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War Of Being
War of Being is a story-driven first-person action RPG built from TesseracT's concept album of the same name. Explore The Strangeland, uncover fragments of the album hidden in the world, and piece together what's really happening beneath the surface. The original alpha is also available now.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“If you're a big enough TesseracT fan to even be looking at this page then you might as well spark up ONE giant doobie tonight while POLARIS is hanging in the night sky, put your mind into an ALTERED STATE and immerse yourself in this game. (I'm too dumb to fit Sonder in there)…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“An essential experience for TesseracT fans! There are lyrics from their discography sprinkled throughout, some piano moments that remind me of Sonder, and a lot of other cool musical bits. The aesthetics in general are ethereal and different. The new single 'The Grey' is a…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Experienced on the Meta Quest 2. You can view my gameplay & early impressions here: https://youtu.be/-MjLpoqueL0 I bought this on launch and experienced several crashes on launching the game. Luckily, the devs were quick to respond and an update today fixed that issue. However,…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
AN UPDATE FROM THE STRANGELAND.
THE ALPHA STAYS The VR and desktop alpha you've been playing — the one that started this whole thing — isn't going anywhere. It's a complete chapter of The Strangeland in its own right, playable today
VR Game of the Year
WAR OF BEING FOR VR GAME OF THE YEAR It's been a crazy year! As the lead singer for TesseracT and the lead game developer of War Of Being, this year has been non-stop! We released our Early Access ver
DLSS patch
Players who have supported hardware can find now find DLSS options in the Video settings menu. A Note on the quality settings: Quality setting options for DLSS include Auto mode and DLAA, as they are
Migrated to unreal 5.3
The project is now updated from 5.1 to 5.3. There were multiple performance upgrades and bug fixes from epic in 5.3. Migrating the project has made optimizing the game a lot easier for us in general a
KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN
KICKSTARTER We're extremely excited to announce our Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the full development of TesseracT's 'War of Being' VR and desktop game. We have some very unique and wonderful
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Adventure · Exploration · Immersive Sim · VR · Sci-fi · Fantasy · Casual · Puzzle · Realistic · Walking Simulator · Hidden Object (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Tracked Controller Support · VR Supported · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 9 |
| Official site | https://www.archive.dmtesseract.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64bit Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2060 / AMD Radeon R9 390 DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 11 GB available space VR Support: OpenXR Additional Notes: Minimum Specs are for VR, lower specs may work for Non-VR.