2020: THE RIDE

2020: THE RIDE

Pariah Interactive Inc. · March 2, 2021 · VR, Cyberpunk, Sci-fi, Dystopian , Stylized

2020: THE RIDE is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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2020: THE RIDE price

2020: THE RIDE is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About 2020: THE RIDE

2020: THE RIDE is a year in review in the form of the world’s scariest VR roller coaster. When the economy drops, you drop. When Covid-19 rates speed up, you speed up. Travel through natural disasters, protests and political turmoil in a ride you’ll never forget (no matter how badly you wish you could).

2020: THE RIDE — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Sep 13, 2026
For a VR experience covering such a memorable and chaotic year, 2020: THE RIDE feels incredibly limited. There are no Steam achievements or Trading Cards, despite obvious opportunities for milestones based on the different events and sections of the ride. The experience is also very short and mostly passive, with little actual interaction beyond sitting through the roller-coaster presentation. There are even reports of problems using a mouse outside VR, making the non-VR experience awkward. It's an interesting time capsule of 2020, but as a game it feels more like a short VR demonstration than a fully developed experience.
Recommended Jun 18, 2026
2020: THE RIDE is a Free to play VR art experience about some of the events of year 2020. It worked on my Index system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. Can also watch from the desktop. Maybe try this for the memes.
Recommended Nov 12, 2025
Игра '2020: THE RIDE' – это настоящий сюрреалистический аттракцион, который забрасывает игрока в хаотичный водоворот событий, напоминающих безумный сон. Разработчики явно не ставили перед собой цель создать реалистичный симулятор, а скорее платформу для экспрессивного выплеска эмоций и размышлений о современном мире. Визуальный стиль игры – это отдельная песня: смесь киберпанка, постмодернизма и откровенной психоделики, которая поначалу может ошеломить, но затем начинает завораживать своей уникальностью. Геймплей, состоящий из серии мини-игр и интерактивных сегментов, далек от традиционных механик, и это, пожалуй, его главное достоинство. Здесь нет четких целей или понятных правил, только постоянное движение вперед, где каждый новый поворот может привести к чему-то совершенно неожиданному. Это игра, которая заставляет задуматься, но при этом не утомляет своей сложностью, а скорее интригует своей непредсказуемостью. '2020: THE RIDE' – это опыт, который не каждому придется по вкусу, но если вы готовы к экспериментам и поиску новых ощущений в игровой индустрии, то эта поездка точно оставит след в вашей памяти.
Not recommended May 29, 2025
Without VR, you can't look around, which is the point. It's not very impressive without VR anyway.
Not recommended Apr 25, 2025
didnt really need to be made
Not recommended Feb 12, 2025
2020: THE RIDE is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, 2020: THE RIDE is a software application that displays an art exhibition on rails about the events of 2020, which I think people want to forget rather than rehash with garbage low poly assets and terrible visuals. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop. There's no loop here, no true interactive feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played". This has misleadingly been launched in the "Games" section…

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