Hubris

Hubris
Information
VR/AR	Virtual Reality
Developer	Cyborn B.V.
Publisher	Cyborn B.V.
Platform	SteamVR, Meta Quest, PlayStation VR2, Viveport
Device	Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows Mixed Reality, Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, Meta Quest 3, PlayStation VR2
Operating System	Windows, PlayStation 5
Type	Game
Genre	Action, Adventure, Shooter
Input Device	Tracked motion controllers
Play Area	Standing, seated
Game Mode	Single-player
Comfort Level	Smooth locomotion only (no teleport); adjustable comfort vignette
Language	English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Czech, Dutch, Simplified Chinese
Rating	Mild violence
Release Date	PC VR (Steam/Viveport) December 7, 2022; Meta Quest 2/Pro and PlayStation VR2 June 22, 2023
Price	US $29.99
App Store	Steam, Meta Quest Store, PlayStation Store, Viveport
Website	https://hubrisvr.com

See also: VR Apps and VR Games

Hubris is a single-player science-fiction action-adventure VR game developed and published by the Belgian studio Cyborn B.V. It released for PC VR on Steam and Viveport on December 7, 2022, and was later ported to Meta Quest and PlayStation VR2 on June 22, 2023. The game was widely covered for its visual fidelity: several VR outlets called it one of the best-looking PC VR titles available at launch, while reviews were more critical of its combat and shooting mechanics.

Players take the role of a recruit training to become an agent of the Order of Objectivity (OOO). Partnered with the pilot Lucia, the recruit is sent to the planetoid belt of a twin-planet system to search for a missing agent, Cyanha, while surviving terraformed environments and hostile forces.

Gameplay

Hubris is played from a first-person perspective using tracked motion controllers. It supports smooth locomotion only, with no teleport option, and can be played seated or standing with adjustable comfort settings for movement and turning. Movement combines first-person traversal with climbing, jumping, and swimming, including underwater sections.

Combat centers on firearms used against alien wildlife, droids, and humanoid enemies. The player starts with a semi-automatic plasma pistol that can be upgraded into a shotgun or a submachine gun, plus a non-upgradeable harpoon gun used underwater. Reloading is a manual gesture: the weapon is held upright near the head and charged in time with audio cues. UploadVR's review described combat as the weakest element of the game, citing enemies that rush the player, limited weapon variety, and aiming mechanics that make it hard to line up a shot. Road to VR similarly found the gun sights difficult to use, which it said pushed players toward camping at chokepoints.

The game includes resource gathering and a crafting system. Items are stored through a holo-backpack that automatically organizes inventory; collected junk is converted by a 3D printer into materials for weapon upgrades, and health items can be consumed directly or combined. Other activities include controlling vehicles and machinery and solving simple environmental puzzles.

Development

Hubris was built by Cyborn B.V., a studio based in Antwerp, Belgium, that was founded in 1998 and had worked on animation and 3D production before the project. The game was developed in Unreal Engine. Producer Koen Van den Steen said the team relied on real-time techniques to reach what Cyborn pitched as AAA-level graphics.

The studio publicly revealed and demonstrated Hubris during Gamescom 2022 before its December launch. For the Quest 2 port, Van den Steen said the team had to simplify many of its shaders and use dynamic DPI scaling to reduce GPU load, along with Application SpaceWarp, to hit a stable framerate on mobile hardware.

Release

Hubris launched on PC VR on December 7, 2022, supporting SteamVR and Viveport headsets through OpenXR. Versions for Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, and PlayStation VR2 followed on June 22, 2023, with cross-buy between the Rift and Quest editions. At announcement Cyborn said a Pico 4 port was also in the works. A version for the HTC Vive XR Elite was later listed as coming soon.

Platform	Storefront	Release date
PC VR (Rift, Vive, Index, WMR)	Steam, Viveport	December 7, 2022
Meta Quest 2 / Meta Quest Pro	Meta Quest Store	June 22, 2023
PlayStation VR2	PlayStation Store	June 22, 2023

A free content update, patch 3.0, added an Arena mode in February 2024 on PlayStation VR2 and Steam. The mode is separate from the campaign and tasks players with surviving rounds of enemy invaders across three difficulty settings, adding new upgrades and weapons such as grenades.

Reception

Reviews praised the visuals and were more reserved about the rest of the game. Road to VR scored Hubris 5 out of 10, calling it "one of the best-looking PC VR games currently available" but a "fairly mediocre VR shooter" held back by difficult aiming and a companion character whose dialogue undercut the tone. UploadVR's Tony Mowbray gave the PC VR version a "Recommended" verdict, praising its "gorgeous alien landscapes," "polished character models," and "stunning underwater biome," while naming combat the weakest element; the review was headlined "Looks Aren't Everything." On the platform's Quest and PSVR2 coverage, UploadVR noted the Quest 2 version dropped dynamic shadows and texture detail to run on mobile hardware, while the PSVR2 version kept most of the PC fidelity and used foveated rendering to sharpen textures.

Aggregators reflected a mixed-to-positive consensus. As of mid-2026 the Steam version held a 75% positive user rating across 804 purchaser reviews. Metacritic listed a user score of 6.0 out of 10, categorized as "mixed or average."

UploadVR named Hubris its Favorite New PC VR Game of 2022, writing that its "overall pick for Favorite New PC VR Game in 2022 goes to Hubris."