The Aquatic Messenger
Eco Resilience Global Games Research Group · 2025 · VR, Exploration, Education, Nature, Underwater
PC
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About The Aquatic Messenger
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AN IMMERSIVE ARTS/SCIENCE VIRTUAL REALITY WORLD!
Explore microscopic messengers of time inspired by micropaleontology and plankton research! What if there were creatures on earth that were relatively unknown, yet responsible for all the fresh water on the planet? Can ancient forms of plankton from over 10,000 years ago help us understand the future of freshwater ecology? Sound like a scifi movie? Actually, these are the realities of real world plankton!
DISCOVER AND LEARN ABOUT VARIOUS SPECIES THROUGHOUT TIME!
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490 million years ago when the sea covered the lake with regional stromatolites from cyanobacterial mats
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1955040/extras/devonian.png
350 million years ago, “the age of fishes”, as revealed geologically in the Helderbergs
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1955040/extras/plestiacene.png
20,000 years ago when the Wisconsin ice sheet retreats, revealing hidden life including the Cohoes Mastodon, Ostracodes, Diatoms and Testate Amoebae
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1955040/extras/ModernA.png
Native inhabitants, Impacts of settlement in 1850’s, salt in the 1970’s
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1955040/extras/modernB.png
Current times with the instruments and data of the Jefferson Project sensor web, the Fund for Lake George and others helping to keep the lake clean
GLIMPSE INTO A FUTURE CREATED BY YOUR ACTIONS
What choices in the way we live today will directly impact the future: what will the lake look like in the years 2060 and 2100?
AN IMMERSIVE ARTS/SCIENCE VIRTUAL REALITY WORLD!
Explore microscopic messengers of time inspired by micropaleontology and plankton research! What if there were creatures on earth that were relatively unknown, yet responsible for all the fresh water on the planet? Can ancient forms of plankton from over 10,000 years ago help us understand the future of freshwater ecology? Sound like a scifi movie? Actually, these are the realities of real world plankton!
DISCOVER AND LEARN ABOUT VARIOUS SPECIES THROUGHOUT TIME!
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1955040/extras/cambrian.png
490 million years ago when the sea covered the lake with regional stromatolites from cyanobacterial mats
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1955040/extras/devonian.png
350 million years ago, “the age of fishes”, as revealed geologically in the Helderbergs
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1955040/extras/plestiacene.png
20,000 years ago when the Wisconsin ice sheet retreats, revealing hidden life including the Cohoes Mastodon, Ostracodes, Diatoms and Testate Amoebae
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1955040/extras/ModernA.png
Native inhabitants, Impacts of settlement in 1850’s, salt in the 1970’s
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1955040/extras/modernB.png
Current times with the instruments and data of the Jefferson Project sensor web, the Fund for Lake George and others helping to keep the lake clean
GLIMPSE INTO A FUTURE CREATED BY YOUR ACTIONS
What choices in the way we live today will directly impact the future: what will the lake look like in the years 2060 and 2100?
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1]Experienced on the Meta Quest 3 using link cable.[/h1] Is this the demo or the full game? Who knows. I do know this free download is a blast from the past. Do you miss VR from 2016/17 where the HTC Vive reigned supreme (the last time it ever did as well). Well, download this for some HTC Vive nostalgia. This game is made for the OG HTC Vive. It uses Steam VR! It has teleportation only and room-scale movement within a rectangular area! You have to turn in real-life! It's got tailor-made HTC Vive controls. Those pesky 'Oculus' gamers have to push down on their joysticks to teleport. LOL. That's what they get for buying from the Zuck! PCVR reigned supreme back then. Those were the good 'ol days of VR. Download if you want to experience 2016/2017 VR again! [b]Rate 5/10. It's free. I'm not going to downvote it. If this was 2016/2017 I'd probably have given it a 7/10.[/b] [i]p.s. You have to reach around behind you and grab the key to unlock the start of the game! Just like in 2016/17!!![/i]8 found this helpful
The Aquatic Messenger is a free to play VR edutainment program. Worked on my Index system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. Has instruction card for Vive. Maybe try this program, if you like learning about biology of a lake ecosystem.3 found this helpful
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