A free, story-driven hardcore survival game for PC VR headsets with crafting, gunplay and mod support, set after an alien artifact crash-lands on Earth.
AB AETERNO is a story-driven survival game in the action and adventure genre from VRKemono. The developer calls it hardcore survival, mixing familiar mechanics with new ones designed for VR, and the listing summary names the STALKER series as an inspiration. It is distributed through SideQuest, though the listing has no first-listed date.
How it plays
You play James Danziger, a quantum engineer back from training on the Moon to join a recon team. Decades earlier, an alien Artifact crashed on Earth, shifted the world back in time and erased the event from almost everyone's memory. Only a few hundred people with experimental temporal implants remember. The Artifact now steers a shadow organization, the Earth Defense Alliance, which is at war with a breakaway faction called the Sons of Cain.
- A full-body avatar you can customize
- Crafting that advances from 1980s technology to modern and futuristic levels
- VR gunplay, with weapons you can take apart, clean and paint
- An inventory and backpack system
- Cooking, weapon maintenance, welding, soldering, hunting, puzzles, stashes and NPC interactions
- Side activities such as darts, basketball, arcade machines and photography
- A wrist computer for vitals, navigation, lore entries and settings
- Persistent objects, detailed physics and underwater physics
Mod support lets you import MP4 files as VHS tapes, MP3s as music tracks, YouTube videos as TV channels and custom weapon textures.
How to get it and what to know
- It is free on SideQuest.
- Although SideQuest is best known for sideloading on Meta Quest, this listing names only PC VR headsets: Oculus Rift, Valve Index and HTC Vive.
- It is also on Steam for SteamVR and on itch.io.
- It is in early access.
- Rated 4.8 out of 5 by 73 SideQuest users.
