The program started with a safe bet with The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution, an extension title for the sequel to Skydance Interactive’s hit survival game, due out this year. The adventure always takes place in a post-apo New Orleans with the promise of an even more dangerous journey, always as sparing in resources and generous in undead. This sequel is currently announced on Meta Quest 2 and SteamVR, pending confirmation on other platforms.
Electronic Arts is not tempted by virtual reality? Too bad, it’s StatusPRO that will take the opportunity to make a name for itself with NFL Pro Era, the first official game of the National Football League in virtual reality, which translates into immersion from the lawn, of course. The game will be available this fall on Meta Quest 2 but also PlayStation VR.
Among Us VR has confirmed its release on Meta Quest 2 and SteamVR for this fall, while announcing that the famous social deduction game that has twisted Twitch will also be available on PlayStation VR2 at launch. This VR edition is the result of a partnership between Innersloth, Robot Teddy and Schell Games. Known for I Expect You To Die and Until You Fall, Schell Games has signed with Meta to release three more games over the next few years.
Science fiction is in the spotlight with RedMatter 2, direct sequel to the 2020 puzzle adventure game, still developed by the Spanish studio Vertical Robot. Continuing the story just after the open end of the first game, this sequel will take the player wandering to the Moon or even to a space station orbiting the rings of Saturn. The puzzles will still be at the center of the experience, but the adventure also promises to be longer and richer on the mechanical level, we are told, without forgetting to aim for the stars when it comes to achievement.
Another sequel with spire 2a spy game whose campaign will be playable in cooperation when it is released in 2022. This is the main novelty of this title still developed by Digital Lode and published by Tripwire, like its predecessor which had not particularly convinced.
Rest assured, the PS VR exclusivity will only last a few months since Moss: Book I will be available on the Oculus Store later this summer. For its return on March 31, the sequel to the 2018 action-adventure game seduced Furolith by offering a longer chapter but still as enchanting and endearing, like its heroine rodent. On Meta Quest 2, the connection between Quill and the player will also benefit from the Oculus Touch pair, controllers which will also allow you to manipulate the environment or the inventory more freely and naturally.
The CharacterBank studio represented Japan with RuinsMagus, a role-playing game in preparation for release this year on Meta Quest 2 and SteamVR. The game boasts 26 quests fully voiced in Japanese recounting the adventures of an apprentice magician in search of secrets buried in obviously well-guarded ruins, ruins which conveniently lie under the streets of Grand Amnis, a city which will serve as a base. operations.
A variation of the famous city-building game from Paradox Interactive, Cities VR by Fast Travel Games will be available next week on Quest 2, April 28 to be exact, with a 10% discount at launch (26.99 euros).
Big announcement from last year, Resident Evil 4 VR has returned to announce the immediate and free availability of Mercenaries mode. As a reminder, this is a timed arcade mode in which you choose your character and try to score as many points as possible by knocking out Ganado until the helicopter arrives. For the occasion, the Armature studio has created 20 new challenges, added online rankings as well as unlockable bonuses (big head mode, accelerated mode, black and white filter), bonuses that Leon can find in the main campaign.
Beat Saber, the in-house musical prodigy, also made an appearance, vowing to keep users moving again this year with additional content. After the releases of OST5 and the Fall Out Boy pack, Beat Games announces that the next on the list is called Electronic Mixtape, a pack including tracks from artists like deadmau5, Marshmello and Pendulum. Release planned for soon.
Here then bonelab, successor to Boneworks and next project from Stress Level Zero, a studio that focuses particularly on interactions and physics management. Announced for this year on Meta Quest 2 and SteamVR, this FPS is set in a strange underground training laboratory from which the player seeks to escape after narrowly escaping his execution.
Another flagship virtual reality studio, nDreams had the honor of concluding the show with a Sony license (!) in order to announce Ghostbusters VR on Meta Quest 2. Taking place in San Francisco and not New York, this action-adventure game will offer a campaign playable alone or in cooperation with a maximum of three companions. Being a Sony Pictures Virtual Reality game, we can imagine finding it in due course on PlayStation VR2, but no launch window has been communicated. In any case, it is the second Ghostbusters game announced this year after IllFonic’s Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, which is intended for traditional platforms.