In an announcement that was arguably more surprising that Valve sharing details about its upcoming console, VR headset, and new controller, Vampire Survivors is now inexplicably available for Meta Quest. I’m not the biggest VR proponent, but I am a big fan of seeing how familiar games get ported to the platform. I love Resident Evil 4 VR for Meta Quest and am sad that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas appears to be dead. Hopefully, I am wrong.
In any case, I quickly downloaded it and played a few rounds and was charmed by it. Expectantly, it offers a new perspective on a game I have dumped a lot of hours into. Seeing the game (which is functionally identical to playing it on a 2D screen) laid out before with some limited stereoscopic layering to the pixel characters and monsters is neat. It is not the new way that I will play Vampire Survivors moving forward, but I am glad it exists, and I want to see more unexpected games like this get ported to VR. My dream for a VR port? Metal Gear Solid, with its 32-bit visuals intact.
You can see a little bit of gameplay from the VR version here.
