Nyamyam’s Spirit Ritual puts volumetrically captured actors into Quest, Pico, and SteamVR passthrough. You hunt ghosts with a spirit camera and a spirit board. No ship date yet.
Spirit Ritual is the rare VR horror pitch that does not drag you into a dungeon you have never seen. Nyamyam wants the ghosts in your room. Announced at the August 2026 VR Games Showcase and covered by UploadVR, the game casts you as a psychic medium trying to break a demonic curse around Shu-Mei Lin, the sole survivor of a murdered early-20th-century family. Fail, and the studio’s own copy is blunt: the demon consumes your soul.
FMV ghosts, not polygons
The mechanical hook is photography plus séance tools. Per Nyamyam’s project page and UploadVR, you use hand tracking to operate a spirit camera, a spirit board, and automatic writing. Capture ghosts to pull truth out of the spirit realm. Miss, and the entity gains ground.
What separates the trailer from most passthrough scare demos is the cast. Nyamyam is shipping 3D full-motion video performances — live actors volumetrically captured, not cartoon specters. Golden Bell winner Lyan Cheng plays Shu-Mei Lin. The footage was shot at IP Lab in Taipei on 4DViews volumetric capture gear, a pipeline 4Dviews has also flagged publicly. UploadVR’s read is that the result looks closer to Fatal Frame’s camera-as-weapon fantasy than to a flat Night Trap clip pasted on a wall.
Your house is the set
Native presentation is mixed reality. Room awareness is meant to let ghosts walk through walls, vanish into furniture, and materialize behind you. An optional full VR mode is listed for players who prefer a sealed environment or whose headset passthrough is not up to the job. That dual path matters on Quest 3 color passthrough and on Pico 4, both named targets alongside SteamVR / PC VR.
Platform list from the studio and UploadVR: Meta Quest, Pico 4, and SteamVR. The Steam store page for app 4687530 is live as a VR-only, single-player wishlist title with tracked controller support and a release field that still says “To be announced.” Price is not posted.
Funding, not a calendar
Spirit Ritual has UK Games Fund and Gameworks backing. That is enough to finish a volumetric shoot and keep an indie studio online. It is not a ship window. Nyamyam says a date comes later and is collecting mailing-list names on the project page. Until then, the honest status is: trailer out, wishlist open, living-room haunt still on paper.
For readers tracking MR horror, this sits next to Venice Immersive installation work and Quest passthrough experiments, not next to arena shooters. The bet is simple. If volumetric actors hold up when they are standing on your rug, Spirit Ritual becomes a reference title for the genre. If they read as flat sprites, it joins a long list of FMV promises that aged badly. Wishlist it on Steam, watch the UploadVR trailer coverage, and wait for Nyamyam to name a day.