The development of virtual gaming has evolved a lot in recent times. It gives an experience that is unmatched. A must-have to have whether you are into it or just curious to see what it has to offer, it presents a great selection of the best VR games and experiences across platforms.
Best Casual VR Experiences for Beginners
A casual game that feels intuitive should not overwhelm your senses. This type of game lets anyone who’s new to VR easily get accustomed without feeling sick. Space Pirate Trainer is arguably one of the best, if not the best, wave shooters built for VR. Every session is exciting due to its enervating soundtrack combined with gameplay and intuitive controls. The simple mechanics of the game make it ideal for easing new players into VR.
There’s a reason why Beat Saber is known as the VR rhythm game. It’s easy to understand the basic concept behind Slice and Rage: Slice the blocks with lightsaber-like blades to the music. Yet that ease of access hides incredible depth. Beat Saber almost offers unlimited replayability and presents an unsatisfying difficulty curve with an official soundtrack and mod support expanding.
Richie’s Plank Experience is a great demonstration app for parties. Incorporating a real-world plank significantly enhances immersion but hosts need to be careful not to frighten participants as they might have a negative first experience and avoid VR altogether.
Captivating VR Platformers
Moss (Book One and Two) changed preconceived notions of a platformer game in VR. The storytelling fosters a genuine emotional bond with Quill, the mouse protagonist, while the visuals are stunning, the combat is engaging, and the puzzles are challenging. The VR viewpoint gives players a unique relationship with the environment and objects in the game world.
Max Mustard has a much stronger take on traditional platforming, with its variegated biomes packed with unique hazards and traps. The game features a progression system that uses collected coins to unlock upgrades for Max, creating a rewarding gameplay loop reminiscent of classic platformers.
Tabletop Gaming in Virtual Reality
Demeo is referred to as Dungeons & Dragons in VR for a reason, and that’s because it provides an excellent dungeon-crawling tabletop experience. Players can choose from six different characters with special abilities and fight their way through several levels and boss fights. You can play with three other friends in local co-op mode.
All on Board is a must for board game fans. It features digital versions of physical games. The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, Terraforming Mars and seven more fully licensed board game replicas are available on Roll20. Online players can join their friends or play in public lobbies.
Players should be aware that the Demeo studio, Resolution Games, is working on a Dungeons for Dragons game in VR.
Horror Experiences That Push Boundaries
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners offers one of VR’s best combat systems along with an amazing story-driven survival experience. The gripping story and intense zombie situations make for an engaging horror experience that keeps one entertained.
Lies Beneath is a Styled horror adventure, and it feels like we’re in the middle of a comic book. The game blends shooting elements with eerie sound effects. Also, the story creates a consistent atmosphere.
Phasmophobia is a co-op ghost hunting experience that is terrifying and unintentionally funny. When you play with friends and investigate haunted places, you make incredible memories, from fits of hysteria to real fear of the paranormal.
RPG Adventures in Virtual Reality
While they aren’t as common as in other genres, there are several role-playing games (RPGs) in VR that hit the spot.
Dungeons of Eternity is a physics-based RPG, like Legendary Tales. Both feature extended leveling systems, cooperative online play, and dungeons. Dungeons of Eternity uses lighter mechanics and has a more forgiving difficulty curve for an easier experience. Legendary Tales comes with darker themes, more complex fighting with physics and steep challenge overall.
Roguelike Challenges in VR
You can’t go wrong with Until You Fall, a classic roguelike experience in VR. Players need to duck, dodge, block, and counter enemy attacks in melee combat while using useful weapons and special abilities in a unique way. Each run provides satisfaction thanks to the demanding gameplay and hardships.
Underdogs is a dystopian sci-fi game where players fight in physics-based arena battles in their mechs. The game offers players high-risk and high-reward scenarios with random enemies and loot in a unique style.
Want to know how Light Brigade is different from other roguelikes? You must see how it focuses on shooting in the creepy environment. As players move through the haunted world of the game, they get access to genuine World War II weapons and magic.
Puzzle Adventures That Captivate
Through a series of stunning visual sequences in VR, Red Matter 2 offers a captivating narrative and brain-teasing gameplay. The game depicts an interesting paced gameplay that smoothly mixes puzzle elements with story events and action battles which will appeal even to people who don’t play puzzle games.
In Wanderer, players alternate between time-travelling sequences with linear storytelling and escape room-like challenges. With high quality and complex puzzle design, it has a unique offering that will soon receive a remake.
Racing and Flight Simulators
Gran Turismo 7 offers a high-speed racing experience which feels almost the same as driving on a track in real life. The image and a feeling of being in a race is VR’s strength.
Virtual tourism takes flight with Microsoft Flight Simulator.
With photorealistic environments and detailed flight systems, players won’t just be flying through the sky but really experiencing it this time.
Social VR Experiences
Some of the platform’s most popular and consistent experiences are Social VR apps. Rec Room is VR game for family with casual games, teamwork and user generated content. VR Chat allows users to either create their own virtual world or join others customized to a specific interest or community.
Orion Drift is a newer social gaming option for those searching for an alternative to traditional games.
Physics-Based VR Games
Blade and Sorcery is a physics-based arena combat game. Even though it has incorporated systems for single-player content and progression, its main attraction remains the satisfying physical combat using melee weapons and magical prowess.
Bone Lab takes gameplay closer to modern times from its earlier game Bone Works, that had a physics-related gameplay. The game will give off Matrix vibes when you jump from building to building and slow-mo fight. The physics engine is unpredictable but maybe not as entertaining as something like your classic Mario game.
Open World Survival in VR
No Man’s Sky has come a long way from its controversial launch to being a surprisingly immersive VR space exploration game. When everything is working fine, planetary exploration, resource gathering, alien meeting and spaceflight experience is gorgeous.
Medieval Dynasty is a more realistic survival game that takes place in the past. Users do hunting, gathering, building properties, and advance through the complete single-player story. You can now experience new game modes such as sandbox and cooperative thanks to the latest update.
The STALKER series comes into mind when I check out this surreal, dystopian adaptation. The environmental storytelling creates a sense of isolation and tension as players move through an anomaly-filled wasteland. Important game mechanics such as maintaining your weapon and resource management make this game a survival one.
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Strategy Games for Every Style
Little Cities delivers calming city-building on cute islands. It is easy to lose hours building these little cities because the mechanics are quite easy and rewarding.
Cities: VR tests the players with managing resources in this VR version of City Skylines. The game is just as complicated as the flat-screen version. You must maintain the balance between infrastructure, pollution, and citizen needs.
Triangle Strategy Now Trusts combat turn-based tactical VR. This port offers a complete experience lasting over 40 hours with an elaborate narrative and increasingly difficult battle situations that fans of the old-school tactical RPGs will enjoy.
If you like strategy games, you should know that Civilization 7 is coming to Quest.
Mixed Reality Innovations
In its single-player mode, Spatial Ops reinterprets the on-rails shooter genre, with portals opening in all directions which will require your players mixed orientation. The multiplayer joystick becomes a laser-tag shooter against other players. Alternatively, weapons and other gear scattered about the real world like paintball create a laser tag experience.
Starship Home is an accidental package delivery in your living room that sends you on the adventure of your life to save the universe and turn your home into a spaceship.