‘Espire: MR Missions’ Transforms Your Space Into a Stealth Action Game, Out Now for Meta Quest

In Espire: MR Missions from Digital Lode Immersive Media, your room becomes the level. Watch your physical environment transform before your eyes using the powerful Espire Spatial Adaptation System, which dynamically builds missions in the space around you thanks to Meta Quest’s cutting-edge passthrough technology. And if that sounds incredible to you, then you’re in luck: Espire: MR Missions is out now! Check out the game’s trailer to see it in action.

“Whether you play indoors or outdoors, scan your environment and then embody the role of Agent Tempest, completing 29 varied Espire Ops that conform to the unique layout and contents of the world around you,” Michael Wentworth-Bell, founder and creative director of Espire developer Digital Lode Immersive Media, said in an email interview. “It’s been liberating to create a true roomscale experience. Our goal is for players to feel completely immersed. ... We’ve built the ‘Espire Spatial Adaptation System,’ a technology layer that will ingest Meta’s ‘3D scan’ of your room, and then dynamically conform our missions to your room. It’s common for MR games to require you to choose where key objectives or interactable items should go in your space. Our goal has been to automatically do this, and ensure that these missions play out differently every time in the same space.”

With over two dozen missions to play and a wide variety of skills to master from sneaking, distracting enemies, initiative silent takedowns, hacking, interrogating using your actual microphone, and so much more, Espire: MR Missions is shaping up to be a whole lot more than just another VR action game.

Compared to the previous games from Digital Lode, Espire 1: VR Operative, and Esprie 2: Stealth Operatives, the latest entry is designed to be both more immersive and more accessible. Since it’s a fully-transformative roomscale game, there are fewer button prompts to memorize as you simply get up on your feet and use your actual body.

“We’ve gone beyond stealth to include unique modes focused on dexterity and puzzle solving,” said Wentworth-Bell. “We want the game to appeal to a broader audience than our previous titles. We want the first time player to feel comfortable and amazed when experiencing this game. We want players to look at new environments they encounter in everyday life and think, ‘how would the Espire missions play out here?’”

The journey doesn’t stop here, though. Espire: MR Missions is only entering early access for now and development will continue. That means more levels, new features, and an experience that expands and improves over time.

Check out Espire: MR Missions for yourself over on the Meta Horizon store for Quest.