'Stranger Things' VR experience comes to PlayStation

Except we're back in Season 1.
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Shannon Connellan
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It's rather late in the game, but PlayStation just dropped its Stranger Things VR experience — and it's free.

While the insane amount of hype surrounding Season 2 of the series has subsided, the experience is now available on PlayStation VR, announced by Sony on Tuesday. 

Weirdly, the game is based around the events of Season 1, in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, in the 1980s. Your ol' pal Will Byers finds himself sucked into the Upside Down and we haven't even met Eleven yet.

But seeing as though we're unlikely to get another season of Stranger Things until 2019, we'll take what we can get.

Here's the teaser trailer for the VR experience, which doesn't give much away:

PlayStation made the VR experience free from the PS Store. It's similar to Netflix and Snapchat's AR experience, released on the day of the Season 2 premiere on Oct. 27.

If you've got PSVR, go on, check out the Upside Down. Look, it's free, so you can't be that mad you're back in Season 1.

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Shannon Connellan
UK Editor

Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.

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