Meta Horizon+ adds monthly in-game items, starting with a five-month Orion Drift set
Meta Horizon+ subscribers can now claim in-game items as well as whole games, and the first one is a bundle in the free-to-play Orion Drift holding one cosmetic item plus 1,000 driftium to spend in the game. Meta says the Orion Drift offer “extends for five months in total”, with a new cosmetic and more driftium each month, “allowing you to build a complete five-piece set by the end”.
Resolution Games’ store art for Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked, which joins the Horizon+ catalogue in October. Image: Resolution Games
Meta gives the price as $7.99 per month or $59.99 per year in the US and calls the add-ons free, so they come with the subscription rather than as a separate purchase. Meta published the announcement at 17:00 UTC on October 1.
Paid yearly, that works out at just under $5 a month against $7.99 month to month, and Meta also offers a month’s trial with eligibility and auto-renewal terms attached.
Until now the subscription has handed out games: titles to claim and keep, plus a catalogue to download. October’s reward instead sits inside a game that costs nothing to install, so what a subscriber gets is a cosmetic and some currency rather than a copy of anything.
Gorilla Tag add-ons are promised for December
Orion Drift and Gorilla Tag come from the same developer, Another Axiom, and Meta tells Gorilla Tag players to “stay tuned for more monthly add-ons coming in December”. Nothing is described yet: no items, no currency amounts, and no date inside December.
Beyond that, Meta promises “more monthly add-on offers in the future” with no schedule attached. The October bundle has no stated cash value either, because Meta does not say what 1,000 driftium normally costs, and it does not say whether someone who subscribes in month three can still finish the five-piece set.
Orion Drift itself is a social game set on a space station where, Meta says, you can hang out with up to 75 other players, with activities including Driftball and Scraprun. Another Axiom put it into Early Access on Quest in February 2025.
SWARM 2 is October’s second claimable game for subscribers. Image: Greensky Games
October’s two claimable games are Waltz of the Wizard and SWARM 2
Subscribers can claim and keep Waltz of the Wizard from Aldin Dynamics, a sandbox of spellcasting and reactive objects, and SWARM 2 from Greensky Games, a grapple-hook roguelike shooter. Two more titles join the downloadable catalogue rather than the keep-forever list: Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked from Resolution Games and the co-operative horror game Deadly Delivery from Flat Head Studio.
Outside the subscription, the US Steam store listed Waltz of the Wizard at $19.99 and SWARM 2 at $24.99 with no discount, and Battlemarked at $19.49 from $29.99 in the Autumn Sale, when all three were read at 12:17 UTC on October 2. The Quest versions are sold separately on the Meta Horizon Store, and Meta’s post gives no prices for them.
Three subscriber discounts run through October
October’s subscriber-only deals are 50% off The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets, 50% off Red Matter 2, and 67% off two Synth Riders song purchases, “Wonderland” by Caravan Palace and “HUMBLE.” by Kendrick Lamar. Meta puts the catalogue at “100+ titles”, and the subscription also carries the starter edition of Xbox Game Pass added in July, which Meta describes as “a library of more than 50 games”.
October’s bundle and the two claimable games are live for subscribers now. The Gorilla Tag items are two months out, and the only thing Meta has committed to about them is the month.
