Netflix has tapped developer Tender Claws to assist it create Stranger Things VR, a brand new VR title that’ll land on “main VR platforms” in the direction of the top of 2023.

The firm introduced the challenge throughout Stranger Things Day 2022, and mentioned the sport will enable gamers to slide into the primordial pores and skin of the sequence’ pulsating monologuer-in-chief, Vecna.

“Play as Vecna on this new Stranger Things journey in VR. Become an explorer of unknown realities as you kind the hive thoughts and tame the void. Invade minds and conjure nightmares in your quest to enact revenge on Eleven and Hawkins,” reads a brief announcement.

“Stranger Things VR is a psychological horror/motion sport developed by Tender Claws and coming to main VR platforms in Winter 2023.”

Netflix has considerably expanded its online game enterprise this 12 months, bringing a deluge of titles to its Netflix Games platform – which is included with all types of Netflix, together with the corporate’s new ad-supported tier – and sealing vital acquisitions in a bid to develop its slate of first-party releases.

The Tender Claws partnership is notable given the studios’ pedigree creating acclaimed VR tasks equivalent to Virtual Virtual Reality, Tendar, and Tempest – the latter of which is a immersive theatre expertise that blurred the road between the bodily and digital world by combining VR tech with stay efficiency.

This is not the primary time Netflix has used Stranger Things to discover the potential of VR. Back in 2017, the streaming firm linked up with Sony to create a free PS VR morsel known as Stranger Things: The VR Experience, though that was a brief interactive expertise versus a full-fledged sport.