‘Gorilla Tag’ Developer Reveals First Look at Ambitious New Quest Game

The developer of Gorilla Tagone of the most popular and commercially successful VR games, has revealed the first clear look at its upcoming game. Previously named “Project AR,” the title has now been officially named Orion Drift, and aims to take Gorilla labels social structure to the next level.

Another Axion is the independent studio behind Gorilla Tagthe viral VR game that came to life and generated over $100 million in revenue, making it one of the most successful VR titles.

And while most studios would be reluctant to disrupt such a success with their own new title, that feels like exactly what Another Axiom is doing with Orion’s DriftA recently released teaser shows how this will work.

Orion Drift builds on Gorilla Tag’s arm-based locomotion system, but players will inhabit robot bodies rather than gorillas. But this simple avatar change is far from the disruptive part. The game takes Gorilla labels smooth social lobby navigation and playground-style gameplay and acceleration up to 11.

Orion’s Drift is supposed to feature space stations that up to 200 players can move around on at once. The space stations consist of several large arena spaces where players can play a wide variety of different games, ranging from something that resembles ‘Gorilla Tag’ itself to ‘Tackleball’, which is a lot like soccer or Rocket Racebut of course using your hands for movement and ball control.

We also get a glimpse of another part of the resort that includes something that looks like a golf course and pickleball courts. And yet another area that hosts an event called “Scrap Run” that looks like an obstacle course.

While that would already be plenty of space for activities, the cylindrical space station has at least seven additional massive modules that are listed as being “under construction” – implying that these will all fill up to support more unique activities and gameplay modes.

And it could even be the players who build the rest of the station. Another Axiom has already said about the game that “(…) players can manage their own servers, control their own stations, host their own rules, moderate and customize the appearance of activities, posters, game modes and more,” and also mentioned plans for a level editor that would allow players to create their own maps and activities.

And if that wasn’t enough, at the end of the trailer the camera pulls back and reveals not just one floating station, but nearly 20 stations floating together in space.

It is an ambitious concept that is clearly inspired by the homogeneous social structure of Gorilla label, where game lobbies are “places” and switching game modes is as natural as walking between rooms.

In Orion’s DriftHowever, the idea is not to simply wander down the hallway to a new room, but to traverse an entire space station full of people, and perhaps even hop from one station to another to find new game modes and new people.

For now, Another Axiom is calling this early preview a “development snapshot” consisting of “early gameplay footage.” There are no specific plans for a release yet, but the studio is accepting signups for a closed early access period on its official Discord.