News: Dark Trip - 70% Off in Meta Connect Sale
iTales VR announced that Dark Trip, their psychedelic VR escape room, is featured in the Meta Connect Sale 2025, running from September 15 to 22. This major autumn event offers the game at a record-breaking 70% discount, dropping the price from $9.99 to $2.99 for a limited time. Meta Quest+ subscribers can snag it even cheaper at $2.49. As the biggest discount since its Early Access launch, it's the prime opportunity for new players to experience the trippy fusion of horror, detective storytelling, and hallucinogenic puzzles. In Dark Trip, players embody a detective who ingests pills to trigger hallucinations, aiding in solving intricate puzzles and investigating an eerie crime in a Lovecraftian nightmare set in a small German town where a businessman's daughter has vanished.
Explore a haunting laboratory filled with grotesque biotechnological machinery, twisted experiments, scattered notebooks, and disturbing test subject accounts. Gameplay centers on uncovering clues, artifacts, and diary pieces amid mind-bending psychedelic trips that distort reality, virtuality, and surroundings. Key features include solving puzzles in an eerie environment, immersive hallucinogenic sequences, and using visions to reveal missing evidence behind gruesome events. This indie VR title delivers a unique, bizarre experience blending surreal horror with investigative depth. Sale banners, both static and animated, are available via Google Drive for promotional use.
Earlier in July 2025, iTales VR launched a controversial collaboration with EvaAI, an AI-powered VR therapy tool, and the AR/VR advertising platform LikaTwo. The cross-promotion connected the opposing experiences through interactive in-app menus and banners on SideQuest and Meta Store, guiding users seamlessly between apps. Note that EvaAI is not a medical substitute; professional healthcare is recommended. Additionally, after a bureaucratic ordeal in March 2025, Dark Trip secured its Steam presence. Facing delays due to the game's psychedelic narrative with Nazi themes, the team navigated demands for a full demo build and SteamPipe issues by sharing a password-protected archive via Google Drive, resulting in a "Coming Soon" listing.