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This Terrifying 80s-Inspired VR Game Might Be the Best Puzzle Horror You’ve Never Heard Of

This Terrifying 80s-Inspired VR Game Might Be the Best Puzzle Horror You’ve Never Heard Of

July 12, 2025 Off

Forget Stranger Things — Ghost Town is bringing the real 80s chills straight to your living room.

By Ibraheem Adeola

If there’s one thing Fireproof Games knows how to do, it’s build tension. The minds behind The Room franchise (yes, the maddening-as-it-is-marvellous escape room puzzler) dropped a spooky new VR experience last year titled Ghost Town — and it’s not just getting followers, it’s building cult status.

After turning heads and twisting minds on Meta Quest 2 and 3, it’s finally making its way to PC VR platforms in just a few days. Ghost Town releases on Steam and other PC VR stores on 16th July 2025. That’s a couple of sleeps away, folks — not that you’ll get much rest once you pop on the headset.

Why the 80s of All Eras?

We know. Another game leaning on the good ol’ neon-lit, synth-soaked 80s nostalgia play. But in Ghost Town VR, it works. This isn’t pixel fonts and goofy VHS filters. The game captures the textured realism of a crumbling American town frozen in time. Think The Goonies met Myst in a broken carousel of ghost stories. This isn’t just stylised window dressing — the 80s setting bleeds into its eerie environmental storytelling, from the cassette players and baseball gloves to long-abandoned diners. Turns out, a whole town disappeared decades ago, and your job as the VR-embodied protagonist? Figure out what the heck happened, and maybe survive it.

Developer Legacy: A Fireproof Transition From Flat to Fully Immersive

Fireproof Games carved a niche with its Room puzzle series, which, let’s be honest, had most of us spinning wooden boxes and mumbling, “Just one more puzzle” at 2 AM. But jumping into a full-fledged VR horror experience? That’s a bold move — and one that’s seriously paid off. Ghost Town launched on Meta Quest in 2024 to strong reviews. Players praised its layered puzzles, environmental design, and surprisingly emotional narrative. Now optimised for PC VR-headsets like the Valve Index, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift S, we’re looking at better textures, bolder lighting, and possibly, more hairs raised on your neck.

Ghost Town’s Meta Quest Trailer | Watch on YouTube

The Puzzles? Devious. The Atmosphere? Even Worse (In the Best Way)

Each zone in Ghost Town is its own creepy diorama. You might be exploring a long-defunct bowling alley, piecing together clues with your VR hands; next, you’re unlocking a diary behind the desk of a librarian who hasn’t aged in 50 years. That uncanny vibe? Draped over every interaction. The VR puzzle game mechanics are informed by Fireproof’s past, sure — but they get a massive boost from motion controls. Expect to slide fuses, shift heavy wood panels, and rotate rusted keychains. This isn’t just escape-room fluff. There’s a deep, narrative thread pulling you through — and it gets real dark. Like, “what just whispered in my left ear” dark.

Platform Details, Preorders & Price

Ghost Town hits PC VR platforms on July 16th, 2025, with a planned launch on SteamVR, Oculus Store (PC), and Viveport. No stately launch event, no over-the-top trailer — just a rock-solid game arriving with little announcement hype but massive word-of-mouth power. Preorders go live from 12th July at £24.99, with the typical pricing parity across storefronts. No deluxe editions, no NFT-laden skins (thankfully) — just the base haunted experience you came for. It also supports room-scale, seated, and even standing play, depending on your nerve threshold (we won’t judge).

PS VR2 Release? Not Yet, But Hopes Are High

There’s no official date for a PS VR2 version yet, though Fireproof hinted previously that they’d “love to bring it” to more platforms. Given their history of landing former titles on PlayStation devices, a late 2025 or early 2026 console launch isn’t wishful thinking. For now, Meta Quest and PC VR are the only supported systems. But if the community reactions continue trending positive, it’d be wild if Sony missed this boat.

Visual Uplift for PC: It’s Prettier & Scarier

Unlike a lot of Quest-to-PC ports that feel like lazy makeovers, Ghost Town’s PC version takes its visuals seriously. Expect higher-res textures, ambient occlusion upgrades, bump-mapped detail and most importantly, smoother framerates for those nausea-prone players. Also worth noting: support for DLSS and AMD FSR has been rumoured but not confirmed.

Ghost Town VR is the game you recommend to friends with, “just try the first five minutes,” knowing full well they won’t stop until 3 AM. It’s that blend of escape-room logic, paranormal sleuthing, and faintly tragic storytelling that VR was made for. If you’ve been itching for the next big VR mystery story or are just chasing that 80s horror game vibe that goes beyond surface-level visual gags, Fireproof’s latest is it. Dark, smart, and genuinely spooky — Ghost Town’s return on PC could make it a sleeper hit in 2025’s crowded VR scene.