The “I expect you to die” games are pretty fun, and good for starting out in VR.

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Played through Budget Cuts and most of it’s sequel, they’re pretty good to start with I figure.

Phasmophobia is pretty fun, and playing in VR actually allows you to carry around an extra item in your extra hand

edit: oh yeah there’s this neat tank simulator game, Steel Crew that I’ve kept my eye on, since that idea has always appealed to me: basically any kind of game trying to extrapolate the strategy/management aspect of commanding and crewing a tank would be cool, like say how Bomber Crew works.

If you like train sims Derail Valley could be fun and I hear War Thunder VR is good

Humblebundle has a decent VR bundle right now, just fyi.

Keep in mind I’m poor so I mostly just play older games and Half Life:alyx and its 3rd party campaigns, some of which are really great. Arizona Sunshine was pretty good. Gorn, Crisis VRigade, I expect you to die, Propagation VR, The LAb is a classic, Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator are cute, Angry Birds VR can be pretty fun, Google Earth VR is awesome (check out the DPRK), Budget Cuts was really good, A Fisherman’s Tale was interesting, Cartoon Network Journeys VR, Hello Puppets was creepy but cool, ACRON is a really cool asymetrical multiplayer thing if you have friends over for game nights.

Flight games, like Il-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles, or any racing games seem like an obvious choice (but require additional stupid toys to plug in lol)

half life alyx is dope

beat saber and pistol whip

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Since you mentioned Myst, Cyan published a vr game called The Last Clockwinder. It’s a cozy little game where you solve puzzles using automatons that repeat your own recorded actions. So for example, you record yourself picking up an object and dropping it in a bucket, and then a robot repeats the same actions over and over. Before long you’re creating assembly lines of robots that are all interacting with each other, and are all recordings of you. It’s easier to understand from watching a trailer. Anyway, it has a cute solarpunk(?) aesthetic, some nice casual queerness, and the kind of corny, earnest performances I remember from the Myst games. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1755100/The_Last_Clockwinder/

Beat Saber is an obvious good option, but before you spend any money on song packs, check out a site like BEATSAVER. Beat Saber can be modded and there are custom song managers you can use, but you don’t have to bother with all that if you really don’t want to. Downloading the zip file from beatsaver and dropping it into beat saber directory is enough (assuming the custom song didn’t require any mods, some of them do). There are so many good songs on there that rival anything officially released.

Also Blade and Sorcery. It’s rough around the edges, but the implementation of magic is pretty great. Hurling fireballs, using telekinesis to pick up and throw weapons, objects, and enemies, holding a ball of electricity in one hand and using it to imbue the sword you’re holding in your other hand, it’s all very fun. Even if it does make me more motion-sick than just about anything I’ve played in vr.

I’ve mostly played flight games on VR, lmao.

The first game I played all the way through in VR was Project: Wingman, and it’s fukken fantastic. The jet interiors are a little bad, but the game’s all arcade action so you’re not going to be looking at them very much. If you’ve got a joystick I can’t recommend this one enough.

If your computer can swing it DCS in VR is really, really great. The best modules are either the F-14 or the JC-17, both of which have a lot of little details that really put them over the top in terms of making you feel like you’re actually piloting the jet in question.

If DCS is too buggy, IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad is another great combat flight sim, but unlike DCS it was built from the ground up to be VR-ready so it plays nicer with slower hardware. There’s a bunch of DLC, but trust me when I say that all you need to start with is the base game - it’s got a dozen planes, a full campaign, a mission editor, it’s all you’ll need for a hundred hours of gameplay at least.

Lastly, VTOL VR is the flight game that makes the most out of being a VR experience. It’s not a simulator of anything specific, but the jets in it resemble modern jets. The best feature is that all of the controls exist in VR, which means there are no other peripherals to buy or mess around with, your headset and VR controllers are all you need.

I hear good things about bonelab, apparently has a pretty good sandbox mode and mod support. Haven’t played it though, so take this with a grain of salt.

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Walkabout mini golf is super fun too, beyond all the other things folks have already recommended.

Rumble looks really cool.

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Also Rumble

Elite: Dangerous

No motion controls or anything so it isn’t the best full demonstration of VR, but (with the exception of on-foot content with Odyssey) everything that it does do in VR from how it handles the UI to the overall feeling of actually being inside your own ship and piloting it is done extremely well. Paired with its sound design, it should be a very memorable experience. Also hope you don’t have too much motion sickness, because piloting ship-launched fighters in VR is way too fun to not try to experience at least once.