A virtual reality game

HIRISE

Window cleaning. 425 metres up.

Step onto a suspended platform on the side of a skyscraper. Wash the glass, squeegee it spotless, ride out the wind, and take in a view nobody else gets.

Steam Meta Quest
425metres to the top
37career jobs
11buildings to climb
40achievements
3arcade games
In-game footage

The job

Real glass.
Real technique.

Pick up the strip washer and work the lather across the pane. Then pull the squeegee top to bottom, overlapping each stroke, and watch the glass come up clear. Leave a streak and you'll see it. Scrape off the mortar splash, wipe the edges, dip the washer in the bucket.

Every window you finish gets its moment: a shine across the glass, a sparkle and a little fanfare. Then the platform rides you on to the next one.

  • Strip washer, squeegee, scraper and detail cloth, in your hands
  • Lather, runoff and streaks that behave like the real thing
  • Bird droppings, mortar and paint splashes to scrape
  • Office glass, stone and sash windows, and balcony balustrades
In-game footage

The career

From the street
to the spire.

Start at the crew's training yard and work your way up. 37 jobs across eleven buildings: brick apartments, a 1930s stone office block, a hotel's corner suites, planted terraces, an Art Deco tower, and the city's newest, Cascade Tower, a stepped glass supertall. At Bayview Residences you clean the balconies' glass, with each flat right there beyond it. At the top is the Meridian Spire, 425 metres above the street.

No timers and no pressure. Take a job from the board, ride the platform up, and lean over the rail whenever you feel brave.

  • 37 career jobs and 12 Free Clean locations
  • Rooms behind every window: offices, flats, studios, a ballroom, penthouses
  • Earn pay, buy gear, unlock the higher buildings

The city

A city that's
alive below you.

Look out and there's a skyline worth the climb: a crescent of towers along the waterfront, twisting, tapering and arched, with midtown rising to the right. Cranes work the container port, wind turbines turn below the mountains and ferries cross the bay. Traffic streams through the streets, pigeons nest on the ledges, and showers roll in off the water, rain beading on your glass before the sun comes back out.

A skyline along the bay
Weather that changes as you work
Golden hour over the city from the Meridian Spire
Morning, afternoon, golden hour
In-game footage

Night shift

The city
after dark.

Some jobs only happen at night. The moon lays a path across the bay, offices glow floor by floor, the towers' crowns light up in gold, ice blue and violet, and red aviation lights blink on every roof. Your work light picks out the glass in front of you.

Keep an eye on the sky while you work. Now and then a shooting star crosses it.

  • Five night jobs, up to 270 metres above the lit streets
  • Street lights, headlights and lit windows all over the city
  • Bloom and real lights in the rooms on PC VR
The achievements page In-game menu

Every shift is different

Stars, surprises
and a daily job.

Every job earns up to three stars: one for finishing, one for spotless glass, one for working like a pro. And the job never quite goes to plan. A gust hits mid-stroke, a shower spots your clean glass, a pigeon lands on the ledge, a tenant points at the bit you missed, or the inspector turns up.

A new Daily Shift is waiting every day, with a streak bonus for coming back. And there are 40 achievements to earn, from your first squeegee to the top of the city, with a couple kept secret.

  • Three stars on every job, rewards for the best
  • Complications: gusts, showers, pigeons, tenants, stickers, inspections
  • A Daily Shift and 40 achievements

Optional · For the brave

Fear mode.

The radio crackles: "Big gust coming! Get a hand on the rail!"

Switch on Fear mode and the building fights back. Wind surges rock the cradle, a hoist cable slips with a bang, and the deck drops under your feet. Grab the rail for real and hold on. Lose your footing and your harness catches you, a heartbeat before the street does.

Uneasy or Terrifying, it grows with the height, and it never touches your pay. Both thumbsticks stop it at any moment.

Fear mode footage

HIRISE Arcade

Three ways to
play the tower.

Off the clock? The Arcade is where the crew blows off steam. Chase medals and personal bests; your career is never touched.

Squeegee Sprint

Two minutes on the clock. Clean strokes in a row build a combo; a smeared blade breaks it. Eight arenas, from the street to the top of the Meridian.

8 arenas · Bronze, silver, gold

Perfect Pane: the finish inspection

Perfect Pane

No clock, one window, and a strict inspector. Fewest strokes, fewest dips, not a single streak. Five stages of increasingly filthy glass.

5 stages · One flawless window

Skyline Drop

Job done? Take the fast way down. Step off the ledge, free-fall, pull your own canopy and fly it over the rooftops to the landing target.

3 launch sites · Up to 425 m

Skyline Drop

Take the
fast way down.

No auto-pull. Free-fall off the Meridian for as long as you dare, reach back, pull, and feel the canopy snap open above you. Then steer it with your own hands on the toggles, with the whole city under your feet.

Media

See it in action.

Built for VR

Every thrill is optional.

Your pace

Smooth or fade-and-cut platform travel, snap or smooth turning, and in a small room, walk the deck with the sticks.

Stand or sit

Standing plays best; seated play is supported, and the game notices when you sit and raises your view. A quick calibration fits the tools to your reach.

Your dose of height

Wind events and Fear mode are off until you switch them on, and the platform's gentle sway can be turned off.

Learn the ropes

Your first job teaches the controls as you go, and the crew's yard at street level is there for practice.

Coming to Meta Quest and Steam.

On PC VR: Meta Quest through Link or Air Link from the Meta Horizon Store, and Steam. Standalone Meta Quest 3 to follow.

Developed and published by Potzer LLC