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Welcome to the official website for Espire 1: VR Operative
Espire is a single-player VR experience focused on stealth, espionage and action.
Become an Espire agent and complete objective-based missions utilizing an arsenal of weaponry and gadgets.
Develop infiltration tactics and techniques to ensure mission completion in the shortest time possible.
Great care is being taken to translate this exciting genre into the medium of Virtual Reality. This same level of immersion and control of your avatar is not possible without VR.
Launching Fall 2019
Oculus Quest, PSVR, Oculus Rift S / CV1, Valve Index, HTC Vive / Vive Pro, Windows Mixed Reality
Find out moreThe aim:
Immersive, intuitive and exciting stealth gameplay delivered through the engaging Espire 1 single-player campaign.
+ Features
Espire 1 aims to deliver the following features:
– The definitive VR stealth experience.
– A game grounded in realism.
– Complete single-player story, rich in detail.
– Global Leaderboard.
– Full freedom of movement without motion sickness.
– Intuitive controls that mimic real life.
– Voice control.
– Smart AI that responds to your actions.
– Arsenal of weapons and gadgets.
VR Development Diary
The Espire team is releasing VR Diary videos that follow the development of the game. Each video focuses on a particular topic, such as a core gameplay mechanics, how a particular VR interaction challenge has been solved or the evolution of a feature.
Subscribe to the EspireVR YouTube channel to be notified of future videos.
About Espire
Follow the development of Espire 1 and the discussion about trying to create the best VR stealth experience possible.
Developer
Digital Lode is startup immersive media company based in Melbourne, Australia. At Lode, we live and breathe immersive technology. We are VR evangelists and have banded together over our shared love of Stealth games like Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell.
Espire is our first original IP. Digital Lode also does contract work in immersive media, our primary focus in this area is interactive VR and AR applications B2B.
Publisher
Tripwire Interactive, developers of the award-winning Killing Floor and Red Orchestra franchises, is proudly partnering with Digital Lode to publish Espire. Tripwire’s support of Espire 1: VR Operative goes far beyond publishing. Months before there was a publishing deal for the title, Tripwire’s Producers, Marketing, Tech, Art and Audio leads assisted on Espire’s development.
It is this level of development support, which goes beyond funding and distribution, that has allowed Espire to become a reality.
Follow Espire 1
We aim to be very transparent in the development of this title, sharing production updates, game mechanic breakdowns, development diaries and other insights into the production process with the VR community.
You can follow EspireVR on Facebook and YouTube if you would like to keep informed of the development progress of the game, get in touch or learn more about the story, features and characters.