Loading Human: Chapter 1 is a science fiction adventure game designed specifically for virtual reality gameplay. The player takes on the role of Prometheus, a young man and son of a billionaire bent on achieving immortality. Your father, who is hundreds of years old, and whose life is sustained by a cryo storage container which allows him to occasionally be awakened for conversations, summoned you to a secret research facility in Antarctica. There you undergo training for a planned interstellar quest to retrieve quintessence, an energy capable of stopping the aging process. It's been years since Prometheus arrived at Antarctica and the facility is starting to show its age due to unfavourable weather conditions and neglect. While the only task left is to prepare himself for the journey ahead, the player gets to relive past events through various flashbacks, from the day Prometheus arrived in Antarctica, met the love of his life, a redhead engineer Alice, trained for his mission, and faced many perils until the moment the game story opens.
Gameplay movement doesn't use a teleport system but instead uses forward and backward walking. Rotation isn't done smoothly or by degrees, instead, the analogue stick is used to make the player face another direction. Moving the stick to the right will effectively rotate the player to the right by 90 degrees. Moving it in any other angle will make that angle the new forward view. During determination of rotation, the player can see the trajectory path of where the character will face next, which helps the player face the exact wanted direction.
Various items can be picked up and tossed pretty much anywhere. There is no inventory system, not even for key items, so everything the player carries is visible in one of his hands. Each hand can hold and carry a single item. Places where interaction can be done will be highlighted once the player is in the right position or is holding an appropriate item (e.g. carrying a vinyl record will place it on a gramophone if the player clicks on it while carrying a vinyl record). The game supports two move controllers which can emulate hand movement but also supports full gameplay with just a single gamepad where analogue sticks can be used for hand movement. Objects can be rotated while carried for closer examination but will not provide any additional information or new ways to use them.
This game doesn't feature jump scares and can be played leisurely in VR where the player can focus on exploration, surrounding, and solving puzzles. As the title implies, this is only the first chapter in the story which leaves with a cliffhanger just as the player enters the planet's orbit and heads for open space.
Loading Human: Chapter 1 was released on PlayStation 4 on October 11th, 2016. It is an action-adventure game. 
