Feral Metaverse on Steam Next Festival

After two years in development, we are thrilled to announce that Feral Metaverse by Theo Triantafyllidis, will be available to download and play on the Steam Gaming Platform during Steam Next Festival from February 24 to March 3. Feral Metaverse is an experimental multiplayer game that immerses players in a silent, dystopian world where survival depends on cooperation and kindness—all without traditional communication methods. In Feral Metaverse players are dropped defenceless into a disorienting wasteland, and must learn to rely on one another to survive. In defiance of traditional game tropes and tech industry’s prioritization of productivity, Triantafyllidis envisioned a “feralized” world, which favors disinhibition and cooperation between users, leading them to experience the joy of synchronicity and communication. 

Theo Triantafyllidis is an astute observer of internet culture, particularly the kind of extremely online gaming communities that tend to assemble around MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy. His practice encompasses live simulations created with game engine software, multimedia installation, and performance. Feral Metaverse reflects a particular structure of feeling that arises from existing within hybrid realities, straddling virtual and physical worlds, in a time of social anomie and climate collapse. Taken together, Triantafyllidis’s body of work sketches a portrait of modern-day masculinity as seen through the funhouse mirror of video game subcultures—magnifying, distorting, and subverting the toxic elements that can often be found festering there, while also recognizing gaming as a space of fluid identity, emergent rituals, and new forms of togetherness in the digital age.

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