Aces High, is coming later this yr to Steam and the Meta Store.

A brand new VR sport primarily based on the heist motion of Payday, Payday: Aces High, is coming later this yr to Steam and the Meta Store.

The officially-licensed sport brings four-player co-op to VR the place you’ll be able to “pull off daring jobs in VR using the latest black-market technology and high-caliber weaponry.”

“After being framed by business titan Warren Jupiter, players team up to take revenge through the signature chaos of a Payday heist,” the blurb teases. “Design your own unique loadout, mixing weapons, gadgets and skills to become the ultimate, high-caliber heister. Infiltrate banks, museums, and even a luxury penthouse apartment, surveying each scene before choosing the perfect moment to go loud and secure your payday.”

Features embrace:

• The Rush Of The Score: Roll out with as much as three companions in crime. Plan the job, stack your instruments, and execute with precision. Every alarm you dodge, each bag you haul, each set off you pull pushes you nearer to that flawless payday… or the sort of warmth that burns cities to the bottom.
• Guns, Gadgets, Getting Even: Gear up and hit the rating with an arsenal that retains rising – ARs, SMGs, shotguns, pistols, plus devices like grapple and sentry weapons. Spend your hard-earned money and rep to unlock the abilities, gear, and toys that crank your heisting sport to the subsequent stage.
• Four Aces To Choose From:
  • Ace of Hearts: The Mastermind – The mind behind the chaos. Lines up each angle, each fallback, each escape.
  • Ace of Clubs: The Ghost – Silent, surgical, gone earlier than anybody is aware of they’ve been fooled.
  • Ace of Diamonds: The Technician – Gadget freak. Orchestrating the theater of destruction.
  • Ace of Spades: The Enforcer – The hammer that retains hitting when issues get loud.

As but, there isn’t any agency launch date, however proper now, Payday: Aces High is anticipated to launch later this yr.

“Payday 3 is a solid step forward for my favorite heist simulator franchise, even though that step is a lot smaller than I’d hoped due to a lack of content and the unsurprising but still majorly annoying bugs and performance issues,” we wrote in IGN’s Payday 3 assessment. “I just wish there was more loot in the proverbial vault at the outset, and that Starbreeze would have used its years of experience in order to ensure this was a more robust and far more stable launch.” It returned a ‘Good’ 7/10.

Vice Studios might quickly assist Chains, Dallas, Hoxton, and Wolf break into the film and TV enterprise after buying the movie and tv rights to the Payday franchise. Former Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjögren, who exited the corporate in 2024 following the disastrous launch of Payday 3, commented on the potential of a possible Payday film or present when chatting with GamesIndustry.biz again in 2023. At the time, he known as it a “perfect fit,” teasing that such a challenge might additional discover the background for its memorable characters.

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and marketing consultant with 15+ years expertise working with a few of the world’s greatest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.