Hello, my name is Erik Odeldahl and I am the Creative Director of VR game developer and publisher Fast Travel Games. Welcome to the afterlife.
Tomorrow the doors of Barclay Mansion will open for all PlayStation VR players. In our horror and exploration game Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife, you must enter the place where you met your ultimate death and uncover the reason for your death, while also revealing a much bigger mystery. You do this as the Wraith – one of the restless walking dead – now with supernatural abilities and with your dark subconscious as your guide and narrator in the game. Be prepared though; The Barclay Mansion is a place filled with Hollywood decadence and occult secrets and you have to be careful, you won’t be alone there…
With Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife, we’ve tried to create a horror experience that focuses on a tense atmosphere and rewards exploration. We are also moving away from fears and traditional environments such as Gothic castles or haunted houses. As you search the opulent Barclay Mansion, you must use stealth and the surroundings themselves to progress and find the answers you are looking for.
As you progress through the game, you will learn Wraith abilities such as Sharpened Senses which help you track your aim and the movement of other spirits, Wraithgrasp which allows you to pick up heavy objects from a distance and Insubstantiality, which gives you the power to walk through solid walls. You will also find items to help you, such as a camera to reveal memories in the mansion and a multi-purpose flashlight… The game is designed exclusively for PlayStation Move controllers, so you must use your arms and hands. to play with the powers and items at your disposal.
Being a Wraith doesn’t mean you are safe from harm. Even though your powers ultimately allow you to pass through solid walls and manipulate objects from a distance, there are sinister beings inside Barclay Mansion who wish you no good… These evil spirits are called Specters, and each Specter has its own story and connection to the game’s biggest mystery to reveal.
Afterlife is an official game of World of Darkness, which means it shares the universe with other popular games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. The Dark World is a whole supernatural world hidden in plain sight, where monsters of all kinds live among us. In this world, you are the monster, the anti-hero who is afraid of what you are capable of if you give in to your inner conflicts. This conflict is presented in our game through a character called ‘The Shadow’. Do you know that little voice deep in your head telling you to do things you really shouldn’t do? For a Wraith, that voice is all too real. A manifestation of your dark subconscious, the Shadow will be your companion and narrator in the game. The Shadow speaks to you, reveals things to you that can sometimes be useful – but maybe you shouldn’t trust everything. she says ?
If you’re new to the Dark World, fear not: the story and setting of Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife was created from the ground up, and you don’t need any previous experience with this universe. to fully enjoy our game.
I’ve enjoyed a lot of horror games on PS VR myself and couldn’t be prouder to finally add our own game to this amazing genre on the platform. We’ve worked tirelessly to optimize the game for PS VR, bringing real-time shadows, higher resolution to textures, and more, while customizing the way you move in-game to match the PS Move controllers. .
Do you dare to become a Wraith and enter Barclay Manor tomorrow?
