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Release date

October 19, 2023

Publisher

Grounded

Nightmare Tag is a multiplayer VR horror game set within the eerie, liminal spaces of your nightmares.

BECOME THE NIGHTMARE Play as 3 monsters, each with 4 upgradable perks and a unique, physics-based motion mechanic:

  • Entity: Wield terrifying speed and agility
  • Mimic: Track voices and shapeshift into humans
  • Crow: Stalk and ambush humans by changing your size from tiny to colossal

SURVIVE THE NIGHTMARE Play as 4 unique humans, each with 4 upgradable perks:

  • Characters: Antonio (teamwork), Charles (teleport), Madison (medic), Sadie (athlete)
  • Slingshot: Stun monsters with heated pellets and adapt your strategy with attachments like Laser Beam, Boom Blast, Warp Shot, and Portal Pellet
  • Scanner: Detect teammates, threats, attachments, and objectives through walls
  • Run: Combine joystick movement with controller motion to sprint through the nightmare
  • Hide: Turn invisible by standing completely motionless
  • Climb: Grab onto nearly any surface to climb, vault, and outmaneuver monsters

CO-OP & MULTIPLAYER

  • Nightmare Tag (PvP): 2–10 players hunt each other in 3 unique game modes including Quick Tag, VHS Run, and Elimination
  • Nightmare Run (PvE): 1–8 players ascend an expanding dream world by completing objectives and scanning creatures to uncover their behavior

DEMO VS FULL GAME Play for Free:

  • Play as Antonio or the Entity
  • Earn XP and upgrade perks
  • Join any lobby

General Admission ($10):

  • Unlock new characters with XP
  • Host PvE lobbies
  • +3000 Tokens
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Ratings & reviews

4.25

343 ratings

Oculus rating

Updates

0.9.9.50

August 22, 2026

Perk Interface Angle your palms toward your face and look at them. After about half a second, your active perks will appear. It's a little picky on purpose. I wanted as little HUD as possible in VR, so it only shows up when you actually mean to look at it. The first few times can feel awkward, but…

0.9.9.42

July 22, 2026

Death Scoring - Death count is now tracked and scored - Quick Tag: -100XP per death subtracted from kill score - VHS Run & Elimination: -100XP per death subtracted from revive score - Reduced XP per kill in Quick Tag +250XP -> +150XP Player Collider Rework - Full rework of the player collider…

Player reviews

Luxotic_VR

October 20, 2023

5/5

We need more games like this.

I like that you can actually play as the monster. And when you are dead you still have objectives you don’t just sit there and watch. Its so funny watching people run around screaming.

70 found this helpful

micahramos.2023

June 22, 2024

5/5

SO GOOD

This game has the best mechanics and I played some of my friends and it’s scary so scary that to a point I actually turn off my VR it’s that scary and don’t forget fun time in nightmare tag in one thing that you need to fix is I keep getting kicked for some reason I’m playing randomly and I just kicks me so please on that so far really good game

34 found this helpful

Ish623

August 22, 2024

5/5

Great game but dead

This game probably one of the best games that isn't a monkey game. It has great mechanics and great maps. My only thing that made me mad is the low player count.

22 found this helpful

ink_sans1239

December 25, 2025

5/5

Great

it was a great time i met a couple of people that worked on the game doing some people that test on the game they were generally chill and including some of the people i met even though some of them were bad people but still it was a great time uh i did get scared a lot and i enjoyed it and it was actually pretty fun to uh hear about the game from some of the people that worked on it not only that um but uh overall it was actually pretty fun and that's why it gets my review of five stars and this is better than black gates

20 found this helpful

neprohh

September 12, 2024

5/5

So scary my socks fell off!

This game deserves more attention. It’s actually different (unlike every other tag game) and kept me playing for hours. However, there are some bugs and problems. I cant place eyes down whenever I’m monster, I’ve done the monster tutorial many times so I definitely remember the button. You also need to nerf the eye ball, I feel like revealing your position is to much power. (especially in small maps). We need a feature that makes it clearer who won and who lost. One more thing, I’ve been thinking of a new type of monster. It is mostly blind and primarily hunts players using its unbeatable hearing. (When players talk close to the monster they get pinged on the map for the monster to see them). Because it is blind the focus light does not effect them. When it is in hunt mode (A+X). it gains full sight again but cannot hear players.

17 found this helpful

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