Vanishing Grace was a title
VRFocus had only just come across before its recent launch on Oculus Quest, looking like a stylish, story-driven puzzle-adventure from indie studio Monte Perdido Studio. Set in the near-future after catastrophic climate change,
Vanishing Grace has all the hallmarks of an indie gem, a story to touch the soul and gameplay that connects you to the narrative and world around you. Yet for the emotion it manages to convey its missing something.
A solar flare has decimated the earth, turning most of it into an arid desert where little survives. You fill the shoes of Joel, a civil servant happy going about his unremarkable life at the Citadel, with a wife and baby on the way. That world is suddenly upended as his childhood friend Grace has disappeared outside the city, her vehicle returning empty. So naturally, Joel decides to leave everything behind and go in search of her, piloting the craft where most of