The battle royale in VR Population: One will be available for free starting 9 March

BigBox VR, the developer of battle royale title Population: One, which was acquired by Meta in 2021, announced on Tuesday that the game will now be distributed for free. Currently, the price is $29.99, but it will be free starting from 9 March.

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Population: One was launched in October 2020 and immediately gained good popularity, with an average score of over four stars on the Quest Store based on 11,000 reviews. The game is also available on Steam, where it has received just over 2,000 reviews. It seems that the developers now want to attract a larger audience by making it free, as Krafton did with PUBG: Battlegrounds. Those who still bought the game for money may find solace in the fact that after the game is made free, they will receive a set of in-game items and a banana costume (fortnite???).

And the game may indeed "take off", as it recently added a sandbox mode with some metaverse aspects and may even become a competitor for Horizon Worlds.

Source: The Verge