I got a Quest 2 a while back and played around with it a bit. There were some entertaining games like “I expect you to die” and the first portion of “Lone Echo”, but mostly they just felt like proof of concept demos and I quickly lost interest.
Is there anything actually made for VR and a fully fledged high quality game?
Boneworks, Vivecraft mod for Minecraft, Vertigo 2, Half-Life: Alyx
Vivecraft mod for Minecraft
Can’t overstate how great it is if you’re into Minecraft. Stepping into the world gives such a difference sense of scale to things.
It’s worth keeping track of the universal unreal vr mod in development. I realize this post says “yet”, and this is still in development, but they’ve mentioned a release this year and it should open up a ton of great games.
I really liked Down the Rabbit Hole
Zenith VR is fun.
Sidebar: There are also good VR documentaries, like one that lets you explore an anthill from an ant’s perspective.
This is intriguing. Are we talking about 3D youtube vids here?
Thanks a bunch!
There’s quite a few Attenborough VR projects and the are all worth checking out. I also think the ISS stuff is really cool.
99% of my time on the VR has been in Eleven Table Tennis. It’s incredible accurate, very fun and a decent workout if you go all in.
PCVR is where the high quality games are. Quest and Pico do have quite a few gems now though!
You can always connect your quest to pc right? (Hope OP has a good computer to do that, haven’t checked the quest 2 but I remember how much worse roborecall looked on quest 1)
Indeed you can. Same with Pico.
Assetto Corsa has a great VR mode, No Man’s Sky, Half life Alyx, V-Racer Hoverbike, Walkabout Mini-golf , Box VR (My workout game), Arizona Sunshine, Observer (great game but too short)
After the Fall
Seconding Walkabout mini golf. By far my favorite VR game.
SuperhotVR. BeatSabre.
The two biggest reasons driving me to get a be headset! I played beat saber at a friends a bit and I just love it
And I played super hot on my Mac years ago, and got to play it a bit in vr at a con and can’t wait to actually be able to play the whole thing
Superhot is fantastic.
Megaton Rainfall
Project Wingman and Subnautica can both be played entirely in VR if you’re into dogfighting or the indescribable horrors of the deep, respectively
I played the hell out of Subnautica a few years ago. I loved it, and it’s one of the few recent games I played up until the end, even though I spent 90% of my time just exploring and not worrying too much about the main quest.
That said, back then the VR experience for the game was considered pretty bad - like a pasted-on layer that was largely ignored by the devs. If that has changed, I might think about getting a headset.
Try the Submersed mod, it adds full motion controls!
I cannot wait to one day be able to play Subnautica in VR. Wanting it makes me feel psychotic though because that games scares the shit bejeezus right off my socks.
There is no way I could handle Subnautica in VR. I was scared enough playing normally.
Skyrim is next level in VR. Not sure if you can play it on the quest, but the level of immersion in the obscenely large world and exploring it in 3D makes the older engine feel entirely irrelevant.
You can 100% play on the quest (2 at least). I thought it was really good. The scale of everything hits a lot different. Not every mod works but a lot of them do - even the big ones. Archery is super fun.
The unskippable “boring” introduction we’ve all seen 1000 times in VR is wildly better. You really feel like you’re being carted through a town, hearing people all around you talk their shit. Then the dragon.
I didn’t actually get that far because space constraints became an issue with where I had my setup, but going to the little town then white run felt like an adventure on its own.
For me Half Life: Alyx was not even the best VR game but maybe one of the best games i played in my 20+ years gaming experience. It really shows how great VR can be if developers put an immense amount of time, effort and love into a game. Other honorable mentions: Pavlov VR, Blade and Sorcery (especially the Star Wars mods) and War Thunder
Completely agree. I had experiences in Alyx that were unique to any other game I’ve ever played. Things that are just not possible outside of VR.
Grimlord, Into the Radius, Among Us, Vertigo 2. And then there’s some impressive mods for Fallout 4 and Skyrim. There’s also some nice crossplay games with pancake players: Phasmophobia and the more recent The Break In.
And then I like Pavlov for its Push mode and custom content like the Escape from Tarkov map. Obviously most of this is PC, but some are available on quest and you can also use Remote Desktop VR to stream to your headset.
Into the Radius, to me, had the best “controller” scheme so far and I hope it becomes standard. I played Bonelab afterwards and constantly got frustrated by how often it would have me take out the magazine in my gun when I’m just trying to hold a pistol with a second hand.
I think Pavlov is my favorite, but I’ve also played it for >200 hours 😬 Overall I still prefer the invisible and lenient item points all over your chest that Pavlov has, but Into the Radius’s inventory management is solid once you get used to it
Myst, Superhot VR, Beatsabre
Man, I haven’t played through Myst since… the original Myst. I heard that Firmament was a bit of a letdown, but I really should go back and play Myst in VR. Thanks for the reminder!
