Whereas it’s not at all times prudent to burn down your complete home on the mere sight of an eight-legged creepy crawly, there are at all times exceptions, like whenever you squash an enormous ol’ spider with a frying pan and it explodes right into a thousand micro-spider infants. That’s at the very least the premise with newly launched indie title Kill It With Hearth VR.
Developed by Casey Donnellan Video games and revealed by tinyBuild, the first-person spider-hunting recreation launched this week on Quest 2 and SteamVR.
It’s truly a standalone VR tackle the studio’s flatscreen title, which was launched in 2020 to an ‘Overwhelmingly Optimistic’ person reception on Steam.
Right here’s how the studio describes the brand new VR model:
Tackle an exterminator job to rid homes of crawling spiderlings by any means essential. Make the most of technologically superior arachnid monitoring to seek out the pesky buggers and prepare to remove them as soon as and for all.
Select between ninja stars, TNT, image frames, a flatscreen TV, or something inside arm’s size so long as they get the job performed. Uncover options to advanced puzzles, search by means of the neighborhood to search out higher weapons, and unlock upgrades to essentially stick it to the person spiders.
Regardless of bing simply as low-poly as the unique flatscreen recreation, the brand new VR model gives up a way of immersion that arachnophobes will in all probability wish to ease into, as you observe down eight completely different arachnid varieties whereas fixing environmental puzzles, that are strewn throughout a procedurally generated world for a continuously completely different spider-hunting expertise.
You could find the VR-native model on Steam and the Quest Retailer, priced at $15. House owners of the unique flatscreen title on Steam can even get a 25% low cost off the VR model.
The studio says it’s additionally heading to PSVR and PSVR 2 in some unspecified time in the future later this yr.