Sandbox journey I Am Cat (2024) is all about stretching your chubby little paws, exploring the neighborhood, taking part in with dynamite—, cat issues. Now the hit single-player sport simply acquired a brand new replace that brings multiplayer lobbies to the combination, following an growing pattern in social VR video games taking up.
Developer New Folder Video games simply launched a brand new maritime playground, letting you and as much as 19 different feline associates set sail collectively for extra patently wacky adventures.
The replace, now obtainable on Quest free of charge, additionally comes alongside a bunch of latest cosmetics, together with skins, hats, glasses, and extra. For now, the replace solely options public lobbies, though the studio says it’s at the moment engaged on non-public lobbies.
New Folder is probably going hoping to capitalize on the rising pattern of social VR video games recurrently taking the highest spots in Quest’s highest-earning video games, which incorporates free-to-play apps like Animal Firm, Gorilla Tag, Yeeps: Disguise and Search, and VRChat.
And the stakes are fairly excessive. One other Axiom’s Gorilla Tag is ostensibly main the pack, as final summer time the studio introduced it had topped $100 million in gross income, which was nearly totally pushed by in-app purchases.
Notably, Meta chalks up the current success of social VR to the discharge of Quest 3S headset ($300), which has additionally seen a demographic shift in the direction of youthful gamers on the platform. That mentioned, there aren’t many paid single-player apps making the multiplayer leap, as I Am Cat’s base sport nonetheless prices $20.
For I Am Cat although, costing $20 doesn’t appear to be an enormous barrier to entry. The title has not solely been one of many high video games on Quest a number of months in a row, but in addition one of many top-earners too because it launched in early entry again in Might 2024.
And with the launch of multiplayer, the studio is ostensibly hoping to kick paid DLC drops into excessive gear. The sport’s first multiplayer cosmetics pack introduces six paid character fashions—Zombie, Robotic, Alien, Detective, Wolf, and Tremendous Hero cosmetics, priced at $20.
For now, the multiplayer replace is just obtainable on the Quest model of the sport, though New Folders Video games says it’s additionally coming to the China-only Pico model. On the time of this writing, there’s no phrase on whether or not the replace may also come to the Steam model.
Within the meantime, you could find I Am Cat on the Horizon Retailer for Quest 2 and above, and the single-player model over on Steam for PC VR headsets. There’s no phrase on when the sport will come to PSVR 2, though you will be positive we’re bookmarking the sport’s PlayStation Retailer web page.
