It has been over a decade because the American model of The Workplace got here to an finish, however followers have repeatedly made it some of the well-liked comedy collection accessible to stream. Now, Meta and NBCUniversal are providing gamers an opportunity to turn into the most recent staff of Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton workplace in a brand new VR recreation, The Workplace World.
The Workplace World can be accessible on the Meta Horizon platform, and it lets gamers choose their desks at Dunder Mifflin earlier than giving them minigames that had been impressed by the present’s nine-season run. The minigames and the workplace itself can even reference a number of the present’s finest gags, together with Kevin Malone’s ill-fated chili and Dwight Schrute’s stapler encased in Jello. Talking of Dwight, gamers can earn Schrute Bucks to customise their desks and purchase objects from the corporate’s merchandising machine.
Nevertheless, the sport appears to be lacking one of many key features that made The Workplace so entertaining: the characters. Viewers weren’t watching the present simply to see a wacky office comedy; they got here as a result of they liked the ensemble solid and the characters they had been portraying. It will be exhausting for any recreation to recapture that, however The Workplace World does enable gamers to observe episodes of The Workplace by way of the Peacock app on Meta Quest. That should be sufficient for anybody who needs their repair of the present.
Meta Horizon will launch The Workplace World on October 10. In the meantime, the primary trailer for the Australian model of The Workplace not too long ago debuted. Peacock has additionally ordered an Workplace follow-up collection known as The Paper, which can debut as quickly as 2025.