# Emergence

Summer DB entity ID: 27291518\-fba6\-42d4\-bd58\-1c47d0801243

Steam App ID: 1337820

Emergence is an awe\-inspiring VR open\-world art experience, visualising patterns of human behaviour and exploring the individual and the collective\. It immerses the player in a crowd of thousands, against a changing canvas that is at varying points wondrous and intimidating, realistic and fantastical\.  You control one solitary, glowing avatar amongst a mass of autonomous strangers, each of whose movements react to your own\. As your pace and directions influence others as both individuals and as a whole, you essentially become the choreographer of the crowd\.  The crowd’s movements are programmed to simulate intelligent behaviours \(including avoidance, following and mimicry\), reflecting the seemingly endless ways that humans act in group settings\. Viewed from above, these movements create mesmerising patterns against the landscape\. A shaft of light beckons you – each time you reach the light, this landscape shifts, along with its soundtrack, gravity, atmosphere and mode of movement\.  Emergence doesn’t dictate a goal\. There’s no fixed succession of tasks that lead you to ‘completing’ the game\. The experience instead is a powerful challenge to the player’s perception\. Are you a leader inspiring a devoted following, or a defenceless figure overwhelmed by the encroaching horde? Emergence compels you to adjust to each transformation in your surrounding environment – all the while bringing you face to face with the primal desire to maintain your individual identity while being part of a crowd\.          Emergence formed part of Universal Everything’s solo show Fluid Bodies at Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, in 2018\-2019\. An updated VR app version of Emergence, presented in collaboration with WITHIN, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival as part of New Frontier, a curated collection of cutting\-edge independent and experimental media works by artists and creators working across new mediums\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Universal Everything

- Publisher: Universal Everything

- Release date: Aug 7, 2020

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: true

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Casual, Free To Play, Indie, Simulation

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Tracked Controller Support, VR Only, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1337820/ss\_e576d94763526c8908110bb22da65dcacc426057\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1597359279, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1337820/ss\_f747f29185886ecb7cf92ad35dcaee695f44d771\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1597359279, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1337820/ss\_83a67a517655906afcb2e1ac56faa6dcc48fc8a0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1597359279, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1337820/ss\_ffe9506bfd889f0712a8fd0817003bbdc89f914c\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1597359279, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1337820/ss\_9fddee27bf62708d0f3c70ed1285ecf562bd7fd4\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1597359279

- Price: Not collected

- Price country: Not collected

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 100

- Steam positive reviews: 84

- Steam negative reviews: 16

- Steam positive percentage: 84%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-25T01:32:11\.464445\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-25T01:32:14\.20351\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-25T01:32:13\.851846\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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