End of an era, Waltz Legacy is being retired
On January 31st, the Waltz of the Wizard (LEGACY DEMO) will be delisted on Steam. The experience will remain available to anyone who had added the app to their Steam library. The content in this original demo for Waltz will continue to be offered in the full version of Waltz of t
On January 31st, the Waltz of the Wizard (LEGACY DEMO) will be delisted on Steam. The experience will remain available to anyone who had added the app to their Steam library. The content in this original demo for Waltz will continue to be offered in the full version of Waltz of the Wizard, which has multiple times more content - voice interaction, gestures, many more spells, simulated magic system, upgraded graphics, deeper character interactions, combat, story and more.
The legacy demo was the first version of Waltz of the Wizard, released in 2016 as a prototype to showcase the power of room-scale VR and, remarkably, it remained the highest rated VR app on Steam from 2017-2020. At the time, experiences for roomscale and natural hand interactions were rare and considered an odd spectacle that would ‘never work’ as a commercial venture (hahaha). For us, Waltz was another step towards our vision of VR’s potential to simulate a believable reality — where everything is interactive and characters act alive.
Since the original release, VR has grown immensely and we are proud of the role that Waltz of the Wizard has played in its inception. With the support of all of you we have continued to push our vision forward for believable reality experiences in the full version of Waltz of the Wizard. We are so grateful and amazed by the reception since its release—our fans and the VR community have been vital throughout the years in motivating us to take chances and keep innovating in VR content design. (We are still in times when any innovation is incredibly risky—let alone when doing it on multiple fronts simultaneously! But we're far from done…).
We have been working hard expanding the full edition of Waltz of the Wizard which includes all features and content from the Waltz legacy demo and much more. There’s hours of gameplay we’ve delivered in frequent free updates, introducing pioneering features driven by the latest in VR technologies such as Index finger-tracking, voice interaction, full-body gestures, character interaction, gesture recognition and much more.
We're deeply thankful and humbled by the community response to the original release of Waltz of the Wizard and hope many memories will remain — and that the full version will continue to inspire broad audiences to see the potential of the medium. With your continued support, we are thrilled to keep pushing the boundaries of what is possible and attempt to forge experiences unlike any that past mediums have been capable of.
- The Aldin Team
