Virtual Reality has been updated with new AAA-level games and has now completely ceased to be something strange and unnecessary in the eyes of ordinary players. There are actually a lot of VR games, from best PC sex games to strategy games. Here we look at the top VR games that many will enjoy!
Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx is a very rare game. Not only is it practically a semi-legendary Half-Life 3 – the mythical dream of any gamer – but it also storms the top “most-true” games, not just those dedicated to viagra. And all deservedly so!
Alyx in 2020 has become the benchmark for VR games that mark AAA. A paragon of spectacle, design, shooter mechanics, physics, and usability. A chicly staged game that doesn’t hinder having any fun with the environments and fighting off headcrabs with buckets (if you feel like it). Yes, some things in other “VR” are a little better (in physics, for example, no one will beat Boneworks for a long time), but any competitor Alyx is sure to defeat in something else. But more importantly, it was Half-Life: Alyx that introduced thousands of new players to VR – people even sold out Valve Index, a VR device, in one month for the sake of it. No other game on the list would have been able to do that.
Half-Life: Alyx is available on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, and Windows Mixed Reality.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
Saints & Sinners is a great (and with a cool story!) survival shooter in which every shot can literally be felt with your whole body. In terms of shooting, the game is no worse than Alyx – and that’s saying something. If you go for the loot at night, “The Walkers” also turns into one of the best horror games of the year: in the darkness of the night the streets become more dangerous, and the zombies are scarier – in the viara and so builds the notorious suspense. The experience is as close as possible to what it was in the first seasons of the original series – and the iconic stabbing in the rotten temple can be repeated literally at any dead site.
Saints & Sinners is generally the best Walking Dead game outside of the first season of Telltale’s quest game series. A worthy VR-helmet exclusive.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is available on Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, HTC Vive, Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality.
Phasmophobia
If Saints & Sinners is one of the best horror games of 2020, Phasmophobia is simply the best. It’s a game that has made a splash on Twitch and YouTube, thanks to its ability to scare the crap out of bloggers and their viewers alike. And the idea is as simple as moo: a cooperative horror game in which a group of players go to a “haunted house” to capture, classify and film it. You get paid money for completing orders, which can be spent to improve equipment and go out on new quests.
Not only do ghosts make scary noises, banging doors, flashing lights and trying to separate players into different rooms – they also listen to voice chat. And they respond to it! Especially if you accidentally say out loud the name of the poltergeist, which is set at the beginning of each hunt.
The game scares with sounds, oppressive atmosphere and full immersion, but not with screamers (well, when a skeleton suddenly falls on your head with a wild screeching) – even to die in it is not so scary, although there is such a possibility. The main and most telling success factor: the game is scary even with friends. You can play Phantasmophobia without a VR-helmet, but all the magic works a thousand times better in it.
Phasmophobia is available on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality.
Population: One.
Population: One is the first serious battle royale for VR. But it’s not just because it’s considered the first VR-exclusive game in the genre. First and foremost, it has its own unique mechanics that might well have caught on even in “normal” battle royals. The most striking is flight. Population: One is full of opportunities to climb higher, and then glide through the air while continuing to shoot enemies. Vertical firefights are the heart of all local gameplay.
That said, Population: One, as befits an online game, is as accessible and hardware-friendly as possible – it supports all the current virtual platforms, and even the first Oculus Quest (albeit with a slightly soapy picture) is quite cheerful and uninhibited. At the moment the game has quite a friendly community, adequate support and a lively lobby – what more do you need in an online battle royale?
Population: One is available on Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, HTC Vive, Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality.
The Room VR: A Dark Matter
The Room is a series of puzzles that started on mobile platforms eight years ago: a kind of living classics of our time. In the early tens “Rooms” in general was a must-have game on any smartphone, but even today the series remains popular and maintains a high quality bar.
The essence of the game is solving mechanical puzzles in three-dimensional space – examine the mechanisms, twist levers, move something, connect, turn. The puzzles are glued together by a mystical plot – in some parts quite interesting.
A Dark Matter isn’t just a porting of The Room concept into virtual reality. The developers have gone further and taken their creation to a new level of tactile gameplay. We no longer solve puzzles one by one – now the game has full-fledged large locations, which you have to look around and explore. Puzzles are interconnected, and you can often leave a difficult puzzle for later, going to stretch your brain where the easier ones are. With this new game the series has finally evolved into a full-fledged quest in the spirit of the old-school PC games of the nineties, while retaining and multiplying that wonderful tactility of the original games and bringing that wonderful experience into virtual reality. It has only one drawback: A Dark Matter is only three hours long.
The Room VR: A Dark Matter is available on Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, HTC Vive, Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality.
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