The heroes in a half shell are again, and this time they’re urgent proper up towards your eyeballs. That is due to their debut VR outing, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire Metropolis, which is coming to Meta Quest 3 and SteamVR someday subsequent yr.
Empire Metropolis is the work of Cortopia Studios – which co-developed final yr’s well-received gladiatorial bludgeon-’em-up Gorn 2 – and follows Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo in an action-adventure set on (and presumably below) the Foot Clan-infested streets of New York Metropolis following Shredder’s demise.
It is an journey described as “equal elements hard-hitting fight and an exploration of the bonds of brotherhood”, and there is speak of “fluid parkour” as gamers – and as much as three mates – scale the city panorama. Fan-favourite villains are additionally promised, all readying for a walloping – in battles constructed round strikes and blocks – with every turtle’s signature weapon.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire Metropolis announcement trailer.Watch on YouTube
And that, aside from affirmation The Final Ronin writer Tom Waltz is saving as narrative advisor, is about all we all know. The teaser trailer above is not rather more informative, however you will discover a handful of screenshots over on Steam. Anticipate extra particulars within the run as much as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire Metropolis’s Steam VR and Meta Quest launch in 2026.
It has been busy few years for the Turtles, after all; following 2022’s sensible beat-’em-up Shredder’s Revenge and acclaimed 2023 film outing Mutant Mayhem, final yr introduced the pretty middling Mutants Unleashed and rogue-like Splintered Destiny. Unusual Scaffold took on the sequence earlier this month, nudging it into turn-based technique territory with Tactical Takedown, and it is already been confirmed extra video games – together with the God of Struggle-inspired The Final Ronin – are on the best way. As a scaly inexperienced youth as soon as put it, “Completely tubular, dude!”
