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  • Bend Time, Save the City — DESOLUS Arrives Across All Major Platforms!

    Bend Time, Save the City — DESOLUS Arrives Across All Major Platforms!

    Step into a city torn between a glorious past and a crumbling future — and rewrite its fate. Today marks the official launch of DESOLUS, the spellbinding first-person puzzle adventure from veteran creator Mark J. Mayers (known for his work on Outer Wilds and Manifold Garden) and publisher The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild, available now on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam and Xbox.


    A City Suspended Between Then and Now

    DESOLUS invites you to explore a haunting, beautifully realised Gothic metropolis fractured by a cataclysm that threatens to unravel reality itself. Your mission: mend what has been broken, piece by piece, by stepping through portals that let you shift between the city’s vibrant past and its desolate future.

    This isn’t just simple time travel — you’ll use portals and black-hole mechanics to move architecture, swap structures across timelines, and solve mind-bending puzzles inspired by the impossible, mind-bending art of M.C. Escher. Bridges, towers, and pathways exist in one era but not the other — your job is to connect them, restore order, and prevent the collapse that would erase the city entirely.

    Crafted by a Master of Space & Mind

    DESOLUS has been a labour of love more than a decade in the making — a personal project Mayers nurtured alongside his work on some of the most celebrated puzzle and exploration games of the last generation. That pedigree shines through: expect the same thoughtful design, striking atmosphere, and puzzles that reward patience and perception over reflexes.

    With an original piano-driven soundtrack by Kyle Landry and a visual style that feels both timeless and utterly unique, DESOLUS is built to pull you in and keep you thinking long after you step away.

    Ready to Be the Salvation?

    The city waits for its harbinger — and that’s you. Whether you’re playing on console or PC, you can dive in right now and start stitching reality back together.

    • Xbox Series X|S — available now
    • PlayStation 5 — available now
    • Nintendo Switch 2 — available now
    • PC — via Steam and Xbox Store

    If you love puzzles that twist your brain and worlds that stir your soul, DESOLUS belongs on your playlist.

    More Info: DESOLUS


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  • Step into a New Reality: Checking into Hotel Infinity VR

    Step into a New Reality: Checking into Hotel Infinity VR

    Forget everything you know about VR movement. Forget joysticks and teleportation. The new puzzle adventure from Studio Chyr, the creators of the mind-bending Manifold Garden, is here, and it’s a revelation. Welcome to Hotel Infinity, a grand, enigmatic hotel that exists only to defy logic, where you explore its vast, impossible spaces using nothing but your own two feet.

    This game is, quite simply, a technical marvel and a true showcase of what room-scale VR can achieve.


    The Illusion of Endless Space

    The core genius of Hotel Infinity is its commitment to room-scale first design. The entire game is built around the player having a small, 2×2 meter (or roughly 6.5 x 6.5 foot) playspace. Within this tiny area, the game uses non-Euclidean geometry—like portals, revolving doors, and impossibly winding hallways—to create the illusion of an enormous, sprawling hotel.

    • Physical Exploration: You actually walk through the hotel! Take a few steps forward in your living room, and you’ve traversed a long corridor in the game. Turn a corner in your space, and the game has seamlessly rerouted you to an entirely new floor or section of the hotel.
    • Trusting the Impossible: At first, the sensation of moving so far while staying put is unsettling. You might walk into a cupboard, only to step out and find yourself in a bathroom, or take a few steps to the right and cross an entire lobby. But as the game progresses, you start to trust the impossible architecture, and the feeling of genuine, physical exploration is incredibly immersive.
    • The Power of Roomscale: While the game does offer traditional controller-based movement for accessibility, every review suggests that the room-scale experience is the only way to truly appreciate the game’s ingenious design. It turns a standard puzzle adventure into a full-body, mind-bending journey.

    Reality-Bending Puzzles

    Your stay at the hotel is focused on uncovering its mysteries. The puzzles are less about complex logic and more about manipulating the environment and understanding the hotel’s strange, new rules of space.

    • Interactive Environments: Puzzles often involve physically pulling levers, twisting valves, or pressing buttons, which then cause a wall to shift, a floor to fold, or an entirely new area to reveal itself. The joy comes from witnessing the impossible transformation right in front of you.
    • Ambient Narrative: Like Manifold Garden, the story of Hotel Infinity is subtle and non-verbal. There are no cutscenes or dialogue; instead, the hotel’s unsettling atmosphere, elegant-yet-off architecture, and hidden symbols communicate a deeper, eerie narrative. You have to be an active observer to piece together the secrets.

    Final Verdict: A Short but Essential Stay

    Hotel Infinity is not a long game—most players report finishing it in about 90 minutes to two hours. And while some critics have noted that the puzzles themselves are a little simplistic, they universally agree that the sheer novelty of the physical, reality-bending movement makes the experience unforgettable.

    If you are looking for a game that uses VR not just as a visual overlay, but as an essential tool to create a space that could only exist in a headset, then a check-in at Hotel Infinity is an absolute must. It’s an experimental, wondrous, and sometimes unnerving demonstration of the medium’s potential.

    Have you experienced the strange architecture of Hotel Infinity? Share your most mind-bending moments in the comments below!

    Hotel Infinity – https://hotelinfinityvr.com/

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