Update 3-22-25
March 22, 2025
Update 3-22-25: - New tutorial scene added. This scene explains core mechanics of the game and will force play once; - 8 DNA spawn per wave now instead of 3; - Flashlight brightness steps are brighter.
The Vacant
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Release date
February 14, 2025
Publisher
Gaggle Games
Welcome to The Vacant - an intense VR survival horror experience where every decision matters!
Survive the Waves: Each round, you'll fight off Vacants, scavenge for fuses to unlock the safe room, and buy weapons using DNA collected from the arena. With limited resources and nowhere to hide, every second is a battle for survival.
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Update 3-18-25
March 19, 2025
Update 3-18-25: This week, we have a player requested update. That player will recieve a free VR game from our other VR releases. Thanks, "znights", from the Discord for your feedback! Updates: - Left stick now adjusts flashlight brightness; - Cabinet grab boxes have been enlarged to make…
Player reviews
IzzyDeadYet
April 17, 2025
This reminds me of Poly4Dead
Poly4Dead is a modded Zombie map in Contractors that uses a lot of the same visuals… It doesn’t have the cool adjustable light like this one- That really adds a lot of tension- great idea! My one criticism would be I wish you could move faster- But this is really atmospheric and creepy! Great job! I recently started a YouTube channel- Izzyd3adyet VR, and I want to add this game into a video of cool free and almost free side quest games- this is one of the more unique and interesting things on side quest rn
2 found this helpful
david2004.2024
August 22, 2025
Good atmosphire
I like it The atmosphire is surprisingly oppressive
1 found this helpful
CheeseTheSloth
April 2, 2025
Great game!
The graphics are very nostalgic and retro and it's a fun game with great gameplay where you need to manage you ammo and find fuses. They are tricky so check everywhere to make sure you can escape and get more ammo. Anyone who gives this a low review is stupid
1 found this helpful
JKnerdy2
December 6, 2025
Disappointing
Bought the game for $2, it looked cool. Tried it for 10 min or less... completed tutorial. 1. Snap turn SUCKS! Wtf are we still doing this? How long has vr been out, and we're still catering to newbies? Fk man. NO OPTIONS OR SETTINGS to switch to smooth. -2☆ 2. No RUN?? The move speed is a snail crawl, Wtf? -1☆ 3. Obvious bugs. Guns turn sideways in your hand, because it touched a door hit box maybe? Items don't respond to grabs... overall, looks beta and roblox... which is OK, but dang... I want to spend on vr games that are READY to play... not fund some fan idea of some dude working a part time and playing on his pc once in a while while trying to keep his grades up and his mom out of his room. 4. Sorry dude, nothing personal. Take my $2 and buy a coke.
