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Deserving Life is a room-scale virtual reality escape game for the HTC Vive and was developed by students in the Media Technology and Design program at the Hagenberg Campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. Can you find a way out of your misery?

Reviews: Very Positive — 82% — of 146 reviews
Released: 2017-10-13
Developer: Lukas Paul, Gabriel Mittermair
Publisher: Deserving Life
Genres: Free To Play
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 1.0 hrs
Mean playtime: 5.4 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 48%

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