Jeff Minter's psychedelic shooter Polybius is heading to PC before the end of the year

POLYBIUS

POLYBIUS is a fast, trippy tunnel shooter playable on a normal screen or in VR. 50 levels of blissful trance shooting action are set to a blistering soundtrack. The PS4 version was EDGE Magazine's VR GOTY in 2017, and the PC version of the game was even used as the basis for a NIN music video.

Jeff Minter's wonderful, psychedelic (and previously PS4-exclusive) shooter Polybius will be making its way to PC soon, according to a new listing on Steam.

Polybius, which launched on PS4 last summer, is loosely inspired by the mysterious, government-created arcade game of urban legend, claimed to have appeared around Oregon in the early 80s. Polybius' powerful psychoactive effects were said to induce amnesia, insomnia, night terrors, and more in those that dared play it.

Although Minter's Polybius probably doesn't have quite the same sinister qualities as its fictitious namesake, it's hard not to suspect that its dazzling display of psychedelia and pure arcade fury might have at least some hypnotic power over your rapt brain. Especially in VR.

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