{"id":1235414,"date":"2025-02-27T08:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T13:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235414"},"modified":"2025-02-27T08:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T13:59:39","slug":"prop-hunt-style-game-mannequin-goes-free-to-play-on-quest-as-freemium-multiplayer-games-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235414","title":{"rendered":"Prop Hunt-style Game \u2018Mannequin\u2019 Goes Free-to-Play on Quest as Freemium Multiplayer Games Thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mannequin_Keyart-1-640x360-1.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; clear: both; max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mannequin_Keyart-1-640x360-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mannequin_Keyart-1-125x70.jpg 125w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mannequin_Keyart-1-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mannequin_Keyart-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mannequin_Keyart-1-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mannequin_Keyart-1-681x383.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mannequin_Keyart-1-341x220-1.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"220\" title=\"Image courtesy Fast Travel Games\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Mannequin (2024)<\/em>, the VR game that brings a unique twist to prop hunt, is going free-to-play on Quest starting today\u2014which could point to more developers opting to go the freemium route.<span id=\"more-122256\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Launched last June on Quest and SteamVR headsets, <em>Mannequin\u00a0<\/em>isn\u2019t your typical shooter, nor is it your typical game of prop hunt, which usually involves a team of hunters shooting everything that moves, and their prey evading them by morphing into everyday objects.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, two gun-toting Agents hunt three shape-shifting aliens, aka Mannequins,\u00a0who can evade capture by blending into crowds of frozen NPCs. Agents can track down a Mannequin to a general area, but can only fire their gun once before a cool down period, giving aliens the perfect moment to leap out and strike down the hunter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V3AK8S65Nuc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen title=\"Mannequin | Launch Trailer\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, developer Fast Travel Games is making <em>Mannequin<\/em> free-to-play on Quest, which includes the base game and a variety of maps. A $10 in-app purchase adds in progression-locked character skins, custom games, rotating game types, more maps, and mod support. The studio hasn\u2019t mentioned any other microtransactions beyond that $10 paywall.<\/p>\n<p>Much like <em>Gorilla Tag,\u00a0Mannequin<\/em>\u00a0will still be a paid app on Steam, albeit with a new price of $10 (originally $20). While the studio hasn\u2019t said as much, Another Axiom says\u00a0<em>Gorilla Tag<\/em> does this to keep away griefers, who can more easily hack the game on PC and clog servers with unwanted behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The free-to-play launch also comes with a new update, which includes a new map, called \u2018Towers\u2019, which introduces portals to the game for the first time. You can find <em>Mannequin\u00a0<\/em>over on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/experiences\/mannequin\/7028027297235918\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Horizon Store<\/a> for\u00a0Quest 2 and above for free, and over<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2409260\/Mannequin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> on Steam<\/a> for PC VR headsets, priced at $10.<\/p>\n<p>But why free-to-play, and why now? While generally well-received,\u00a0<em>Mannequin<\/em>\u00a0isn\u2019t the most popular multiplayer game out there; we haven\u2019t seen concurrent player numbers on Quest, its most popular platform, although on Steam it only counted an all-time peak of 26 PC players following launch, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/2409260\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>SteamDB<\/em><\/a>\u00a0data. Making the game free-to-play will undoubtedly boost those numbers across both platforms, although there seems to be something bigger at play.<\/p>\n<p>While freemium games like <em>Gorilla Tag<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Population: One<\/em>, <em>Rec Room<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Animal Company\u00a0<\/em>have fared well on Quest in the past, the free-to-play trend appears to be growing\u00a0on the standalone platform.<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s VP of Metaverse Content,\u00a0Samantha Ryan, recently confirmed that Quest has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/meta-quest-free-to-play-userbase-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an influx of younger users<\/a>\u00a0with the launch of Quest 3S, which is contributing to the rise of free-to-play titles. Younger players tend to spend more time in social games\u2014and while Ryan doesn\u2019t explicitly state this\u2014they also spend more money on in-app purchases.<\/p>\n<p>So, while <em>Mannequin<\/em>\u00a0certainly isn\u2019t the first, we expect it won\u2019t be the last \u2018premium\u2019 Quest game to jump on the free-to-play bandwagon following Meta\u2019s announcement, as developers are undoubtedly looking to nab even a fraction of the virality <em>Gorilla Tag\u00a0<\/em>saw, which led it to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/gorilla-tag-revenue-vr-success-another-axiom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">topping $100 million in gross revenue last summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/prop-hunt-mannequin-free-to-play-quest-3\/\">Prop Hunt-style Game \u2018Mannequin\u2019 Goes Free-to-Play on Quest as Freemium Multiplayer Games Thrive<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/\">Road to VR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mannequin (2024), the VR game that brings a unique twist to prop hunt, is going free-to-play on Quest starting today\u2014which could point to more developers opting to go the freemium route. Launched last June on Quest and SteamVR headsets, Mannequin\u00a0isn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235414\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,110,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-unfiltered-rss","category-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}