Immersive Entertainment
Entertainment-grade 3D and interaction — the foundation under every system we ship
Pumpkin VR is a VR/XR studio founded in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 2016. We have built multiplayer location-based VR (LBVR) titles since 2016 and shipped them into SEGA's VR AREA in Akihabara, Smilegate's arcade network in Korea and VR Junkies in the US; in 2023 we brought QUANTAAR to the show floor at gamescom in Cologne. Today we publish our own titles on Meta Quest, build VR arcade cabinets for venues, and apply the same entertainment-grade 3D and interaction quality to simulation training systems for defence, medical and industrial-safety clients.
Because entertainment is the harshest test of 3D quality. A training system is judged by an acceptance committee; a commercial game is judged by player ratings worldwide, by SEGA's buyers deciding whether it belongs in their venue, and by the length of the queue at a gamescom booth. Pumpkin VR started with a location-based VR shooter in 2016 and has been sharpening the same three disciplines ever since — art, real-time interaction and hardware integration. Every system we now deliver to defence, medical and industrial-safety clients rests on that same team, the same engines and the same bar.
Dual-engine production (Unreal and Unity), including art asset production for The Last Worker, which reached the Venice Film Festival VR main competition in 2021. The same artists build the environments and characters inside our defence and medical training systems.
From four-seat co-op pods to cross-platform party brawlers, including netcode, matchmaking and cloud backends — the same architecture that carries multi-trainee simulation exercises.
Our own coin-op VR cabinets, physical haptic buttons, gun controllers and 210° headset integration — built by the same team behind our two-axis motion platforms (utility patent M609452).
Six self-developed titles spanning home VR, location-based venue experiences and coin-op arcade cabinets. Two are on sale today, three are licensed to venues, and one has been retired.
GORILLA GUN: SURVIVOR
A first-person VR roguelike shooter built around arm-swing traversal, dense 15-minute runs, card-based build crafting and a kill-scan-unlock bestiary.
ARCADE RANGER
A VR sandbox builder and shooter: raise a retro arcade hall from nothing, then defend the empire you built. Semi-stylised art, with mixed reality support.
“possibly one of the best VR peripherals on the market”
— The Dialog (Canada), in its review of the Arcade2TV-XR and Arcade Ranger
QUANTAAR
A VR party brawler with four classes — warrior, assassin, balancer and shooter — running both online and on seated motion cabinets at venues. Launched in 2023 and retired in 2026, it is the first Pumpkin VR title to run a full live-service lifecycle.
IRON GATE
A location-based multiplayer VR shooter played from a 360° pod: hold a galactic outpost against an alien force, in four-player co-op or versus.
TABOO
An interactive-film VR experience where choices are made by physically striking haptic buttons — with no second attempt — shown through a 210° StarVR headset.
FORBIDDEN Z
A location-based VR shooter that sets Chinese jiangshi folklore in recognisably Taiwanese spaces. Played standing, with a physical gun controller (the PP Gun). One of the studio's earliest titles, shown alongside TABOO and Iron Gate at Taipei Game Show 2018.
Since 2017 Pumpkin VR has licensed its location-based titles to venue operators in Japan, Korea, the United States and Taiwan, on a licence fee plus ticket revenue share. TABOO entered SEGA VR AREA AKIHABARA and Aeon Mall in Japan on 22 September 2018; Iron Gate was published in Korea by Smilegate; Forbidden Z reached the VR Junkies network in the United States. As of 2018, that footprint covered three venues in Japan and around twenty in Korea, with three distributors across northern, central and southern Taiwan.
| Market | Venue / partner | Title | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | SEGA VR AREA AKIHABARA, Aeon Mall | TABOO | 2018– |
| Korea | Published by Smilegate; around 20 venues as of 2018 | Iron Gate | 2017– |
| United States | VR Junkies | Forbidden Z and others | 2018– |
| Taiwan | Three distributors across Taiwan as of 2018; Syntrend Creative Park | QUANTAAR, Forbidden Z | 2017– |
The commercial model is a licence fee plus a share of ticket revenue. Venues receive the content licence, a cabinet package and operational support.
Pumpkin VR builds the hardware that makes the content operable, not just the content. We produce our own PUMPKINVR seated coin-op VR cabinet, and have designed physical haptic buttons, gun controllers and 210° wide-field headset integrations for individual titles. Arcade Ranger carries official support for the X-Arcade Arcade2TV-XR mixed-reality arcade controller. The same engineering team delivers our two-axis motion platforms and multi-pod simulators on the B2B side.
Our own cabinet, with a joystick and button panel. Used for the QUANTAAR tournament at Syntrend Creative Park in 2019.
Story choices are made by physically striking the buttons, shown through a 210° wide-field headset.
A physical gun controller for standing play, supporting up to five players together.
A 360° immersive pod running four-player co-op and versus modes.
The mixed-reality arcade controller officially supported by Arcade Ranger.
Two-axis forklift motion platforms (utility patent M609452), a three-pod eight-wheel armoured vehicle simulator and ship handling simulators — built by the same hardware engineers as the entertainment cabinets.
Pumpkin VR has taken its own titles to trade shows in Taiwan and abroad since 2017. The most significant overseas outing was gamescom 2023 in Cologne — one of the largest game shows in the world — where five Meta Quest stations ran QUANTAAR for the public and a local television crew filmed at the booth. Closer to home: the Taiwan national pavilion at G-STAR 2017 in Busan, the QUANTAAR campus tournament at Syntrend Creative Park in 2019 (16 teams, NT$600,000 in prizes, 2,500 sessions played), and Kaohsiung's Vision Get Wild and VGW.
Busan, Korea — Taiwan national pavilion
LBVR titles
Taipei
TABOO, Forbidden Z, Iron Gate
Taipei
TABOO
TABOO received the 2018 Digital Content Product Award for Best Audio, Games, at the opening ceremony.
Syntrend Creative Park, Taipei
QUANTAAR campus tournament
16 teams, NT$600,000 in prizes and 2,500 sessions played, on Pumpkin VR's own seated coin-op cabinets.
Kaohsiung
Unframed Collection
Cologne, Germany
QUANTAAR
Five Meta Quest stations open to the public, with a local television crew filming at the booth.
Kaohsiung Exhibition Center
Own titles
Alongside our own IP, Pumpkin VR takes on art and content co-production for international studios. The clearest example is The Last Worker, led by Oiffy in the UK, for which Pumpkin VR produced art assets; it reached the main VR competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival in 2021. We also work with Lucid Realities in France on the Unframed Collection, a VR distribution platform for cultural venues, and build Pumpkin Flow, our own multi-device XR show-control system.
Led by Oiffy (Jörg Tittel) in the UK, with art asset production by Pumpkin VR. Reached the main VR competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival in 2021, and was nominated for Best Original Song, Video Games, at that year's Hollywood Music in Media Awards.
A B2B VR distribution platform for cultural venues, built with Lucid Realities in France and shown at Vision Get Wild in Kaohsiung in 2023.
Our own multi-device XR show-control system, letting venue staff drive content and session flow across many headsets at once.
Awards and selections earned by Pumpkin VR’s entertainment work and art co-productions, each verifiable from an organiser’s list or third-party coverage. Wins and selections are listed separately: a selection is not a win.
There are three ways to work with us: licensing our existing LBVR content for your venue, custom development from concept through hardware integration, or art and content co-production on its own. Each can be taken in part — venues usually start with a content licence and a cabinet package, while IP holders and brands tend to go straight to custom development.
VR arcades, theme parks, family entertainment centres, shopping malls
A licence for existing LBVR content, a cabinet package and operational support, on a licence fee plus ticket revenue share.
IP holders, brands, public cultural venues
End-to-end production: concept, art, engineering and hardware integration.
International studios and publishers
Art and content production in both Unreal and Unity — as on The Last Worker.
Pumpkin VR has shipped six of its own titles since 2016: Gorilla Gun: Survivor (2026, Meta Quest), Arcade Ranger (2024, Meta Quest and mixed reality), QUANTAAR (2023, Meta Quest, SteamVR and PICO), and three location-based VR titles from 2016–2017 — Iron Gate, TABOO and Forbidden Z. All were developed in Unreal Engine by the studio's own team in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
LBVR — location-based VR — is a commercial VR experience installed at a physical venue: players pay to play at a VR arcade, theme park or mall, usually with dedicated hardware (pods, gun controllers, haptic buttons) and staff on hand, in sessions of roughly 10 to 15 minutes that often support several players at once. Home VR, by contrast, runs on the player's own headset, at whatever length they choose. Pumpkin VR's three LBVR titles are the former: TABOO seats four for about 12 minutes, Iron Gate is a four-player 360° pod, and Forbidden Z is played standing by up to five.
Yes. Since 2017 Pumpkin VR has licensed its location-based titles to venue operators in Japan, Korea, the United States and Taiwan — including SEGA's Akihabara venue in Japan and Smilegate's network in Korea — on a licence fee plus a share of ticket revenue. A licence can cover the content, a cabinet package and operational support. If you are assessing an installation, send us your site conditions through the contact form and we will come back with workable content and hardware combinations.
Yes. We produce our own PUMPKINVR seated coin-op VR cabinet, with a joystick and button panel, and have designed physical haptic buttons, gun controllers and 210° StarVR headset integrations for individual titles. Arcade Ranger carries official support for the X-Arcade Arcade2TV-XR mixed-reality arcade controller. The same hardware engineers deliver our two-axis motion platforms (utility patent M609452) and multi-pod simulators on the B2B side.
Yes. Pumpkin VR is one team, organised into art, engineering and business, delivering entertainment and B2B projects side by side. What that means for a client: the art quality, interaction feel and hardware integration in a training system are produced to commercial-game standards — a bar set by player ratings worldwide and by venue buyers, not by a single acceptance meeting.
Two titles are on sale today, both on the Meta Quest store: Arcade Ranger and Gorilla Gun: Survivor. QUANTAAR was delisted from all platforms on 5 June 2026 and its servers closed on 5 September 2026, so it is no longer playable. The three location-based titles — TABOO, Iron Gate and Forbidden Z — were built for venue operation: play them at a partner venue, or contact us about licensing one for yours.
Whether you need LBVR content for a venue, a coin-op cabinet you can operate, or a 3D art team working to international release standards — start with a conversation.
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