"BUTTS: The VR Experience"
Released Feb 2016
"BUTTS: The VR Experience" is an animated VR short about love, trust, and learning what it means to be truly free.
81% positive · 105 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
BUTTS: The VR Experience is a self-contained animated VR short film, released on February 3, 2016. The store description presents it as a finished, complete creative work — a single short experience with no mention of updates, additional content, sequels, or ongoing development. The developer is a solo artist who framed the $0.99 price as a one-time contribution to support their work, not as entry into an ongoing service or expanding product. The game has been available and unchanged since its 2016 launch, with no post-launch news posts, DLC, or developer communications indicating any further content was ever planned or delivered. It launched as a complete product and has remained so.
Evidence
Store description presents the game as a finished animated VR short film with no mention of updates, DLC, seasons, or future content. Festival selections listed are all from 2014–2016, consistent with a completed work.
Short description frames the game as 'an animated VR short' — a self-contained creative work, not an ongoing or expanding product.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Gentle Manhands
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
THIS IS A VR ONLY APP, FRIENDS
"BUTTS: The VR Experience" is an animated VR short about love, trust, and learning what it means to be truly free. With the latest VR technology one can transport oneself into a brand new bright and colorful world of happiness and excitement, and make some friends along the way. "BUTTS: The VR Experience" will make you laugh, cry, fill you with unimaginable bliss, and return you to that innocent place of child like wonder you've long forgotten.
Official Selection - Cannes NEXT - 2016
Official Selection - Kaleidoscope World Tour - 2016
Official Selection - Kaleidoscope North American Tour - 2015
Nominated "Most Innovative" - Proto Awards - 2014
RECOMMENDED VIEWING:
Sit on the floor in the center of your play space. No controllers necessary.
Making and supporting animation and VR is very time consuming for one individual. Please help support the artist by contributing $0.99. It's only a dollar, you guys. You know, like when you spend more than that on a coke, and then you don't drink the whole coke... do you complain about how much that coke costs? Is that an upsetting amount of money you spent on that coke?
"BUTTS: The VR Experience" is an animated VR short about love, trust, and learning what it means to be truly free. With the latest VR technology one can transport oneself into a brand new bright and colorful world of happiness and excitement, and make some friends along the way. "BUTTS: The VR Experience" will make you laugh, cry, fill you with unimaginable bliss, and return you to that innocent place of child like wonder you've long forgotten.
Official Selection - Cannes NEXT - 2016
Official Selection - Kaleidoscope World Tour - 2016
Official Selection - Kaleidoscope North American Tour - 2015
Nominated "Most Innovative" - Proto Awards - 2014
RECOMMENDED VIEWING:
Sit on the floor in the center of your play space. No controllers necessary.
Making and supporting animation and VR is very time consuming for one individual. Please help support the artist by contributing $0.99. It's only a dollar, you guys. You know, like when you spend more than that on a coke, and then you don't drink the whole coke... do you complain about how much that coke costs? Is that an upsetting amount of money you spent on that coke?
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Last evaluated Jun 20, 2026
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