Space Junkies

Space Junkies throws you straight into the pleasingly disorienting idea of a zero-gravity firefight. On PSVR, it is a first-person competitive shooter built around floating through futuristic arenas, picking a character suited to your preferred approach, and trying to outplay opponents across four PvP modes. The immediate hook is movement: combat feels less like holding a lane and more like finding a smart angle in open space.

That focus makes this an easy recommendation for VR players who want short, aggressive multiplayer matches and do not need a long solo adventure to stay engaged. Ubisoft’s original Space Junkies announcement captures the game’s central promise well: arcade-minded shooting given a real sense of vertical freedom. It is a focused concept, and its best moments come when you stop fighting the lack of a floor and start using it against the other team.

Retro Replay Review

Gameplay

The first few fights in Space Junkies can make you feel like you have wandered into a firefight without a reliable sense of up or down. That is the point, and it becomes much more satisfying once you accept that every direction can be an approach route or an escape. Zero gravity gives the matches a welcome unpredictability that a conventional arena shooter cannot easily match.

This is not just a VR shooter with a space theme pasted on top. Moving through microgravity arenas is the heart of the contest, so awareness matters as much as your aim. You need to think beyond what is directly in front of you, because an opponent can pressure you from above, below, or across open space. When that spatial awareness starts to click, the game has a lively arcade snap.

Selectable characters with different playstyles give you a useful reason to experiment rather than treating every round as the same loadout race. Four PvP modes also give the original release a solid competitive foundation without obscuring its central strength. If you enjoy learning a multiplayer game through repeated matches and gradually becoming less lost in its movement, Space Junkies has a sharp hook. If VR motion control and free-floating combat already sound exhausting, the same design may be more frustrating than liberating.

Graphics

Space Junkies puts its sci-fi action in microgravity arenas where movement through space matters because combat can arrive from any direction. The first-person view keeps your attention on the arena around you and the other combatants moving through it, fitting the game’s fast, airborne skirmishes.

Story

Story is not the reason to come here. Space Junkies frames its action around futuristic zero-gravity competition, then lets the matches supply the tension: who finds the better route, who adapts faster, and who handles the chaos when the arena has no fixed ground.

The selectable roster adds a little personality to the premise by offering distinct playstyles, but the meaningful drama is competitive rather than narrative. Each round is its own compact sci-fi scrap, driven by positioning and player decisions instead of a larger tale.

That light framing suits the arcade approach. You can jump into the game for the immediate thrill of a weirdly physical space battle, but anyone hoping for characters and plot to carry the experience will find the focus firmly elsewhere.

Overall Experience

Space Junkies is most enjoyable when you lean into its strangeness. Plenty of shooters ask you to master aim and map knowledge. This one asks you to rewire how you read space, then rewards you with fights that can feel genuinely unlike standard ground-bound arena battles.

The cost of that distinction is a steeper initial adjustment. Microgravity can turn a simple encounter into a confusing scramble, particularly before you have built confidence moving and tracking threats in every direction. The game does not soften that core idea, which is admirable if it grabs you and unforgiving if it does not.

For PSVR owners looking for a multiplayer shooter with a strong central gimmick that meaningfully changes every confrontation, Space Junkies is worth a look. It is a focused 2019 arcade shooter rather than an all-purpose VR package, but its floating firefights have enough character to justify the learning curve.