VitruviusVR, the studio behind Shadow Legend VR (2019) and Mervils: A VR Journey (2016), introduced the upcoming launch of a brand new sci-fi action-adventure recreation referred to as Arken Age.

Coming to PSVR 2 and PC VR headsets, the single-player VR journey is ready to deliver a number of headlining options that ought to lift an eyebrow amongst followers of the style, together with absolutely customizable melee and ranged weapons, physics-based fight, boss fights, over two dozen distinctive areas, and a 10-hour marketing campaign.

Right here’s how VitruviusVR describes the story:

Your journey begins in Celestial Custodian’s Tower on the shores of the Bio-Chasm, a terraformed realm created to reap Arkenite Power. Its divine founder, the Grand Arborist, has ceased cultivation of your planet and each transmission despatched to him has been met with abject silence. Uncover the reality behind the disappearance of the Grand Arborist, forge alliance with the Nara alien race, and take up arms in opposition to the usurper Hyperion & his legion of corrupted troopers.

The sport additionally boasts loads of weapon customizations—30 in complete. You’ll be able to nab new gear by looting scrap all through the sport, refining it for money, after which shopping for numerous gadgets resembling weapon blueprints, shields, grenades, well being syringes, and ammo.

Again on the crafting desk, you possibly can take blueprints to create new and extra highly effective weapons so as defeat more and more tougher enemies all through your journey.

Furthermore, the sport guarantees some epic boss fights, every of that are “particularly designed for VR,” the studio says, mentioning that every boss has quite a few levels and would require rapidly timed assaults and blocks to deliver your opponent down. Gamers might want to use long-range weapons, close-range melee weapons, retractable pickaxes, and quick-inventory deployables to return out as victors.

Arken Age seems to be fairly promising so far. At the least from the reveal trailer, it seems to pack in a ton of visible depth together with its justifiable share of distinctive VR-native interactions. After all, we’re reserving judgement for once we go hands-on, which is able to reveal whether or not the sport is as deep because the characteristic set and 10-hour marketing campaign would possibly counsel.

There’s no launch window but, nevertheless within the meantime you possibly can wishlist the sport over on Steam and PSVR 2.