Variable State

Factsheet

Developer:
Variable State
Based in London and Dublin

Release date:
September 22 2016

Platforms:
Steam
PlayStation 4 US
PlayStation 4 EU
Xbox One
NVIDIA GeForce NOW

Website:
variablestate.com/projects/virginia

Regular Price:

USD	9.99
EUR	9.99

Description

VIRGINIA is a first person interactive drama. It is the story of a recently graduated FBI agent and her partner as they seek to uncover the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a young boy.

History

VIRGINIA is the first game concept we've brought into production since forming Variable State. Inspired by our collective love of 90s TV dramas like Twin Peaks, The X-Files and The Outer Limits, we wanted to create a game which captured their mixture of the inexplicable, the absurd and the mundane. Our missing person drama is set in a world both familiar and strange and tells a story unlike any featured in a game before. VIRGINIA has been in development since early 2014.

Features

An original interactive drama set in early 90s Virginia
Lead the hunt for a missing boy in the rural heartland of America
Live the story through the eyes of a fledgling FBI agent
Discover a cast of loners, has-beens, creeps and beatniks
Beautiful soundtrack by composer Lyndon Holland

Videos

Trailer YouTube, Vimeo

Trailer 2 YouTube, Vimeo

Trailer 3 YouTube, Vimeo

Music Trailer YouTube, Vimeo

Images

download all screenshots & photos as .zip (6MB)

Logo & Icon

download logo files as .zip (1MB)

Selected Articles

"Review: The X-Files meets Twin Peaks in a remarkable interactive thriller (5 stars)"
- Olivia White, The Telegraph
"Review: If You Love David Lynch You Have to Play ‘Virginia’ (4.5/5)"
- Matt Peckham, TIME
"Review: An Elegant And Riveting Thriller (9.25/10)"
- Javy Gwaltney, Game Informer
"Review: Virginia is powerful and original (9/10)"
- Colin Campbell, Polygon
"Review: An interactive crime thriller that puts magic in even the most mundane details (8.5/10)"
- Chloi Rad, IGN
"Review: Virginia's an astonishing piece of narrative design, and a game that goes where few others are capable of following"
- Christian Donlan, Eurogamer
"Review: Virginia is a surreal adventure that feels like a playable movie"
- Andrew Webster, The Verge
"Review: Virginia’s intimacy makes it more than a Twin Peaks wannabe"
- William Hughes, A.V. Club
"On a joué à… « Virginia », le jeu qui fait tout un cinéma"
- Corentin Lamy, Le Monde
"Mystery Game Inspired By The X-Files Does A Lot Without Words"
- Heather Alexandra, Kotaku
"How 'Virginia' Found a Voice Without Dialogue"
- Lewis Gordon, VICE
"How Virginia uses the language of film to tell a different kind of video game story"
- Andrew Webster, The Verge
"Detective Thriller Virginia Could be This Year’s Her Story"
- Chris Schilling, Kotaku UK
"It's not enough for me to say that Virginia was the best new game that I tried at EGX last month. It's the best new game that I've seen this year..."
- Paul Dean, Eurogamer.net
"Virginia looks good. Virginia sounds good. Virginia is ur-detective show, with hints that it will go somewhere stranger. Perhaps it will go where True Detective ultimately feared to tread."
- Alec Meer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun
"If David Lynch made a video game, it might look like 'Virginia'"
- Andrew Webster, The Verge
"Exploring the low-poly Lynchian landscapes of Virginia"
- Chris Priestman, Kill Screen

Additional Links

Development Blog
Follow the game's development at twitter.com.

About Variable State

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Variable State is a game production company working remotely out of London and Dublin. We aim to tell surprising stories about intriguing characters.

More information
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