Gorn is a fighting developed by Free Lives Games, released 24 August 2018 on PlayStation VR2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR and Meta Quest 2.
What Gorn is
Gorn is a fighting game developed by Free Lives Games and released in 2018. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on PlayStation VR2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Gorn is a 2019 virtual reality hack and slash video game developed by Free Lives and published by Devolver Digital. The player is a gladiator who fights opponents to death in arena using weapons at their disposal. The game was launched in early access in 2016, and had a full release on July 18, 2019 for Microsoft Windows. A PlayStation VR version released in 2020 and an Oculus Quest port followed in 2021. An updated version for the PlayStation VR2 was released March 16, 2023. A sequel titled Gorn 2 was released on April 17, 2025.
How it plays
It is played from a virtual reality perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Gorn holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5-4590, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Gorn launched on 24 August 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Gorn yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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