A new trailer for Oddboy and M Theory’s Wanderer just debuted, and it continues to look promising.
We first wrote about this upcoming VR adventure last week, when the PSVR Without Parole team debuted new gameplay. Today, though, its developers have revealed an official announcement trailer over on the PlayStation Blog, along with the first official information.
New Wanderer Trailer Revealed
We already knew that Wanderer was a time-travelling VR puzzle game with escape room-style mechanics. The trailer provides some further hints at that story, whilst also showing some of the game’s different environments and mechanics. There’s a lot of setup, but the payoff is worth it – we’re teased with trips to the moon, on-stage rock concerts and meetings with famous faces.
“Wanderer combines a unique blend of escape room-style puzzles and hands-on action sequences that will see you bring together objects and events from various time periods in sometimes unlikely and inventive ways,” Executive Producer Sam Ramlu said in the blog post. “Take a step back into history, with full motion control on dual PS move controllers, to experience beautifully detailed worlds that come to life with realistic and innovative physics-based interactions.”
Today’s reveal also confirms that Wanderer will arrive in three instalments, with the first episode launching in Q3 of this year, though the teams are still aiming for a full games’ worth of content. Its developers say its being made in partnership with PlayStation, but will also be coming to PC VR headsets at the same time (no word on a possible Quest version just yet).
Will you be checking out Wanderer? Let us know in the comments below!
Wanderer is a time-traveling PSVR adventure thriller game in development by Oddboy, a New Zealand-based indie game studio. There’s no release date just yet, but it’s looking very promising.
Wanderer – PSVR Adventure Thriller
We first caught wind of the new trailer during the PSVR Without Parole ‘April Is PSVR AF’ showcase. Wanderer seems to be a very mysterious adventure VR game in which you have the power to travel through time and space. From screenshots and footage I’ve seen rundown apocalyptic settings, the surface of the moon, futuristic steampunk warehouses, and everything in between. On the website, the tagline is “the past changes a little every time we retell it,” which poses some very intriguing narrative questions.
In the footage you can see plenty of characters the player interacts with from various time periods, what looks like some Escape Room-style puzzles, and plenty of quirky time-jumping between various settings and time periods. Hopefully constantly switching between eras and locations helps keep things fresh and exciting.
The over 3-minute long trailer above features lots of gameplay to give you a good look at what actually playing the game might be like. For more insight into the flow of Wanderer, you can check out the Twitter feed where you’ll find lots of other short clips and GIFs.
For more on Wanderer, check out the game’s official website, Twitter, and Discord server. The website itself isn’t actually live yet, nor is the game’s YouTube channel. Let us know what you think about Wanderer down in the comments below!
Thanks to the success of Oculus Quest 2, the amount of stuff you can play on the Oculus Quest Store is rapidly expanding. Here we take a look at some of the upcoming titles we can’t wait to play when they land in the next few months.
Note: These are just a few native Quest titles we’re looking forward to. There’s also a mind-boggling amount of VR games to play outside of the Oculus Quest Store too. You can play via SteamVR or Oculus PC provided you can setup Link or Air Link and have a VR-ready PC. Also, don’t forget App Lab and SideQuest for unmoderated Quest content.
Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge Part II
Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge first came to Quest back in November 2020, bringing with it a wholly new Star Wars experience. Creators ILMxLAB announced that the narrative-driven adventure is getting its first sequel here this year; the series will conclude in its fourth installment. That sounds like a lot of pirate blasting and droid saving.
Developer: ILMxLAB
Launch Date: 2021 “later this year”
Resident Evil 4 (Quest 2)
Ok, we get it. Resident Evil 4 (2005) isn’t new, but its Quest 2 port will be. Capcom’s beloved horror-shooter is getting a first-person overhaul, which is said to include higher resolution textures, a made-for-VR UI, and positional audio for greater immersion. The only catch: it’s coming exclusively to Quest 2 and not the original Quest.
Developer: Armature Studio, Capcom
Launch Date: TBD
Ilysia
Successful Kickstarter Ilysia is coming to all major VR headsets, including PC VR, Oculus Quest, and PlayStation VR. This cross-play MMORPG is expected to release to backers sometime before the end of 2021, bringing with it plenty of beasts, world bosses, and both megalithic ‘Guardians’ and ‘Titans’ to contend with.
Developer: Team 21 Studio
Launch Date: before end of 2021
Larcenauts
Larcenauts is set to bring the hero shooter genre to Quest in a big way. This six vs six shooter ostensibly takes its cues from games like Valorant, Overwatch and Apex Legends. It’s not only natively coming Quest, but also Rift and SteamVR-compatible headsets, including cross-play.
Developer: Impulse Gear
Launch Date: Summer 2021
After the Fall
After the Fall, the long-delayed co-op shooter, is finally coming to Quest, and its launching alongside Oculus PC and PSVR. Vertigo Games first announced the post-apocalyptic zombie shooter back in June 2019, although the studio recently gave us an eye-full of some updated gameplay, so it’s definitely still coming.
Developer: Vertigo Games
LaunchDate: Summer 2021
Wanderer
Wanderer is a VR adventure game that takes inspiration from Quantum Leap (1989) and Dark (2017), letting you travel back through history to prevent the collapse of civilization. It’s coming to all major VR headsets sometime later this year, which includes Oculus Quest!
Developer: Oddboy, M Theory
LaunchDate: Q3 2021
Ancient Dungeon
Ancient Dungeon is a rogue-lite dungeon crawler that found success on Kickstarter last year. It’s aiming for launch sometime “soon,” developer Eric Thullen says, with plans to arrive in early access on both SteamVR headsets and Oculus Quest. You can test it now in beta via App Lab for Quest.
Developer: Joy Way
Launch Date: sometime “soon”
Captain ToonHead
Captain ToonHead vs The Punks from Outer Space is a whacky first-person tower defense that puts your granny’s chancla (Spanish for ‘slipper’, often used as an impromptu bludgeon) in one hand and a gun in the other as you build towers and shoot down a mess of cybernetic baddies.
Developer: Teravision Games
Launch Date: Summer 2021
Project 4 (Boneworks)
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Boneworks (2019) offers up some awesome physics-based shooting madness on PC VR headsets, and we were intrigued when the studio announced they’d be bringing the game’s mechanics and core systems to Quest and also put it “anywhere we can,” Stress Level Zero says. There’s still nothing out there on the so-called Project 4 game yet, but we’re hoping to learn more sometime soon.
Developer: Stress Level Zero
Launch Date: TBD
Assassin’s Creed & Splinter Cell
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After a rash of first-gen VR games and a pre-COVID foray into VR arcade experiences, Ubisoft is again renewing its commitment to at-home VR gaming with bona fide Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell VR games. The studio announced both titles in September 2020, but there’s still distressingly little information out there outside of the fact that they will be built from the ground-up exclusively for the Oculus platform, and will “include elements of the franchises that players know and love.”
Developer: Ubisoft
Launch Date: TBD
Against
Against is rhythm game that is all about fighting and wall-running to the beat through stylish neo-noir levels. We had a chance to preview Against a little while ago; it has a lot in common with Beat Saber, Pistol Whip, and FitXR, but it’s much darker in tone as you slash, shoot, punch, dodge and more.
Developer: Joy Way
Launch Date: Q3 2021
Update (May 13th): We’ve completely overhauled this list, and took out games that have since launched. You can catch many of those over at our Review section to find out where to spend your hard-earned cash.
What new games are you excited to play on Quest? Let us know in the comments below!
