A multiplayer VR horror game for Meta Quest. Swing through dark forests, hide from monsters, survive the night.
Fearing Gorilla is a VR multiplayer horror game developed by TH3GANG, available on Meta Quest and itch.io. It launched in early access in January 2025. The game takes the arm-swinging movement from Gorilla Tag and drops it into something much darker -- procedurally atmospheric worlds with monsters, liminal spaces, and other players losing it over voice chat.
Movement is purely physics-based, no joysticks, no artificial locomotion. You swing, climb, push off walls, and grip surfaces with your actual hands. Running from a Wendigo in full VR while your arms are going full speed is something you have to feel to understand.
Each map has its own monsters, called Dwellers, each with their own behavior and ways of finding you. Some stalk. Some sprint. Some you can hear long before you see them.
Explore, scavenge, survive. Tunnels connect maps -- the Forest leads to the Mines, the Mines lead deeper. Shrines let players summon Gods for chaotic effects. Cosmetics are earned through Shiny Rocks, the in-game currency.
Peak concurrent players crossed 500,000 by mid-2025. Whether you're doing parkour with friends in casual lobbies or solo-running the Hospice at 2am with your headset volume maxed, Fearing Gorilla is a different game every session.
Fearing Gorilla just started to catch money from in-app purchases, but it certainly wasn't enough given the game's timeline. Photon has been charging huge, huge amounts in the background that I can no longer cover.
I made some decisions in December 2025 that led to massive overage costs because I didn't expect CCU to go over 500. I thought things were fine when the account got suspended, so I switched accounts. Then the new account got suspended over the past payments. Now both are stacking together and I can't pay for either.
I wish I was kidding, but the combined total is approximately:
I have less than a tenth of that. Without help, there is no future for Fearing Gorilla. I beg all of you -- even a dollar makes a difference.