Deceptive Reality

Action ∙ Adventure ∙ Sandbox
4.2
103 ratings 83 reviews
early access
2022
July 25
game modes
• Singleplayer
player modes
• Standing • Roomscale
compatibility
• Quest 1 • Quest 2/Pro • Quest 3/3S
storage 3.7 GB
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They erased her. Now you erase them.

“An instant cult classic.” – XRGamer (9.5/10) “Relentless gun-fu. Immersive hacking.” – WickedVRGamer (9/10) “A must-play in Cyberpunk VR.” – BMFVR

Cortex created the brain chip that makes superhumans. Your girlfriend exposed the truth. They erased her. You were next — until a rogue hacker pulled you from the edge.

Now you're trained. You're pissed. You're heading back into the city to shut it all down.

UPDATED SUMMER 2025 – Key Features

A CYBERPUNK NOIR STORY

A VR revenge thriller soaked in neon, betrayal, and bullets.

CORTEX COMBAT ENGINE™ 2.0

Bullet-time melee. Tactical shootouts. Kill Rooms, Sandbox & Story modes.

FREE ROAM OR FULL STORY

Fight bosses. Breach Cortex facilities. Discover hidden zones.

Your path. Your war.

Play now. It’s time for vengeance.

comfort Intense
age rating13+ Teen
websitedeceptive-reality.com
developerQuarantine Studios VR
publisherQuarantine Studios VR
connectionInternet not required
app version0.3.1.1
languagesEnglish

Reviews 83

RetroRadical35 days ago

Thrilling fun!

This game is way more cinematic than I had initially thought! I recommend it for anyone seeking a single-player action-packed thrill ride!

MaxCheesefist54 days ago
3

Some Very Good Ideas...

Updated Review (original below)
Checked out this game again after a few months to see if improvements had been implemented and pleased to see that not only has the combat been worked on, but also the crouch function had been added.
Although there are still quite a lot of rough edges, the ideas and the implementation of the developers vision is very much intact, I've upped my review to 4 stars, based mostly on the fun I had during my 1 hour playtime (which I will post on my channel at the end of May).
I like the comic book cut scene (story explanation) style, but it does tend to stretch out of view when recording, if the images where fixed to the headset view it would look much better, the collision detection is still a bit clunky, but I'm sure this small team will constantly work on improving that.
The hacking system is very very nice and excellently implemented and the thing I liked the most was that the game does not hold your hand at all, as you have to navigate your way around the environments by listening to the audio prompts very carefully.
There is a great game here, but it does still need a lot of polish.

Original Review
Tried it out earlier and for 5.99 it's worth it (just to try), but as a 63-year old man with mobility problems the complete lack of an auto-crouch option in the settings makes the game mostly unplayable, game needs a lot of work, although there are good ideas here and a couple of very nice mechanics (the hacking for example, very nicely implemented), it has issues such as quite often when you come out of the slow-down mechanic, you are unable to make contact with the enemies, although they can continue to deal damage to you (the player character), collision detection (most notably on ladders) is comedically poor... I appreciate the game is in early access and it's being constantly updated, but like my title says, it does still need lots of work, but please all VR Devs need to stop excluding the physically disabled.

SkyVuc56 days ago
1

Good game! Cool graphics

Good Game good graphics

DwightSchrutieEatsYoBooty67 days ago
3

Just the Foundation

This is as early access as it gets- don’t expect much content. Only buy if you want to support the devs to complete their vision.

Suggestions:
-most games have you hold both trigger and grip to make a fist. The choice to only make fist with grip is questionable. This means making a fist IRL causes character to extend pointer fingers, and extending pointer fingers IRl causes him to make fists
-from what little story is available, can already tell waypoints are a must. Struggled to find my way around
-more weapons, and a way to stow melee weapons

MethodMan68 days ago
3

The Best Melee shooter on Quest!

Let me tell you this is a one of kind VR game! You step into shoes of Declan, a broken man. An edge operator. The combat bullet-time, kicking, hacking and character backstories in the story mode have a real feel to them

The story about Cortex killing your girlfriend for leaking the brain chip tech feels like a dystopian story we are heading for... Or maybe it's just me?

My favvourite part is defo acting like a villain, hacking is also pretty neat, switching between guns, hands, feet and even pens lol..

Benjamin Carl Dennison69 days ago
7

It's a fake game

Bought this several years ago still ain't released still ain't been updated in the 2 years I've had it
They're several games like this in the meta store that don't get removed for some reason
I wonder why it has so many good reviews though
Like why are people lying like the game gets good it's not even finished You can't really do anything like you can play 5 minutes of it and it's so boring cuz nothing to do

67 days ago

Thanks, which mode did you play? Answer this in the community

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