Thinking of going VR but is there enough content?

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I want to want to get into VR and my limited experience of it has been positive but I'm unsure if its worth it regarding content. Are there enough or even more than vanishingly few VR 3D games? I know Half Life Alyx but isn't that it apart from flight sims and sim racing?
 
Jacky60 said:
I want to want to get into VR and my limited experience of it has been positive but I'm unsure if its worth it regarding content. Are there enough or even more than vanishingly few VR 3D games? I know Half Life Alyx but isn't that it apart from flight sims and sim racing?
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There's tons of games. If you go with a quest 3 or a psvr2 (if you also have a ps5) then you're opening yourself up to more exclusives too.

In the next couple of months we're really eating well too!
 
Jacky60 said:
I want to want to get into VR and my limited experience of it has been positive but I'm unsure if its worth it regarding content. Are there enough or even more than vanishingly few VR 3D games? I know Half Life Alyx but isn't that it apart from flight sims and sim racing?
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There is plenty of content for the Meta Quest 3. Zombie shooters, sports sims, music rhythm workout games etc. I suggest you do some searches for "Best VR games" or similar as there was plenty of such content last time I took a look on YouTube.

Oh, and everyone here loves Walkabout Mini Golf.
 
Things to perhaps check out.

Walkabout mini golf
Eleven table tennis
Beat saber
Pistol whip
Asgards wrath 2
Red matter
Breachers
Arizona sunshine 2
Batman Arkham Shadow
Assassin's creed nexus
Metro awakenings (think that's the right name!)
Puzzling places

I've left out a lot of titles, but it's a start, all of that is also standalone on quest 3.
 
Jacky60 said:
I want to want to get into VR and my limited experience of it has been positive but I'm unsure if its worth it regarding content. Are there enough or even more than vanishingly few VR 3D games? I know Half Life Alyx but isn't that it apart from flight sims and sim racing?
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I'm assuming your google is broken -

Shop Meta Quest VR games, apps, deals and more | Meta Quest

www.meta.com www.meta.com

store.steampowered.com

Steam Search

store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com

sidequestvr.com

SideQuest: Oculus Quest Games & Apps including AppLab Games ( Oculus App Lab )

SideQuest is the early access layer for Virtual Reality. Get access to the latest Oculus Quest Games, Oculus App Lab games & lots of free apps on applab and sideload.
sidequestvr.com sidequestvr.com

Top games tagged Virtual Reality (VR)

Find games tagged Virtual Reality (VR) like Project SEVER, Mine Souls III, GORN, PAIcom (furry computer assistant), Sky On Fire : 1940 // PC & Mobile on itch.io, the indie game hosting marketplace. Virtual Reality, or VR, are projects that use special headsets to provide a more immersive 3d space.
itch.io

also most Unreal Engine and Unity 2D games can now be played in full VR with the UEVR and UUVR injector mods.
 
Depends on how often you game. For heavy gamers, content will be a real issue. Especially if you look at the device as something that you want to be gaming on every day. Maybe you find one game that will keep you coming back, but for me personally i haven't found one. I am a heavy gamer, and the VR is so good that i ate through all the decent polished content in a couple of months. That couple of months made it totally worth the cost as i rate it as a life time gaming highlight similar to 3dfx etc. There are a few big titles coming over the next couple of months that i am excited to play, but i know once each game is completed, the VR will go back in the cupboard until another new game (few and far between). I suspect those games will end up my favourite gaming experiences of the year.
 
Sc00p007 said:
Depends on how often you game. For heavy gamers, content will be a real issue. Especially if you look at the device as something that you want to be gaming on every day. Maybe you find one game that will keep you coming back, but for me personally i haven't found one. I am a heavy gamer, and the VR is so good that i ate through all the decent polished content in a couple of months. That couple of months made it totally worth the cost as i rate it as a life time gaming highlight similar to 3dfx etc. There are a few big titles coming over the next couple of months that i am excited to play, but i know once each game is completed, the VR will go back in the cupboard until another new game (few and far between). I suspect those games will end up my favourite gaming experiences of the year.
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Jesus! Asgards wrath 1+2, HLA, red matter 1+2, Skyrim vr, fallout 4vr etc, not even mentioning other stuff. You've got some serious gaming time!
 
Unseul said:
Jesus! Asgards wrath 1+2, HLA, red matter 1+2, Skyrim vr, fallout 4vr etc, not even mentioning other stuff. You've got some serious gaming time!
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The vr pulls me in. A good 200hrs I'd say. Actually started to look like I had black eyes, nephew found it hilarious. But let's say you game average ~7hr/week, over 1yr id say you will have exhausted the whole catalogue of polished games, then you end up in the same boat... Waiting for the next big release. But, is that a bad thing if after the experience you got all your moneys worth anyway and are happy to keep for future games. I love vr, but I do feel its not thriving and many recommended lists are still containing games from the cv1 era.

Edit, didn't play fallout and did Skyrim years ago on cv1, so maybe including cv1 days before coming back, it will have taken me 4 months :D
 
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lokiss said:
You have a 4090 PC.

Look up UEVR, the content available blows nearly all made for VR away.
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yeh I will second this. I am quite strict on what I recommend as near perfect on uevr, but the games I played that needed minimum to no effort for a great vr experience:

Little Nightmares 1+2
Crash Bandicoot lost in time
Sackboy
Hifi Rush
Atomic heart

There are others I have tried and quite liked, but can be janky in various ways, so I will say for manY unreal engine games ymmv.
 
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Sc00p007 said:
The vr pulls me in. A good 200hrs I'd say. Actually started to look like I had black eyes, nephew found it hilarious. But let's say you game average ~7hr/week, over 1yr id say you will have exhausted the whole catalogue of polished games, then you end up in the same boat... Waiting for the next big release. But, is that a bad thing if after the experience you got all your moneys worth anyway and are happy to keep for future games. I love vr, but I do feel its not thriving and many recommended lists are still containing games from the cv1 era.

Edit, didn't play fallout and did Skyrim years ago on cv1, so maybe including cv1 days before coming back, it will have taken me 4 months :D
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7 hrs a week would also assume I'm not doing anything like beat saber, walkabout mini golf with friends here. After the fall runs etc. I don't play that often, but probably put in 4 hours fairly regularly without touching a proper campaign game. Could easily increase that.

Plan on spending hours in batman Arkham Shadow challenge rooms though!
 
The problem with this thread is that it's reminding me how much unplayed VR content I have sat in my Meta and Steam libraries. For example I picked up a load of Star Wars games in a sale some time back and haven't really touched them.

Also, should give some love to The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. I wasn't so impressed with the sequel, but I put a lot of VR hours into the Steam version of the first one.
 
this is just whats in my steam library, categorised as VR.. so only VR games..

A Fisherman's Tale
A Fisherman's Tale 2
Abode
Abode 2
After the Fall® - Deluxe Edition
Aircar
All Hail The Cook-o-tron
Arizona Sunshine
Astral Slider
BattleGroupVR
Bean Stalker
Borderlands 2 VR (Europe)
Budget Cuts
Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency
Contractors VR
CONVRGENCE
Creed: Rise to Glory™
Cures & Curios
Demeo
Detached
Dick Wilde
Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time
Down the Rabbit Hole
Dragon Fist: VR Kung Fu
Elemental Combat
Espire 1: VR Operative
Gadgeteer
Green Hell VR
Half-Life 2: VR Mod
Half-Life: Alyx
Hello Neighbor VR: Search and Rescue
I Expect You To Die
I Expect You To Die 2
I Expect You To Die 3
Into the Radius VR
Job Simulator
Jumbo Bundle Magicka+Vietnam
Karnage Chronicles
Killing Floor: Incursion
Mare
Moss
Narcosis
Operation Warcade VR
Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission
Overkill VR
Pistol Whip
Portal Stories: VR
PowerBeatsVR
Propagation VR
Propagation: Paradise Hotel
Raw Data
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
RUMBLE
Sairento VR
Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok
Slinger VR
Spider-Man: Far From Home Virtual Reality
Star Shelter
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
STRIDE
SUPERHOT VR
Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality
Swords of Gurrah
Tentacular
The Talos Principle VR
The Walking Dead Onslaught Deluxe Edition
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution - Standard Edition
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Standard Edition
Trials on Tatooine
Trickster VR
Ultrawings
Ultrawings 2
Vacation Simulator
Vanishing Realms
Vertigo Remastered
VTOL VR
Wanderer
Zenith MMO
Zero Caliber VR

There are quite a number of games that can be both in vr and not.. and then other games that I have in my Epic library,

off the top of my head,

Elite Dangerous
Subnautica

Then there are games like

Skyrim VR
Fallout 4 VR

and then as others have mentioned hundreds of UEVR injection games..

I think with the hours you could put into those.. you can get your monies worth ;)
 
Sc00p007 said:
There are others I have tried and quite liked, but can be janky in various ways, so I will say for manY unreal engine games ymmv.
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A lot of it depends on you're view on what you believe VR should be. Of course those 3rd person, thumb stick and pointer controlled mechanisms are just as prevalent in many native VR titles, certainly the ported over games. There's a couple of great things going on, an active community shaking out the kinks and pushing what's possible, as well as a few people that are taking up the challenge using the injector to create full on mods. Small but ever growing list, System Shock, Satisfactory, MechWarrior 5, Ace Combat 7, Borderlands 3, Pacific Drive, people going the extra mile to eliminate the not quite or jank. The best thing though is that this is all concurrent, as well as the huge list of legacy titles over the last 4-5 years new stuff continues to drop on a weekly basis. Being able to participate in the current hotness with games like Witchfire is a breath of fresh air after 8 years of being on the outside looking in. There's a few downsides, Anti Cheat kills more than a few great games, overlays can be problematic without somebody diving in to them, and custom code has put the shackles on a few.

My own little list of 6 dof motion controlled, 3rd person, and static sims I've enjoyed.

Pinball FX

Conan Exiles

Shadow Warrior 3

NBA 2K Playgrounds 2

Aliens Fireteam Elite

MechWarrior 5

Returnal


Just a few that have taken my time over that last 10 months. There's probably around 70+ more in the pile of shame being added to daily, and half as much 5 minutes of it's cool one and done type stuff. UEVR really did live up to total gamechanger handle, if you crave greater content in VR that the mainstream only offers.
 
SimonRigga said:
this is just whats in my steam library, categorised as VR.. so only VR games..

A Fisherman's Tale
A Fisherman's Tale 2
Abode
Abode 2
After the Fall® - Deluxe Edition
Aircar
All Hail The Cook-o-tron
Arizona Sunshine
Astral Slider
BattleGroupVR
Bean Stalker
Borderlands 2 VR (Europe)
Budget Cuts
Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency
Contractors VR
CONVRGENCE
Creed: Rise to Glory™
Cures & Curios
Demeo
Detached
Dick Wilde
Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time
Down the Rabbit Hole
Dragon Fist: VR Kung Fu
Elemental Combat
Espire 1: VR Operative
Gadgeteer
Green Hell VR
Half-Life 2: VR Mod
Half-Life: Alyx
Hello Neighbor VR: Search and Rescue
I Expect You To Die
I Expect You To Die 2
I Expect You To Die 3
Into the Radius VR
Job Simulator
Jumbo Bundle Magicka+Vietnam
Karnage Chronicles
Killing Floor: Incursion
Mare
Moss
Narcosis
Operation Warcade VR
Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission
Overkill VR
Pistol Whip
Portal Stories: VR
PowerBeatsVR
Propagation VR
Propagation: Paradise Hotel
Raw Data
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
RUMBLE
Sairento VR
Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok
Slinger VR
Spider-Man: Far From Home Virtual Reality
Star Shelter
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
STRIDE
SUPERHOT VR
Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality
Swords of Gurrah
Tentacular
The Talos Principle VR
The Walking Dead Onslaught Deluxe Edition
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution - Standard Edition
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Standard Edition
Trials on Tatooine
Trickster VR
Ultrawings
Ultrawings 2
Vacation Simulator
Vanishing Realms
Vertigo Remastered
VTOL VR
Wanderer
Zenith MMO
Zero Caliber VR

There are quite a number of games that can be both in vr and not.. and then other games that I have in my Epic library,

off the top of my head,

Elite Dangerous
Subnautica

Then there are games like

Skyrim VR
Fallout 4 VR

and then as others have mentioned hundreds of UEVR injection games..

I think with the hours you could put into those.. you can get your monies worth ;)
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Heathen!!!
no walkabout mini golf!!!!

i'll check out MechWarrior 5, but i see theres also a MechWarrior 5: Clans due soon.

i was just doing a cost countup for my quest and im over 80 titles, not all i'd play or use now but there is a fair number of apps to pick from. its more what people are looking for and interested in.
 
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lokiss said:
A lot of it depends on you're view on what you believe VR should be. Of course those 3rd person, thumb stick and pointer controlled mechanisms are just as prevalent in many native VR titles, certainly the ported over games. There's a couple of great things going on, an active community shaking out the kinks and pushing what's possible, as well as a few people that are taking up the challenge using the injector to create full on mods. Small but ever growing list, System Shock, Satisfactory, MechWarrior 5, Ace Combat 7, Borderlands 3, Pacific Drive, people going the extra mile to eliminate the not quite or jank. The best thing though is that this is all concurrent, as well as the huge list of legacy titles over the last 4-5 years new stuff continues to drop on a weekly basis. Being able to participate in the current hotness with games like Witchfire is a breath of fresh air after 8 years of being on the outside looking in. There's a few downsides, Anti Cheat kills more than a few great games, overlays can be problematic without somebody diving in to them, and custom code has put the shackles on a few.

My own little list of 6 dof motion controlled, 3rd person, and static sims I've enjoyed.

Pinball FX

Conan Exiles

Shadow Warrior 3

NBA 2K Playgrounds 2

Aliens Fireteam Elite

MechWarrior 5

Returnal


Just a few that have taken my time over that last 10 months. There's probably around 70+ more in the pile of shame being added to daily, and half as much 5 minutes of it's cool one and done type stuff. UEVR really did live up to total gamechanger handle, if you crave greater content in VR that the mainstream only offers.
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Yeh, i'm quite excited around the UEVR. Overall it is still one for people who don't mind or like tinkering. But when it works good it blows my mind how good. I really like platformers in VR and really value pad play as much as motion control. So i was really happy that Crash Bandicoot and Sackboy worked really good and blew the 2d version away. Currently looking forward to Max Mustard to release on Steam.
 
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