{"id":173639,"date":"2025-11-10T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/173639\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:19:08","slug":"cave-crave-adds-competitive-arcade-mode-pc-vr-launch-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/173639\/","title":{"rendered":"Cave Crave Adds Competitive Arcade Mode, PC VR Launch Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exploration sim Cave Crave added an arcade mode and new horror map in its latest update, and a PC VR release will follow soon.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by 3R Games,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uploadvr.com\/cave-crave-vr-review\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cave Crave<\/a>\u00a0sees you exploring tight tunnels and caves as you try to find an escape, marking walls with chalk and using various tools. While this update will arrive \u201csoon\u201d on PS VR2, Quest players can now jump into a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/en-gb\/experiences\/app\/developer-post\/1409633267350412\/?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arcade Mode<\/a> that turns this into a competitive race against time, where you aim for the quickest run on the online leaderboards.<\/p>\n<p>As for Cave Crave&#8217;s optional Horror Mode, that&#8217;s been updated with a brand new map called &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/en-gb\/experiences\/app\/developer-post\/4263557573880005\/?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abyss<\/a>,&#8217; where your goal is to simply make it back alive. 3R Games states that it&#8217;s been \u201cinspired by cosmic dread and subterranean monstrosities straight out of a Lovecraftian nightmare,\u201d warning of something \u201cancient and malevolent\u201d hiding in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/en-gb\/experiences\/app\/developer-post\/4118459305101698\/?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent addition<\/a> of Utah&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nutty_Putty_Cave?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nutty Putty Cave<\/a> as a free update on both platforms, a real-life cave closed in 2009 after the death of John Edward Jones. 3R Games says this was recreated using the official cave map and additional data without gamifying it, stating its aim to offer a \u201crespectful, authentic way\u201d to explore this permanently closed site.<\/p>\n<p>Cave Crave is out now on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-gb\/concept\/10013706\/?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation VR2<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/en-us\/experiences\/cave-crave\/7527722310622065\/?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Quest<\/a>, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3929970\/Cave_Crave_VR\/?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a> version is \u201cscheduled to launch within the next few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uploadvr.com\/cave-crave-vr-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Cave Crave Review: All The Thrills Of Cave Exploration, Minus The Danger<\/p>\n<p>Cave Crave delivers all the thrills of cave exploration that comes recommended on Quest, and it\u2019s out next week on PS VR2.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f99f792de7c6192fd79f4bc42b85115fbcde4a17993c7a0a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exploration sim Cave Crave added an arcade mode and new horror map in its latest update, and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[18,19,17,82,286,287,288],"class_list":{"0":"post-173639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-virtualreality","14":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115527022480909342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}