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Charlie @ CrooksPeak

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Solo game dev at UK indie VR game studio. Check out my games: https://crookspeak.link Making "Full Steam Undead", made “By Grit Alone”

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Indies & MR Unite at VRGS! See game reveals and updates including:

🪂 Aerosurfer
🌄 Pocket Lands
🚅 Full Steam Undead
🔫 Espire MR Missions
🛠️ Fixer Undercover
🧩 Puzzles of the World
🥔 Kartoffl
🧘‍♂️ Soul Retreat
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 VR Giants
🎏 Banners & Bastions

Watch here: buff.ly/aqnMAIz

14.11.2025 15:01 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I was combing the press for any info on this, an easy win for existing OpenXR Quest store apps if it "just works". If it's running linux I also wonder if you'd be better off providing a low spec linux binary over an android apk, I'm sure it'll get benchmarked when it goes public.

13.11.2025 20:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Awesome, can't wait to try it out. Big fan of Cosmodread, it was one of the inspirations for my own VR game, but it must be nice to take a break from horror for a bit!

13.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Well done! This would turn me into a nervous wreck without save scumming.

13.11.2025 19:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Second time in a row Kady takes the naming credit!

13.11.2025 19:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Full Steam Undead is the next game from By Grit Alone's studio, promising comedic zombie-killing action in an occult Victorian world on Quest and Steam.

Details here: www.uploadvr.com/full-steam-u...

13.11.2025 18:01 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I know making a premium VR game right now is probably a bad commercial idea, but I love it. The response and fellowship I got from the VR community, the players, the press and my fellow devs releasing By Grit Alone was amazing, so thank you all. This ones for you!

13.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm trying to build on from By Grit Alone, taking the best bits and adding some new:
- An open world with no loading screens
- French, German, Spanish and Chinese subtitles and translations
- More accessibility and difficulty features
- A flying rune powered steam engine!

13.11.2025 17:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Full Steam Undead Promises Comedic Action In A Victorian Open World Full Steam Undead is the next game from By Grit Alone's studio, promising comedic zombie-killing action in an occult Victorian world on Quest and Steam.

Announcing "Full Steam Undead": Drive your rune powered flying steam engine through hordes of zombies in this Victorian open-world VR adventure!

Coming Spring '26 to SteamVR and Meta Quest
Wishlist it at fullsteamundead.com

13.11.2025 17:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 2
VR Games Showcase November 2025 | Ready Or Not VR Mod, Star Trek: Infection, Deadly Delivery
YouTube video by VR Games Showcase VR Games Showcase November 2025 | Ready Or Not VR Mod, Star Trek: Infection, Deadly Delivery

I hear there is another Steam (train) VR announcement about to happen, check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUqp...

13.11.2025 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A VR game winning game of the year, incredible. Well done and very well deserved, it's a fantastic game that I really enjoyed and the quality spoke for itself. Big inspiration for all us VR devs 👍

05.11.2025 15:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I seem to not think about it for the first half of a game's dev cycle, then have sunk cost fallacy for the second half.

05.11.2025 09:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

VRGS is always great but have a feeling this one will be the best ever...

⚠️🚨➡️Particularly the pre-show ⬅️👀⏰

No reason, just a feeling🤷

04.11.2025 14:28 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

@kroyvr.bsky.social Should all be fixed now in the new patch that just went live; better performance on High settings and no more screen FX being chopped off the screen edges. Cheers and enjoy!

03.11.2025 16:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cheers Kroy, that's awesome, love watching players shoot their way through! I'll get those bugs sorted ASAP, I should have a Steam patch update coming out start of next week with a load of fixes 👍

01.11.2025 13:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Awesome to hear; I hope you enjoy it! Also missed Value marketing opportunity: he should have made one of the yachts a steam boat.

27.10.2025 13:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Halloween 2025: New VR Games & Seasonal Updates With Halloween less than a week away, there's plenty to pick between new VR horror games or lighter titles with seasonal updates. Here is our full round-up.

Getting in that spooky season mood

25.10.2025 10:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Save 17% on By Grit Alone on Steam Cosmic VR Action Horror focusing on intense shooter action, twisted sci-fi anthology stories and disturbing atmospheric dread. You’re marooned alone in the Bermuda triangle of space, filled with ancie...

Do you enjoy fun?

Well good news: "By Grit Alone" is out on Steam today, WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

Buy it, review it, wishlist it, buy the TV rights and make a Netflix adaptation of it, but most of all: enjoy it.

24.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for playing By Grit Alone! Love the Next Fest coverage, so it's really cool to be in the mix this time👍Next game I'm aiming for PCVR day one (announcement soon-ish this year)

15.10.2025 07:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Elijah! By the way "Make Us Whole" was absolutely awesome 👍

14.10.2025 21:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
By Grit Alone in Steam Next Fest

By Grit Alone in Steam Next Fest

By Grit Alone is in Steam Next Fest, getting ready for it's full PCVR launch soon. Go try it out!

14.10.2025 19:40 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

I did! Yes please, "By Grit Alone" is my masterpiece 👍

14.10.2025 08:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I also just beat Atomfall, loved it! I hope Rebellion do more original games like this. The story, conversations and overall vibe were excellent. The only thing that wasn't perfect was the combat, though the cricket bat wind up and SFX were top notch.

03.10.2025 09:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Testing a build on the ye olde HTC Vive; still working no problem all the way from 2016, what a great bit of kit. Don't know how many friend and family demos of "The Lab" I gave with that thing.

I still think the Quest 2 is the G.O.A.T but the Vive is up there for sure.

01.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Dear new EA owners:

If you can hear me, I'd love to buy the Dead Space IP. I can offer a crisp £20 note, a firm handshake and your name in the Dead Space 4 credits. If you could throw in the incredible Motive Studio remake team that would be fab. Cheers then!

30.09.2025 10:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New VR Games October 2025: Quest, SteamVR, & PlayStation VR2 Star Wars: Beyond Victory and Reach lead a packed month for new VR games this October. Here are our highlights on Quest, PC VR, and PlayStation VR2.

Star Wars: Beyond Victory and Reach lead a packed month for new VR games this October. Here are our highlights on Quest, PC VR, and PlayStation VR2:

www.uploadvr.com/new-vr-games...

29.09.2025 17:01 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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By Grit Alone on Steam Cosmic VR Action Horror focusing on intense shooter action, twisted sci-fi anthology stories and disturbing atmospheric dread. You’re marooned alone in the Bermuda triangle of space, filled with ancie...

The wait you didn't know about is almost over.
From the mind behind this BlueSky account, a Steam VR port awaits.

Some say it's the best VR game ever made.
Others... lets not worry about what they say.

"By Grit Alone": A Sci-fi action-horror anthology coming to Steam VR this October. Wishlist Now!

25.09.2025 19:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to release By Grit Alone on Steam VR this October.

All the Quest updates plus a load of Steam goodies, I'm hoping my Steam VR compadres will have a jolly old alien pulverizing time: be a pal and Wishlist today!

25.09.2025 14:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some cracking lines, and with all of the expansion factions so many! Playing the recent remaster brought them all flooding back.

09.09.2025 09:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dawn Of War had loads of amazing voice lines and quotes, some of them are really thought provoking, but some are just unhinged sillyness and brilliantly performed. Particularly the Chaos faction:
- "Sanity is for the weak"
- "My spleen"
- "You dare to order me"

09.09.2025 09:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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