While VR continues to wait for its killer app (hello, Half-Life: Alyx...maybe?), the inherently immersive platform has hosted plenty of wonderful and underrated games. 2018’s Budget Cuts was one of the most wonderful and most underrated; it cleverly mixed Portal, Job Simulator, and the classic Mike Judge film Office Space into a genuinely funny and engaging puzzle-solving stealth adventure. Thus, I was thrilled to sit down (and stand up, and crouch down) with Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency . And after an hour or so of play, I was not disappointed.

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“ The crossbow is exactly what it sounds like...but better.

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The sequel starts on a train, following the office-robot-overlord-overthrowing events of the first game. Adorable, harmless robot citizens sit in various seats in a handful of cars. A passenger here, a bartender there – and you need to get to the front of the train to disable a bomb. Naturally, the same army of aggressive, six-shooter-armed security droids will shoot on sight if they spot you. So you can warp your way through the cars using your trusty teleporter gun, or you can portal yourself up to the roof of the train.Budget Cuts 2’s other big addition, at least in the first hour or so I’ve played, is a crossbow. It’s exactly what it sounds like...but better. What’s cool is that it pivots based on which way you turn it, so you can rotate your hands to turn it from a traditional bow to a crossbow depending on your preference and/or the gameplay situation. Arrows aren’t plentiful, per se, but I have seen a couple of obvious “quiver stations,” for lack of a better term, to give you opportunities to use your new toy. It’s hardly an “I win” button, though; aiming isn’t easy, and you do have to account for gravity on long-distance shots. I’m eager to see how Mission Insolvency makes use of the bow as the campaign progresses.Thus far, it remains as thrilling as ever to lean around a corner in VR and chuck a knife at an oncoming robot, oil spurting from its “artery” as it tumbles to the ground powers down for good at your feet. Solving puzzles feels rewarding too – from using the glass-breaking tool on the wall of the train to knock out a window and toss out a live bomb to finding a sticky note with a door code pressed onto the back of a robot waiter. If you’d like to give it a try yourself, Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency is out next week on December 12 for PC VR platforms.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s Executive Editor of Previews. Follow him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan , catch him on Unlocked , and drop-ship him Taylor Ham sandwiches from New Jersey whenever possible.