Rob Yescombe, co-creator of immersive VR thriller sport The Invisible Hours (2017), lately regained the rights to the sport, which he says may led to a remaster throughout fashionable VR headsets, in addition to TV and movie.
As confirmed by Hollywood Reporter, Yescombe is at the moment searching for companions for a possible movie or TV adaptation of The Invisible Hours—most likely probably the most distinctive takes on the VR thriller style.
Seemingly impressed by Agatha Christie classics and the board sport Clue, The Invisible Hours helps you to observe unnoticed as you attempt to piece collectively a mysterious homicide that takes place in a large mansion on a distant island.
You’re not a participant character as such, however moderately an neutral viewer who can rewind and fast-forward time, successfully letting you path the sport’s seven suspects, and unravel the thread of who killed world-renowned engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla.
Initially launched in 2017 throughout PC VR headsets and the unique PSVR to vital acclaim, developer Tequila Works introduced in 2020 it was aiming to convey the sport to Quest. Sadly, the studio was later shuttered in late 2024 earlier than it may port the sport.
Now, as proprietor of the sport’s IP, Yescombe says The Invisible Hours is a “prime candidate to remaster for a brand new era.”
“I adored making The Invisible Hours. Really, the very best inventive expertise of my life. Followers nonetheless attain out to me, even in any case this time — they adore it as a lot as I do,” Yescombe says in a press release obtained by Hollywood Reporter. “The VR {hardware} market has grown massively since 2017 — a number of hundreds of thousands of models — making The Invisible Hours a main candidate to remaster for a brand new era.”
Following the discharge of The Invisible Hours, Yescombe has been credited as a author for quite a lot of video games, together with Pocket Cash Video games’ The Twilight Zone VR (2022), Arizona Sunshine 2 (2023) from Vertigo Video games, and lately launched flatscreen title The Precinct (2025) from Fallen Tree Video games.
Yescombe can also be credited for writing Mikael Håfström’s Netflix motion movie Exterior the Wire (2021), Paul Feig’s motion comedy Jackpot! (2024), and has labored on quite a lot of franchises, together with Alien, Blade Runner, Household Man, and The Twilight Zone.
