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ARAYA is a first person horror game. Players will get a new thrilling experience inside a Thai hospital. The story will be told from the perspectives of 3 different characters. Players will explore different areas of the hospital in order to piece together the mysterious murder case of Araya.
ARAYA is a horror, adventure and indie game
developed and published by MAD Virtual Reality Studio.
Released on November 23rd 2016 is available only on Windows
in 2 languages: English and Thai.
It has received 842 reviews of which 645 were positive and 197 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 5.43€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10
- Processor: 3.20 Dual Core Processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVDIA Geforce GTX 560 1GB / Radeon R7 250X 1 GB
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 8 GB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC. Keyboard or gamepad required
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Summary Category Perception Level design Looks good. Occasionally confusing Art Consistent art style. Looks good overall, but has a decent amount of Z-fighting Sound design Good sound design. Does a good job building tension Story Decently good with some twists towards the end Gameplay Exploration, simple objectives (collect items) and chase scenes Bugs/glitches Very clanky mechanics and goofy animations, among some other issues Other issues One of the last levels features a door requiring three keys. This level is really frustrating as you have to go grab one key at a time. If you die even once, you restart the whole level. The game is often not clear about where you need to go, so you probably will die here Length Under 4 hours on average Worth it? At a discounted price Conclusion I like this game, but for the wrong reasons. The game actually does a decent job at building tension. It has some genuinely scary moments, dark environments with a good flashlight (making it dark, but not unreasonably so) and good looking visual design for the most part, but it suffers from severe Z-fighting (texture glitches), clunky mechanics that works when it feels like it, very goofy animations (your character model while you sprint and crawl for example) and other odd issues, like voice lines repeating themselves and going out of sync for some reason. While the tension was often good, it was also ruined just as often by lame jumpscares and chase scenes with dead ends, forcing you to restart by trial and error. So, half the time I enjoyed the game for being a genuinely alright horror game. The other half of the time I enjoyed the game because the goofiness and glitches made me laugh. This makes it a little tough to recommend it. But overall, I had a good time with it, so I recommend trying it out for a discounted price.
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What an amazing game and and Intense experience and good story too, 1 very frustrating Level but that was about it
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It isnt on the level of puppet combo or Chilla Art's however, the story and progression was decent and in all honesty, it was pretty solid. 7.5/10
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To begin, a technical NOTE for VR: Make sure you are seating on a chair in front of your computer monitor before launching the game from Steam. You can find yourself above the character player's body if you don't do so. Took me a while to figure it out, I nearly ended up asking for a refund. The game itself as I envisioned it to be, was not exactly how I envisioned it. It is a very inspirational VR horror game for me, however it could have been more freaky. I definitely have to recommend it as it is worth the experience and given the energy expenditure on behalf of the developers, it would be disrespectful to them to do otherwise like some people did, however everyone is entitled to their opinion and some negative reviews are actually justified. In my opinion this VR horror game is definitely not worthy of not recommending. I normally experience these VR horrors under the unusual circumstances of psychedelia, it became some sort of sadomasochistic hobby to some extent. So trust me, if it was scary, it probably was. As for this horror experience, for sure it was from the horror category. Some VR horror games like "Don't Knock Twice", at first when I tried the demo which was pretty scary, the actual game was more like a psychological horror where the player can start to feel compassion for the character in the game and what was meant to be the dreaded horror of the unknown ahead, became some kind of something different. As for Araya, yeah it is horror. However, having the experience of VR horror like Madison VR and Exorcist: Legion VR, they are superior in my opinion. Rise of Insanity in VR, also ranks with them in my opinion. Araya, when I played it first time, after solving the VR headset technical issue, it was kinda scary. It took me like 4 different times to complete the whole game. The second time I played it was pretty scary, I don't know why it was more scary than the first time I played the first few chapters. The third time was less scary than the second, but I would often get chills down my spine even by walking around and exploring the hospital. Sound was pretty good for it's time, good weird dark kinda stuff. I haven't really experienced any major bugs as some people claim it is full of bugs, nothing broke the game. The VR thing is probably the only thing they could correct or at least have a height correction option in the menu or something. However, overall it is a pretty well made game for a non-commercial developer. In fact, I dislike commercial games in general. I played Half-Life: Alyx and it is a very well made game worth experiencing, however too commercial feel for me, I prefer indie developer immagination. Even Resident Evil 7 which is probably the scariest of them all, unfortunately I played the whole game on the monitor before learning that their exists a VR mod for it, then tried the VR mod and it is pretty scary, but never finished it in VR, not sure why, I need to play it again in VR as it was already quiet some time since I played it first time, so will be more fresh experience. With Resident Evil Village, that I played from start in VR as I knew already about the mod, but it is not that scary as compared to RE7, most of the action is in the day which shows the beauty of the 3D artist's artwork, however not good for VR horror, if their was a night mode MOD, then that would make REVIII much scarier in my opinion. Still both RE games are commercial, but Resident Evil is naturally messed up, so I feel less of that commercial feeling than as compared to Half-Life: Alyx. Forgive me for going off track, just wanted to share some other interesting VR and VR horror game worth playing. Link to Resident Evil VR mods: 「https://github.com/praydog/REFramework/releases」 You will need to download the RE7.zip or RE8.zip for the respective Resident Evil games. Both mods work well, maybe native VR would have been better, but it worked well enough as far I remember. For VR horror, I would say Resident Evil 7 is a must. Araya for VR horror maniacs, for sure worth the experience, like I said, I would often get chills down my spine just by walking around the hospital, so buckle your seat belts Dorothy and do it properly. Araya is a game I wanted to experience in VR for quiet some time, but I waited for a discount that never arrived. But after experiencing Madison VR which was kinda traumatic experience at times, I had to experience this one. Another VR horror game I heard about is actually a normal desktop horror for which you will need to use an external VR application like 「https://github.com/praydog/UEVR」 . That game is called Visage. From my experience, I can tell and from people's reviews, I am not looking forward to experiencing that one, there is something about little girls with long black hair that is just disturbing. Big ugly scary looking dudes don't scare me, just annoy me, little Japanese girls with long black hair, 頑張ります！ BTW The voice acting (English) in Araya was very good in my opinion with a nice British accent to it.
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ARAYA is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
ARAYA is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.
ARAYA received 645 positive votes out of a total of 842 achieving a rating of 7.31.
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ARAYA was developed and published by MAD Virtual Reality Studio.
ARAYA is playable and fully supported on Windows.
ARAYA is not playable on MacOS.
ARAYA is not playable on Linux.
ARAYA is a single-player game.
ARAYA does not currently offer any DLC.
ARAYA does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
ARAYA does not support Steam Remote Play.
ARAYA is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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MAD Virtual Reality Studio
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23 Nov 2016
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