UploadVR locks The Magician VR: The Cursed Wand for OCTOBER 8 on Meta QUEST — a SPELL-based arcade SHOOTER from Málaga studio Master Crowd Games. An earlier UploadVR Summer Showcase note had pointed at September; the October roundup is the current DATED slot, and Spanish outlet Realovirtual (September 25, 2026) independently listed the same LAUNCH day on the Horizon Store calendar.
Instead of firearms, players CAST through GESTURE spells. The developer site describes wrist movements on a cursed WAND that become distinct SPELLS — defensive, precise, area-of-effect — so COMBOS depend on what your hands TRACE, not on a trigger pull. Realovirtual frames the pitch as fantasy SPELLCRAFT married to classic first-person WAVE combat, with instant gesture detection meant to keep fights readable in headset.
You play a down-on-his-luck MAGICIAN who, while chasing lost glory with a dark-magic book, sparks an INTERDIMENSIONAL invasion. The job is to DEFEND early-20th-century Crowville and restore ORDER. Master Crowd Games says both featured MODES feed the same story campaign:
- NIGHTMARE — endless enemy WAVES across multiple scenarios for players who want straight combat POWER.
- INCURSIONS — choose which HORDE to hit so enemies never reach the map CENTER, with tactics such as blocking areas to shape the battlefield.
Realovirtual quotes a Quest PREORDER of 11.99 € that rises to 17.99 € at PUBLICATION. The title remains wishlisted on the Meta Horizon Store. Master Crowd Games still presents the project as a STANDALONE Quest experience; neither UploadVR nor the studio page lists SteamVR or PlayStation VR2 for this build. That keeps the October 8 beat squarely on Meta’s storefront, not a multi-platform day-and-date.
For Metaverse Watcher readers tracking the October Quest calendar — Walkabout’s Xylodon DLC, Shil, Into the Radius 2 on PlayStation VR2 — Magician adds a GESTURE-first arcade beat five days out. Watch the OCTOBER 8 store flip for final LOCAL unlock timing and whether the Euro PRICE maps one-to-one in other regions. Until then, the useful FACT is the date: spell-wave combat with a cursed wand arrives on Quest next week.
Sources: UploadVR October 2026 releases roundup; UploadVR Magician announcement; Realovirtual (Sept 25, 2026); Master Crowd Games project page.