Thrasher Revealed, Follow-Up To 2016's Thumper

Puddle has revealed Thrasher, a follow-up to 2016's cosmic virtual reality racer, Thumper. It will launch for Meta Quest and PCVR next year, with non-VR versions coming after.

Mike Mandel of Fuser and Rock Band VR is collaborating with Thumper composer Brian Gibson to create Thrasher together. The game uses fast-paced gestural controls to change your surroundings and immerse you in a world where cosmic music and visuals bombard your senses at every turn. The game centers of pulling off combos and chaining them together to climb up the rankings. Thrasher is a single-player game with leaderboard support, according to the Steam listing.

Thrasher has some modest minimum PC requirements. They include 12GB RAM, a Core i5-7500/Ryzen 5 1600, and a GTX 970/RX 580 graphics card with 4GB VRAM.

Thumper was released in 2016 to critical acclaim on PC, PS4, PSVR, and Oculus. It then came to other platforms over the past several years, including Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, and Google Stadia.

In GameSpot's Thumper review, we said, "It's far more convincing in VR, where you're enveloped in the game's space and free of distractions from the outside world, but it shouldn't be ignored by those without the appropriate hardware. Thumper, no matter how you play it, is too good to miss."