Purple Yonder, the studio behind VR metropolis simulator Little Cities (2022), at present launched a combined actuality action-strategy recreation for Quest 3 and 3S that challenges you to fortify your real-world house towards waves of dastardly little critters.
Known as Little Critters, the sport pits you towards a legion of invaders, arming you with a bunch of digital traps you can connect to your partitions, ceilings, flooring and furnishings.
The pint-sized military can crawl, swoop and assault from each route, growing in problem as you progress by means of every wave. Stage development additionally means new critter sorts with distinctive assault patterns to defend towards, but additionally new traps, upgrades and weapons to defend your house—all of which adapts to any dimension or form of room.
“Modern scene monitoring maps the participant’s environment, turning their precise room right into a core part of the sport,” the studio says, describing the tech behind Little Critters. “Depth occlusion permits critters to run beneath tables and behind furnishings. With hand monitoring, gamers can slap, squash, throw and poke the critters.”
Along with hand-tracking, studio additional notes that Contact Plus controllers are additionally supported.
You’ll find Little Critters at present over on the Horizon Retailer, priced at $20/£15/€18. Purple Yonder notes that Little Critters will get common updates, together with new language localizations and extra content material designed to maintain the gameplay contemporary and fascinating.
Little Critters was created by the identical crew behind informal metropolis simulator Little Cities, which began out in life as a VR-only expertise, printed by VR veteran studio nDreams. Since its launch in 2022, Purple Yonder has launched quite a lot of updates to Little Cities, together with a Quest 3 replace in addition to a hand-tracking replace.
Then, in late 2024, Purple Yonder introduced a combined actuality model of Little Critters to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, accessible by means of Apple Arcade, the video games subscription service.
