We’re thrilled to announce that Bootstrap Island is formally coming to PlayStation VR2 in 2026. This would be the most immersive model of Bootstrap Island but, powered by the superior options of PS VR2. Created completely for hi-fi {hardware}, it goals to ship realism, tactile interactions and a strong sense of presence. And now we convey that imaginative and prescient to PS VR2.
Bootstrap Island pushes your survival instincts to the restrict
Bootstrap Island is a sensible but intense survival journey impressed by Robinson Crusoe and different basic tales. After a brutal shipwreck, you get up as Daniel, a seventeenth century survivor stranded on a lethal tropical island. To outlive, you will need to study quick and face wild beasts, highly effective forces of nature, and secrets and techniques hidden deep within the jungle.
Ruthless survival expertise
There isn’t any hand-holding, no tips, no second possibilities. Solely your intuition, ability and willpower matter. Bootstrap Island is a ruthless roguelike the place each resolution has penalties.
You may collect meals and recent water, hunt for fish and wildlife, and put together for the hazards of dusk. When darkness comes, the beasts assault. You’ll have to learn to gentle fires and cargo and fireplace a flintlock pistol as a result of you’ll rely upon it.
Animals aren’t the one menace. Rain, storms, illness, quicksand, territorial animals, and toxic fruits are fixed risks.
Dynamic open world
Bootstrap Island presents a extremely sensible system-driven world the place every thing reacts. Day and night time cycles, climate, fireplace and liquids work together in complicated and sometimes unpredictable methods.
The island will be explored freely. Seashores, river banks, jungles and different biomes supply totally different assets. Every interplay encourages experimentation and instinctive downside fixing. You simply need to be inventive.
Development to outlive longer
Each dying teaches you one thing precious. You study by doing, adapt your technique and unlock new objects that may allow you to survive longer in future races. As you keep alive longer, you will acquire entry to satchels for stock, a building ebook to construct shelters and defenses, and tools like a musket for extra firepower. Medicines present in bottles allow you to combat sicknesses. You’ll start to note refined modifications within the setting. Survival comes from data, preparation and expertise.
Immersive narrative
Uncover the survivor’s story, life earlier than the shipwreck and the unsure future that awaits him.
As you discover, you will uncover who you might be, why you have been on the ship, and whether or not your presence on the island is a coincidence or one thing extra important. There are indicators of different individuals. Whether or not they’re hostile or pleasant is one thing you’ll uncover in your journey.
Random classes
No two races are ever the identical. Every session rearranges assets, occasions, climate patterns, and the kinds of creatures that hunt at night time. The island is at all times altering. Gadgets present in chests, territorial risks, and climate circumstances change from run to run. Adaptation is important.
PS VR2 takes our imaginative and prescient of survival to its full potential
From the start, our aim for Bootstrap Island was to create a VR expertise so plausible that gamers would overlook about the actual world, the place each interplay, from lighting a hearth to amassing assets, felt pure, stable, and bodily intuitive. To attain this, the sport depends on interconnected programs the place fireplace, water, climate, physics and animal habits always affect one another, creating moments that appear alive and unplanned. For us, digital actuality has at all times been greater than expertise; It’s a medium able to evoking presence, emotion and marvel.
PS VR2 permits us to totally specific this imaginative and prescient of probably the most sensible survival expertise in digital actuality by way of options resembling foveated rendering for distinctive readability and efficiency, headset vibration that intensifies dramatic moments resembling storms and near-death encounters, and adaptive triggers with superior haptics that create sensible sensations together with thunder, bow stress and gun recoil. Collectively, these capabilities make the PS VR2 launch of Bootstrap Island probably the most immersive model of the sport.
Bootstrap Island is developed by a small unbiased staff at Maru VR, and whereas that is our first premium recreation, we have created over 40 VR experiences over the past eight years to know the medium and learn to harness its potential.
