HTC’s Viveport Subscription service has been available for a little over two months now, and in that time it’s mainly focused on offering experiential VR content with just a few games. Today, though Viveport gets serious about gaming.
The service today announced that it’s doubling the amount of apps on offer with the Viveport Subscription, adding more than 75 new titles to bring the total of experiences to over 150. New additions include some top games that have released on the HTC Vive as recently as the past year. Among the flood of new apps are highlights like Grab Games’ excellent boxing title, Knockout League, the highly-polished ROM: Extraction from First Contact, and Psytec Games’ Windlands. Also coming to the platform are a huge number of apps that were previously only available in Asia, and aren’t listed on Steam.
If you haven’t subscribed to Viveport yet then your first month is available for free, and it’s $6.99 a month from then on. For that price you’ll get to choose from five titles to download a month. The update presents a lot of value, then; the three games mentioned above would cost around $60 to buy together and there’s still room for another two titles on your download list. For one month you can get access to them at a fraction of the price.
When you roll onto the next month you’ll be able to either trade those apps in for another five experiences, or keep hold of some of them and trade others in. In its first month it was Solfar Studios’ highly-polished Everest VR that proved to be the most popular app. It will be interesting to see if that changes at all with the introduction of these new experiences.
