The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR confirmed as PSVR 2 launch title - Eurogamer.net

And pre-order bonuses revealed.

The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR - developer Supermassive Games' rail-shooter rotation connected its acclaimed communicative fearfulness bid - has been confirmed arsenic a motorboat time rubric for Sony's PlayStation VR 2, meaning it'll get connected 22nd February adjacent year.

Switchback isn't Supermassive's archetypal foray into spooky VR, of course; it antecedently adapted its cinematic fearfulness crippled Until Dawn into some a VR prequel and a gaudy, rollercoaster-like obstruction shooter called Rush of Blood. And Dark Pictures: Switchback VR is precise overmuch a spiritual successor to the latter, sending players connected a "nightmarish and horrifying" branching VR thrill thrust done scenes that should beryllium acquainted to Dark Pictures fans.

"Survive the Ghost Ship and its distorted apparitions," Supermassive teases, "confront hideous demonic incarnations of persecuted 'witches'. Fight for your beingness against other-worldly vampires and flight the horrifying World's Fair Hotel's sadistic serial killer."

Previously, Switchback VR was officially lone confirmed arsenic a "spring" 2023 release, but present it's been formally slapped with a 22nd February motorboat date, meaning it'll get alongside PSVR 2, wherever it'll outgo £32.99/$39.99 USD.

To travel the news, Supermassive has besides elaborate Switchback VR's Inferno Pack pre-order bonus on the PlayStation Store, which includes the Demon Handgun, peculiar variation Gold Gun, premium skull and bones cart, positive the skull bobble head, for those that privation to enactment their wealth down early.

PlayStation VR2 will outgo £530 erstwhile it launches connected 22nd February, with different confirmed merchandise time titles including Horizon Call of the Mountain, Cities VR: Enhanced Edition, and the free PSVR2 upgrade for No Man's Sky.

Eurogamer's Ian Higton went hands-on with PSVR2 earlier this twelvemonth and came distant impressed, saying it was "all I could person wanted for an upgraded PSVR headset and much, overmuch more."