Skydance’s Behemoth Seemingly Won't Be On Steam At Launch

Skydance’s Behemoth on PC VR will solely launch by Meta Quest Hyperlink on December 5.

Whereas the upcoming motion RPG is presently scheduled to launch on the identical day on Quest and PS VR2, it has been unclear whether or not PC VR would comply with. A PC VR launch date was absent throughout its “World and Story” trailer with additional particulars promised “within the subsequent few weeks.” It now seems that the upcoming recreation will attain Meta’s retailer earlier than Steam on PC VR.

As seen throughout two bulletins, Skydance Video games states the sport can be launched digitally on December 5 “with the PC VR expertise accessible by the Meta Quest Hyperlink Cable on day one.” The studio additionally mentions that “further PC VR platforms” will comply with at a later date.

It is an uncommon transfer and whereas Meta’s PC VR retailer does proceed receiving new releases like Metro Awakening, Steam is definitely the extra standard storefront and the Steam Hyperlink app has been accessible on Quest since final 12 months. UploadVR contacted Skydance Video games over e mail for clarification on its PC VR launch plans, additionally asking if this implies cross-buy can be supported between Quest and Hyperlink.

“We’ve been actively creating for PCVR and Steam since day one and we can have [an] replace within the coming weeks,” Skydance representatives wrote us.

At a demo in New York on Wednesday night time, we additionally requested representatives on the occasion if they may affirm whether or not the sport was nonetheless coming to Steam in 2024. Skydance declined to touch upon the document.

On the occasion, the identical demo Henry Stockdale performed at Gamescom was made accessible alongside a whole construct of the sport on PlayStation VR2. This PS VR2 construct that Skydance meant to point out, nonetheless, wasn’t engaged on the PS5 methods that had been arrange there, and builders rolled again to an earlier model with some placeholder animations and lacking partitions.

Skydance plans to launch Behemoth on Quest 2 in addition to 3 and 3S, along with PC VR and PS VR2. This implies the studio’s builders are confronted with an extremely difficult activity – get the sport’s dynamic physics and startlingly enormous monsters operating easily on all main headsets, whereas additionally attempting to learn from the gross sales surge round Christmas when many individuals put aside cash for brand spanking new video games to purchase for his or her headsets.

Elsewhere, Skydance says a bodily version of Behemoth on PlayStation 5 will arrive on February 6, 2025, two months after the digital launch. Revealed by Most Leisure, this version comes with the “Weapons Pack” digital skins – Historical Hero’s Sword, Thornwood Bow, Behemoth Bone Axe, and Bronze Grappling Hook.