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Trover Saves The Universe Comes To Quest This Week

Holy f**k! Check out this news from the Upload VR Summer Showcase: Summer Edition – Trover Saves The Universe lands on Oculus Quest this week!

Justin Roiland and Squanch Games’ bizarre VR adventure game launched on PSVR and PC VR platforms almost a year ago to the day, but now finds its way onto Facebook’s standalone headset. Trover Saves The Universe touches down on Oculus Quest on June 18th. Check out the trailer below – even if you’ve already played the game you probably won’t want to miss it.

If you couldn’t already tell, Trover Saves The Universe is an eccentric VR experience from the mind behind Ricky & Morty. Played from a third-person perspective, you take Trover on an unpredictable adventure to battle the evil Glorkon.

Trover isn’t Roiland’s first journey into VR, though. He also collaborated with Crows, Crows, Crows on the brilliantly weird Accounting+ and Job Simulator developer Owlchemy Labs made its own Rick & Morty VR game a few years back. We were very fond of the game when it originally launched last year, giving it a 7/10.

“The bottom line is that if you liked games such as Lucky’s Tale and Astro Bot and also appreciate Justin Roiland’s style of vulgar fourth-wall-breaking comedy, then this is a match made in third-person action-adventure heaven,” we said at the time.

There’s plenty more news spinning out of the Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition today. Make sure to watch the show in full; there’s a little something for everyone. Will you be picking up Trover Saves The Universe on Quest? Let us know in the comments below!

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‘Trover Saves the Universe’ Launches on PSVR, Coming to PC Next Week

Trover Saves the Universe, the latest VR title from Squanch Games and the mind of Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, launched today on PS4 with support for both PSVR and non-VR. The game will launch for PC VR headsets via Steam next week.

Trover Saves the Universe is now available on PS4 for $30, and can be played in both VR and non-VR. It’s a third-person adventure game that’s clearly built around the zany, unique humor and voices of Justin Roiland, the co-creator of Rick and Morty and co-founder of Squanch Games. PlayStation Underground has a look at the final gameplay:

The game is also coming to PC next week on June 4th on Steam, with official support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, and also non-VR play. A 10% pre-order discount is in place until the game launches.

Trover Saves the Universe developer Squanch Games says that it’s planning to add ‘free DLC’ to the game by “keeping Trover at full price for longer than usual, instead of lowering the game’s cost over time and charging for new content.” That’s an interesting approach, though the company hasn’t offered any detail on what future content will look like beyond saying that players can expect “lots of new Trover adventures coming your way until it doesn’t make sense to do that anymore.”

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‘Trover Saves the Universe’ to Launch on PSVR in May, Rift & Vive in June

Justin Roiland’s VR studio Squanch Games announced last year that their upcoming game Trover Saves the Universe was exclusively targeting PSVR and PS4 consoles. This week at GDC 2019 though it seems the studio has reversed that decision, as the comedy platformer is also slated to arrive on PCs via Steam and Epic Game Store. To make things even more interesting, it appears PSVR users have a firm May release date now.

Update (March 27th, 2019): Squanch Games now says it will be doing a staggered launch, coming first to PSVR on May 31st, then shortly afterwards to PC VR platforms on June 4th. The studio also whipped up a new trailer, which is linked below.

Original Article (March 21st, 2019): Squanch Games wasn’t able confirm which specific PC VR headsets will be supported at launch, although VR support is definitely coming to the PC version for its targeted 2019 release, I was told.

Neither the Epic Game Store page nor the Steam page have information regarding supported headsets at this time. An educated guess: we’re likely to at least see support for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

There’s no exact launch date yet, although the studio says we should learn more on that front at PAX East, which takes place in Boston on March 28th – 31st. We’ll most likely learn whether it’s a staggered or simultaneous launch there too (see update).

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In case you’ve never heard of it, Trover Saves the Universe is another madcap fever dream from the mind of Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland. It’s not a platformer in the traditional sense, as your character (called a Chair-opian) is seated and relies on teleportation to follow your controllable pal Trover, who can be controlled to specific warp nodes where he battles enemies and solves puzzles in search of your lost dogs. There’s plenty of fourth wall-breaking moments here that are sure to appeal to fans of Roiland’s disarming and infectious sense of humor.

It seems the GDC 2019 demo on the floor is more or less the same from when we first saw it at E3 2018, albeit shortened somewhat to accommodate more GDC-goers. You can see the full demo I experienced below.

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