RedScar Entertainment · Main Project
VR Phone Booth
A psychological VR thriller where you are sealed inside a public phone booth, held hostage by an unseen voice on the line — a sniper-like presence that watches, manipulates, and escalates as the city closes in around you.
Concept teaser coming soon
About the game
Phone Booth is a presence-driven VR experience inspired by the classic “killer on the line” nightmare! Reimagined as a live psychological game. You are trapped in a glass box on a rainy city street. The receiver is your lifeline and your cage. On the other end of the line is an adaptive AI Director that listens to what you say, watches what you do, and turns the night against you. Crowds gather. Police arrive. News vans roll in. Your only weapons are your voice, your nerves, and whatever you notice through the glass.
Most games give you a gun.
This one gives you a phone; The AI gives you a reason never to put it down.
Survive by conversation, observation, and psychological endurance while the world outside the booth becomes a circus of fear, media, and authority.
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Hear the rifle load. Watch strangers film you with their phones while police shout for you to hang up and step out. Who do you trust — the law, the crowd, or the voice that says it owns the night?
Physically pick up the receiver. Hold it to your ear. Wipe rain from the glass. Duck below the window line. Peek into the street. The environment isn’t a 2D scene — it’s a cage you inhabit with your body. You’re a hostage in virtual reality.
Real-time speech interaction powered by speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS). You talk into your mic; the AI Sniper talks back. The AI Director reacts to your words, your lies, your silence, and your defiance. It interrupts. It remembers. You should never feel fully safe on the line.
Bystanders gather. Someone starts recording. Sirens. Barricades. Negotiators. News crews. You become a viral incident in real time — and the caller uses every pair of eyes outside to break you.
How much can they actually see? Can the police help? — or walk into a trap? Clarity is a luxury you do not have.
Obey. Escape. Trust the police. Expose the truth. Force a confrontation. Survive as a hero, a suspect, or a ghost in the chaos. Your choices — and your performance under pressure — shape the outcome.
~20–30 minutes of rising dread in a single, unforgettable scene — designed to prove that a confined-space VR thriller can own your full attention.
| You do | The night does |
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| Answer the call and speak honestly — or lie | The AI Director evaluates obedience, hesitation, and confidence |
| Observe rooftops, crowd behavior, laser dots | Proof of surveillance (or the illusion of it) escalates |
| Follow orders, negotiate, or resist | Social and lethal consequences unfold outside the booth |
| Manage police, media, and bystanders | The public incident spirals into chaos as the night goes on |
| Make a final choice under maximum pressure | One of multiple endings closes your night |
You speak into your microphone. The game uses speech-to-text (STT) to understand what you say and text-to-speech (TTS) so the AI Sniper talks back in real time. You’re not picking dialogue menus — you’re actually talking with the voice on the line.
It’s a psychological thriller. Expect dread, social panic, and verbal intimidation more than jump-scare gore.
Yes. Voice interaction is core. Speech-to-text captures what you say into the call; text-to-speech delivers the AI Director’s replies so it feels like a live conversation with the sniper on the other end.
The vertical-slice experience targets roughly 20–30 minutes of continuous tension — short enough to devastate, long enough to own your nerves.
No. This is a solitary nightmare. Just you, and the voice.
Planned for Meta Quest 3 and PCVR / SteamVR. Wishlist and newsletter for platform confirmations.
RedScar Entertainment is a one-person independent game studio in New York. Founded in 2014, developing horror, survival, and experimental games and the tools that help ship them.