Dead Man's Quest

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Release date

June 22, 2023

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Beyond Frames Entertinament

Hey, you! Welcome to the island of Pequena! 🏝️ Dead Man's Quest is a narrative hand-tracking and puzzle short story and technical demonstration, lovingly wrapped in a light-hearted and quirky pirate theme 🏴‍☠️!

With its carefree, comical, and visually exaggerated style, Dead Man's Quest features colorful characters, a perky parrot 🦜 and quippy narrated dialogue. With hand-tracking controls, you embody an... well, unusual character in a precarious situation as you wake up in a holding cell in the Fort. Did we mention you need to solve some puzzles to escape?

Dead Man's Quest is the result of the developers' exploration into hand-tracking technologies and their love for games such as “Monkey Island” and movies such as “Life of Brian”. The experience is not intended as a full game. We hope you enjoy it!

Note that the experience is meant to be played in one go, no save system is currently in place. Controller support is optional as desired.

*** Dead Man's Quest does not support Quest 1 headsets ***

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3.95

207 ratings

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JeffRichards

May 12, 2025

5/5

Arrrrrr Me Mateys!

Typically, not my kind of game, but the more I played the more I wanted to play. I saw the complaints in the reviews but basically it was about things like movement, saving and puzzles. All of them go back to the fact that they DID NOT READ and understand the instructions at the very beginning. I had to read it through a couple of times before I really got how it worked. But once I did, I was able to complete the entire Demo game. To those complaining: 1) It uses hand tracking. Put the controllers away outside your boundary and just use your hands. 2) Watch the beginning instructions carefully and practice them before going into the game. 3) You should play it standing so that you can turn, but I did play seated because I have a chair that turns all the way around. 4) You DO NOT use any thumb sticks to move. Reach out to the blue light, grab ahold and pull yourself to the new location. 5) If you get stuck, ASK THE BIRD by pointing your spirit power at the bird and give it a tug towards yourself. Answer his questions using the thumbs up sign. 6) you also move by possessing the bodies of the other characters then getting out of them at the right time. 7) It said right in the description that it is meant to play in one play and DOES NOT SAVE. Seriously people, try reading! I really hope they finish this game and tell the entire story line. I am looking forward to finding out who killed me and why.

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Tatsandcats

August 24, 2025

3/5

Need better tutorial to play

I’m not an everyday player of puzzle adventure type games so maybe you all intuitively understand the mechanics but after I got out of the dungeon to talk to the parrot I got fed up and quit. The parrot asking “ do I have to spell it out for you”? Yes, as a matter of fact you do cause the slow paced staring at me like I’d be able to know what to do next without any instruction just frustrated me to no end! Fun little graphics is about the only positive I saw. A better tutorial for noobs and others like myself who usually only use vr for fitness games would go a long way to getting more players to stay.

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hawken

March 14, 2025

4/5

Highly polished but seated unplayable.

The music, graphics & storytelling a really high quality. Theres no way to move or rotate when seated, and teleporting / possessing rely on facing in a certain direction. This seems like it could be fixed with some joystick or pinch air-drag controls. Lot’s of potential for a story game

21 found this helpful

ClawzOnVR

January 9, 2026

5/5

Amazing!

I just played this game and holy, down to the puzzles to the storyline. It's over all a amazing game it just goes to quick, hopefully more story will be added to the game cause it was so fun to play. S - tier game!

14 found this helpful

Where_Is_Raquelle

November 19, 2024

2/5

Seems interesting except…

The idea seems cool but when you take over a character body you’re kinda stuck there so you can’t really finish any of the puzzles. Also in one of my attempts to play the Scottish/Irish (not sure which) character I the beginning his hands got stuck together and had to restart and go through what feels like at least 5 minutes of dialogue and another characters hands tried to get stuck together again thankfully I was able to get them unstuck but wasn’t able to continue the game because there’s no way to walk in the game.

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