Sentenced VR
A downloadable game for Windows
How would you respond if you were asked to carry out an order you disagreed with?
Sentenced is a narrative Virtual Reality game where the player is cast as the Executioner for Ulrichshafen, a fictional European city in the early-modern period. On behalf of your Lords, you will punish those who break the laws of the realm, and be assessed on the competence of your performance over multiple scenarios.
Sentenced is a game about personal conscience and obedience to authority. It’s about obligation, institutionalized violence, and the power structures that dictate the behavior of individuals within a system.
Master the art of beheading, become an agent of authority, and enact a divine drama of justice, death, and redemption.
Virtual Reality
Sentenced was designed for Virtual Reality. This technology provides a previously unknown sense of physicality and empathetic responses to in-game characters. In a traditional video game, an act of violence is reduced to a button press, and enemies are often dehumanized. This will not be the case in Sentenced.
Narrative
A crowd gathers, eagerly awaiting the grizzly spectacle of public execution. The town Beadle announces the crimes and sentence of the poor sinner, allowing them to say a few final words. Do they ask for divine forgiveness, or are they unrepentant? It then falls to the player, the executioner, to perform the bloody climax in this drama of sin and redemption.
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows |
Author | Samuel Gordon |
Genre | Role Playing |
Made with | OSVR (Open-Source Virtual Reality), HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Unity, Substance Painter & designer, ZBrush |
Tags | Dark, Experimental, Historical, Narrative, psychological, sentenced-vr, Singleplayer, Story Rich, Unity, Virtual Reality (VR) |
Average session | About an hour |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index |
Accessibility | Interactive tutorial |
Links | Steam, Blog |
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $7.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Sentenced VR Available Now!Jun 25, 2021
- Sentenced VR Demo Released!Feb 26, 2021
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