Virtual reality platformer Lucky's Tale will come bundled for free with every Oculus Rift, Oculus VR announced today.

Lucky's Tale developer Playful Corp. has been invested in VR since the beginning. The company's founder and CEO, Paul Bettner, backed the headset's original Kickstarter campaign and visited the Oculus headquarters in 2012. Since then, the Playful team has created a bunch of game prototypes for the system.


Playful is the original creator of Words with Friends, and Oculus VR saw a lot of potential in the company and its games as well. Palmer Luckey, the inventor of Oculus Rift, has said that Lucky's Tale was one of the "defining experiences in VR" for him.

“We always believed there was an opportunity for platformers in VR, but it wasn’t until playing Lucky’s Tale and working with the Playful team that we truly realized its potential to change how people view this genre of gaming forever," Luckey explained.

"Lucky’s Tale delivers on everything you want in a next-generation VR game—it’s thrilling, full of adventure, and incredibly fun to play.”


There's still no set release date for Oculus Rift, but the company says that the system—and Lucky's Tale—is still on track for a Q1 2016 release.