With Covid-19 limiting many peoples' ability to gather together, gamers are seeking new ways to play with each other without sharing air space. Game nights spent playing tabletop adventure games like Dungeons and Dragons are harder to pull off, but a new VR game may offer a way for friends to get together and still take part in the joys of interactive storytelling. Demeo is a VR dungeon crawler that could be perfect for game nights, and a new trailer shows some of what's possible in the game.
Players will dive into the underworld of Demeo to stop a dark force from threatening everyone's existence. Demeo is designed to be a cooperative experience with players as adventurers journeying floor-by-floor to stop whatever they come across. Developed by Resolution Games, Demeo looks like game with all of the standard tabletop game trappings, just with virtual cards, miniatures, and dungeons to explore.
For gamers familiar with Tabletop Simulator, Demeo looks a lot like it but with virtual accessories players can wear to locate their in-game avatars. The VR experience supports up to four players and it seems like it will release sometime in 2021 for Oculus platforms, the Valve Index, and the HTC Vive.
One of the coolest aspects of Demeo shown off in the trailer is the ability for players to see the spells and attacks they've performed in an animated VR world. Now when adventurers cast classic spells like Fireball at a dungeon spider, they can watch that spider miniature burn. Players can also visually see the effect ranges of their abilities, which might cut down on confusion and accidental misplays. Demeo also looks like it has virtual dice that won't get lost when one player gets too aggressive with their roll.
VR games are becoming more and more popular, and not only because of COVID-19 restrictions. The quality of VR games is improving, with games like Beat Saber and Half-Life: Alyx reaching wide audiences. Oculus Quest games are making a ton of money, and Resolution Games seemingly hopes to add Demeo to the list of successful games on the headset.
Demeo will release sometime in 2021 on Steam, only for the Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, Valve Index, and HTC Vive.