If you’ve milked the life out of all the videogames in your library then it’s time for some new ones. As VRFocus likes to do every Friday, here are a few titles arriving in the next week you may want to take a look at.
Honor and Duty: D-Day – Strange Games Studios
An online PVP shooter set during WWII, Honor and Duty: D-Day provides a variety of gameplay modes such as Team Deathmatch, Attack and Defend and Battle Royale, allowing for 32 player online matches. Originally released on console, this remastered version will include additional maps, new weapons and the option for players to jump into planes, jeeps and tanks.
Previously an exclusive title for VR arcades, Tower Tag is another PvP shooter for PC VR players. Combining high-octane blaster fights with fast-paced movement, the title features a grappling-hook mechanic to move through the arenas. Tower Tag offers 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4 matches across Team Deathmatch, Elimination and Goal Tower modes.
Originally a PC VR release, Hotel R’n’R is a pure smash fest set in several hotel locations. You were once a struggling musician but thanks to a deal with the devil you are now a famous rock star. There’s just one small caveat, Satan wants you to cause as much destruction on your world tour as possible. You have to make an expensive mess without hotel management catching you and getting you arrested.
Supported platforms: PlayStation VR
Launch date: 28th May
Yoren – undefinedcompany
Set for an early access release, Yoren is an experimental magic sandbox where you can cast spells by drawing rune gestures, explore the open world to collect crafting ingredients for potions and battle numerous bosses.
Hotel R’n’R, the rock star lifestyle simulator, is headed out of early access on PC VR headsets soon, which will coincide its release on PSVR.
Developers Wolf & Wood Interactive say the full version is set to release on May 28th, which will be available on SteamVR headsets, Oculus Rift, and PSVR.
Hotel R’n’R landed on Steam and the Oculus Store for Rift back in late August, serving up plenty of opportunity to approach destruction with a creative flair. As a failed musician who struck a deal with the Devil, you smash up different physics-based hotels with over 30 weapons, letting you take out a bit of that pent up rage in the process.
In addition to single player mode, the game also supports up to five players in its ‘Pass and Play’ mode, which lets you compete against your friends in a number of mini-games.
Wolf & Wood are also known for creating VR titles The Exorcist: Legion VR (2017) and A Chair in a Room: Greenwater (2016).
Here’s an oddly satisfying thing to say on a purely grammatical level: Wolf & Wood’s Hotel R’n’R is landing on PSVR this month.
The smash ’em up VR game is landing on Sony’s headset on May 28th. At the same time the game will be coming out of Early Access on PC VR headsets. Check out the trailer below.
In Hotel R’n’R, you’re tasked with smashing up hotel rooms as quickly and efficiently as possible to please the devil (because of course). Gameplay offers physics-driven carnage; plates are smashed against walls, bathroom railings are torn from the sides and thrown into shower doors, and hotel staff are promptly abused when they try and interfere.
As you play you’ll earn better weapons for more effective destruction, including items that give objects special properties, like creating a super-bouncy bowling ball. Yup, it’s about as mad as it sounds – we previewed the game last year and had a lot of fun with its brand of mayhem.
For PSVR launch, the game’s getting new models, weapons and levels. “There’s now a Robot Vacuum that is a mini-tank when you glue Fireworks and a Tomahawk to it!” Wolf & Wood’s Ryan Bousfield said in a prepared statement. There’s the Charity Auction, a whole new level that has a huge claw that can pick up tables and pianos, and ‘Envy’, a Streetfighter II inspired mini-game based on The Devil’s jealousy for the Popemobile.”
Will you be picking up Hotel R’n’R on PSVR (still satisfying)? Lets us know in the comments below!
There are times when you may just want to let loose, do something you wouldn’t normally do, hell even tear the place up a little. For those particular moments, there’s Wolf & Wood’s Hotel R’n’R, a homage to the excessive days of rock n roll. Originally a PC VR release, soon PlayStation VR owners will be able to join in the fun.
It’s a well-known fact – or more wild unsubstantiated rumour – that to be a rock legend you need to have done a deal with the devil, and that’s precisely where Hotel R’n’R starts.
As a struggling musician you make a deal and in return your new horned friend asks you for a little favour, smash up all the hotels on your world tour. In any way you see fit.
“We have six hotel suites and almost everything can be destroyed – from the mini-bar to the bathroom all the furniture, fittings, windows and even some of the walls. On the surface it seems like a frantic ‘smash ’em up’ but the timer doesn’t start until you’ve made enough noise, so it’s best to explore and plan before you alert the Maid,” says Ryan Bousfield, Director of Wolf & Wood in a statement. “This combined with the huge variety of weapons, modifiers and enhancers means that a bit of setup is the best way to score highly.”
Like any stay in a hotel once your stay is up you’ll get a receipt for all the damages, with management, lawyers and hospitals all take a cut. The higher the better, so long as you don’t get arrested.
The PlayStation VR edition will launch on 28th May alongside new gameplay modes, weapons and levels. PC players won’t miss out as Hotel R’n’R will be leaving Early Access the same day, with all the same improvements.
“Making Hotel R’n’R wasn’t expected after two narrative-horror games but it has been a lot of fun, even doing the final testing in isolation we’re still coming up with new ways of setting things up and sending clips to each other in the team Discord. R’n’R is definitely about showing off a bit but that’s what rockstars are about too so I think it makes sense,” Bousfield adds.
As Wolf & Wood continues to release further VR titles, VRFocus will keep you updated.
For those of you not from the UK, that was a reference to the 2003 rap hit from grime artist, Dizzee Rascal. Go Spotify it.
Anyway, there’s a whole host of big headlines to get through this week. The biggest, undoubtedly, is the death of Google Daydream VR. Google’s flashy new phone, the Pixel 4, isn’t supporting it and the company isn’t selling Daydream View anymore. You could probably still find a Lenovo Mirage Solo somewhere online if you were really looking. You probably shouldn’t, though.
Elsewhere, we’ve got a list of the most popular PSVR games (which doesn’t include Ghost Giant because you’re clearly all very bad people). Oh and Varjo announced its next super high resolution headset. It looks amazing but it also cost 5,000 euro so, you know, no thanks.
Moving onto release, it’s another good week for Quest fans with Knockout League and Kingspray. PSVR is suffering a bit of a drought, but you can pick up Crazy Machines VR if you’re in the EU.
Over in the comments section, we asked you if you though Asgard’s Wrath was VR’s best game yet. We think it is, but did you agree?
As for our competition, this week we have codes for Hotel R’n’R, which just got its Party Mode update. Don’t sleep on this one; enter below.
Okay, it’s the weekend. Time to let loose and cause mayhem inside the virtual universe, everyone. I plan on starting bar fights in Drunkn Bar Fight to capture the true essence of a Friday night. How about you?
Wolf & Wood’s manic VR smash ’em up, Hotel R’n’R, gets a much needed Party Mode today.
Hotel R’n’R launched in Early Access earlier this year. It’s a game about smashing up hotel rooms and racking up expenses with an increasingly deranged inventory. When we played it earlier this year we had a lot of fun smashing things up and pushing the limits of the game’s physics. It was, however, in need of a bit more substance.
Today’s Party Mode update should bring just that. It allows players to access Setlists, which feature five challenges usually paired to strange weapon combinations. More importantly, though, this mode isn’t tied to the progression of the game’s main campaign, where you have to rack up points to buy certain weapons.
Instead, Setlists provides full access to the game’s entire arsenal right off the bat. You’ll need it to complete tasks like locating specific items or shooting apples off of people’s headsets. It’s also designed to double down on the game’s pass-and-play element, letting friends take turns in causing carnage over the course of a session. There’s also a new ‘Frat Jerk’ skin debuting in the game as part of the update today.
Hotel R’n’R won’t be coming out of Early Access with this update, so expect yet more content in the weeks and months to come. Elsewhere, Wolf & Wood’s excellent VR horror series, The Exorcist: Legion VR, is currently on sale on PSVR as part of an excellent Halloween sale.
Will this update convince you to jump into Hotel R’n’R? Let us know in the comments below!
If you haven’t bought into Woof & Wood’s The Exorcist: Legion VR series yet, a great chance is coming.
Steam just listed The Exorcist: Legion VR Deluxe Edition for release in October. According to the store page, it contains all five episodes of the series for PC VR headsets. Not only that but there are apparently enhanced graphics and animations as well as upgraded movement controls. The game also features native support for the Valve Index controllers and Rift S.
Each episode of Legion VR originally released over the course of 2017/2018. Though the series has an overarching story, each episode takes you to a new environment to investigate different cases.
No price is given for the deluxe edition, but buying each episode on its own could come to around $25. Expect it to be in that range, if not a little cheaper.
We reviewed the full season of Legion VR back in 2018, awarding it 9/10. We said it was easily one of the best VR horrors experiences out there. “It honestly felt like I could hear the voices inside my own head and I could feel the heat from my crucifix as I stared down the faces of demon and eradicated the evil within,” David Jagneaux wrote. “The Exorcist: Legion VR will turn even the most hardened horror fans into whimpering piles of fear.”
This release was perhaps inevitable; the game launched on Oculus Quest earlier this year as a full package. No word yet on if the PSVR edition could see a similar release.
Since its release Wolf & Wood has gone on to launch a new game in Early Access. Hotel R’n’R is quite different from the developer’s usual brand of scares. You smash up hotel rooms as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Limp Bizkit’s ‘Break Stuff’ may have waxed lyrical way back in 2000 about venting anger by smashing stuff up but for musicians, that’s almost second nature. Not modern artists of course but back in the 70s and 80s it was almost a rite of passage for rock stars to destroy the hotel they were staying in. While they could afford the repair bills most normal folk probably haven’t thrown the TV off the balcony into the pool below. Which is where Hotel R’n’R comes into scratch that destructive itch.
The work of Wolf & Wood, the team behind epic horror series The Exorcist: Legion VR, the team have melded classic rock folklore with that urge to break stuff. Supposedly all the great stars of that era signed some sort of deal with the Devil to become rich and famous, and that just so happens to be where Hotel R’n’R kicks in with you playing a failed rock musician who just didn’t have the skills and ends up in Hell. One quick signature later and you’re back up top with one mission, break a lot of stuff.
Hotel R’n’R’s premise really is that simple. Grab a bottle, and smash it on the floor. Pick up a toaster and hurl it out of the window. Basically, take whatever you can find and make sure none of it looks like new when you leave. All so you can rack up as big a bill by the end as possible, which is the scoring gauge. Each level has several challenges to accomplish which will then unlock the next hotel, just be prepared for plenty of repetition.
The first couple of goes are great fun, working out what breaks and what you can actually achieve. That joy becomes a little dampened when trying to progress when you realise more tools are required to really up the score. Luckily, Hell has a handy Pawn Shop where you can spend your monies on useful items like boxing gloves, baseball bats and even C4. The better the item the more exorbitant the cost, so that first hotel room starts to become real familiar as you destroy it for the 50th time.
As Hotel R’n’R is still in Early Access there are still a few small issues to resolve. Tracking seems to be one. During the smashathon hotel management naturally come knocking, first a maid, then the manager and finally security – once security arrives it’s all over. When the maid and manager turn up you can stop them coming in by way of three locks on the door, requiring a quick bit of handy work to keep things sealed. This proved tricky at points – using an Oculus Rift – with hands either sticking or simply not moving at times, which isn’t ideal for this fast-paced section.
There also seemed to be some inconsistency when stuff breaks (or doesn’t break). Lobbing a vase across the room there’s a 50/50 chance of it breaking while ripping a clothes rail off worked but using it to damage other items didn’t. Which all got somewhat frustrating when trying to complete a challenge.
What’s good though is the attention to and level of detail in the hotel. Drawers can be ripped out, sinks smashed, fruit has a satisfying splat when connecting with a wall and the TV can be thrown! There are also several mini-games located in Hell should you want a break whilst still earning cash.
Hotel R’n’R is mindless virtual destruction at its most brazen and chaotic. Wolf & Wood offer players what every good VR title should, lots and lots of interactivity that gets you moving, immersing you in a digital world which almost seems real. It isn’t perfect by any means and certainly isn’t one for the puzzle aficionados out there but don’t discount Hotel R’n’R’s devilish gameplay too quickly.
August 2019 continues to prove itself to be an eventful month for the virtual reality (VR) videogame industry, and next week is no exception. Here are six VR titles that have confirmed release dates over the course of next week, as well as a helpful video guide freshly made for our YouTube channel. In addition, be sure to check out our post-Gamescom articles full of exclusive insights to various VR content over the course of the last week.
Until You Fall (Early Access) – Schell Games
Developed and published by Schell Games, this visually stunning action-adventure sword-fighting videogame mixes magical combat with randomized rewards, enemy configurations, and rooms. This means each playthrough of Until You Fallwill be different, whilst at the same time allowing players to upgrade and improve their abilities and load-outs to the next assault.
Time to take control of a starfighter and charge through space on a series of dangerous missions while unlocking and upgrading weapons along the way. Developed and published by Orange Bridge Studios, this epic space adventure blasts its way onto even more headsets next week.
Supported platforms: Oculus Quest, Google Daydream (already available on Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, Gear VR, HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows Mixed Reality and PlayStation VR)
Launch date: 29th August
Hotel R’n’R (Early Access) – Wolf & Wood
Developed and published by Wolf & Wood Interactive Ltd, in Hotel R’n’R, you play as a failed musician, who is challenged with finding the most creative methods of destroying your surrounding hotel environment. Set in a series of highly detailed hotel environments and equipped with a large selection of tools at your disposal, let the mayhem commence.
Developed and published by Resolution Games, in this multi-player, cross-platform adventure from, Trees and Squirrels battle for ownership of the precious Golden Acorns. VR players can take on the role of a protective tree, while others on iOS and Android set their sites to take on the trees as a cunning Squirrel.
Developed and published by AutoRotate180, in Armored Front, head into battle from a tank driver’s point of view. Learn to operate and maintain the vehicle in this fully immersive WW2 experience.
Ultimate Fishing Simulator VR (Early Access) – Bit Golem
Previously released as a well-received title on PC, Ultimate Fishing Simulator VR is a single and multiplayer fishing experience where players can learn various techniques to perfect their fishing abilities in 10 different locations using various types of fishing boat.
Hotel R’n’R might not be a horror game, but you can quickly identify the twisted fingerprints of developer Wolf & Wood.
They can be found all over this darkly comic VR smash ’em up. They’re there when you break through glass with your hands, messily contorting them into unusable bloody stumps. Or when you hit the shop and peruse isles that include severed heads and bowling balls still attached to arms. More importantly, though, Hotel R’n’R suggests Wolf & Wood has new tricks up its sleeve beyond horror hits like The Exorcist VR.
This is a technically impressive and inexplicably addictive bit of VR chaos. Playing as a failed musician, you make a deal with the devil. In return for fortune and glory, you have to smash up hotel rooms using pretty much whatever you find around you. In the first level that I’ve played, that means hurling plates into a ceiling fan, pulling a toilet seat off of its hinges and embedding it in a boiler, or tossing fruit into picture frames until they topple to the ground.
Making a mess earns you cash spent on new weapons. You’ll quickly gain access to a pair of boxing gloves for protected punching, for example. An early highlight is a slippery and surprisingly sturdy fish you can use to clear out glass or swipe entire cutlery sets from table tops.
We’ve seen other developers try their hand at this sort of havoc, of course. The results are often initially entertaining, but the charm quickly wanes. Wolf & Wood hopes to avoid that by rewarding repeated playthroughs with increasingly entertaining weapons and, crucially, a touch of challenge. Hotel R’n’R isn’t a simple sandbox; you’ll have to raise a certain amount of cash in a certain amount of time and complete specific tasks to unlock later levels.
How long do you have? That depends. In the first level, your destruction quickly triggers a checkup from a maid. You can keep her locked out by running to the door when she arrives or, more sadistically, give her a knock to the head when she opens it. Following that, the manager will turn up and you can do the same to him. Finally, security appears, and they don’t knock.
While chastising hotel staff is worrisomely enjoyable, it comes with a cost. Violent actions and getting caught racks up lawyer bills, while injuring yourself or straight up dying incurs hospital costs. For the best score, you need to cause as much mayhem as possible without seriously damaging yourself or getting caught. Swiftly exiting the room when no one’s there can earn you Infamy, used to unlock later levels. This is a game about keeping the plates spinning by, well, smashing plates.
And how those plates will smash. Even in its current state, Hotel R’n’R is a fascinating technical showcase for VR. Practically everything within a level can be picked up, thrown and destroyed. Better yet, some weapons change item’s properties, making them slippery, extra bouncy or even stuck to surfaces.
Right now, Hotel R’n’R feels a few weeks of polish away from ‘finished’ (fortunate, given the game launches in Early Access at the end of August). Some of the items don’t give satisfactory feedback when ‘breaking’ and, inevitably, there’s some physics-based bugs. It also remains to be seen how much longevity the game’s really going to have; five levels are promised in total, with each more elaborate than the last. The second, for example, lets you toss items off a balcony and into a pool.
Also promising are the minigames, which can be used to gain more Infamy and safe codes to unlock more stuff in existing levels. Wolf & Wood certainly has a welcome sense of structure here, it’s just a question of how long this type of game can be kept from growing stale.
From what I’ve seen, Hotel R’n’R has the potential to be VR’s next Gorn. That’s not bad territory to be in. The game’s out on August 29 and listed on Steam now.
