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The VR Drop: Hailing The Last Beat

Welcome to another weekly edition of The VR Drop, where gmw3 looks ahead to see what exciting virtual reality (VR) videogames are coming to a headset near you in the coming days. We’ve got a full roster to end the month of May and welcome in June, from brain teasers to energetic rhythm titles.

The Last Taxi – ZenFri Inc.

Take part in a narrative set in a far-flung future where you’re the very last human taxi driver. The usual dystopian nightmare where surveillance, automation and human modification run rife, The Last Taxi is all about picking up fares and being chatty to earn tips and upgrade your ride. However, conversations with your passengers soon reveal the darker side of the city, putting you in the middle of whether to inform the authorities and the repercussions of doing so.

The Last Clockwinder – Pontoco

Time for a clone making brain tickler in The Last Clockwinder. Inside an ancient tree, there are valuable plants and seeds to save, only achieved by getting the place in working order. To do so you’ll need to plant seeds to grow and harvest the fruit needed to power the place, and many hands make light work. But as there’s only one of you, you’ll need to carefully clone yourself over and over again, performing tasks that all need to link up like one giant Rube Goldberg machine.

The Last Clockwinder

First Person Tennis – The Real Tennis Simulator – Mikori Games

Originally released back in 2019 for PC VR headsets, First Person Tennis – The Real Tennis Simulator then arrived for Meta Quest’s App Lab late last year. Next week, the tennis simulator will see an official Oculus Store release, making it easier for Quest owners to find the videogame. Offering both single-player and multiplayer modes, First Person Tennis has both Arcade and Simulation settings, clay, grass, indoor synthetic and more court surfaces as well as 13 tournaments (4 Slam and 9 Masters); everything a VR tennis fan needs.

Drums Rock – Garage51

It doesn’t feel like a proper VR Drop without at least one rhythm action title on the list, next week in the form of Drums Rock. This is another VR videogame making it to new headsets, coming to SteamVR having initially released as a Quest App Lab title. As the name suggests, Drums Rock sits you behind a classic drum setup, with a 4+ hour campaign to play through featuring Hard rock, heavy metal, Nu metal, and other genres. As this is an Early Access title, developer Garage51 plans on adding further content, already collaborating with Until You Fall from Schell Games.

Drums Rock

CAVE – Sable Studio

Finally, there’s CAVE VR, an explorative puzzler set inside a cave system – hope you are not scared of tight spaces. Discover the hidden secrets of the cave, with ancient ruins littered with puzzles that block your way back to the surface.

  • Supported platform(s): Oculus Rift
  • Launch date: 3rd June
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Until You Fall Collaboration Coming To Drums Rock This Week

VR drumming game Drums Rock is getting a collaboration with Schell Games’ Until You Fall this week.

A free update for the game will add a cover version of Kneon Knightmare from Until You Fall’s soundtrack. It’ll be a heavier take on the track in step with the rest of the game’s tracklist and also include several cosmetic overhauls such as a drum set inspired by the game, sticks in the shape of blades and hands identical to those of the player character in Until You Fall.

Check out the track itself in the video below.

Drums Rock Meets Until You Fall

Drums Rock is akin to using the drum kit peripheral in Rock Band and later Guitar Hero games; notes stream towards you and you have to match them to the corresponding instrument by hitting it on time. The only difference is that, with this being VR, you don’t actually have a plastic kit yourself.

Until You Fall, meanwhile, is Schell’s roguelite action game in which you take on runs of a dungeon, facing down monsters with swords. To this day it remains one of our favorite VR games and sits on our list of the 25 best VR games out there.

This isn’t the first collaboration between two VR developers we’ve seen. Earlier this month Resolution Games announced it was teaming up with Fast Travel Games to bring weapons from the latter’s debut title, Apex Construct, over to Blaston.

Currently the game’s available on Quest via App Lab. Are you going to be checking out the Drums Rock and Until You Fall collaboration? Let us know in the comments below!

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Drums Rock Smashes Onto App Lab For Quest On February 17

Drums Rock is bringing heavy metal and hellish enemies to the rhythm game genre on Quest this week, launching February 17 via App Lab.

Announced last July and initially scheduled for a late 2021 release, Drums Rock is finally coming to Quest this Thursday with an App Lab release. The game joins titles like Ragnarok and Smash Drums in the Quest drumming rhythm game pantheon, but in Drums Rock you’ll be smashing your drum kits to defeat demon bats and other enemies flying toward you.

Here’s a quick summary of what to expect:

Drums Rock is an arcade drum game for VR, follow the rock rhythm with your drums and crush the demons. Each note is represented by an enemy, and they will be defeated by playing the drums. Experience a unique campaign: with different levels, challenges, songs and worlds. Drums Rock is an ideal game to feel like a rock star, while smashing hordes of demons to the rhythm of rock!

According to the developers, the main campaign is approximately four hours long, with extra unlockables, online ranking and an additional challenge mode.

To coincide with the App Lab launch, the game will also release its first licensed song — Drink by Alestorm. This version of the game also includes a new progression system in the campaign mode, along with scenario selection functionality in challenge mode.

Drums Rock Road Map

There’s also a 2022 roadmap that extends beyond the App Lab launch. As you can see in the graphic above, it includes new modifiers, more licensed songs, new difficulties, bosses and customization items, among other things. An Oculus Store release is also listed at the end, but with no set date just yet.

Drums Rock launches for Meta Quest via App Lab on February 17 and is available to wishlist here.

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Drums Rock Brings Hellish Demon Drumming To Oculus Quest In Late 2021

Drums Rock combines VR drumming, heavy rock music and demon-destroying action on Oculus Quest in late 2021.

As anyone with a VR headset will know, there’s no shortage of rhythm games available on the platform. However, recently we’ve seen a particular uptick in drumming rhythm games such as Smash! Drums and Ragnarock, to which Drums Rock will be the latest addition.

Drums Rock’s premise looks to be similar at its core to other physical rhythm drum games — each piece of the drum kit is assigned a color, which you have to hit at the right time similar to Guitar Hero or Rock Band. However, there’s a VR twist: the indicators that tell you when to hit each drum piece come in the form of flying demons.

That’s right, this hell-themed rock game is sending colored demons flying towards you and you’re only option to defeat them it to hit the matching-colored drum at the right time.

drums rock

Developers Garage 51 say they wanted to create a rhythm game inspired by classic rock music, combining it with elements of horde mode gameplay. It will feature an original rock soundtrack, unlockable songs and cosmetics, and both a campaign and challenge mode.

There’s no word on whether Drums Rock will release on the Oculus Store or App Lab for Quest, or whether it might also make its way to PC VR or PSVR platforms either. Expect to hear more in a few month’s time.

Drums Rock will release later this year for Oculus Quest. You can learn more over at the Drums Watch website.