The Taskmaster VR game is out in a few weeks, and Little Alex Horne is resigned to what his avatar can expect from you sickos: 'They will definitely do things to me'

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Alex Horne and Greg Davies on Taskmaster stage

Taskmaster VR, the official virtual reality-ification of the phenomenally popular comedy TV show, has finally gotten its release date. It’ll hit onJune 13 this yearand, more than anything, show host and creator (Little) Alex Horne is just worried about what players are going to do to him.

“They will definitely do things to me,” Horne told PCG in a recent interview, “I wasn’t worried until one of the developers told me that if you open the door an inch then people will kick it down and do bad things.”

As for the tasks you’ll actually be doing, the Taskmaster team was “quite keen not to have anything that you’ve seen before in the show,” so as to not give longtime fans an advantage over newbies. That means a bunch of “quantifiable” tasks—think of races, time trials, and other challenges where success is easy to measure—that you won’t have seen before, though Horne is eager to get “more esoteric tasks,” like the ones where Davies judges a piece of music, put into the game at some point.

And even if it’s not, well, then at least you can have a good time taking out your frustrations on the hosts. “He’s so smug, that guy” (the real) Alex Horne said of (the virtual) Alex Horne, “he thinks he knows everything,” so at least he understands if you give in to an urge for violence now and then. As for his co-host? “I don’t think I was tempted to do anything to Greg… I don’t think I could forgive myself,” or maybe it was just a fear that “somehow people will find out.”

Taskmaster VR hitsSteamVRand theMeta Quest 2 and 3on June 13.

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