Press kit
For press and creators
Facts, short descriptions and pictures you can use without asking. Every screenshot is from our own builds, captured in engine. If you need something that isn't here, ask on Discord and a human will answer.
Game one
MallVR Starlite
A PC VR game set in Starlite Commons, a two-level shopping mall in 1992 that's losing its stores. You're the new night manager. You walk the mall after hours, play its games, win tickets at the prize counter and bring the place back one store at a time. Built in voxels, in Kansas City.
Headline
A voxel life in a 1990s mall, a whole city outside, and VR’s lost history inside.
Tagline
Walk through a history of VR, in one game.
One-liner
A 1992 mall in VR. You're the night manager. Get it open again.
Short description
Walk a two-level 1992 mall in VR, play its games, win tickets and spend them at the prize counter. Coming to Steam Early Access for PC VR with a flat desktop mode; a small first build, then monthly updates.
- Developer
- Gainesphere Studios (Gainesphere LLC)
- Based in
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Platforms
- PC VR (SteamVR) and a flat desktop mode
- Release
- Steam Early Access (no date yet)
- Price
- $14.99 at launch, every update free
- Engine
- Unity
- Community
- discord.gg/7tDn2AAXEC
- Press contact
- hello@gainesphere.com
Game two
MallVR
Our stereoscopic-first VR multicade for 1990s arcade pod games. Twelve lost pod games, rebuilt from surviving footage as playable stand-ins, are included. Launchers for fourteen original pod games are included too; the original game files are not, and players bring their own copies. Also in the box: Phantom Freight, our own VR dark ride.
Short description
1990s arcade VR on a modern headset: twelve lost pod games rebuilt by us, launchers for the originals you own, everything in true stereo. Windows PC, $25.
- Platforms
- Windows 10/11 (SteamVR or a window). Meta Quest sideload test build; Meta store listing in review.
- Price
- $25, one purchase, all updates
- Current version
- v0.16.0 (5 Nov 2026)
- Source
- GitHub, GPL
- Note for writers
- MallVR is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by the makers of the original 1990s machines or games. Please don't describe it as including the original games; it doesn't.
Screenshots
Click for 1600 px. Work in progress; anything here may change before release.
Logos
Studio mark. Studio mark (PNG, transparent)
Keys for press and creators: ask in Discord or by email hello@gainesphere.com. Tell us where you publish and we'll sort it out.