Nope Challenge gamifies facing your fears while giving you an escape on Quest.
Created by Happy Manic, Nope Challenge is a psychological game that lets you confront over 40 common phobias, such as clowns, spiders and heights. This is described as an empowerment journey that allows you to “NOPE” out of any stressful situation by simply placing the NOPE button on your arm. You will then be transported into a relaxed “Breather Space”. ‘
Nope Challenge features nine individual challenges with three intensity levels – Light, Moderate and Extreme. Here’s our full GDC 2024 interview, where we discuss how the game’s challenges and breather spaces work, VR immersion, potential post-launch plans, etc. Discussing how the game’s challenges and ‘breather spaces’ work, how VR’s immersion benefits this premise, potential post-launch plans and more, here’s our full GDC 2024 interview:
platform, while other headsets are currently under consideration.Meta QuestNotice: This article was originally published on April 11, 2024. This article was revised on April 25, to include Nope Challenge.