Nightmare Tag is a multiplayer horror tag game for Meta Quest where humans climb, hide and fight back while players as monsters hunt them through dreamlike spaces.
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Nightmare Tag is a multiplayer horror action game from Grounded, set in the empty, uncanny liminal spaces of a bad dream. One side plays the monsters, the other plays humans trying to survive them. It launched on the Meta Horizon Store on October 19, 2023.
How it plays
As a monster, you choose from three creatures, each with four perks you can upgrade and its own physics-based way of moving. The Entity is all speed and agility, the Mimic follows voices and can disguise itself as a human, and the Crow can shrink or grow from tiny to huge to stalk and ambush its prey.
As a human, you pick one of four characters, also with four upgradable perks each: Antonio (teamwork), Charles (teleport), Madison (medic) and Sadie (athlete). Your toolkit includes:
- A slingshot that stuns monsters with heated pellets, with attachments such as Warp Shot, Portal Pellet, Laser Beam and Boom Blast.
- A scanner that shows teammates, threats, attachments and objectives through walls.
- Sprinting that mixes joystick movement with swinging your controllers.
- Invisibility when you stand perfectly still.
- Climbing and vaulting on almost any surface.
Multiplayer
Nightmare Tag (PvP) puts 2 to 10 players against each other across three modes: Elimination, Quick Tag and VHS Run. The co-op side is Nightmare Run (PvE), where 1 to 8 players climb an expanding dream world, complete objectives and scan creatures to learn how they behave.
Comfort
Meta rates it as intense, which fits the fast arm-swing sprinting and climbing. Players prone to motion sickness in VR should take it slowly. It supports standing and room-scale play with controllers.
Platforms and what to know before buying
- Price: free to start, according to the store description, with a $10 General Admission upgrade.
- Headsets: Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 3S, Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2.
- Internet: required.
- Ads: no in-app ads.
- Early access: no.
- In-app purchases: the free version lets you play as Antonio or the Entity, earn XP, upgrade perks and join any lobby. General Admission ($10) lets you unlock the other characters with XP, host PvE lobbies and adds 3,000 tokens.
- Languages: English only.
- Age rating: 16+.
- Also listed on: SideQuest.
