The infamous cave in which a youth football team was trapped in 2018 is coming to VR spelunking game Cave Crave.
3R Games has announced that the next real-world cave to appear in their virtual reality spelunking game Cave Crave will be Thailand’s Tham Luang. The cave gained international attention in 2018 when a youth football team became trapped in the cave by rising flood waters.
To ensure accuracy and appropriate context, the studio is collaborating with diver Vern Unsworth, who directly participated in the rescue, and 3D cave-scanning expert Roo Walters. The new cave will appear in Cave Crave’s Tourist Mode, a non-gamified virtual recreation of real-world locations.
This addition to the game’s “real cave” experiences follows an earlier update that added Utah’s Nutty Putty Cave, another real-world cave that closed in 2009 after the death of John Edward Jones. 3R Games is careful to note that their real cave recreations aim to offer a way to explore dangerous or permanently closed sites that’s both respectful and authentic, and not gamified experiences.
In Cave Crave, you’ll explore tight tunnels and caves, spelunk your way through the darkness, mark walls with chalk and use various other caving tools to plumb the depths and escape to the safety of the open air.
Previous updates have added an Arcade Mode, which turns the game into a competitive race against time, where you aim for the quickest run on the online leaderboards.
Cave Crave is out now on PlayStation VR2, Quest, and Steam.
