Walkabout Mini Golf developer Mighty Coconut is quickly to launch its fifth and largest new DLC course up to now—a method that appears to be working nicely contemplating what the studio declare’s is a degree of participant engagement that’s 10 instances the typical.
As terrestrial as it might be in comparison with a glut of VR motion video games, there’s little question that Walkabout Mini Golf is one in all Quest’s prime VR video games on the headset.
At our final test it ranked because the #3 greatest rated sport within the Quest library, boasting a mean consumer evaluation of 4.86 out of 5 over 7,300 evaluations.
That’s thanks in no small half to its easy gameplay and simple to make use of multiplayer performance which permits cross-platform play, direct invitations, Quest Invite Hyperlinks, and room code lobbies.
Not solely is the sport holding gamers coming again, it’s additionally holding them within the headset for what the studio claims is 10 instances the typical size for a Quest sport.
The studio not too long ago shared that fifty% of Walkabout Mini Golf’s energetic Quest gamers are staying within the sport for 2 hour periods on common… and it might be longer nonetheless, however that’s approaching the restrict of Quest’s battery life.
The spectacular declare demonstrates the facility of multiplayer & social VR functions—particularly these with user-friendly implementations—to not solely get gamers into the headset, however to maintain them there.
With a big portion of their playerbase so engaged with the sport, Mighty Coconut’s technique of promoting new programs as reasonably priced, paid DLC seems to be an ongoing success. Doubling down on that entrance, the studio is increasing the sport’s lobbies from 5 gamers to eight with its subsequent replace, and including a brand new DLC course which will probably be its largest but (and its primarily based on licensed IP).
Whereas intensive paid DLC add-ons have steadily fallen out of favor within the broader gaming market—due to their propensity to splinter the energetic participant base into those that personal DLC and those that don’t—Mighty Coconut has neatly implement a ‘friend-pass’ system for its DLC which permits anybody to play on the paid programs so long as one particular person within the foyer owns the course, thus holding associates taking part in collectively as a substitute of placing a DLC wall between them.