Gunman Contracts – Stand Alone is slated to reach on PC VR headsets in early entry this 12 months, bringing an motion movie-inspired shooter journey that’s positively aiming excessive.
Solo dev ANB_Seth and writer 2080 Video games launched the sport’s tenth devlog, displaying off extra of the sport’s punchy gun mechanics on the newly unveiled dwelling base: ‘The Hive’. We get an eye-full of goal capturing, weapon customization, and taking up packs of baddies in coaching mode.
The video additionally exhibits off a neat settings menu—a smartphone saved in your left wrist slot—letting you scroll via environmental music, snap an image, and perhaps even make a name.
Whereas Half-Life: Alyx (2020) is an impressively excessive goal in relation to visible constancy and gunplay, ANB_Seth has a few of the finest expertise within the discipline. They’re the exact same solo developer behind ‘Gunman Contracts’—among the best, and most full-featured HLA mods on the market.
Though ‘Gunman Contracts’ (the mod) requires HLA, Gunman Contracts – Stand Alone is simply that: a standalone sport. At its early entry launch, ANB_Seth says it ought to have round 5-6 contracts, together with varied modes, all of that are constructed from the ground-up and never repeats of the motion seen within the mod collection.
Having labored with 2080 Video games since late 2024, ANB_Seth says the writer’s backing has allowed them to take a position “much more time into the mission, develop its scope, and speed up time to launch,” developer ANB_Seth explains in a Reddit put up. “Nonetheless, I’m nonetheless a one-man dev workforce and I’m pushing as laborious as I can to launch this 12 months – fingers crossed!”
That leaves ANB_Seth solely round three months left to hit the 2025 early entry launch window, which may recommend we’re going to see a lot extra of the sport as ending touches are utilized, so we’ll be holding a watch out.
Within the meantime, you may wishlist Gunman Contracts – Stand Alone on Steam, which is able to launch in early entry with each PC VR and flatscreen modes. There’s no phrase but on whether or not the sport is coming to different platforms, nevertheless ANB_Seth mentioned final 12 months ports to Quest or PSVR 2 are “really practical.”
