Strayed puts blackjack, slot machines and a betting wheel on its VR survival island
Crustacean Interactive has put three gambling games into Strayed, its VR-only survival game, and players pay for them in shreds, the game's own currency. Gambling "has arrived at the Depot" and players "can now spend their shreds to try their luck with three different games", the studio writes in the 0.22 update it posted to Steam on October 16, listing a betting wheel, blackjack and slot machines.
The Depot now holds a betting wheel, blackjack and slot machines, all played with shreds. Image: Crustacean Interactive
The studio's own line on the odds is "Just remember, the house always wins". No payouts, limits or probabilities are published for any of the three, and the post does not say how shreds are earned.
The Depot got a new look and a shooting range
The games arrived with a rework of the Depot monument, which Crustacean Interactive says now carries "a brand new look, many places to lounge around and chat with other survivors, a shooting range". That puts the three machines in a monument the studio has just turned into somewhere to meet other survivors.
VR survival is a thin shelf. Bootstrap Island published a roadmap to its full release in 2025, and Green Hell VR announced four-player co-op for Meta Quest and PS VR2 in 2024.
The third image the studio published with the gambling games. No odds, payouts or limits are given for any of the three. Image: Crustacean Interactive
Military Crates slot in under the Metal Crates
The loot tiers moved as well. Military Crates are "an additional tier of loot containers between medium-tier crates and the existing high-tier Metal Crates", found in Card Rooms and, the studio says, occasionally in monuments, while Metal Crates "can now only be found inside Red Vaults".
Underneath that, loot picking logic "has been replaced with a much better system", all loot probabilities "have been altered" and every vault has been rebalanced. The studio's summary is that the changes "affect both where items can be found and how frequently they appear".
The Depot rework adds a shooting range and places to sit and talk, as well as the gambling machines. Image: Crustacean Interactive
The island generator gained cliffs, rivers and God Rocks
World generation added cliffs, rivers, lakes and new rock formations the studio calls God Rocks, which it says are "especially strong to build in", and map generation has been made "less hilly and generally flatter". Players can also see their own body and equipped clothing in first-person view, which in a VR-only game means looking down and finding something there.
Three of the fixes are specific to headsets: a "Rare SteamVR crash due to some legacy code", finger poses that were not syncing on remote players, and hands breaking when a player switched items while gripping the front of a gun. Traps that were shooting through doors have gone too.
Cliffs, rivers, lakes and God Rocks are new to the island generator, which is also flatter overall. Image: Crustacean Interactive
The Reaper pack leaves the store after Halloween
A Reaper Skin Pack went up on October 16 at $7.99 in the US, holding a Reaper Hazard Suit and a Reaper AK, and Valve's store data lists no discount on it. Crustacean Interactive says it "is available for a limited time only and will be leaving the store just a few days after Halloween", and puts no date on that.
Nightfall, the game's Halloween event, is running alongside the update, with what the studio calls an "eerie orange moon" and jack-o'-lanterns back in the island's loot tables. Strayed is $14.99 in the US, VR Only on Steam, also sold on Meta's store, and has been in Early Access since April 19, 2024.
