In digital actuality you may discover Tokyo populated by solely cats and capybaras.
Walkabout Mini Golf is out there now inside all main VR headsets with the opening date for the brand new Passport Tokyo vacation spot set for August 14, 2025. Designers confirmed in the present day cats from Neko Atsume populate their model of Tokyo and UploadVR independently confirms the presence of capybaras as properly.
The course is second within the sport’s Passport collection primarily based on real-world areas, following Venice final yr. Many actual world areas embody restrictive authorized frameworks round their representations, and for VR designers there’s additionally a difficult process on the subject of representing the vibe throughout whole cities. With Tokyo, Mighty Coconut partnered with Japan-based Hit-Level’s Neko Atsume as a collaborator towards a objective that “Japanese and worldwide gamers will recognize what we’ve performed right here.”
Although Tokyo is an unlimited metropolis rivaling any on Earth, Mighty Coconut says they’ve centered their depiction all the way down to the Shinjuku District as much as the steps of the Hanazono Shrine. The studio says eight “Neko Atsume cats have discovered their method onto the course” and most of them are gathered round a cat shrine.
You’ll be able to take images with the cats utilizing the CocoVision digicam and your puppet may even seem within the image. The course is the sport’s thirty fifth with a just lately repackaged core providing and most DLCs priced $3.99. Mighty Coconut plans its programs greater than a yr upfront, passing their creation to completely different groups as they layer in bits of artistry and shock.
Walkabout claims “a whole bunch of hundreds” of gamers meet often within the sport’s multiplayer classes, constructed largely round personal room codes. The studio says that greater than half of gamers spend time in multiplayer, and lots of of them are in classes lasting greater than two hours. Walkabout Mini Golf will mark 5 years since launch within the coming months, with new programs releasing roughly each six weeks.
We’ll have a behind-the-scenes design tour when the course launches and you’ll compensate for the journey thus far right here: