Dimensional Double Shift: A New Multiplayer VR Game from Owlchemy Labs
In his weekly column, Android Central Senior Content Producer Nick Sutrich delves into all things VR, from new hardware to new games, upcoming technologies, and so much more.
Whenever someone gets their first VR headset, Job Simulator is almost always one of the first games they’ll play. The game is as ubiquitous with virtual reality gaming as Beat Saber is and this has earned developer Owlchemy Labs quite the pedigree over the years. For that reason, the company’s latest game, Dimensional Double Shift, immediately caught my eye.
Dimensional Double Shift, or DDS as I’ll call it from now on, can be described essentially as a multiplayer Job Simulator. While Job Simulator sees you taking your time as one of four jobs, DDS splits the workload between two main job types to finish as many duties as you can within a shift. Each job supports up to four players, and you’ll find that jobs change based on how many players are in the game and what workstations they’re at.
DDS’s first dimension, Treeattle, is a parody play on the hipster hippy culture you might find in suburban and downtown Seattle. Hexas, likewise, is a parody of the larger-than-life attitudes and lifestyles you’ll find in Texas, just with a demonic twist for comedic effect.
As with any good Owlchemy game, DDS rewards players for thinking outside of the box and combining items that otherwise might not go together. It also heavily leans into the alternate dimension concept where cars might have milkable udders or demonic patrons might enjoy a literal bloody Mary drink.
Owlchemy’s CEO, Andrew Eiche, told me the company is already hard at work on the next big update. While he didn’t commit to what sorts of new jobs we can look forward to, I’m confident that the next update will once again reinvent what DDS players have come to expect.
Owlchemy’s first online multiplayer game is a huge success — the game already surpassed 500,000 downloads and is the fastest-growing Owlchemy game ever — and Hexas doubles the fun for just . Hard to say no to that.
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