Okay, so let me just dive into this whole VR game thing I stumbled upon. It’s about this dude, Rob Yescombe—yeah, that guy behind The Invisible Hours from 2017. Just snagged back some rights to the game. I mean, can you imagine that? He’s talking about doing it all over again but shinier, with modern VR stuff, and maybe even tossing it onto TV or film screens. Crazy ambition, right?
Anyway, so Hollywood Reporter confirmed—how fancy does that sound?—that Yescombe’s out there searching for partners. Like, real movie people. Seems wild. It’s all supposedly because The Invisible Hours stands out in this VR mystery genre. You picture those Agatha Christie books you never actually read and that old Clue board game gathering dust in your closet? Kinda like that. You’re this invisible peeper wandering through a giant mansion, trying to solve Nikola Tesla’s murder. Gotta rewind and fast-forward to tail these, what, seven suspects? I lose track.
Launched back in 2017, across all sorts of VR gadgets. People really liked it back then. Tequila Works, the folks who made it, had this plan in 2020 to get it onto Quest. But yeah, that studio? Gonzo by 2024. So, no Quest magic happened there.
Now that Yescombe’s got the IP back, he reckons it’s totally fit for a remix for today’s audiences. “Loved making it, best time of my life, blah blah”—Yeah, I get it, Rob. Fans are still hitting him up like “Dude, we want more!” And truth be told, the number of VR sets out there now? Mind-blowing compared to 2017.
Post-Invisible Hours, Yescombe didn’t just twiddle his thumbs. He worked on games like The Twilight Zone VR, Arizona Sunshine 2, and this recent one, The Precinct. Oh, and a Netflix film, Outside the Wire. Also got his hands in massive franchises like Alien and Blade Runner. The guy’s had his fingers in all sorts of pies, not gonna lie.
So, here’s hoping this VR mystery makes a big, flashy comeback, huh? Or maybe not—who knows? Just one of those things you think about while zoning out over your morning coffee.
