Goliath: Playing With Reality

Goliath: Playing With Reality

ANAGRAM · 2022 · VR, Interactive Fiction, Indie, Immersive, Casual

PC
6 user reviews83% · 6
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About Goliath: Playing With Reality

🏆 Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best VR Work at the 78th Venice International
Film Festival (2021)
🎞 Nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Interactive Media Innovation
category (2022)


ABOUT GOLIATH

Through mind-bending animation, GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY explores the
limits of reality and a true story of so-called ‘schizophrenia’ and the power of gaming
communities.

Echo (Tilda Swinton) guides you through the many realities of Goliath, a man who spent
years isolated in psychiatric institutions but finds connection in multiplayer games.
Combining heartfelt dialogue, mesmerising visuals and symbolic interactions, weave
through multiple worlds to uncover Goliath’s poignant story.

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What Steam players say

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

Recommended Oct 16, 2022
Goliath: Playing With Reality is a paid VR exerience. It worked on my HTC Vive and Index system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok, was understandable. The voice overs are in English, English accent. Has some gaming moments. About 25 minutes to run through once. Didn't see any bugs or errors. Not a game, just a VR interactive video about a guy with mental problems. Not worth buying, unless you feel like donating money to the devs, i wonder if the guy is getting a cut of this money. I got a free key for this from the Steam Curator program. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/23133713-VIVE-VR/]ViVE VR curator group[/url]
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Recommended Sep 2, 2023
Goliath: Playing With Reality uses the unique immersive qualities of virtual reality to tell a true life story of someone who struggles to recognize actual reality. This experience begins with a narrative introduction by Tilda Swinton questioning the nature of reality that includes several interactive elements. The story features Goliath, the multiplayer gaming alter-ego of a man struggling with paranoid schizophrenia. A sequence of inventive and striking scenes surround you as Goliath describes the effects of his mental disorder, how he became institutionalized and medicated for years and about how he successfully found a way to experience normalcy and happiness, in part through computer gaming with friends. Scenes transition between animated illustrations of events, to abstract interactive symbolic sequences. Because some of the effects can be mildly disconcerting, and we'd rate this experience as PG. It also includes occasional strong language that is appropriate to the story. Virtual reality allows for the telling of Goliath's story in a unique way and this 25 minute production achieves that in a sympathetic and impactful manner using a multitude of visual and audio effects. …
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Recommended Aug 9, 2023
omg
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Recommended May 22, 2023
Experienced in Oculus Quest 2.. Nice explaination of pychosis .0. some times its difficult to grasp what it tries to convey...but can understand the whole picture.. On the side note , why all VR movies makes us sad and depressing ?
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Recommended Feb 21, 2023
Wow. This was a fantastic experience. Stunning visuals and nice to hear a fellow schizophrenic tell their story. Some of my story can be found here:- www.androcies.com A friend is coming to my place this weekend that has never tried VR. I think she will get a blast out of this.
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