GREAT PC VR GAMES

Update:
Keeping a list is impossible with so many great games releasing all the time now so this list has not been updated since ~2021.

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Here is a preliminary list of PC VR games I can recommend, obviously always depending on your preferences (and excluding obvious must have shit like Beat Saber and Half-Life: Alyx, just get them, duh). Keep checking back here as I do add new games (and I also trim others that are still worthwhile in order to keep it somewhat sensible and short, this isn't all good games but a very good start).

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is an immersive sim-lite full of tense action alongside some scavenging and crafting.

Cosmodread is an expertly crafted eery roguelite like a mix between System Shock 2 and the developer's previous game Dreadhalls.

Vengeful Rites is an RPG with reactive melee, gesture based spell casting, exploration, puzzles & bosses galore.

Eye of the Temple is an inventive adventure that will bring out your inner Indiana Jones with its clever room scale shenanigans.

VTOL VR is a really cool light simulator of combat aircraft with amazing interactive cockpits perfectly suited for VR.

Zenith: The Last City is a very polished fantasy action MMORPG that seems to be doing everything just right so far.

Song in the Smoke is a made for VR survival action adventure with a clear narrative striving to immerse and amaze.

After the Fall is a co-op zombie shooter aping Left 4 Dead, it also includes a PVP mode and has plans for continued GAAS support.

Budget Cuts is a stealth puzzle adventure series with well integrated teleportation mechanics & humour.

Squingle is a unique puzzle game with abstract visuals & design that's hard to describe and harder to put down.

Apex Construct is a sci fi action adventure with archery and exploration in its post-apocalyptic core.

Myst is the legendary game once again reimagined with all that made it special making a great transition to VR.

Vermillion is an incredibly realistic oil painting application that will bring out your inner Bob Ross.

Wanderer is an adventure game with time traveling mechanics at its high production values escape room style core.

Unbinary is another adventure game with inventive themes and hand painted visuals created with VR tools itself!

Ancient Dungeon is already one of the finest VR fantasy dungeon crawlers with variety and depth despite the early access status.

Space Docker VR is a unique space flight game that does not involve combat but will still test you with its realistic physics.

Cubism is a wonderful puzzle game that's sure to entertain your neglected grey matter.

I Expect you to Die and its sequel will make you think and laugh with their secret agent themed escapades.

Airborn and SwarmVR are arcade shooters turning you into a flying & grapple hook swinging gun wielding hero respectively.

Eternal Starlight is a smart, intuitive, comprehensive space based Real-Time Strategy game a la Homeworld.

Grapple Tournament is a next gen PVP arena FPS like UT/Quake with all the classic genre trappings redefined for VR.

Stormland is an open world shooter, more limited than its scope hints at first but still fun and engaging while it lasts.

Phasmophobia is a co-op horror game with inventive haunted house challenges and many games like Forewarned following its example.

MaskMaker is an adventure that will have you crafting and using magical masks as portals to other worlds.

The Room VR is a wonderful continuation of the famous puzzle adventure series, perfectly adapted to VR.

A Rogue Escape is another puzzle adventure with very unique themes and mechanics to check out.

VR Skater wants to make a Tony Hawk out of you, except you'll be using your hands instead of feet to perform tricks.

HoVRboard and Jet Island tried this concept first, with sci fi trappings, with the latter as part of an action game.

The Thrill of the Fight is a tried & true exhausting boxing simulator, if less fancy than the more gamey Creed.

Journey of the Gods is a Zelda-lite linear action adventure that's simple but polished and works really well.

Stones of Harlath is an indie RPG with many things going for it, from its retro looks to the satisfying combat.

Vertigo Remastered is a robust Half-Lifesque immersing and bizarre adventure with a spectacular sequel on the way.

Pistol Whip is a violently cool rhythm shooter, I personally play it like it’s a funky, musical, Virtua Cop-like.

Everslaught is a fast action roguelite with melee and ranged combat, cool skills, perks and tools like a grappling hook.

Drop Dead is a fun riff on The House of the Dead, not nearly as tight as Sega's classics but maybe the closest in VR.

Racket: Nx is a unique blend of skill, puzzle and high score fueled addictiveness that's worth checking out.

SUPERHOT VR is the famous puzzle action shooter with cool slow motion mechanics, now in VR. Be like Neo.

Compound is a modern take on the boomer shooter genre with procedurally generated elements.

RC Rush is a polished racing game injecting VR zaniness to otherwise realistic remote controlled car races.

DeMagnete VR is a Portal style adventure that will challenge your brain with its magnetic force based puzzles.

Gorilla Tag is exactly what it says. It's free so you have nothing to lose, except your sense of time.

Synth Riders and OhShape are two popular rhythm games to move your hips and dance to like there's no tomorrow.

Eleven: Table Tennis is a table tennis game (duh) said to be the most sureally realistic yet, with a focus on PVP.

Moss is a third person action adventure where you lead a sword wielding mouse as if in a diorama of a fairy tale.

Lucky's Tale and Ven Adventure are, similarly to Moss, traditional third person platform action games with a VR twist.

Down the Rabbit Hole is another classic fairy tale adapted to VR, with its own twists, turns and style.

Asgard's Wrath is a lengthy made-for-VR action RPG with a Viking theme that many gamers vouch for.

Unplugged, BoomBox and Ragnarock are the new kids on the rhythm game block that everyone seems to love.

Ultrawings is all about flight, not quite a serious simulator, maybe a bit like the classic Pilot Wings in ways.

Windlands 2 is an action adventure with grapple-hook-swinging and archery at its core, it’s also co-op capable.

Vox Machinae is a PVP giant mech combat game with awesome interactive cockpits. A mission based campaign is coming too!

Stride brings the premise of Mirror's Edge's parkour in VR with inventive controls and game modes.

Demeo is a recent and already popular tabletop/pen & paper/Dungeons & Dragons type game you can play with your friends.

Winds & Leaves is a journey across a vast barren land that you will gradually revive using unearthed seeds and knowledge.

Onward*, Contractors, Pavlov and other popular VR FPS put their own twist to the theme and style of play with an emphasis on PVP.

Into the Radius is a post-apocalyptic survival action game that will test your skill, wits and patience before rewarding you.

Population: One is the most popular VR Battle Royale FPS, it's arcadey with crosshair, simplified reloading, etc.

Waltz of the Wizard was initially a cool magical toybox but just received a huge free expansion with combat and other scenarios.

Blade & Sorcery has the best physics based melee combat but doesn’t yet have a campaign, though the recent Dungeons update helps.

Alternative takes on fantasy slashing are offered by Gorn, Swordsman, Until You Fall, Swords of Gargantua and Hellsplit: Arena.

Hard Bullet meanwhile takes the arena combat concept to modern weaponry and plays much like a physics driven F.E.A.R. game.

Lone Echo and its sequel form a must play astronaut adventure, the free PVP Echo VR/Arena and its $10 Combat DLC rock too.

Red Matter is another sci fi adventure with a different spin than the above and great object and puzzle interactions.

Gadgeteer is a physics-based VR game where you build chain reaction machines to solve fun, intricate puzzles.

ARK-ADE is a visceral FPS with a Tronesque neon look and plenty of content to sink your teeth into.

Guardians VR mixes first person shooting with some tower defense and RTS elements to impressive effect.

Jetborne Racing is a thrilling multiplayer focused flight racing game by the developer of the great VTOL VR.

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades or H3VR is basically a gun nut's heaven with all the models you could need and more.

Pixel Ripped is a duo of games with nostalgic trips down retro gaming memory lane in special VR fashion.

Lies Beneath is a meaty and well crafted stylized horror action adventure that immerses, entertains and frightens in RE fashion.

Boneworks is a fully physics driven indie take on Half-Life style adventure shenanigans that many will vouch for.

Paradiddle is a drumming application, it's not 100% realistic but it also takes advantage of VR for things you can't normally do.

Tea for God, like Unseen Diplomacy, is brilliant if you have a few square metres of space to explore its non euclidean environments.

A Township Tale offers social online f2p RPGing/surviving/crafting that's sure to get more fans as it's developed further.

Space Pirate Trainer is a mainstay static wave shooter you might want but personally I've grown past such things, as well as mini game collections like Job or Vacation Simulator which is the reason you don't see many of those in the list (though I had to include some popular rhythm games), I prefer more in depth titles. If you're looking for such games you may want to give them and others like Tower of Doom, Raw Data, Loco Dojo, Rags to Dishes, Rainbow Reactor, Cook-Out and Traffic Jams among others a good look.

There are many more, in early access or similar. Legendary Tales is a dark fantasy cooperative roguelite that's currently in a very promising early access state, Soul Scathe is a solo roguelite of the sort with clear Souls-like vibes, Crunch Element offers a procedurally generated co-op romp through destructible enemy compounds, Escape from Mandrillia is a unique asymetric competitive game that seems directly inspired by Alien: Isolation, Bean Stalker is another roguelite with a substantial resource gathering and crafting component to compliment the inventive themes its name suggests, etc. Social playgrounds like Rec Room, VRChat, Bigscreen & NeosVR are also worth a look. VR even has anime visual novels like Altdeus: Beyond Chronos, its expansion Episode Yamato or Spice & Wolf and various titles of the Car Mechanic, Cooking and Thief Simulator mould that has become popular in recent times.

Then there are ports of flat games or games that optionally support VR like Skyrim VR, Thumper, No Man’s Sky, DCS, Elite Dangerous, DiRT Rally, PayDay 2, IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, Star Wars: Squadrons, Project Wingman, Rez Infinite, Tetris Effect, War Thunder, American/Euro Truck Simulator 2 (in the beta branches), The Forest and more. Some like Fallout 4 weren’t as well done so caution is necessary, though in this case mods help. Others have been converted by fans. MotherVR is a VR mod for Alien: Isolation, with gamepad/mkb play like PSVR's Resident Evil 7 (or Subnautica), there's a superb Outer Wilds VR mod and Risk of Rain 2 VR is also great alongside Valheim VR, Quake VR, all the classic Doom engine games and Doom 3, all as good as any native VR games. Naturally, there are also great VR content mods, like ApertureVR for Alyx and Roblox's Cave Explorer 2.

Upcoming titles include Outlier, Ultrawings 2, Frigid VR, Dyschronia, Into the Darkness, Samurai Slaughter House, Runner, System Shock 2, Buccaneers!, Undead Citadel, Sushi Ben, Green Hell VR, Firmament, N1NE: The Splintered Mind, Hyperstacks, Vertigo 2, Quantaar, Paradox of Hope, Hubris, Shock Troops, Iragon, Stress Level Zero's Project 4, Cities VR, Gazzlers, Modelist, The Thrill of the Fight 2, Requisition, Ultimechs, RuinsMagus, Sanity City, Propagation: Paradise Hotel, Little Cities, Chapter 2: Retribution & much more!

*Facebook acquired the Onward studio, we'll see if they'll properly finish it before moving on to a sequel/future Quest projects.

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