Leading VR City Builder Little Cities VR Launches Free Sandbox Mode Today

LITTLE CITIES BRINGS ENDLESS COZY CREATIVITY WITH NEW SANDBOX UPDATE

Cozy VR city creator empowers players’ imaginations in biggest update yet

June 29th, 2023 – Little Cities’ latest slice of free post-launch content, the Sandbox Update, is out now on Meta Quest platforms. Developed by husband-and-wife team Purple Yonder and published by nDreams, this is the most ambitious update yet to the cozy VR city builder and introduces a totally new way to experience the ultimate creative playground.

Little Cities’ Sandbox Update invites players to lose themselves in endless cozy creativity. Using the new Landscape Editor, players can unleash their imagination to create the islands of their dreams. From stunning national parks and pirate lagoons to the ultimate holiday hideaway, the possibilities for unique shaped islands are endless!

Other new features include fresh Attractions, new types of Little Citizens and oodles of fancy foliage. Players can choose to tailor their experience with in-depth modifiers to set their own level of challenge or can opt for fuss-free creation with zero pressure or constraints.

And, of course, should players wish to just dive into free-form city creation, the all-new Random Island Generator can quickly cook up a fresh island formation.

"Creativity has always been at the heart of Little Cities and we’re thrilled to be taking that to the next level in the Sandbox Update,” said James Howard, co-founder of Purple Yonder. “Sandbox has been a popular ask from the Little Cities community and we’re excited to see just how creative they get with their island designs.”

The Sandbox Update is the latest piece of post-launch content delivered over the past year that builds on Little Cities’ solid foundations. Little Cities was named as UploadVR’s favourite new Quest game of 2022 and the ninth best Quest 2 game of all-time, hailed as “the best city simulator game on any VR platform”. The game also featured in TechRadar’s list of best Quest 2 games of 2022, celebrating it as the “best example of the [city sim] genre on Quest 2”.

About Little Cities
Developed by UK indie studio Purple Yonder and published by award-winning VR studio nDreams, Little Cities has become the most loved VR city creator since its release on Quest and Quest 2 in May 2022. The game has an average user rating of 4.6 on the Quest Store, making it one of the highest rated games in Quest history, plus a current score of 81 on vrgamecritic, with critics particularly praising the game’s UI, accessibility and VR-first design.

About Purple Yonder

Purple Yonder is an independent VR studio and creators of the award-winning Little Cities. Founded by husband-and-wife team, James and Kelly Howard, they are based in Cambridgeshire, UK. The studio is committed to creating captivating VR experiences, using their experience of working on AAA and indie titles to deliver compelling gameplay in VR.

About nDreams
nDreams is a world-leading VR game developer and publisher headquartered in Farnborough, UK. They are the team behind hit titles Phantom: Covert Ops, Far Cry: Dive Into Insanity and Fracked, as well as publishing innovative VR games developed by the brightest indie talents including the cosy smash hit, Little Cities. Fully dedicated to VR games since 2013, no publisher has greater virtual reality experience and specialism. With the recent acquisition of Near Light, nDreams is now comprised of five internal development teams, across four studios: the original nDreams Studio, nDreams Studio Elevation, nDreams Studio Orbital and now Near Light. With a $35 million investment from the Aonic Group in March 2022 and several exciting projects in development across our teams – including Synapse and Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord – nDreams has cemented its place at the forefront of VR gaming.

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