Step into the shoes of a parkour spec-ops officer. Traverse and shoot your way through the rooftops and basements of dystopian Airon City - from slums to affluent skyscrapers.

Deal with power shifts in gangs, dirty family feuds, corporate secrets, forbidden tech and other obstacles to understand your past. To survive and climb the ladder in elite police forces of SkyChase, you will have to deal with power shifts in gangs, dirty family feuds, corporate secrets, forbidden tech and much more.

Enhancing everything players love about Stride, the full-fledged sequel 'Fates' pushes the parkour action formula even further with new gameplay and a story-driven campaign.

Your fate is bound with other motley characters in this story. Will you accept the destiny or fight against it?

Back in December 2022, we planned to release Fates as a free update, with corresponding scope. But after hearing the voices of the VR community and our own developers, it was decided to go all-in and make the best game we are capable of. Instead of an hour of gameplay, we made a separate game, better in every aspect, with new content, mechanics and 5-8 hours of story campaign (depending on side quests and time spent in open world locations).

In the included trailers, we have only shown you a few locations, and haven't even touched on characters, quests and other content yet. More surprises will come later, as we won't spoil them right now

The development of the original Stride started back in 2019 with a small team of very enthusiastic, but new-to-the-scene developers. With all the years of updates and introduction of multiplayer, the code base of the project has been growing larger and more convoluted. Despite several restructurings, some technical debt and restrictions are still present in the project.

When we started developing Fates as an update / DLC, we encountered the limitations of the original Stride, as the new project contains a lot of content that is very different from the original. The new content required significant changes to the game engine and other technical aspects.

At some point, after fruitless attempts to upgrade the existing engine, we had to restart the project and basically re-do almost all the code from scratch, and now the new engine is incompatible with the original Stride.

For example, now we can use the Vulkan API for graphics to improve the performance on standalone headsets. This allowed us to improve the visuals through physically-correct rendering (PBR) and made possible to create huge open-world locations with content that was previously inaccessible to us due to the technical and architectural limitations of the original Stride.

Reworked Stride Engine now offers advanced levels of graphics, physics and interactivity on standalone VR. We refined every aspect of the original Stride: shooting and weapons, enemy variety and their AI… the list goes on and on.

When you run, fight, interact with characters or solve puzzles, you will feel a major leap in technology.

It's important to remember that on Steam, while the game was in Early Access (Sept 2020 - Jun 2022), it was stated that the story mode will be available one day. We fully appreciate our early adopters. Despite the fact that the game grew in gameplay value and received numerous updates that weren't initially planned (including multiplayer, currently counting 6 game modes), we know that many of you have been waiting for the campaign. And therefore, Steam players will get an exclusive major discount on Fates at launch.

Key Features:

• Blockbuster-level narrative.
• Climb buildings, vault through windows, and slide down cables with lightning speed.
• Explore open-world locations under the watch of snipers and drones.
• Feel the thrill of close-quarters combat with tactical shooter mechanics.
• Use your gadgets and hacking skills to outwit thugs and corporates.
• Meet a motley cast of characters to shape your Fate.
• Puzzles, collectibles and more cool stuff that will be announced later.

Stride: Fates is coming to Meta Quest in November 2023, followed by PC (Steam) in 2024 with PlayStation VR 2 and Pico currently being considered.