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Release Date: Nov 17th, 2022

Platforms:

🎮 PlayStation VR2 🥽 **Meta Quest Store** 💻 Steam

Developer: Triband Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Publisher: Triband

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Batty goes to Battywood (NEW UPDATE)

Unhinged slapstick comedy VR game WHAT THE BAT? is not only the winner of UploadVR's GOTY 2022 award but it’s also getting its first major update today with fresh movie-inspired levels! For free!

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The update comes as a very strange love letter to Hollywood, set in the wonderful capital of baseball movie-making: BATTYWOOD!

Tackle 18 new levels containing 100+ new physical puzzles with new movie-inspired chapters that let you play baseball in Western movies, jump the shark, meet the stunt sheep, disarm bombs, solve crimes, throw a ring into a volcano, cook ratatouille, and find love.

The BATTYWOOD update is out today for Meta Quest 1,2,3 + Pro. and is coming to SteamVR and PSVR2 soon!

New screenshots from the update

About the Game

From the creators of WHAT THE GOLF? comes a silly VR game about navigating life with baseball bats for hands. Swing your way through over 100 levels of batting, cooking, shooting, smashing, parking, painting, pickling, petting, and WHATnot.

Features

▸ 100+ unique levels of physical comedy and craziness!

▸ Wholesome original soundtrack!

▸ Pet a dog, pickle a tractor, and take selfies with The Selfie Bat!

▸ The expected playtime is 4 hours, but remember to take breaks (too much VR can drive you batty)

▸ + NEW UPDATE: Battywood

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Quotes

“WHAT THE BAT? is the casual hit VR has been waiting for”

Ed Nightingale, Eurogamer

”Very few games have ever made me smile the way WHAT THE BAT? did”

Charlie Wacholz, UploadVR

“Best random novelty game that defies description”

Scott Stein, CNET

“It’s brilliant, it’s brilliant, highly recommended”

David Turner, The Computer Game Show Podcast

"WHAT THE BAT? is another eccentric hit for Triband”

Giovanni Colantonio, digitaltrends

”The most fun game available for PlayStation VR2? That award may well go to the quirky, brilliantly inventive WHAT THE BAT?”

Tom Orry, vg247

About Developer Triband

Based in Copenhagen, Triband is an attention-seeking orchestra of people who want to make the world laugh with silly and surprising comedy games. Their last game WHAT THE GOLF? was a bona fide indie hit and won numerous awards, including ‘Best Mobile Game’ at the 2020 Game Developers Choice Awards and ‘Best Comedy Game’ at the 2019 PC Gamer awards. They hate golf and think baseball is totally pointless.