Kayak VR: Mirage (2022) is amazingly immersive, packing in a ton of environments to discover in each single participant and asynchronous multiplayer racing modes. You by no means may paddle by the glaciers or meander round tropical coasts with a good friend in real-time although. However now, because of at this time’s replace, you possibly can.
Initially launched as in beta on Steam in mid-August, developer Higher Than Life at this time introduced that real-time multiplayer is lastly right here for Kayak VR: Mirage on all supported platforms, which incorporates Steam and PSVR 2.
The true-time multiplayer mode allows you to and a good friend discover collectively in free roam, serving up the core of the expertise. Notably lacking in its preliminary launch is race mode, proximity chat and physics objects just like the ball and different inflatables, the studio says. It additionally doesn’t embody cross-play at the moment, nonetheless the studio tells Street to VR they may add it sooner or later.
“Improvement on it began over a 12 months in the past and because it seems, making a VR recreation with a personality, holding a paddle, in a kayak, all physics based mostly, work in multiplayer isn’t any joke,” the studio says in a Steam replace. “Nonetheless we expect it’s utterly value it as we’ve had a blast throughout our testing and may’t wait to listen to what you suppose!”
Kayak VR: Mirage ranked within the high three most-downloaded video games within the US, Europe and Japan in 2023, owing to its photorealistic environments similar to ice caves in Antarctica, tropical locales in Costa Rica, storm waters in Norway, and the stark canyons of Australia. Its two-handed paddling, physics-based surroundings, and higher physique inverse kinematics (IK) make it particularly immersive.
If you happen to’re seeking to present suggestions on the multiplayer mode, you possibly can head over to the Kayak VR Discord (invite hyperlink), the place you too can keep in tuned for upcoming updates.
