Lockdown-Themed VR Games Explore Pandemic Scenarios

Simona Caraceni reviews three VR games themed around lockdown and pandemics. Contagion VR: Outbreak, released in November 2019, is a first-person shooter set in a contagious dying world, available for $19.99 on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Valve Index. Lockdown VR: Kidnapped is an escape room game where the player's avatar is kidnapped in a VR chat room, priced at €8.19 for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Death Stranding, also released in late 2019, features a dystopian pandemic future with spectacular graphics and soundtrack, available for €59.99 on Windows, PS4, and PS5. The article appears in Artribune Magazine #56.