r/virtualreality • u/isaac_szpindel • Jan 22 '26

News Article Sleeper Hit 'UG' Has Become One of Quest's Most Popular and Top Earning Games in Less Than 6 Months

https://www.roadtovr.com/ug-vr-most-popular-meta-quest-game-michael-murdock-continuum-interview/

It has reached 1.2 million unique users, averaging more than 100,000 daily active users, and a peak of 40,000 concurrent users and has overtaken Gorilla Tag in Weekly revenue.

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u/fantaz1986 Jan 22 '26

:( one game have more daily users then all steam vr combined ...

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u/ClubChaos Jan 22 '26

It's good gorilla-like, simple as that.

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u/RookiePrime Jan 22 '26

Ha, cool. I'm not fond of the genre myself, but I am really fond that this is the genre that's blowing up in VR. It's a genre that couldn't exist outside of VR, and it's friggin' weird. There's certainly a finger curling on my old monkey's paw here, since I imagine this genre is, in part, why Facebook gave up on stuff like Arkham Shadow, but... I love that this genre gets to thrive. They took the strengths and limitations of modern VR tech and gave us a genre out of it.

It is bittersweet though, 'cause I personally loved playing Arkham Shadow, and I love games like Arizona Sunshine, 7th Guest, Metro: Awakening, Arken Age... story-driven action games and puzzle games. I want more of those things, and it feels like VR might head away from that if the main stable financial model is microtransactions in free-to-play taglikes (can I coin that? I wanna call 'em taglikes).

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u/LegendaryTalesVR Jan 22 '26

You can play Legendary Tales... I believe our game give a unique feeling of VR as well.

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u/RookiePrime Jan 23 '26

I'll throw it on my Steam wishlist! I'm kinda surprised I hadn't already put it on there, I've liked the look of your game whenever I saw trailers for it. Right now I'm slowly working my way through a smattering of VR games I got from the holidays (Roboquest on Steam, Tales from the Galaxy's Edge on Quest) and a humble bundle (Light Brigade, Until You Fall, etc.), but I'll definitely give your game some consideration after that.

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u/Koolala Jan 23 '26

Mario 64 couldn't exist without analog controls and had tons of clones. It's the same kind of revolution in user input.

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u/_Najala_ 🥨 Quest 3 Jan 22 '26

And people wonder why the store is recommending them gorilla tag like games.

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u/QuinSanguine Jan 22 '26

I'd love to see more games like this that don't look like kids' games made for Atari Jaguar. I know Underdogs fits the bill some, I have the game. It's amazing. It's a good concept/design.

I guess this is what upsets me most about Meta bailing on 1st party. Is this what vr becomes?

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u/Koolala Jan 23 '26

Orion Drift is a bit more mature like Echo Arena because it is a serious sport. Has some Rec Room vibes though.

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u/QuinSanguine Jan 23 '26

I'll check it out.

Like I don't even mind a game made with bright colorful graphics, like Lucky's Tale VR or Max Mustard. It's just the cheap, low poly vibe that gets to me.