UNDERDOGS

New Brakka turns mech combat into a grimy, close-quarters sport where every victory feels earned with bent steel and shattered hydraulics. UNDERDOGS is a VR physics brawler built around piloting a hulking industrial machine through illegal arena fights, with roaring crowds, criminal promoters, and hostile robots waiting to tear you apart. Its tone is rough, loud, and darkly funny rather than clean sci-fi spectacle; this is less about elegant lasers and more about slamming a wrecking-ball fist into an opponent’s cockpit. A running narrative follows your climb through the city’s violent underground, while your sharp-tongued brother King offers remote support and constant commentary.

Fights use motion-controlled punches, swings, grabs, and heavy two-handed attacks, making the weight and reach of your mech’s arms central to survival. You batter enemies into walls, rip components loose, block incoming strikes, and use the arena’s physical chaos to create openings against increasingly dangerous machines. Between bouts, players choose how to spend money, make deals with the city’s shady operators, recruit specialists such as hackers and saboteurs, and bolt new equipment onto their rig. More than 120 parts and tools support wildly different builds, from brutal close-range crushers to unusual utility-focused setups, while the campaign’s event choices can shape a run as much as performance in the pit.

What separates it from most VR combat games is its convincing sense of mechanical force: attacks are not simple button prompts, but full-bodied movements that reward timing, positioning, and controlled aggression. The comic-book presentation, graffiti-soaked city art, and stylized character encounters give its roguelite structure far more personality than a standard sequence of arenas. Runs can end quickly when poor upgrades or a bad fight snowball, so it suits players who enjoy adapting a build and learning from defeat. Anyone who wants the physical impact of a boxing game fused with the customization and run-based pressure of Hades or MechWarrior will find a rare, satisfyingly savage VR experience here.