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# New Oculus Rift game makes playing videogames horrifying
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/game-within-game-mixes-horror-film-virtual-reality/
- Published: 2013-11-07T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:12:11.000Z
- Description: Players enter a virtual living room where they’ll attempt to finish a first-person shooter that gets troublingly realistic.
- Author: Psfk
- Tags: Article, Horror, Kickstarter, oculus rift, PSFK, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

*[Alone](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/928803758/alone-1?ref=killscreen.com)* is the perfect virtual reality game for anyone who doesn’t value a peaceful night’s sleep. Currently in development for the Oculus Rift headset — which has yet to be released itself — players will explore ‘*The Witching Hour*,’ Alone’s game-within-a-game.

It’s “like the Inception of video games,” Co-designer Dan Wallace explains. Donning the virtual reality headset, the player is transported into an ordinary living room. There’s a television directly across from the couch they’re (virtually) sitting on, and when *The Witching Hour*’s intro screen appears, they begin playing a first-person shooter game. But slowly, players will realize that not all is right with the living room around them. Shadows play on walls and unexplained noises sound nearby — mimicking the delightful experience of being home alone at night, feeling utterly convinced that something is out to get you. The objective of *Alone*, then, is to finish The Witching Hour without freaking out.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/psfk_horror2.jpg)

Right now, the game is only set to last a maximum of 45 minutes, which the developers say will ensure the player is engaged from start to finish. (Sitting on a fake couch for longer might tire some people out, they imagine.) But the team is working on some alternative endings to give players a choose-your-own-adventure experience, thus lengthening the game.

As of this writing, *Alone* has raised a little under one-fifth of its $25,000 goal on [Kickstarter](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/928803758/alone-1?ref=killscreen.com) with 22 days left to go.

*[This post](http://www.psfk.com/2013/10/horror-movie-game-oculus-rift.html?ref=killscreen.com) was originally written by [Sara Boboltz](http://www.psfk.com/author/sara-boboltz?ref=killscreen.com) for* [PSFK](http://www.psfk.com/?ref=killscreen.com)