# Perspectives: Aleppo\-Helsinki

Summer DB entity ID: 8d62fdcc\-39da\-412e\-a40e\-0719e7c6113f

Steam App ID: 601990

What would it feel like if Helsinki was the city of Aleppo and you were there? What kind of possibilities does virtual reality offer to journalism?   Aleppo\-Helsinki was a pilot project developed together with Yle \(Finnish Broadcasting Company\) around the possibilities that room scale virtual reality offers for journalism, storytelling and personal experience in the beginning of 2017\. In the virtual experience the audience is taken first to a familiar scenery in a normal day Helsinki\. After a while the Helsinki scenery changes, now resembling more like the news images of a bombed down and deserted city of Aleppo in Syria\.   Aleppo\-Helsinki  is the first experience in our  Perspectives  series of immersive journalism experiences\.  NOTE: This is not a game\. This is a narrative VR experience\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Teatime Research Ltd\.

- Publisher: Teatime Research Ltd\.

- Release date: Nov 15, 2017

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: true

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Simulation

- Categories: Single\-player, Full controller support, Tracked Controller Support, VR Only, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/601990/ss\_9029da5965e020bb6862f302ebd93bbaf7257491\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1548794737, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/601990/ss\_c14a4fca3cf36b75a011a2ff8d7efe1fea71ede0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1548794737, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/601990/ss\_97e0cd2ba0a2500387524b1abdcf275e8d6c7004\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1548794737, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/601990/ss\_0521fed137eeef19f912cc5148fb777a0a8b2597\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1548794737, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/601990/ss\_67227b10723947e4bc886bc3782ee3520edf161c\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1548794737, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/601990/ss\_052b309f848ea5a9e01556b0f20c0caf4827c88b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1548794737

- Price: Not collected

- Price country: Not collected

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 33

- Steam positive reviews: 25

- Steam negative reviews: 8

- Steam positive percentage: 75.75757575757575%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/8d62fdcc-39da-412e-a40e-0719e7c6113f/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/8d62fdcc-39da-412e-a40e-0719e7c6113f/player-metrics?days=7)

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\-22T20:16:20\.675238\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T20:16:21\.952164\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T20:16:21\.629089\+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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