Dead Secret

Dead Secret is set in a secluded farmhouse in Kansas, which is a two-story home with two bedrooms, one bathroom and a basement. This makes for a dense and cramped environment, where initially many rooms are locked. A recursive unlocking map design is used where the player starts in one room and unlocks more rooms and routes between different areas of the map. The player takes the role of a reporter looking for the next big news article.

A man, Harris Bullard, dies in suspicious circumstances so the reporter decides to investigate. The player goes to the secluded farmhouse with the suspicion that Harris was murdered. Harris was a scholar of Japanese Mythology who had many secrets which he took to the grave. The player must unravel Harris's secrets and the mystery of his death, and all this must be done before the killer decides to kill again.

The game is developed by Robot Invader, a video game studio in Silicon Valley. It is built upon the Unity 5 game engine. Dead Secret started off as a tablet and mobile game and then was developed into a virtual reality game. There were a lot of different design decisions to be made around this particularly around movement.

Movement in VR can often cause motion and simulation sickness. To prevent this, Robot Invader came up with some rules for movement within their game which include linear movement only, no acceleration during movement, no rotating the camera, only move in straight lines, motion should be short, frame rate should be kept constant.

9/5. XGN gave the game 8/10. VR Focus gave the game a 5-star rating. 5/10.

5/10. Trusted Reviews gave the game 22/25.

A follow-up called Dead Secret Circle was released on May 1, 2018, on Steam, Oculus Rift, Oculus Go and Gear VR.