High on Life is getting a VR conversion from Flat2VR Studios in 2027

High on Life is being converted to virtual reality. Announced during the VR Games Showcase, the port of the irreverent first-person shooter will launch for Meta Quest, PlayStation VR2 and SteamVR headsets in 2027, GameSpot reports.

The original was developed by Squanch Games; the VR version is being handled by Flat2VR Studios, which says it is essentially rebuilding the game so that it can take advantage of VR hardware. The central change is how players handle the Gatliens — the sentient, opinionated guns the game is built around. The reveal trailer shows players stroking their weapons and feeding them, interactions that in a game whose weapons talk back are unlikely to pass without comment.

The studio's stated constraint is that the added manual interactions cannot come at the cost of how the shooting feels.

The game being ported

First released in 2022, High on Life cast players as an up-and-coming bounty hunter fighting an alien cartel that had invaded Earth and was processing the population into recreational drugs. It was a hit on the strength of its sense of humour, its gameplay and a supporting cast that included an extremely Australian knife intent on stabbing everything. A sequel arrived earlier this year to lukewarm reviews, hampered in part by technical problems at launch.

Flat2VR's other project

The showcase also gave VR players a second Flat2VR conversion to watch: System Shock. Little was revealed about that project, but the teaser trailer suggested the VR version will be based on the 2023 remake of the cult-classic 1994 original rather than the original itself. Between the two, the studio has a 2027 slate that spans a comedy shooter built around talking weapons and a survival-horror landmark, both rebuilt for Meta Quest-class hardware rather than simply wrapped in a headset viewport.