Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades, a.k.a. H3VR, is a virtual reality sandbox game designed for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve Index, and Windows Mixed Reality VR headsets. It has been one of the best-selling VR titles on Steam since it entered ‘Early Access’ in April 2016, and it is currently the top-rated Steam VR exclusive of all time.

H3VR is a darkly comedic satire of a game genre that treats people like meat. While the simulation behind H3VR's firearms is hyper-realistic, the game excludes 'realistic' representations of human violence. Instead, players battle anthropomorphic sausages (a.k.a. 'Sosigs') across over 20 levels, including parodies of Westworld, The Walking Dead, Team Fortress 2, and Saw.







I am the lead writer and narrative designer for the project, and also contribute as a level designer, worldbuilder, and voice actor. Development of Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades is ongoing, and the full game will likely be released in Summer 2020.
Awards and Honors
- “Best of 2018: Virtual Reality”, Steam
- “Best of 2017: Virtual Reality”, Steam
- Highest rated VR exclusive of all time, Steam250 (May 2019 to present)
- Second-highest rated VR exclusive, Steam250 (Sept. 2018 to May 2019)
- Third-highest rated VR exclusive, Steam250 (Jan. 2018 to Sept. 2018)
Press
- Ars Technica, Destructoid, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Polygon, PC Gamer, Road to VR, TechRaptor, Tom’s Hardware, UploadVR, VentureBeat, VR Fitness Insider, and others.
- YouTube reviews and playthroughs of H3VR have been viewed over 50 million times (as of Oct. 2019).
- The H3VR subreddit has ~10,000 subscribers (as of Oct. 2019).
“[H3VR] proves how powerful a medium virtual reality can be for encountering something that may make you uncomfortable in real life, in a way that’s completely safe.” -- Ben Kuchera, Polygon