Dark Trip - Controversial Psychedelic Escape Room - Hits Steam with Closed Playtest

For Immediate Release
 

JUNE 04, 2026
 

Nesebar, Bulgaria
 

After more than a year in Early Access on Meta, Dark Trip gets conventional flat controls and lands on Steam with the closed playtest starting on June 04.
 

The Steam version of the game:
 

• is waiting for players to apply for playtesting on the updated Steam Page;

• features newly designed flat controls that play in an unique way for Adventure Games;

• supports SteamVR as well;

• includes first 7 rooms of the game carefully redesigned and refined for desktop experience, as well as updated Laboratory mode and Quality of Life improvements;

• is ready to deliver a unique psychedelic horror experience and twisted story to the new, wider audience of PC players.
   

Steam users can now apply for playtest participation and experience mind-bending psychedelic trips that distort perception and twist surroundings!
 

• Solve Puzzles in an Eerie Environment. Dive into a haunting world filled with grotesque biotechnological machinery and the wicked remnants of dark experiments.

• Experiences Psychedelic Trips. Immerse yourself into mind-bending psychedelic trips that distort perception and twist your surroundings.

• Use Hallucinations to Find Missing Evidence. Search for clues, artifacts and diary pieces to discover the dark story behind the gruesome events.
   

The new Steam Closed Playtest trailer is live:

Wishlist Dark Trip on Steam and apply for the closed playtest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3492640/Dark_Trip/
 

The game is available via Early Access on Meta Store: https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/dark-trip/27793698076945636/
 

A full featured version of Dark Trip with all 20 rooms is planned for release at the end of 2026 for Steam, Meta Store and consoles. The exact plans will be announced soon.
 

Dark Trip is a indie psychedelic escape room where a detective eats pills to solve puzzles and relies on own hallucinations to investigate an eerie crime case.

 

Enter the Hellraiser themed surreal horror! Welcome to one of the most unique and bizarre escape rooms, where you take on the role of an investigator searching for a missing woman — and are forced to consume drugs during your mission. The boundaries between reality, virtuality, and hallucinations dissolve, immersing you in a Lovecraftian nightmare when in a small German town, the only daughter of a retired businessman vanishes without a trace. Hired to investigate the case, the player discovers a seemingly abandoned laboratory. As you explore room after room, you uncover evidence of twisted experiments, scattered notebooks of employees, and disturbing accounts from test subjects. The gameplay revolves around solving intricate puzzles while piecing together the unsettling truth of the past.
 

Experience mind-bending psychedelic trips that distort perception and twist your surroundings!
 

• Solve Puzzles in an Eerie Environment. Dive into a haunting world filled with grotesque biotechnological machinery and the wicked remnants of dark experiments.

• Experiences Psychedelic Trips. Immerse yourself into mind-bending psychedelic trips that distort perception and twist your surroundings.

• Use Hallucinations to Find Missing Evidence. Search for clues, artifacts and diary pieces to discover the dark story behind the gruesome events.
   

Wishlist Dark Trip on Steam and apply for the closed playtest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3492640/Dark_Trip/
 

The game is available via Early Access on Meta Store: https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/dark-trip/27793698076945636/

Dark Trip’s official website: https://iworlds.studio/dark-trip

• Follow Dark Trip on Social Media to stay updated:

• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@iTalesVRStudio

• Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dark_trip_vr

• X: https://x.com/ItalesVr

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/italesvr/

• Telegram: https://t.me/italesvr

• Discord: https://discord.gg/h5xnewgMXE

Dark Trip is a part of Trinity Escape Rooms Bundle on Meta Store

The Bundle features three acclaimed VR titles: Dark Trip, Exit Condition One and Oldest Golden Treasure. All three are story-driven puzzle adventures with escape room bones, combining deep narrative elements, thoughtful game design, and striking visuals. Each game offers unique mechanics like dynamic roomscale settings, psychedelic trips and others.

Dark Trip was the DevGAMM Gdańsk 2025’s Game Roast Winner

Shortly after the start of Early Access in 2025 Dark Trip emerged victorious at DevGAMM Gdańsk 2025’s Game Roast competition, where industry veterans like Alex Nichiporchik, Jon Carnage, and Michael Kuzmin delivered a comedic roast of upcoming indie games. The Game Roast is a comedy segment of the DevGAMM conference where game developers face off in a light-hearted, yet intense battle of wits. Experts roast the chosen games, critiquing everything from gameplay to design, while developers must defend their projects in a quick one-minute rebuttal.

About iWorlds

iWorlds is an indie studio focused on creating immersive and engaging games that blend innovative storytelling with cutting-edge technology. Our mission is to redefine the gaming landscape through compelling narratives and unique gameplay mechanics. Like if David Lynch or Terry Gilliam would have started up gamedev studio.

For more information about iTales VR and our upcoming projects, visit https://iworlds.studio/