Full game metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Steam app type | game |
| Steam App ID | 4387240 |
| Live current players | 0 |
| SteamPulse tracked peak | 1 |
| Live count (today's peak floor) | 0 |
| Price | Free to play |
| Free to play | Yes |
| Discount | 0% |
| Original price USD | — |
| Current price USD | Free |
| Release date | Feb 28, 2026 |
| Developer | on-XR |
| Publisher | on-XR |
| Owners estimated | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate minimum | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate maximum | Not available |
| Review type | 3 user reviews |
| Positive review percent | 67% |
| Positive reviews | 2 |
| Negative reviews | 1 |
| Total reviews | 3 |
| Steam recommendations | Not available |
| Achievements | Not available |
| Average playtime forever | Not available |
| Windows support | Yes |
| macOS support | No |
| Linux support | No |
| Parent game | Not available |
| Store URL | https://store.steampowered.com/app/4387240/ |
Short description
Animal Gaze is a digital and VR-friendly speculative archive exhibition based on the original story of the non-virtual exhibition of the same name held in Istanbul, Türkiye, in 2023.
About this game
Animal Gaze on XR: A speculative archive exhibition Animal Gaze is a digital and VR-friendly speculative archive exhibition based on the original story of the non-virtual exhibition of the same name held in Istanbul, Türkiye, in 2023. It contains multimedia artworks (some digitalized from physical art, some created digitally) by eleven participating artists from Türkiye, Canada and Germany. This collaboration between the Animal Gaze Project (AGP) and on-XR follows the same background story and conceptual limitations that shaped the initial project. The idea for the exhibition emerged from the imagination of a trial titled “Crimes Against Animals,” resulting in a speculative future where non-human animals are no longer treated as “natural resources” at the service of human beings for clothing, food, furniture, entertainment, cosmetics or medicine. In this future, the history of animal exploitation has become a thing of the past. The setting is a former slaughterhouse repurposed as a permanent exhibition space; the goal is to install an archival exhibition specifically for the animals of the future. Meanwhile, the human audience of today participates indirectly in this future confrontation, looking at what animals from the future have come to see and witnessing what their ancestors have been through. Each participating artist has created at least one piece intended to serve as a record for that future archive, creating an "exhibition within an exhibition." This speculative encounter finds its inspiration in Jacques Derrida’s reflections in The Animal That Therefore I Am . In his famous encounter with a cat, Derrida recognizes that the cat looks at him as much as he looks at her, prompting a consideration of the animal gaze, an aspect largely ignored in the history of Western philosophy. Realizing that animals possess an outward gaze that we cannot fully know leads to a crucial branching chain of thought: animals are no longer objects to be looked at, but subjects with their own gaze. This recognition is perhaps the most vital step for the liberation of animals; it offers a direct contrast to the way living beings are traditionally treated as a “heap” or a “flo…
Supported languages
English