Virginia

Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.

Virginia is a adventure, female protagonist and walking simulator game developed by Variable State and published by 505 Games.
Released on September 22nd 2016 is available on Windows and MacOS in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Swedish.

It has received 3,268 reviews of which 2,106 were positive and 1,162 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.3 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Virginia into these genres:

Adventure Female Protagonist Walking Simulator Detective Mystery Cinematic Indie Atmospheric Casual 1990's Story Rich First-Person Singleplayer Thriller Horror Visual Novel Short Psychological Exploration Interactive Fiction

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7 and higher, 32-bit or 64 bit
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 940 or Intel Pentium G4400
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Radeon R7 250 or GeForce GTX 650, 1GB VRAM
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 5 GB available space

MacOS

OS: OS X Mountain Lion
Processor: Intel 2.0 Ghz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 5 GB available space

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

I'll give this game a positive review in lieu of a neutral option. Well, I guess this game is certainly art, although I'm not sure if that's a good thing. It's interesting-ish, and the scenic drives through Virginia are nice, but what the hell is going on? Pretty hard to know because there's no dialogue ever. It's hard to tell a story this complex without dialogue, and I'm not sure the game was designed well enough to do that. It's easy enough to follow the basic storyline, but there's all sorts of weird stuff that never gets explained, and then I'm just left in some sort of confused dissatisfaction but also it was kind of interesting? I'm not fully sure what I think about this game. And then, the other huge problem with this game is that it's effectively not a game. It's a movie. No, I'm not one of those whiners who doesn't understand the interactive fiction genre. I mean there's virtually no interactivity in the game. Your objective is unclear at pretty much all times, so the extent of the gameplay is wandering through the scene to find the one interactable object, I guess. There are a handful of non-essential interactions that may later result in an "artistically" vague achievement but certainly don't change anything in the story. But, eh, the game's okay. Just don't go in with big expectations, I guess.

Jan. 2025

No one speaks during the entire runtime of Virginia. All you have to go off of is a scant few documents and whatever else you can pick up along the way. It's fitting then, that the only choice in front of you is where you look.... when the game grants you that much control as you're never far from having even that little bit yanked out of your hands, either by a traditional cinematic moment or one of the many smash cuts you'll be flung between. The story's told from behind Agent Anne Tarver's eyes and you won't be changing her course from there. This also means a significant amount of headbob and a good chance of motion sickness. But, after changing a couple of visual settings and escaping the especially egregious intro, I was able to make it to the ending without too much discomfort. And what an ending it was! Virginia isn't particularly concerned with what's real or what really happened, much less spelling it all out for you. Three times through and I still have no idea whether the last bit was showing two divergent sets of possible outcomes, a series of hallucinations, or if it all fit together in one unified timeline somehow. But, as frustrating as being dragged along half-blindfolded is, I do feel like I got more out of knowing less. I might not be able to give you a coherent plot summary, but I feel connected to each of these characters despite spending a little under two hours with the lot of them and never hearing a single one of their voices.

Dec. 2024

Virginia is a good narrative game where you play as a FBI agent and have to investigate on a missing person case and your partner. The designs are beautiful and the soundtrack is just amazing. the game could have been perfect if the characters could talk. The story is so interesting that I couldn't stop playing until I knew the ending. I highly recommend it!!! 🪶❤️

Dec. 2024

It’s okay. Story telling is slow. Could be better, could be worse.

Dec. 2024

Incredible 2-hour movie with, in my opinion, one of the best pieces of music in the games that tells a story without even one dialogue.

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