Transference is a psychological thriller and the first game collaboration between SpectreVision (founded in 2010 by actor Elijah Wood and directors Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller) and Ubisoft that aims to bridge the gap between movies and games, as the team invites you to lose yourself in the destructive tale of a man’s obsession as you explore his digitally transferred and recreated memories.
The VR experience (that can be played on traditional platforms, too) will let you to enter a corrupted digital simulation created by a brilliant but troubled scientist, Raymond Hayes. Transference is a world built from the collective brain data of Raymond, his wife Katherine and their son Benjamin. Your dangerous task it to discover what has actually happened in their home and the mystery it keeps.
Some parts of their home are covered in corruption and you will need to solve puzzles to move forward and make progress. Transference is not an RPG, as you stumble right into Raymond’s experiment with your own experience so you must interpret events for yourself. Be sure to check out a E3 2018 interview with Creative Director Elijah Wood and Game Director Benoit Richer down below:
Imagine an escape room set in a deranged mind, in both VR and on traditional platforms. With Transference, we are bringing a first-person exploration game into a chilling new dimension. You will be plunged into the experiment of a troubled scientist, a corrupted digital simulation of his family formed using their collective brain data. Shift between the three perspectives of a family and unravel the mystery hiding in this mind-bending psychological thriller.
Transference will be available in VR (PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive) and PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC Fall 2018.