{"id":1236438,"date":"2025-03-03T06:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T11:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236438"},"modified":"2025-03-03T06:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T11:45:41","slug":"dimensional-double-shift-is-owlchemy-labs-fastest-growing-game-tapping-into-quests-latest-freemium-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236438","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dimensional Double Shift\u2019 is Owlchemy Labs\u2019 Fastest Growing Game, Tapping Into Quest\u2019s Latest Freemium Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dds-vr-friends-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\/03\/dds-vr-friends-640x360-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/dds-vr-friends-125x70.jpg 125w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/dds-vr-friends-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/dds-vr-friends-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/dds-vr-friends-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/dds-vr-friends-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\/03\/dds-vr-friends-341x220-1.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"220\" title=\"Image courtesy Owlchemy Labs\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Owlchemy Labs has been a powerhouse of top-selling VR games, so when the Google-owned studio released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/en-gb\/experiences\/dimensional-double-shift\/4449903565103159\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dimensional Double Shift<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>in beta last year for free, it wasn\u2019t immediately clear why the studio behind\u00a0<em>Job Simulator (2016)\u00a0<\/em>was making its first stride into freemium territory. With over 500,000 downloads now though, it\u2019s evident they saw the writing on the wall: free-to-play on Quest is more lucrative than ever thanks to Quest 3S.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-122315\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Like <em>Job Simulator<\/em> and its sequel <em>Vacation Simulator (2019)<\/em>, <em>Dimensional Double Shift <\/em>tasks\u00a0players with jobbing around a patently wacky universe, this time running a combination garage and diner station, where you and three other players can fix up both cars and grub for alien patrons.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a little more under the hood than just being essentially a free-to-play multiplayer version of <em>Job Simulator\u00a0<\/em>though. While <em>Dimensional Double Shift<\/em>\u00a0replicates the sort of immersive and easy to pick up mechanics of the studio\u2019s most successful titles, also being one of the first designed exclusively for hand-tracking, the launch of Quest 3S has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/meta-quest-free-to-play-userbase-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a large influx of younger users<\/a>, which undoubtedly has been a big driver.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C5VVh0JxiM8?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=\"Dimensional Double Shift - B.O.O.S.T.E.R. Update Trailer | Meta Quest\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And as it goes, younger gamers typically spend more time in social games, less money on premium purchases, and more on in-app purchases\u2014meaning free-to-play games are seeing a big boost right now.<\/p>\n<p>To boot,\u00a0<em>Dimensional Double Shift\u2019s<\/em> 500,000 download milestone follows a growing trend of veterans and indie studios alike hoping to strike it big with freemium titles, ostensibly aiming to replicate the viral success of Another Axiom\u2019s breakout hit\u00a0<em>Gorilla Tag<\/em>, which generated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/gorilla-tag-revenue-vr-success-another-axiom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over $100 million in gross revenue last summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re building a social-first platform, and these younger users are more likely to spend time with friends in multiplayer experiences and social hangout apps,\u201d Meta\u2019s Metaverse Content chief Samantha Ryan said last month. \u201cThey\u2019re contributing to the rise of free-to-play titles\u2014a pattern historically common on other platforms. We\u2019re also seeing growth of younger users in\u00a0<em>Horizon Worlds<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Meta knows full well it needs a <em>Gorilla Tag\u2014<\/em>or <em>multiple Gorilla Tags\u2014<\/em>of its own on <em>Horizon Worlds<\/em>\u00a0too. Meta recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/meta-horizon-worlds-50-million-creator-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a $50 million fund<\/a> to incentivize the creation of new and improved content in\u00a0<em>Horizon Worlds,\u00a0<\/em>aiming to attract developers to build on the social platform what they might otherwise launch as self-contained apps, with the fund designed to pay out bonuses to creators of worlds that drive high visits, retention\u00a0and in-app purchases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/dimensional-double-shift-owlchemy-labs-freemium-quest-downloads\/\">\u2018Dimensional Double Shift\u2019 is Owlchemy Labs\u2019 Fastest Growing Game, Tapping Into Quest\u2019s Latest Freemium Trend<\/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>Owlchemy Labs has been a powerhouse of top-selling VR games, so when the Google-owned studio released Dimensional Double Shift\u00a0in beta last year for free, it wasn\u2019t immediately clear why the studio behind\u00a0Job Simulator (2016)\u00a0was making its first stride into freemium &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236438\">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-1236438","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\/1236438","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=1236438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}