Indie VR hit Gorilla Tag has been staggeringly well-liked regardless of solely being out there to this point on Quest’s App Lab. Now set for launch on the principle Quest retailer on December fifteenth, it is going to launch because the most-rated sport on the complete retailer, even surpassing Beat Saber, certainly one of VR’s greatest identified apps.
App Lab is Meta’s ‘unlisted’ app retailer for Quest, which permits builders a approach onto the platform however precludes them from being promoted or simply discovered by means of the principle Quest retailer that the majority clients see.
Nonetheless, we’ve seen apps discover success on App Lab, and none extra so than Gorilla Tag, a easy sport of multiplayer tag with distinctive hand-based locomotion and charmingly low-fi visuals, which has succeeded find an viewers regardless of not being seen in the principle Quest retailer.
Having solely been on App Lab since March 2021, Gorilla Tag has already amassed 46,000 critiques; that’s greater than another Quest app—even these on the principle retailer—together with Beat Saber’s 45,000 critiques, which is maybe VR’s most well-known sport thus far. In comparison with Beat Saber, Gorilla Tag after all has the benefit of being free, however the sport additionally has essentially the most critiques amongst free apps too—even these on the principle retailer—pulling forward of the highest free app, Rec Room, which sits at 22,000 critiques.
And now the sport is lastly headed to the principle Quest retailer, the place it’s destined to solely turn into extra well-liked. Developer Kerestell Smith has introduced a Gorilla Tag launch date of December fifteenth on the principle Quest retailer. Gorilla Tag can also be out there on PC VR.
Smith started Gorilla Tag as a one-man mission beneath the studio identify One other Axiom. With the sport’s explosive recognition, Smith has grown the studio to fifteen individuals, based on Meta.
Gorilla Tag’s recognition isn’t solely measured in critiques although; Smith mentioned earlier this yr that the sport had reached a staggering 4.5 million gamers.
And the place has the app discovered such traction, regardless of being ‘unlisted’ within the Quest retailer? Smith tells Street to VR that TikTok has been an enormous driver, with the hashtag #gorillatag seeing 4.4 billion views thus far—purely natural, based on the developer.