Walkabout Mini Golf developer Mighty Coconut is quickly to launch its fifth and largest new DLC course so far—a technique that appears to be working properly 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 among Quest’s high VR video games on the headset.
At our final verify it ranked because the #3 greatest rated recreation within the Quest library, boasting a median person overview of 4.86 out of 5 over 7,300 evaluations.
That’s thanks in no small half to its easy gameplay and straightforward 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 preserving gamers coming again, it’s additionally preserving them within the headset for what the studio claims is 10 instances the typical size for a Quest recreation.
The studio just lately shared that fifty% of Walkabout Mini Golf’s lively Quest gamers are staying within the recreation 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 purposes—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 inexpensive, 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 likely be its largest but (and its based mostly 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 lively participant base into those that personal DLC and people who 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 preserving buddies taking part in collectively as an alternative of placing a DLC wall between them.