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April 16, 2020

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Lucid Dreams Productions

*Winner Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes Award *** ** Winner Grand Jury Prize for Best VR Venice Film Festival Narrated by Alia Shawkat

Meet Anna. Anna doesn’t remember her past, but she has vivid dreams about it. In every one of her dreams, there is a mysterious Key. Will you be able to unlock the mystery behind The Key without sacrificing too much?

The Key is a magical realism experience that will take you on a journey through dreams, facing challenges and difficult decisions, leading to a shocking reveal. The Key is NOT a video game. So relax, and let the story guide you.

(20-minute, standing interactive theatrical VR experience)

10' x 10' play area recommended - Touch things to interact - hold the trigger to teleport

“One of Tribeca's breakout successes” - CNET

“Of particular note are the superbly executed virtual reality technical details, including character design, use of color, and sound design.” Jury - Tribeca Film Festival

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4.45

960 ratings

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The Key's creator handtracking game "MASTERS OF LIGHT" is on sale!

June 23, 2024

You liked "The Key"? Check out Celine Tricart's new VR game "Masters of Light" ✨ It's on sale until June 30th at 25% off! Reviews say : "Incredibly Fun Game And A Great Workout", "Hand tracking done right", "A transcendent experience" - 4.5⭐rating! How to find it? Open Meta Quest Store and…

The Key's creator new app "FIGHT BACK" is available for free!

January 10, 2024

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Alex994

May 31, 2020

5/5

This Experience left me in Tears !!

I was so curious to find out about the story of this key, and then when I reached the end I couldn't hold my tears ... I am a Syrian refugee, and I still have my home key, even though I know I will never be able to go back when I finished it I cried so much , I had no clue that this experience would be that much related to me, during the whole experience I was trying to do something but I wasn't able to , I didn't have a choice , just like in real life , I couldn't save my friends , I couldn't stay home , I had to leave , but I survived . this is the best experience I've had in VR and even though I cried a lot , it really made me happy to know that there are people who know how I feel , know the struggle I've been through , know the story of the Key.

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Leonidas279

January 9, 2021

5/5

A Must Try Experience

Powerful. Precious. Heartbreaking. Relevant. This experience is a VR necessity. It’s no longer than 20 minutes and the impact that it had had on me is profound. The storytelling is beautiful, the animations are both cute and some are not so cute, but the narrative, visuals and voice acting are really good. In a short period of time, you experience a lot of emotions, but the message behind the experience is profound. I will continue to support VR for Good productions and I hope this experience can open someone else’s heart & mind as well.

131 found this helpful

joester_16

May 8, 2022

5/5

Just lovely

This game was so good and sad I just wish I could keep all of the friends but nothing in real life goes the greatest, this game teaching a very valuable life lesson and over all the graphics and the intractable environment is just great!!! I would love another game like this and if you haven’t played The Under it reminds it of this and they both are great but I like this game more even though it’s shorter! Thank you so much for this game it’s is over all awesome, keep up the great work!

99 found this helpful

Ditonomy

December 24, 2021

5/5

It’s a free app and gets you thinking

I enjoyed the art behind this app and how the story dramatically tied in together at the end. It’s definitely worth watching just once and really drives the point home in the end. It’s free and worth the download.

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ruben666albrecht

March 26, 2023

5/5

Thought provoking and mind changing

As previously noted this is not a game, this is an experience everybody living in a first world country should share to gain empathy for all those who are not so privileged to be spared from war, destruction, hunger, but above all are also robbed of home, freedom, family members, friends and often even their human dignity. Never forget as bad as things may sometimes be for us there are humans all over our planet whose struggle is far more worse than ours. Through the way of narration and the manner in which one is introduced to this topic, I personally could imagine that those who are often critical of refugees might get a different perspective, so that maybe a change of heart take place after all. Thanks for this experience which reminded me again how important it is that we humans stick together and have to move even closer together because we are nothing on our own. Even when it's sometimes hard to trust we need each other but there is hope when we finally realize that we are better than some people keep trying to tell us.

71 found this helpful

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