Tea for God

Tea for God is a VR adventure in which you explore and fight through a procedurally generated world without teleporting or sliding. It uses impossible spaces to let you walk through a large environment while staying within your own play area. Depending on your settings, the experience can be a relaxed walk, a checkpoint-based arcade shooter or a roguelite shooter-explorer.

In the distant future, humanity is united under the God Emperor. With advanced technology, people have reached the stars, colonised new worlds and waged endless crusades against other civilisations. A man who blames the God Emperor for his family’s death sets out for the place where the ruler is believed to live, a place no one has ever left alive. As you explore the vast complex, recordings introduce its world while raising further questions; you must seek answers for yourself. You fight hordes of robots, find unlikely allies, bring ritual tea for God and beware of a being lurking in the darkness.

Walk through impossible spaces

The world is built from overlapping spaces based on the concept of a Euclidean orbifold. This layout lets you travel through a much larger world without leaving your play area, and the game generates the world to fit the space available. The minimum supported area is 1.8 by 1.2 metres; with horizontal scaling, it can be reduced to 90 by 60 centimetres.

Procedural generation shapes much of what you encounter, including robots and how they look and move, as well as devices and weapons. The world is procedurally generated around a linear story, with key scenes handcrafted.

Choose your experience

Three main modes offer different ways to play:

• Experience: a short, simple linear experience without a story or narration, intended as an introduction to VR and impossible spaces.
• Standard Rules: navigation guides you to your current objective, gameplay systems are simpler, and tutorials explain them.
• Advanced Rules: exploration and experimentation are more important. Resources are scarcer, and you must use the map to find your way.

You can also choose what happens when you fail: pause for a few seconds and continue, restart at the last checkpoint or restart the adventure. A range of modifiers can make play easier, including infinite health and ammunition and removing robots, even those that do not harm you. Other modifiers make it harder with tougher, more aggressive enemies that attack sooner, no navigation aid and more.