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Insomniac Games Has No Plans For PlayStation VR2 Games

When asked about PS VR2 games in development, Sony's Insomniac Games responded "We do not have plans for this."

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When asked about PS VR2 games in development, Sony's Insomniac Games responded "We do not have plans for this."

The response came on X, and the context of the question was an Insomniac post welcoming summer interns.

UploadVR has reached out to Sony to confirm that this means Insomniac is not working on a PlayStation VR2 game, and we'll update this article if we get a response.

We do not have plans for this.

— Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames) May 27, 2025

From its founding in the late 90s until 2016, Insomniac mainly developed PlayStation games on contract from Sony, including the Spyro, Resistance, and Ratchet & Clank series.

While it continued to release a few flatscreen PlayStation games, from 2016 to 2019 Insomniac also released four PC VR games for the Oculus Rift on contract from Facebook. In order, these were:

• Edge of Nowhere, a third person gamepad-controlled adventure game based on H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. It launched very soon after the Rift itself, and is considered one of its best launch-window titles.
• Feral Rites, a third person gamepad-controlled brawler where your character transforms into animals. It was not as well received as the studio's other VR games.
• The Unspoken, a PvP magic dueling launch title for the Oculus Touch tracked controllers, considered by many to be one of the best VR games of all time.
• Stormland, a sprawling open-world action-adventure shooter with support for 2 player co-op. One of the few AAA made-for-VR games available on PC, it launched six months after the Rift S, and alongside the Oculus Link feature of the original Oculus Quest.

Insomniac's close relationship with Facebook led to rumors that the company would acquire it. But instead it was Sony that acquired Insomniac, in 2019.

Given Insomniac's four Rift games and the success of the original PlayStation VR, many in the VR industry had expected Sony to leverage the studio to develop VR titles for a PlayStation VR2 on PS5 (both of which were only rumors at the time). Some had even hoped Insomniac could bring its Rift games over to PlayStation VR, though it's likely Facebook owns those IPs.

None of this happened, of course. Insomniac's VR games remain exclusively on Meta's PC VR store, and the studio hasn't released any VR game on PlayStation. Instead, since acquisition, the studio has continued to release Spider-Man and Ratchet & Clank flatscreen games, and is currently working on a flatscreen Wolverine game.

That Wolverine game does not yet have a release year, nevermind date, suggesting Insomniac is fully focused on its development. And based on the reply on X, it won't be getting PS VR2 support, and nor is the studio working on a PS VR2 game in secret.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Any of those 4 games worth playing these days?

 

[Romulus]

Stormland is Isomniac at its best imo. The definition of a gem. It still has VR mechanics that haven't been topped

It's a fully fledged AAA game.




The fact that PSVR2 didn't get this amazing game is very telling. It's still playable on the oculus store though as of a few weeks ago.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I bought a new Dyson stick vac at Best buy yesterday. While at the service counter I saw a wall of PSVR2 boxes along with ROG Alley boxes. I asked the girl if those are for people to pick up and she said they are being stored there till they can be moved to the warehouse. I also asked if they take PSVR2's used for store credit and she said no.

Anyway the new Dyson works really well. Dyson needs to put out a VR device next.

 

[drganon]

Not even trying with your troll threads anymore.

 

[diffusionx]

When Sony does not have plans for PlayStation PSVR2 games, it's not surprising that other companies don't either.

 

[BennyBlanco]

When Sony does not have plans for PlayStation PSVR2 games, it's not surprising that other companies don't either.

PSVR is dead and buried. That new Ninja Turtles game is skipping it for no reason other than lack of interest. You know it's not another Zucc moneyhat because it's going to Steam.

 

[Bitstream]

At this rate I'd be surprised if the next RE got a PSVR patch at all

 

[Buggy Loop]

Sony doesn't have a plan either

 

[Mibu no ookami]

You can tell that a lot of people who criticize PSVR2 do so as a bludgeon and don't actually have interest in it or play it.

6 PSVR2 games have released since the end of April and 4 are coming out with in the next couple of weeks...

 

[ArtHands]

Any of those 4 games worth playing these days?

There are timeless masterpiece especially Stormland. Insomniac Games at their peak in VR

 

[Little Chicken]

Why would anybody, it's a dead platform.

 

[Gitaroo]

sucks, their VR games ported to PCVR and PSVR2 and an updated version of Sunset overdrive with 4K unlocked frame rate , HDR, PSSR/DLSS Dualsense haptic support for Sunset Overdrive on PS5/PC would be nice. They pitched to Sony about releasing smaller titles to slot in between their major releases, Those seems to fit the bill.

 

[Wonko_C]

Seeing the "set and forget" attitude Sony has with PSVR2 it's not surprising, they turned the PS5 into an easy skip for me for quite a while now. Even the VR studio they acquired to make Horizon Call of the Mountain is being put to making flat games.

 

[Taddypole]

PSVR is dead and buried. That new Ninja Turtles game is skipping it for no reason other than lack of interest. You know it's not another Zucc moneyhat because it's going to Steam.

which is odd since the studio that's making that game has another game they are working on that's coming to vr2, they seem to release there vr 2 games after its been released on other platforms.