Sony really isn't letting up with the PSVR2 announcements this week as it's revealed another 9 games that are planned to release for the headset in the coming months. Since there's so much to get through here, we're going to largely quote from the PlayStation Blog, embed the accompanying trailers, and provide any other important details.
Another Fisherman's Tale
Another Fishermanās Tale is the highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning A Fishermanās Tale. This captivating adventure game takes players on a journey through a surreal world filled with imaginative locations and mind-bending puzzles. The gameās poetic storytelling and unique VR mechanics include the ability to detach and control limbs, making for a truly immersive experience. If youāre a fan of imaginative, narrative-driven games, then Another Fishermanās Tale is a must-play.
Another Fisherman's Tale launches for PSVR2 "later this year".
Gorn
The team here at Free Lives are excited to bring the frighteningly realistic depiction of gladiatorial combat to PS VR2, just like the ancient Romans would have wanted. Since we first started developing Gorn weāve added lots of new weapons, foes, and game modes for budding gladiators to take down in the arena and we believe this is our best version yet!
An updated version of a PSVR game, Gorn comes to PSVR2 on 16th March 2023. It's not known yet whether there'll be a free PSVR to PSVR2 upgrade.
Nock: Bow + Arrow Soccer
Nock, the latest addition to the virtual reality gaming world, combines the excitement of bow and arrow action with the thrill of a high-stakes soccer match. Players can skate and fly around a dynamic pitch, using their bow and arrow to blast the ball into their opponentās goal. With ranked multiplayer matches, casual custom games, and skill-based matchmaking, Nock offers a cross-platform gaming experience that is easy to learn but challenging to master. Communication with teammates is made easy with in-game voice chat and individual muting options.
Nock: Bow + Arrow Soccer releases for PSVR2 next month.
Hellsweeper VR
From the creators of Sairento VR and the publishers behind Arizona Sunshine comes the physics-defying Hellsweeper VR, an intense VR experience where earthly physics do not exist and gravity-defying movements become your new reality. As you traverse the different dimensions of Hell, gain mastery of a wide range of weapons and elemental magic, all while exploring crazy moves you previously thought imaginary.
Hellsweeper VR launches for PSVR2 "later this year".
Ragnarock
Ahoy, vikings! Are you ready to rock? Ragnarock is a solo/multiplayer VR rhythm game in which you play a viking captain competing in a ship race through mythological environments. Using your two hammers, crush the incoming runes in sync with epic viking music! Following the tradition of arcade games, Ragnarock is easy to play, hard to master. Only the most experienced players will be able to collect all the gold medals, beat the high scores and sign their name on the leaderboard. The multiplayer PvP mode, up to 6 players, brings real-time competition against your friends.
Ragnarock is a new PSVR2 launch game, out tomorrow.
RUNNER
Born out of a love for the look and feel of late 1980ās prestige anime, Runner is a visceral arcade experience that we are excited to release on PlayStation VR2 on February 22 with platform-specific enhancements. You can enjoy freeform VR shooting and blisteringly fast motorcycle combat in crystal clear 4K featuring intuitive gameplay with upgradeable sidearm mods, unique mounted cannon weapons, and time-bending special moves. Youāll feel the tactile immersion with weapon-specific adaptive trigger feedback and haptic controller effects, with the PS VR2 headset feedback conveying every shot, impact, and cannon blast
Runner is another PSVR2 launch title, out tomorrow.
Startenders: Intergalactic Bartending
Dock your barship and serve up some wild creations in Startenders: Intergalactic Bartending, featuring a fully voiced campaign, millions of drink combinations, and daily leaderboard competitive modes. With its procedurally generated shifts, youāll never know what youāre going to rustle up. Between shifts, you can unwind, build new bar machines, get new ingredients and mix your own custom concoctions. Headset feedback and controller haptics let you feel every shake, slice, and squeeze as you go bar to bar. Work hard and you might even break a sweat!
Owners of the original Startenders will get a free PSVR to PSVR2 upgrade.
Sushi Ben
Sushi Ben is a VR narrative adventure where you must save a local sushi restaurant from going out of business. But it wonāt be easy! First, youāll need to meet the townspeople and help them out in order to earn their trust. Sushi Ben features colorful narrative encounters, beautiful 3D manga panels, and an anime-inspired art style.
Sushi Ben will release for PSVR2 "later this year".
Unplugged: Air Guitar
Jump on stage in and live out your rock-star fantasy in Unplugged: Air Guitar, arriving February 22 for PS VR2. Play air guitar to some of the biggest, most insanely cool songs from world-famous rock bands, including Ozzy Osbourne, The Offspring and Weezer. Unplugged is all about making you feel like a rock legend.
Unplugged: Air Guitar is yet another newly announced PSVR2 launch title, out tomorrow.
What games do you like the look of most? Post your list in the comments below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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This is honestly a very impressive amount of PSVR2 games for the launch window. Very nice to see.
Beat Saber when
As good as this launch lineup is, I do find it baffling that Sony haven't ported Astro Bot and Blood and Truth, the latter being even stranger given it actually got PS5 support for the original headset
Well i dont think my vr is arriving tomorrow, still says preparing to ship, im a little gutted now, got myself hyped up for release. Ah well still got hogwarts to play so not all bad.
Lots of quantity, not enough quality for me. Not yet at least.
After vr2 releases hopefully we can get a state of play or showcase soon.
I take it that the makers of Gorn are being sarcastic when they claim 'frighteningly realistic'.
@carlos82 mind boggling eh? I dont know why they didnt port over a couple more of the PSVR's big hitters like Wipeout, Astrobot, Blood and truth, Beat sabre, Statik and super hot . Although there are alot of games releasing in the window there is only a handful that actually look any good imo. Seems to be more of quantity than quality. At the moment the only games i see myself playing from launch are GT7, Kayak and Moss. Runner looks like it could be fun as long as its got some substance to it and its not crazy priced. Maybe i need to wait for a few more reviews for some of the launch lineup games before thats set in stone. Maybe im just being super picky and my expectations are too high i guess.
@Daleaf sadly I donāt think mine is arriving tomorrow eitherš
As you said at least we have Hogwarts.
Not a great launch list to spend that much for the headset day one, it will improve over time I guess, good luck to early adaptors
@carlos82 YES where is Astrobot. Thatās the game Iām
Most excited to play and it looks like it might not exist!
Oh well till super excited for when mine eventually arrives .
Apart from A Fishermanās Tale sequel, nothing of interest there for me. Although would like to see how good the finger tracking is in that air guitar game.
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That's exactly my stance, it's an impressive amount, but there's little I actually want to play more than other games I have. That's not enough to drop Ā£600+ on the system a game etc.
Also surprised they haven't ported Astro's Rescue Mission for launch. Many people said it was their favourite VR title and one of the few I think might be considered a possible system seller.
@Daleaf
Exactly this. Will default to Hogwarts until it says itās shipping, as afterwards iāll be too excited to play anything else.
While the game doesn't look that great the 80s VHS anime intro to Runner was all my types of nostalgia.
I'm most interested in Hellsweeper.
@themightyant Ian from Eurogamer played Runner in today's stream. He quite liked it.
more vr games are great but that headset price needs to go down ugh
Astrobot will come. I'm certain that VR2 is the only reason Asobi was spared the Japan Studio axe (for now.)
This list of games isn't necessarily as good as the original list and some of the other known announced titles. A lot of arcade/minigame type things. But form this list Sushi Ben looks interesting, Air Guitar may end up being the rhythm game I actually buy, that actually looks really interesting and a good use of the split controllers, assuming the jpop glowstick one doesn't actually appear (Drums Rock looks ok but I can't imagine drumming without the kickback from the drumheads, sounds like wrist-trauma in the waiting)
Hellsweeper also looks interesting. Looks almost like a real-time physical action Nioh. Sounds painful, but intriguing.
@__jamiie IDK it's precisely how I picture it....
@huyi And the early adopters using those early adaptors as well š
Curious about ragna rock and unplugged air guitar...has anyone played these on quest l,any recommendations as rhythm games are probably favourite genre
@carlos82 It's like a dessert marketplace right now. Or, a trifle bazaar. Wonder if there's licensing issues?
@thefourfoldroot1 You're gonna hate me, but there's no way it's good enough. If it is, then VR has a whole new level of input opportunities and we'd have heard about it by now.
@Drawfull
Oh Iām sure it isnāt that great, but is it good enough to make air guitar feel like more than pushing buttons as in the past? Probably. As long as their arenāt tracking issues then it could be fun even with the 3 finger trackingā¦
Unplugged Air Guitar - Budget Guitar hero. with Bargain Bin Reject Rock.
Crappy Rock Tunes from Vertigo Games
Giving VR guitar a bad name, bad name.
@carlos82 It almost seems as if theyāre playing a Nintendo card by deliberately ignoring what consumer wantsā¦
@Daleaf same man. Feel for you. Where you from and when did you preorder?
My psvr2 is still preparing to ship. Gutted. Hope everyone who gets theres enjoys it and everyone elses is delivered on time. āšā¤ļø
@Scottish_Kal_El im in UK, pre ordered early dec so guess they are prioritising the invites they did first. Been trying to live chat to somone to push it a bit but its always busy bloody usless chat no que available just sorry try again later š
Yep, same here. Glad I didn't book the day off!
@thefourfoldroot1 @JGB yea hogwarts it is and cry a little, didnt want it day one anyway šŖšŖšŖšŖ haha
@munstre Iām just going off the types of games I like to play, and none of these appeal to me. I, like many, want to see big budget, AAA games announced for PSVR2.
I feel like House of the Dead and Time Crisis would benefit from this.
@Daleaf Iām in the same exact position
@Daleaf aye the same i preordered it in jan. And have spoke to people on the chat but they just said the release window is the 22nd to 28th to me and they are trying to get as many out as possible.
@Scottish_Kal_El yea thought that what they might say. Ah well hopefully it gets shipped soon, would nice to have it before the weekend at least.
RagnaRock is fantastic on Quest 2 & PCVR.
@JP80
@Damage99 hopefully we get a dispatch email soon m8. Just want that thing strapped around my head now haha.
@SirRealDeal will add it to wishlist cheers
I think I've entered a weird parallel dimension in which @NEStalgia is defending a barebones PlayStation launch line-up.
Quick, someone, haul me back to the real world!
Variety is nice, but PSVR2, and VR more broadly, needs something big to really push it out of the 'expensive curiosity' category it currently resides in. VR needs its Sword Art Online (minus the, uh, headsets that kill people who leave the game).
I wasn't sure mine would arrive tomorrow, but it's on its way and looks like it's really happening (for those curious: I pre-ordered very early on from an invite and I'm in the USA). I've got Horizon, Star Wars, and the Kayak game ready to go, plus RE: Village which I've held off playing so I could experience it in VR. (Edit: oh. And No Man's Sky!)
I'm looking forward to the experience.
@carlos82 @Kidfunkadelic83 @JGB
Astro Bot RM is too tightly integrated with the DualShock 4. That's definitely the reason why it is not in the launch lineup.
A port in the strict sense of the word would not be possible. Maybe a remake, reimagining or something along these lines. PSVR2 does not track the DualSense controller, so the game would need a major overhaul to support the PSVR Sense controllers.
I know that GT7 does support the DualSense, but it is not tracked as in Astro Bot. It just reads the buttons inputs. Rescue mission would not work within this limitation.
@Octane lol, it's a good lineup really. It could have done with more Sony games and less oculus mini game ports but gt7 is a pretty big move for them with a real aaa game, and horizon, it's not what we hoped it might be, but still seems big budget
And nms.... Plus all the smaller games.
I mean you were there for PS4 and Vita 3DS and WiiU launch. This runs circles around that. A 8 hour horizon game is a better launch drop from guerilla then shadow fall...
@neonpizza I went back and looked at my confirmation email. I ordered on November 15th. Hopefully you get yours sooner rather than later!
@Art_Vandelay I'm pretty sure Capcom has had to do far more work to RE Village then what would be needed for Astro Bot
@neonpizza "I'm chasing freaking robodinos"
Just those few huh? Lol my list keeps growing too! I get why people aren't into all the games that are kind of mini games as meaning much at launch, bit with gt7, re8, and nms it's not like there's nothing aaa at launch. And horizon still looks awesome even if it's more aa with AAA visuals.
Forgot about Ghostbusters! That's later in the year but still a big first party affair.
Nms is going to destroy me alone. I bought all this stuff and I know nms will just devour me....
Yeah, I was getting the PS5 regardless but way holding my breath for vr2. Then came the "will it be today? No, tomorrow, no, will it happen someday? We believe that" speech and it was like, "whelp, there just went vr2...". Thank goodness for Sony Japan like 2 days later back door announcing it. Been waiting since then! Can't believe you have such a late delivery window, that's nuts! My window was always a week starting today. I couldn't have ordered more than a week before you if not the same time!
On the one hand, I'm glad I held off pre-ordering any more VR games a few days ago.
On the other, I wish I hadn't ordered the CotM. Bundle.
@Damage99 @Scottish_Kal_El well would you believe it, i received a email around 10.30pm last night saying it had been shipped. In work now and just checked the status and its been delivered, just got to get through the work day now š
Happy days dude. Im the same, about 10:50 i got one last night. And tracking with DPD says ive got an hour window slot from 1 to 2 th8s afternoon. Totally buzzing. ššš
@carlos82 Not if RE Village was built from the ground up with PSVR2 in mind. Which it probably did. Same goes for GT7, which is first-party just like Astro Bot.
The point is Astro Bot RM does not directly translate to PSVR2. My criticism was specifically to calling it a "port", which implies a lot less work than it actually requires.
Now, I agree Sony should definitely do a remake, or at least a new Astro made specifically for PSVR2. Which I think they will. Should it be available at launch? Maybe, but it's a small studio. Also, there's value in saving some of the good stuff for later. Note that Rescue Mission came out 2 years into PSVR's life-cycle.
Mine just arrived! Now to get those controllers charged š
@neonpizza enjoy! I haven't decided what to play first yet š
@neonpizza I did in fact start with Horizon because I thought itād be a good intro and it definitely was! After I played that for a bit though I fired up Kayak which I didnāt play for a long time but I can tell Iāll enjoy it when I want to relax a bit. Perhaps surprisingly, Iāve played Galaxyās Edge the most so far. The haptics are great and as a Star Wars nut, āinhabitingā that world has been a lifelong dream of mine. So far, so good!
I will add that I played the PSVR2 for several hours with no signs of motion sickness, but it should be noted that I donāt really get motion sick anyway. I spent long hours of my childhood reading books in the backseat of the family car while on road trips with my parents, so itās not something that Iāve ever really had an issue with. All that childhood training is finally paying off! š Iāve been ārockedā once or twice (but slamming my Kayak into a wall, for example), but nothing crazy or worrying. In fact, I thought it was hilarious.
I hope everyone that ordered gets theirs soon and has a great time! Iām really excited about what the future holds.
@neonpizza it might also be worth noting that, other than a very brief stint (an hour?) playing vr at my brothers house many years ago (on a Quest? I have no idea), today was my first real foray into it and Iād call it a resounding success so far!
@Daleaf mate thatās diabolical! No excuses for it to be any later than today. Have you contacted Sony
@Mikey856 it actuallybarrived yesterday was suprised, played a few things yesterday love it so far. Going to give horizon a go tonight hopefully, unless im on babysitting duties lets hope not lol.
@Daleaf sorry for the late reply pal, thatās fantastic then. We all got there In the end. And from your comment Iād say youāre enjoying it! Same here š
Haha no worries m8. Yea we all got it in the end. Yea loving it so far nearly finished horizon now actuallly really enjoying it, reviews seemed to be negative. Been playing some pistol whip as well forgot how good it is. And a few other games. Been on it everyday since launch lol. Hope you are having a blast too.
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