A Chair in a Room : Greenwater

A Chair in a Room : Greenwater

Released Mar 2016

Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the sinister Greenwater Institute, known only as Patient No.

83% positive · 617 reviews
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All announced content has been released
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All announced content has been released
Medium confidence

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Evaluation

A Chair in a Room: Greenwater launched on March 30, 2016 as a complete VR horror experience. Over the following years, Wolf & Wood delivered a series of updates: a locomotion overhaul in June 2016, a free bonus short story added in September 2016, a full remaster with reworked physics, audio, and visuals in October 2018, and a hardware support patch for Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality in September 2019. The September 2019 patch is the last substantive update to the game on record. The sole DLC — the game's official soundtrack — was released on November 2, 2018, and there are no unreleased DLC entries on the store. The most recent developer communication, posted on February 29, 2024, is tagged as a development status post. In it, developer Ryan mentions being featured in a horror gaming documentary and signs off with "Follow @wolfandwood on social media for sporadic updates on future games" — language that points toward new projects rather than continued work on Greenwater specifically. No new content for this game has been announced or hinted at. The game shipped as a self-contained narrative with six chapters and a defined story. The developer has moved on to other projects (notably The Exorcist: Legion VR). With no unreleased content, no roadmap, and no sustained post-2019 update pattern, the game appears to have reached its final form with the September 2019 hardware support patch. The store description itself highlights a "free update" of optimisations as a selling point, consistent with a completed product being maintained rather than actively developed.
Evidence
Full remaster released as a free update, overhauling physics, visuals, audio, and locomotion options. A major content milestone for the game.
news post · Oct 26, 2018 source content shipped
high
Original short story 'A Chair in a Room' reimagined and added as a free bonus for all Greenwater owners.
news post · Sep 9, 2016 source content shipped
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
Wolf & Wood Interactive Ltd
Achievements
11
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player

About this game

New locomotion options, updated music, graphics and many more optimisations available in a free update.

A Chair in a Room: Greenwater is a tense Virtual Reality horror game set in America’s Deep South. Drawing on elements of Southern Gothic and using settings of derelict towns, run-down motels and murky, decaying swamps, A Chair in a Room will take you through an investigation of institutional corruption, religious immorality and murder, which can only be unlocked by searching deep within your own psyche.

A calibration room will allow you get comfortable in VR but once you call the elevator, you begin your story as patient no. 6079 in The Greenwater Institute, with no recollection of who you are or what you did to be here. Dark visions bring your lucidity into question and only the doctor’s supply of medication can suppress those who wish to haunt you.

Gameplay is a seamless weave of interaction and narrative that wraps exploration and tense horror in rich environmental storytelling to create something that is unique to VR.

The story is broken down into six chapters of around 20 to 30 minutes in length to allow for intervals in play while enjoying the story.
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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