Contractors VR Battle Royale Announced! - Contractors Showdown Announcement

The developers of Contractors VR over at Caveman studios have announced that they are working on a Battle Royale mode called Contractors Showdown. This Contractors Battle Royale mode offers a ton of great new possibilities for the game, and also mirrors the development of flatscreen games in the genre. First let’s talk about what will be introduced in Contractors Showdown, the new Contractors VR Battle Royale gamemode, and then get into what this might mean for Caveman Studios and Contractors VR going forward.

Contractors VR Battle Royale - What Is Coming

So, details are a little sparse, but we do know that Contractors Showdown is planned to launch in 2024 on all Major VR platforms. It will be a battle royale in every sense of the word. While the amount of players that will spawn into each map is unknown for now, from the trailer we can see three Contractors characters getting ready in a plane. This suggests that the Contractors Battle Royale game mode will feature teams of three players who will jump into the map from a plane, as with so many other battle royale games like PUBG and Call Of Duty: Warzone.

A screenshot from the Contractors Showdown trailer, which shows three contractors getting ready on a plane

While the teaser trailer released by Caveman Studios doesn’t offer much else in the way of solid information, there is also a new page on the contractors website that gives a few blurbs about the battle royale game mode. It will take place on an abandoned and ruined looking island. Just like in any other battle royale, you will need to loot equipment from the island to fight other players with in Contractors Showdown. Solo play also seems to be a possibility, not just teams.

Contractors Showdown will take place on an abandoned island

Another section also teases the M.I.C.A. which is “the latest version of advanced tactical gear for all contractors.” This M.I.C.A. seems to function as a map at least, and possibly an inventory management system. Most likely it’s a fun name for a piece of fictional ingame technology that will let you do a lot of the things you need to do in a Battle Royale game. Maybe there will be contracts to take on the island for extra equipment or bonuses, but we will have to wait to get more concrete details.

M.I.C.A. will be your new tactical equipment in the Contractors Battle Royale

Contractors VR Battle Royale - What It Means

Developing a classic Battle Royale is an interesting move for Contractors, which has taken some inspiration from the Call Of Duty franchise in its past additions to the game, like the zombie mode it released. So this could be an attempt to release the Virtual Reality equivalent of Call Of Duty’s Warzone game mode.

All in all the Battle Royale genre is only popularly represented in VR by the game POPULATION: ONE, which recently went free to play in an effort to boost player numbers. The battle royale genre is a very large one, and is very underrepresented in the Virtual Reality space. So the development of Contractors Showdown represents a very savvy business move for Caveman Studios.

Contractors has already snagged a large portion of the VR shooter community with its support of modding and consistently good updates. Contractors Showdown means that they can attract an even larger playerbase of anyone who is hungering for a Virtual Reality battle royale that isn’t POPULATION: ONE, which takes more inspiration from Fortnite than Call of Duty.

Still, we will have to see what Virtual Reality twist the Contractors team puts on their new battle royale mode. There are still a lot of opportunities to shake up the battle royale formula with VR technology and interactivity. Contractors Showdown is definitely something to look forward to, and considering the past successes of Caveman Studios, may very well succeed in its aims.