Empyrean Scout
Maneuver your scout corvette through a wonderous but hostile domain. Abuse its superior agility to grind enemies for gear and XP, empowering you to venture further. Empyrean Scout is a space combat Action-RPG, built from the ground up for VR.
Supported by a discomfort avoiding locomotion system, you will toss yourself intuitively through space with one hand while aiming the guns of your corvette with the other. Play seated, standing or in full room scale.
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Samurai Slaughter House
Samurai Slaughter House is a physics based combat game with a metroidvania-style open world, a full length story, NPC interactions, and lite RPG features.
Use stealth, creativity, or brute force to take down your enemies.
Explore a large open world inspired by anime, manga, and the brutal Sengoku period in history.
Fight humans, demons, and creatures taken from folk-lore in intense open world combat.
Explore towns to interact with NPCs, purchase and sell items, pick up new primary and side quests, rest at an inn to heal or wait for the day to change, and craft items.
Befriend and recruit interesting and powerful allies.
Use a variety of weapons, including swords, pole weapons, throwing weapons, chain weapons, and bows.
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Tiani
A very great looking game, the maps are very well done and the story is engaging and fruitful! If you aren’t blasting mobs from a distance, you can cut through them like butter with the sword. Being forced to explore the map and having to actually pay attention to what’s going on, makes this game that much more personal to the player, and much MUCH more rewarding. Tiani has a very good balance between fast and slow paced gaming, You never feel rushed, and it’s super easy to play at your own pace! All around great game! :)
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
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This game can be a lot of fun! You get to do a lot of exploring. The world design and levels are all very beautiful and cool. Game play is good too. Lots of fighting and fun powers to play with. Good bang for your buck! Definitely worth playing and messing around in.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Vanishing Realms™
My background: Not a gamer really, have tried and tried, but the only games I truly have enjoyed is Age of Empires 1 & 2, Diablo 1- 3, Silver and Portal 2. I dont like sitting still while playing. So I bought a Vive, and i own 70 titles at this point. Or more. I can´t get enough.
Vanishing realms: This is, without a doubt the best game I have ever played. Yes, there are some things that need to be fixed, and it is still early access. But it is truly astounding he amount of joy I get running through this wonderful Dungeon Crawler! This is the game i dreamt about as a child! Thank you Devs, you are true heroes!
– Real player with 13.4 hrs in game
Chapter 1,2 and first hour and 15 minutes of chapter 3 here: https://youtu.be/cDg1ZLQ8FCU
Well I was certainly excited to see the long awaited Chapter 3 of this VR classic finally here! I unfortunately did not have a save file so had to play through the first 2 again, but it was like visiting an old Zelda game and brought back all the feels so I didn’t mind. I’m only an hour 15 min into the 3 chapter thus far and can’t wait to play more. It looks to be quite a bit bigger than the previous 2 chapters combined! Seriously I feel like chapter 3 is so much improved over the first 2, it should just be Vanishing Realms 2.
– Real player with 12.6 hrs in game
8089: The Next Action RPG
Been testing this since literal first alpha build so take this with a bit of “bias salt” if you want, but my honest opinion:
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Game is great. Both in VR and non-VR modes. (I played primarily in non-VR). It’s riding on 5089 success and it does so very well imo. Phr00t’s charm is strong in this one.
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Butter smooth controls, little bit of jank here and there, but otherwise game is great. runs smooth, framerate is stable and fairly well optimised (literally ran on GPD Win2).
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Gameplay is pretty good. It’s fun to annihilate alien bugs with stealth kills or just shoot groups of enemies with whatever shotgun-sniper-mortar automatic weapon you make. Plenty of good combat abilities to make combat even more fun.
– Real player with 139.7 hrs in game
As of writing this review I’ve only been playing for 10 hours, but I seriously could see myself playing this for many more. Don’t let the graphics keep you from playing this game if it seems interesting to you, because once you get used to it, the potato looking bad guys reactions start to give it a certain charm. The real reason to play this game is the gameplay and the core game loop in this is pretty amazing. Primarily it is a game where you want to make your stats and gear’s numbers go higher, and to do that you have to continually venture further into difficult lands. As you progress the enemies grow stronger and you face different and interesting challenges that change up your gameplay. You can’t just rush to the higher level zones and scrape together better gear though, instead you have to activate each new area, which unlocks all the vendors and quests for that particular difficulty level. Supposedly this continues infinitely, and I have no reason to doubt it.
– Real player with 76.3 hrs in game
Arcaxer
This game is an extremely enjoyable, albeit very physical VR experience. There is a distinct ebb and flow to the combat this turn-based RPG provides, an element I was initially skeptical about. Having come from playing many VR titles with real time combat, I excepted a turn-based VR game to get tedious.
I was incorrect.
Your turn is spent selecting which of the eight abilities you can bring into battle you will use, determined by AP(action points), and expending them. You are free outside of battle to tailor your loadout at any time, providing the ability to incorporate new abilities on the fly, or tailor your kit for upcoming challenges. There is also melee combat which allows you to expend your health rather than your AP to attack, providing a way to mix up your choices in combat.
– Real player with 56.5 hrs in game
A unique experience, one you would not expect from a VR game.
One of few VR games that run heavy against the VR trend of first-person EVERYTHING. Arcaxer plays like the third person RPG game with hawk-eye’s view. While there is the option to play through any part of the game in first-person, the hawk-eye’s view is an enjoyable experience, one reminiscent of watching a tabletop RPG playing out before you. Even the combat pays homage to classic RPG games. This is the only part of the game (to my knowledge) where you are limited to first-person perspective. The combat plays out with turn based systems similar to classic Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest. Unlike those classical RPG games, however, you’re never stuck waiting for your enemies' turns. You will duck and dodge and you weave through incoming attacks. You will swing your blade and literally throw spells as you strike down your foes. Combat is turn-based, how you play is not.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
EVERSLAUGHT
Everslaught, what can I say, it’s a dream come true, so to speak, as far as fast games in VR are concerned. I don’t know of any other game that brings this speed of the popular fps genre to VR. You fight with sword, grappling hook and shotgun in constant combination and it works so smoothly that you feel like you’ve never done anything else.
The beginning of the game is very leisurely and familiarizes you with the controls. But one thing is immediately noticeable, you move fast, with dash even faster. Early on you get your first sword and try it out on the first enemies. These are some kind of zombies. There regular types which grab at you and larger ones wield axes. When you kill one you’ll get blood capsules, which become important later in the game. The combat system is not fully physics-based like perhaps in Hellsplit or Blade & Sorcery, but rather designed for fast, action-packed fps play.
– Real player with 36.3 hrs in game
This caught my eye immediately, as a fan of Gunheart which ended up getting smooth locomotion+dash teleport+jumping… I have been craving an action title with competent traversal techniques, and I think this game delivers on that.
Here is a random list of details, some which are base mechanics which some might see as spoilers? You don’t start out with everything but I think that is just to give you a gradual introduction as to not overwhelm the player.
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- Smooth locomotion is mandatory, and it’s fast, which I enjoy but is likely not for everyone.
– Real player with 34.7 hrs in game
Dark Forest: Lost Story VR
Experienced on the Oculus Quest 2
You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/r9lO-ZJu9Og
This is a horror game for VR that currently only has 1 of 2 story chapters available. The story of Baba Yaga can be split up into three different parts, plus the intro. Whole thing took me approximately 1 hour, but I took the scenic route (which leads to many deaths unfortunately). I think you can easily finish this game in 30 minutes otherwise.
The intro is just really walking from point A to point B while some scary stuff happens. The first part is simply figuring out how to get through the level (finding the key and where to use it) and you may come across the Baba Yaga and she will kill you if you don’t escape. The second part is mostly chasing sequences where you have to find enough obects hidden within the areas. The last part is a horror stealth section where you have to figure out the patrols of enemies who hear very well, but can’t see.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
kinda awful, clunky controls and not very satisfying gameplay.
was funny though
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Fight For Eden
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– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
It is a beginning game, but I think it will be quite fun in the end. For me, the points that need to be worked on the most are the voice acting and the signposting. In most cases, I don’t know where to go because the maps are so big and blurry. Occasionally there is a green arrow, which is very handy. For now, I rate this game a 5/10.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Mortal and Monster
Mortal & Monster is a challenging rogue-like action RPG developed for 6DOF VR platform. We are aiming to combine tower-defense battle system and rogue-like dungeon map together to make an epic single player VR dungeon adventure.
Dynamic Character Build: Discover hundreds of unique weapons, skills, food, potions, wands and other items to make your own build.
Full 6DOF Battle System: Each weapon has its own unique battle style, including sword&shield, claymore, bow, throwing axe. You can use 6DOF controller to input actions like block, slash, stab, two-hand cleave and so on.