Contractors

Contractors
Information
VR/AR	Virtual Reality
Developer	Caveman Studio
Publisher	Caveman Studio
Platform	SteamVR, Oculus Rift (Oculus PC), Meta Quest
Device	Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S, HTC Vive, Valve Index, Oculus Quest, Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3
Operating System	Windows, Quest (Android-based)
Type	Game
Genre	First-person shooter, Multiplayer, Military
Input Device	Tracked Motion Controllers
Play Area	Standing, Room-scale
Game Mode	Single-player (offline vs bots), Online PvP, Co-op (up to 4), Zombie/survival
Release Date	PC (Early Access) - December 14, 2018; Oculus Quest - December 3, 2020
Price	US$19.99
App Store	Steam, Oculus Store / Meta Quest Store
Website	https://www.contractorsvr.com

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Contractors is a multiplayer military first-person shooter for Virtual Reality developed and published by Caveman Studio. It launched in Steam Early Access on December 14, 2018 for SteamVR and Oculus PC headsets, and a standalone Oculus Quest version followed on December 3, 2020. The game combines realistic, manual weapon handling with the fast pace of a mainstream console shooter, and it supports player-created content through a community modkit.

Contractors is built around team-based and cooperative combat across a set of indoor and outdoor maps. Reviewers have positioned it between the simulation-focused Onward and the lighter Pavlov, describing it as a more approachable, arcade-leaning take on the VR shooter. A separate battle royale entry, Contractors Showdown, was released later by the same studio.

Gameplay

Contractors is a first-person shooter played with Tracked Motion Controllers. Players hold and operate firearms with their hands, performing manual actions such as gripping magazines and chambering rounds, and the game uses a full-body inverse kinematics system that estimates the player's body pose from head and hand positions. Players can choose between floating hands or the IK-driven body representation.

The game offers more than 30 weapons. It includes both competitive and casual modes. Online play covers player-versus-player matches, including larger 16-player "Ground War" battles, alongside offline and online cooperative missions for up to four players and a four-player zombie survival mode. A free-roam mode lets a single player practice against bots offline. Supported play styles include Standing and Room-scale setups.

Development

Contractors was developed by Caveman Studio, an independent team that also publishes the game. It entered Steam Early Access on December 14, 2018, available to SteamVR and Oculus PC users. When the Oculus Quest version arrived in December 2020, Caveman Studio reduced texture quality to fit the mobile hardware while keeping the same gameplay and full-body inverse kinematics as the PC release.

The studio added user-generated content support across PC and Quest, with a modkit that lets players build and share custom maps. Caveman Studio hosts this content on mod.io, which works across both the Steam and Oculus versions of the game. Later updates expanded the modkit further: a November 2024 "Mobilized" update added support for vehicles, ziplines and vaultable walls in custom maps, along with a new game mode and higher player counts.

Release

Platform	Release	Date
SteamVR / Oculus PC (PC VR)	Early Access	December 14, 2018
Oculus Quest (standalone)	Full release	December 3, 2020

The Quest version launched at US$19.99 and was offered as cross-buy with the existing Oculus Rift version, so owners of the PC edition received the Quest edition at no extra cost; it also supported cross-play between the two platforms. On the Meta Quest store the game carries an 18+ rating for extreme violence.

Reception

On Steam, Contractors holds a "Very Positive" overall rating from roughly 4,000 user reviews, with about 83 percent of the English-language reviews rated positive. On the Meta Quest store it has a user rating of 4.2 out of 5 from about 9,400 ratings.

In a January 2021 review of the Quest version, UploadVR scored the game 4 out of 5 and called it "an approachable Call of Duty-style shooter," praising its pacing and the breadth of its game modes while criticizing the Quest visuals as "very, very poor even compared to other Quest titles." Road to VR described the title as offering casual and competitive modes across maps with a mix of indoor and outdoor spaces, and over 30 weapons. The site 6DOF Reviews characterized it as a more polished and rounded option than Onward or Pavlov.

Contractors Showdown

In 2024 Caveman Studio released Contractors Showdown, a VR battle royale set in the same franchise. It launched on Oculus Quest and Steam on April 25, 2024, supporting 60-player matches, at a price of US$19.99. The studio later added an extraction-based mode called Exfil Zone to Showdown.