Goliath: Playing With Reality
Release date: Oct 13, 2022
Developers: ANAGRAM
Publishers: ANAGRAM, FLORÉAL
Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie, Animation & Modeling, Education
Categories: Single-player, Tracked Controller Support, VR Only, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese

🏆 Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best VR Work at the 78th Venice International Film Festival (2021) 🎞 Nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Interactive Media Innovation category (2022) ABOUT GOLIATH Through mind-bending animation, GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY explores the limits of reality and a true story of so-called ‘schizophrenia’ and the power of gaming communities. Echo (Tilda Swinton) guides you through the many realities of Goliath, a man who spent years isolated in psychiatric institutions but finds connection in multiplayer games. Combining heartfelt dialogue, mesmerising visuals and symbolic interactions, weave through multiple worlds to uncover Goliath’s poignant story. Follow Goliath himself on his Twitch channel Follow our Instagam for updates #goliathvr

Press reviews: “For anybody inclined to question the powerfully boundary-less capacities of VR to inspire and encourage empathy, inclusion, fellowship and transformation, GOLIATH might well be the original game changer. Beautiful, profoundly engaging and eventually resonantly simple, this work pushes the parameters of our understanding of the potential for the impact of gaming to provide a life-saving web of connection, support and joy for those who may be otherwise isolated and challenged by society. We emerge from its immersion into a reality with a kinder light and a brighter horizon.” Tilda Swinton “By turns gripping, sad, and poignant, it’s one of the great moving image attempts to understand mental illness from the inside out.” IndieWire “At a time when virtual reality fuels the fantasy of a metaverse that allows us to free ourselves from certain limitations of the physical world, Goliath uses this technology for the opposite purpose: to make us experience the struggle and suffering of many men and women in the grip of great psychological difficulties, very real and too often forgotten. (Translated from French)” Le Monde 

Notes: drug and alcohol use