The Phoenix Gene is an arcade developed by HEROmation, released 5 June 2025 on Meta Quest 2.
What The Phoenix Gene is
The Phoenix Gene is an arcade game developed by HEROmation and released in 2025. It is available on Meta Quest 2 only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
They called it a cure. They didn’t mention the genocide. Seventeen-year-old Jackie knows the rules: if you test positive for the PX virus, you disappear. So when she fails her Wellness Check, there’s only one option. Run. Life Rite’s genetically engineered immortality serum cures diseases, but it also rips the multiverse wide open. When Jackie is hunted down, she travels back in time to stop the serum from annihilating the poor and oppressed. As Jackie races through a fractured universe, she unravels the mysterious roots of her twisted family tree, but choosing the wrong alliance triggers the catastrophic, deadly Redistribution Program. Even if she can somehow save humanity...it'll cost her…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Phoenix Gene holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 58% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Phoenix Gene launched on 5 June 2025, within three weeks of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening and The Alters. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, The Alters.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Phoenix Gene yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Quick answers
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