Update: Insomniac’s VR catalog has been relisted on the Meta Store.
Insomniac Games’ entire VR catalog has been scrubbed from the Oculus Store, where the company’s virtual reality titles were previously available as exclusives. Despite the removal happening months ago, it seems to have flown under the radar of industry news outlets and VR-focused communities and websites.
Industry insider Dominic Tarason shared his discovery on BlueSky. In the post, he notes that Oculus Store representatives directed him to ‘Ask Insomniac’. This suggests the developer itself initiated the removal of the titles.
The affected titles are Stormland, Edge of Nowhere, Feral Rites, and The Unspoken. Tarason confirms that he has been able to access Stormland, though the other three titles appear to be completely inaccessible.
Insomniac has long been associated with Sony—having developed the Ratchet & Clank series since the PlayStation 2 era. Sony officially acquired Insomniac in 2019, after the release of all four VR titles. The developer released Stormland that same year.
All four games were originally Oculus exclusives, developed in partnership with Meta (formerly Oculus Studios). Now that Sony owns Insomniac, some speculate that the games’ exclusivity agreements may have expired. This would make the delisting a business move to remove the titles from a competing platform. Insomniac and Sony have yet to put out an official statement regarding the delisting.
The sudden disappearance of Insomniac Games’ VR titles has once again raised concerns about game preservation. The removal is so extensive that the titles are reportedly absent from online piracy hubs. Pirate sites and communities often serve as last-resort archives for lost or delisted games.
Some in the gaming community see this as a troubling sign for the future of virtual reality, noting that even a major first-party developer’s games can vanish without notice. While Sony has publicly committed to VR through the PlayStation VR2, the platform has a limited lineup, with only seven VR games slated for release this year.
