Another year of VR gaming has come and gone, and Valve has again released its annual sales figures for the past year, highlighting the best-selling VR titles on Steam.
Valve has published a series of ‘The Best of 2022‘ charts showing which titles on Steam have fared the best across several metrics. Among the charts is a list of the top 100 best-selling VR games on Steam in 2022, as measured by gross revenue.
You’ll find titles broken up from Bronze to Platinum level, however take note that Valve intentionally obscures which game ranks higher within each individual tier. Reload the page, and each title is shuffled, so there’s no telling which game did better within a given section.
Here we take a look at the top 23 games across the Gold and Platinum tiers. To give a little more context, we’ve sorted games by their positive user review scores. Oh, and don’t forget: many of these games are currently on sale during Steam’s Winter Sale, which ends on January 5th at 10AM PT.
Platinum
Game
Release
Positive User Review
VTOL VR
2017
98%
Half-Life: Alyx
2020
98%
Blade & Sorcery
2018 [EA]
96%
Beat Saber
2019
96%
Pavlov
2017 [EA]
94%
Into the Radius
2020
93%
BONEWORKS
2019
92%
BONELAB
2022
92%
Zenith: The Last City
2022 [EA]
83%
SUPERHOT VR
2017
83%
After the Fall
2021
77%
Skyrim VR
2018
75%
As you can gather from the chart, 2022 wasn’t a big year for PC VR gaming in terms of fresh and popular releases, with only two titles released in 2022 hitting the highest rung of Steam sales: Zenith: The Last City and BONELAB.
In the platinum tier, 25% of titles were released in 2017, 17% in 2018, 17% in 2019, 17% in 2020, and 8% in 2021. Of those titles, 25% were marked Early Access.
Gold
Game
Release
Positive User Review
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
2016 [EA]
97%
Hard Bullet
2020 [EA]
88%
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
2020
88%
Hellsplit: Arena
2019 [EA]
85%
Cooking Simulator VR
2021
85%
Contractors
2018
84%
Legendary Tales
2021 [EA]
83%
Blood Trail
2019 [EA]
80%
VR Kanjo
2018
76%
Onward
2016 [EA]
71%
Fallout 4 VR
2017
64%
Here you’ll notice a lot more early access titles, offering up 55% of this year’s gold-tier sales. None of these were released in 2022 however, which is a bit of a downer for newcomers.
On the flipside, many of these titles have benefitted from steadfast developer support, with titles like Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, Hellsplit: Arena, Contractors, Hard Bullet, and Legendary Tales seeing updates over the course of the year.
In the gold tier, 18% of titles were released in 2016, 9% in 2017, 18% in 2018, 18% in 2019, 18% in 2020, and 18% in 2021—a strangely even spread.
Critically acclaimed VR survival game Song in the Smoke (2021) is getting a full overhaul when it launches on PSVR 2, something developer 17-BIT says will rival the visual quality of the game’s PC VR version.
Song in the Smoke launched on Quest, PC VR and PSVR last October—just in time to win our PSVR Game of the Year in 2021. We were impressed by its well-studied crafting depth, expressive art style, and harrowing encounters with the primeval world’s mosh of beastly creatures.
And although not a given, since PSVR 2 titles won’t share backwards compatibility with PSVR, developer 17-BIT says Song in the Smoke is definitely headed to the upcoming PSVR 2, and with more visual panache.
“It wasn’t a light upgrade – it was a ton of work and up-rezzing of so many visual systems,” creative director Jake Kazdal tells Edge in its 380th edition. “It stands alone, even compared to the highest-end version possible on PC VR – it’s honestly not even close.”
The studio says it wants to bring the PSVR 2 version of the game to players as a free upgrade to the original game on PSVR, although Kazdal admits they “still need to figure out the logistics of that.”
Dubbed Song in the Smoke: Rekindled, the game is said to be “more than a remaster,” as it’s set to feature what the studio says in a recent tweet “tons of polish and additional features driven by user requests and feedback,” calling it an “ultimate edition.”
The studio says we’re due to learn more soon. It’s not clear whether Song in the Smoke: Rekindled is destined for launch-day status for the PSVR 2 when it hits shelves February 22nd, 2023. We’ll be keeping our eye on 17-BIT in the meantime, and also adding it to our growing list of all PSVR 2 games announced to date.
You might have checked out more than a few ways to spend your first $100 on the Quest Store, but the savings are so deep right now that you might just add a few more top VR titles to your shopping cart today to take advantage of the biggest Quest game sale of the year.
From now until December 26th at 11: 59 PM PT (local time here), you’ll be able to save up to 50% on some of the top VR games for Quest 2.
Some of the best savings can be found in the multitude of mixed game packs available. Remember: Meta does dynamic bundle pricing, so even if you already have a game in the packs below, you’ll see pricing automatically adjust.
There are a ton of games currently on sale, and you can check out all of the season’s savings here for a complete list of Quest titles currently discounted.
Not ready to plonk down your first $100 on Quest 2 games? Thankfully there’s an impressive number of free games, experiences, apps, and social VR platforms to keep you playing before you’re paying.
We have however included App Lab games. If you want to see more, SideQuest’s search function is a great resource for finding free stuff and demos. Below you’ll find some of the top App Lab games in addition to those hosted on the official store.
Free Games
Blaston
This shooting game just went free-to-play, letting you take on friends, family and foes head-to-head in 1v1 dueling action. Refine your loadout and jump into the action as you scramble for weapons and send a volley of hellfire as your enemies, all the while Matrix dodging through this innovative bullet hell meets futuristic dueling title. Spend money on cosmetics, or don’t: it’s a massive slice of fun any which way.
There aren’t a ton of free-to-play shooters out there that promise multiplayer action, however Gun Raiders fits the bill with its multiple game modes that let you jetpack through the air, climbing from wall to wall, and shoot down the competition. There’s the same sort of microtransactions you see in bigger games, but it they’re all avatar skin stuff, so no pay-to-win here.
Ultimechs should look pretty familiar: it’s basically Rocket League, but instead of driving around in cars, you’re given rocket-powered fists to punch balls into the goal. Online multiplayer includes both 1v1 and 2v2 matches, offering up tons of opportunities to earn cosmetic gear that will let you outfit your battle mech into something unique. There are also now two paid battle passes too, offering up a ton of cosmetics to set you apart from the competition.
Battle Talent is one of those fighting sims that let you go ham on ragdoll baddies, which in this case are wily goblins and loads of skelingtons. This physics-based roguelite action game lets you climb, run and slide your way through levels as you slash, shoot, and wield magic against your foes.
From the studio that brought you the award-winning puzzle game, I Expect You to Die, comes the room-scale mixed reality experience Home Sweet Home, which offers up a new way to defuse potentially lethal situations, and all in the comforting backdrop of your own living room thanks to Quest 2’s passthrough mixed reality function.
Ever wanted to play Counter-Strike on Quest? Pavlov Shack offers up a pretty comparable experience, as you play in either deathmatch or co-op mode. It’s got all of the realistic gunplay and much of the fun of the paid PC VR title, but it’s still going strong with a free open beta on Quest.
Zero-g sports aren’t possible unless you’re stationed on the ISS, and even then you probably shouldn’t muck about. In this fast-paced game of ultimate frisbee-meets-hockey-meets-whatever you’ll launch at speed to the goal, evade the opposing team and chuck your Tron-style frisbee-thing for the win. Remember: you can smash your opponent in the face, but please follow the same suggestions mentioned in Gorilla Tag above.
Freshly launched into open beta, this 4v4 arena-scale shooter requires space and Quest 2 (or Quest Pro) owning buddies—both of which you may not have. Still, it makes for an incredible time that is basically the best version of laser tag you’ve ever played. You’ll need SideQuest to download this one since it disables Quest’s guardian system, but it’s well worth jumping through the hoops to get working if you have everything else.
This humble game of tag has taken both SideQuest and App Lab by storm with its infectious gameplay, and it’s now made its way to the official store. You’ll be lumbering around a tree-lined arena using its unique grab-the-world locomotion style that lets you amble around like a great ape. Chase the other apes and infect them or climb for your life as the infected chase you. Pure and simple. Make sure you’re far from TVs, furniture, babies, and pets because you will punch something in the mad dash for sweet, low-poly freedom.
No real cash gambling here, but PokerStars VR not only let you go all-in on games of Texas Hold’em, but now a full casino’s worth of table games a machines that are sure to light up the dopamine starved pleasure centers of your brain. It’s all free play, so you won’t be risking real cash unless you buy in-game chips, which cannot be turned back into real money: it’s only to keep your bankroll flush for free play.
Gym Class – Basketball is the solution if you’re looking to shoot some hoops and dunk like you probably can’t on a physical court. Online multiplayer lets you go head-to-head for a pretty convincing game of b-ball thanks to the game’s physics-based and full-body kinematics.
This plucky roguelite dungeon crawler is still in beta (still!), but there’s a reason it’s become an App Lab favorite. Explore a vast dungeon to explore, housing plenty of baddies just asking for the steel of your sword, knives, and arrows. You’ll climb over deep pits, dodge lethal traps, and search for hidden treasures. Smash all the pots and crates you can before it officially launches on Quest sometime in the near future.
Would-be wizards, this is your time to shine. Explore a magical laboratory and take on the job of apprentice wizard. The lab is full of gadgets and magical stuff to mess around with; as one of the games that natively supports Quest’s hand tracking, you can put your controllers down and get experimenting with this little slice of the dark arts.
Since the recent Fishin’ Buddies update, this classic VR title has gotten a whole new lease on life as a multiplayer VR fishing game that lets you sit back and crack a cold one with the boys as you reel in the big’uns. The additional social areas also let you sit back between your fishing adventures to take part in casual mini-games.
Without a doubt one of the most fun, and most expansive VR titles out there… and it’s free. Sure, you can pay real cash for in-game tokens to buy spiffy clothes for your avatar, but that’s really up to you. Gads of mini-games await you in both first-party creations such as the ever so popular co-op Quests—that could be games in their own right—to user-created stuff that will keep your pocket book gathering dust. It’s social VR, so meet people and have a ball for zero dollarydoos. Fair warning: there’s a ton of kids.
If you’ve been anywhere near the Internet in the last few years, it’s likely you’ve already heard about VRChat, the user-generated social VR space filled with… well… everything you can imagine, re-pro games included like Among Us, Mario Kart, and even a version of Beat Saber. Fashion your own avatar or download the millions of user-generated avatars out there so you can embody SpongeBob, Kirito from Sword Art Online, or any one of the million anime girl avatars that you’re bound to see there.
Horizon Worlds is still taking baby steps, although recent efforts have brought more tools and user-generated content to the platform which has rounded out things to make it more competitive with Rec Room and VRChat. You may want to check in just to see the state of Meta’s first-party VR social platform—and then check right out again—but at the price of ‘free’, you may just find an environment or community you really gel with, which is the whole reason behind social VR in the first place.
Vertigo 2, the hotly awaited sequel to the original 2016 single-player VR adventure, has had the same demo on Steam for the past three years. Now developer Zulubo Productions has brought a complete overhaul to the free demo, which the studio says better reflects the quality of the final game.
No new content or areas have been added to the demo, although you may still want to pop your head in to see just how the update shows off “how the final game will look and feel,” the studio says.
In addition to adding better visuals and physics, the demo’s intro area has been removed altogether, something the studio says will “get new players right into action.”
Here’s the change list, courtesy Zulubo Productions:
Weapon interaction has been overhauled and now uses physics
Arm and upper body IK has been added
Enemy AI has been greatly improved
Graphics and sounds have been polished
Environments are more detailed and interactive
Lighting has been improved
Performance has been improved
Detailed graphics settings and other options have been added
Vertigo 2 is slated to take PC VR players deep underground in the reaches of Quantum Reactor VII, again setting you on an upwards journey back to your home on the surface. You’ll face bizarre alien flora and fauna leaking from other universes—deadly android security forces included. The game is also set to feature a branching narrative, which promises plenty of surprises around each corner.
Vertigo 2 is slated to launch on SteamVR headsets on March 30th, 2023. If you haven’t had a chance to play the original Vertigo,the game’s rerelease Vertigo Remastered (2020) may still show a bit of its pioneering 2016 roots, but admittedly with much higher quality visuals and interactions. Well worth a play-through to give you something to do while you wait!
Phaser Lock Interactive, the VR studio behind Final Assault (2019) and Twisted Arrow (2017), announced the release date for Primal Hunt, its upcoming co-op dinosaur hunting game which pits you against a Jurassic Park’s worth of the mighty beasts.
Update (December 22nd, 2022): Primal Hunt is slated to arrive on Quest 2 and Pico headsets starting January 19th, 2023. The game is also targeting Vive Focus, however the studio hasn’t mentioned whether it’s launching concurrently on that headset.
Additionally, Phaser Lock threw out a new trailer which shows off some of its archery-based gameplay. The studio says that as you progress, dinosaurs become even more deadly with the inclusion of cybernetic implants, armor, and weapons such as machine guns, rocket launchers, and the lethal ion cannon—something that ought to up the ante as you encounter all of its different dinosaur species.
Original Article (September 7th, 2022): Called Primal Hunt, the cross-platform co-op game gives you a variety of armor and weapons as you track down and fight the deadliest creatures to have ever walked the Earth.
The game, which is inspired by the Turok series and TV show Westworld, is slated to land on Meta Quest 2, HTC Vive Focus, and Pico headsets sometime in early 2023.
The studio also released a short teaser video (below the article) and a few images, showing off what looks to be a bow-heavy hunting experience that features plenty of pushback from the native fauna.
There’s still much to learn about Primal Hunt. Here’s how Phaser Lock describes it on the game’s website:
Face the ferocity of a pack of Raptors, the strength and power of a Triceratops, and the terror of coming face to face with a 30-ft Tyrannosaurus Rex, all in VR!
With a variety of armor and weapons at your disposal, you are poised to become the ultimate hunter…if you can survive. As you master each challenge, your prey will also become more dangerous as they are outfitted with advanced cybernetic enhancements and weapons, including carbine machine guns, rocket launchers, and more!
The studio promises that more information is coming, and that’s there’s also the possibility of a closed beta coming at some point this year.
We’ll be keeping our eyes out for all things Primal Hunt as Phaser Lock promotes its first game in the past three years since it launched Final Assault out of Early Access of PC VR headsets in 2019.
Resident Evil Village (2021) is getting its hotly anticipated VR mode on PS5 to coincide with the launch of PlayStation VR2, coming as a free DLC for anyone with the game.
Like PSVR 2, Resident Evil Village’s release is slated for launch on February 22nd, 2023, which includes the entirety of its main story in VR.
Here’s what CAPCOM producer Kanda Tsuyoshi has to say about it in a recent PS blogpost:
“Making full use of the PlayStation VR2, you’ll be wholly immersed when playing Resident Evil Village with this DLC. Visually, the vivid graphics of the 4K HDR display (2000×2040 per eye) and eye tracking produces a heightened perception of reality as if everything you see is actually there. 3D audio enhances the realism with audio from every angle, and your sense of touch is enhanced via the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers. With one controller in each hand, you can feel the vibration, recoil, and resistance as you interact with objects in the world and fire weapons.”
When we went hands-on with Village back in September, we noted it was not only one of the best-looking games on PS5 to date, but probably one of the best in VR, offering up unprecedented levels of detail that are approaching Half-Life: Alyx territory.
Here’s what Road to VR’s Ben Lang thought of Resident Evil Village’s visual detail on PSVR 2:
In the non-VR version of the game it’s all quite beautiful but most players aren’t going to stop to really breathe it in. In VR, I felt like I couldn’t stop but soak up the tiny details in the environment, even when they have nothing to do with actually advancing the game. Frankly, the space is so richly detailed and interesting to look at that if you removed all the ‘game’ parts of the experience to just let people explore the castle, it would easily stand on its own as an excellent museum-type VR experience.
Check out the hands-on piece linked above for more about Resident Evil Village, including our thoughts on how the characters feel in VR: the imposing Lady Dimitrescu—aka giant vampire lady—and her three daughters.
We’re also waiting on news for what sort of “VR content” to expect with the Resident Evil 4 remake for PS5, which releases on March 24th, 2023.
Popular VR-optional tabletop dungeon board game Demeo lets four players dungeon dive together. But, come 2023, players will be able to duke it out amongst one another when the Demeo PVP mode arrives.
Demeo developer Resolution Games announced today that the game’s PVP is slated for 2023. The studio is calling it ‘Demeo Battles’.
Demeo lets up to four VR or non-VR players dungeon crawl through a tabletop board game where they face off against a range of deadly enemies.
After popular demand, the game will soon allow players to fight amongst each other. It appears that up to four players (on teams of two) will be supported in Demeo PVP, though it isn’t clear if free-for-all will be possible, or odd number teams (ie: 2v1).
Below we have the first look at the new PvP action where we can see that players will not only control their own characters, but also get to harness enemies they’ve fought in the cooperative mode. A ring of encroaching fire heats things up so you don’t dillydally on the board for too long.
‘Demeo’ PVP Screenshots
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The upcoming 2023 release for Demeo PVP is a delay from an initial estimate of 2022; and while we don’t have a hard release date yet, hopefully that means early 2023 rather than later.
In the meantime, take a look at some work-in-press footage of Demeo Battles gameplay in action below:
Disclosure: Resolution Games assisted with travel & lodging expenses to an event where information for this article was gathered.
Bait! (2016) is a single-player fishing game that, although only having received its last real update in 2016, is still around and kicking on Quest in all its 6DoF glory. Now developers at Resolution Games are releasing a major content drop today in the new Fishin’ Buddies multiplayer update.
The update, which is now available on the Quest Store, brings multiplayer to the core Bait! game, letting you sit back and reel’em in with up to four players for either tournament fishing or just some casual fun.
Four players can fish together at the frozen Penguin Point fishing area, while up to 12 players can hang out at Casters’ Cove in the third instance of what the studio calls a ‘Tinyverse’, a sort of tiny metaverse space that offers up mini-games and chances to hang out and chat with other players. You’re probably familiar with the studio’s Tinyverse spaces from Blaston’s Ozo Lounge and Demeo’s Heroes’ Hangout.
Social activities in Bait’s Tinyverse include RC boat races, skipping stones along the beach, paddling around in inflatable floaties and more.
We got a change to poke around the new Bait multiplayer mode and visit the new Tinyverse space whilst on a visit to the Stockholm offices of Resolution Games. It’s been forever since I played Bait!, considering that last substantial update was back well before even Oculus Go existed, and jumping in felt like old times.
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Moreover, being able to saddle up next to three other avatars, all of them with their own unique tackle earned throughout the campaign, was a fun experience that took a bit of the lonely edge off the single-player game. I can imagine myself returning with a far-flung friend who is an absolute fishing fanatic, if only to reconnect with a pint while catching a perch.
The studio’s Tinyverse addition is also an interesting strategy, as it appears Tinyverses are making their ways into every one of Resolution’s multiplayer titles to make them more ‘sticky’ in increase player retention.
In all, it feels like Bait! is getting a fresh breath of new life with the Fishin’ Buddies update, which essentially converts one of the studio’s most senior VR titles (it was on Gear VR, after all) into another slick multiplayer game that’s not only stood the test of time, but is also thankfully free.
Disclosure: Resolution Games assisted with travel & lodging expenses to an event where information for this article was gathered.
Resolution Games, the studio behind hit VR titles Demeo and Blaston, released a torrent of news at their first-annual Games Showcase today, including the revelation that it’s developing a new VR sports game called Racket Club.
Racket Club is still being kept behind closed doors, although Resolution threw out its announce trailer today during its big showcase, showing off the studio’s upcoming multiplayer title.
“Racket Club reinvents the idea of pickup sports by connecting players from all over the world to have fun together in an all-new sport designed from the ground-up for VR play,” the studio says in a press statement.
We saw a prototype during a trip to the studio’s Stockholm offices, although we can’t talk about the experience beyond what’s shown in the trailer.
In the meantime, the trailer shows off 2v2 gameplay in an enclosed glass case, and by the looks of it, the description ‘pickleball meets squash’ seems pretty apt here. The space between opponents is fairly short, which feels like it will have an important social component, something akin to how gameplay works in Ping-Pong. More info on Racket Club is said to arrive in 2023, so we’ll be sure to share some of our experiences at a later date.
Resolution Games is now over 200 people strong, making it one of the largest XR studios out there. Headed by Tommy Palm of Candy Crush fame, the studio is now actively developing for a growing list of multiplayer VR titles, including content for past titles Demeo, Blaston, Ultimechs, and Bait!, and also its recently released VR arena-style multiplayer shooter Spatial Ops, which is now in beta on SideQuest.
Racket Club appears to be another shot at type of game that could potentially become an eSport, provided everything goes well and a community grows around it. We’ll be watching for news updates in the coming year for more info on the studio’s next title.
Disclosure: Resolution Games assisted with travel & lodging expenses to an event where information for this article was gathered.
Spatial Ops is a new multiplayer mixed reality shooter from Resolution Games, the studio behind Blaston, Demeo, and Ultimechs. It’s out now on SideQuest and you can play in the open beta for free starting today, however we got an advanced look during a trip to the developer’s Stockholm-based studio, which thankfully had a big enough area to host all-out 4v4 matches.
In short: Spatial Ops is bringing an arcade-level VR team shooter experience to consumers in sort of the same waySpace Pirate Arena did, albeit with way more players and a greater ability to configure play spaces. It also hopes to ignite a new eSport thanks to some familiar shooter mechanics that basically anyone can pick up just as easily as grabbing dual Tommy guns, or a rocket launcher and blasting away.
Ok, there are more technical bits to think about, but more importantly you probably want to know how we got on with Spatial Ops.
VR Arcade Action, Consumer Target
Spatial Ops made for some intense and fun battles—the sort of stupid fun that makes you forget you should be seriously previewing a never-before played game instead of getting on the ground and worming your way under a hail of gunfire and laughing like a madman all the way.
The game supports up to eight players using either Quest 2 or Quest Pro, although you can go it alone with bots if you’re lacking the requisite number of brains attached to headsets—at least one besides you for either a mano a mano duel, or a bot-hunting extravaganza. It’s an in-development project, so I’m sure we’ll see a more refinement as the team continues work, but the game already has all of the basic bits in place to make for one hell of a fun time.
Here’s a gander at the release trailer, which is actually very representative of the time we had in Stockholm:
What the trailer doesn’t show is that spawn points are placed on opposite sides of the arena, so teams will not only start there before the match begins, but also need to individually trundle back there to respawn—provided you didn’t manage to toss a healing vial at your feet for an extended run, that is.
You can pick those health packs up along with randomly selected guns at specific spawn points throughout the playing field. You’ll be able to arm yourself with Tommy guns, revolvers, shotguns, sniper rifles with working scopes, rocket launchers, grenades, and a riot shield that adds the only opportunity for armor in the game. Once a gun is empty, just toss it and head for the nearest weapon spawn point.
We played a ton of matches, which not only gave me a good feel for each weapon, but also for how tiring it can be to sprint around what to outsiders looks like an empty room. To us though, it was crammed with virtual crates and barriers to hide behind, which made for some natural choke points where the action really popped off.
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All of that can be configured in a level editor beforehand though, which gives you a lot of latitude to customize the playing field to the intended place space. As you’d imagine, tactics change according to the game mode you’re playing too. At launch, there are four modes available: Team Deathmatch, Domination, Capture the Flag, and Free-for-All.
We played on both Quest 2 and Quest Pro, although there’s some unexpected advantages to Quest 2 here thanks to its monochrome passthrough. Spatial Ops is a mixed reality game that necessarily fills a lot of the playing field with virtual imagery, so in this case passthrough really only gives you a clear idea of where not to go. Enemies and barriers ‘pop’ more on Quest 2, although you can’t deny how much more immersive the full-color passthrough of Quest Pro is, adding just a touch more realism to the whole thing.
Shooting a bot | Image courtesy Resolution Games
Since Meta hasn’t released concurrency for Quest, which means Quests can’t ‘see’ each other in a shared space, the game needs a common reference point to calibrate each user to the playing field. In our case, it was a pillar on the side of the room that every player had to carefully make sure was lined up just right. It’s crucial to get calibration correct, otherwise your perception of a player’s virtual position in the game and actual position on the field may be off, which would cause unwanted contact between players.
Here’s a good look at how that’s done:
The headline says ‘At-Home Play’, but that’s really only applicable if you have ready access to a big space. That’s a distinct barrier of entry alongside needing an adequate number of VR headset-owning friends for full effect.
We played in an area around 10×10m (33×33 feet), which was notably larger than the Quest 2’s guardian typically allows, hence the need for distribution on SideQuest and not the Quest Store proper. If you’re like me, you probably only have a space just big enough for room-scale VR stuff; in some ideal future, everyone I know has an MR-capable headset and we all meet up at the local indoor basketball court for a few matches. Online play is possible provided each user has enough space, although Spatial Ops is really a local multiplayer game in spirit.
In the end, Spatial Ops is opening up arcade-style gaming to the general public, which will be interesting to see unfold. Are there enough Quest 2 or Quest Pros out there for the game to make sense as an eSport? Will players find each other and auto-organize into local teams, matches and maybe even tourneys—like you might see with the obvious analogues of airsoft, paintball or laser tag? We’ll be waiting to see, but in the meantime you can nab Spatial Ops on SideQuest for free to try out for yourself.
Disclosure: Resolution Games assisted with travel & lodging expenses to an event where information for this article was gathered.
Popular VR-optional dungeon board game Demeo has released its fifth & final chapter as a free update. Called ‘Reign of Madness’, the new chapter brings new levels, enemies, a playable character, & more. With several meaty free updates under the game’s belt since release, the studio plans to increase the game’s price from $30 to $40 next month.
If you’ve been waiting for more adventures in Demeo, today is your lucky day. The ‘Reign of Madness’ chapter is available now as a free update to all versions of the game.
Along with new levels, enemies, and ability cards, ‘Reign of Madness’ adds Uhrak the Barbarian as a new playable character which, according to developer Resolution Games, “relies on his trusty Hook of Varga to keep friends close and enemies closer.”
This chapter also brings a bonus: unique musical tracks performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, including an orchestrated arrangement of the game’s title song.
‘Demeo Reign of Madness’ Screenshots
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Following a handful of meaty updates since launch Demeo now includes five unique chapters, six playable characters, a social handout mode, and is soon to get PVP as well. As such, Resolution says it plans to increase the price of the game from $30 to $40 starting on January 12th, “to better reflect the breadth of the game.” Fair play.
Resolution is calling ‘Reign of Madness’ the “final chapter in the Mad Elven King Saga,” but seems to be leaving the door open to the possibility of more DLC in the future (paid, we’d guess).
Disclosure: Resolution Games assisted with travel & lodging expenses to an event where information for this article was gathered.