Best VR Games of 2018: Top 15 Best VR Games You Will Ever Experience
Now that you’ve got your VR headset and it’s time for you to choose what game to play with. As virtual reality continues to develop with new experiences and numbers of VR games continue to increase, it is getting harder to choose the best game out of this massive selection of games. With this plenty of choices, we put together a list of the very best. Check out our list of best 15 VR games of 2018, and find out your favorite game of the year!
Fallout 4 VR
Fallout 4 VR was one of the biggest VR title of 2017, and seems like it will continue to be in 2018. In this game, you will be able to experience Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic PRG in virtual reality, and you will be free to explore Boston Wasteland with detailed environments and engaging gunplay intact. If you’ve ever played Fallout 4, you know how crazy this game is. But it is crazier when its inhabitants are capable of walking right up to you.
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Platforms: HTC Vive
SUPERHOT
SUPERHOT VR is a unique concept game that time in virtual world only moves when you do. In other words, everything is happening in slow motion when you stay still, but everything speed up to real-time once you start moving. Whats fun about this game is that this logic applies not only to objects and bullets, but also towards all of the enemies rushing towards you. This satisfaction only can be experienced when you play the game.
Publisher: SUPERHOT Team
Developer: SUPERHOT Team
Platforms: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PSVR
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
From the game title, it is self-explanatory to understand what this game is about, but the whole idea is to “communicate effectively and you don’t get blown to bits.” Beside that, this game has turned the concept of isolation in VR completely on its head by creating it as multiplayer required game. Requiring one player to wear the VR headset defusing a bomb while others hurriedly flick through a physical bomb-refusal manual trying to help. Once you start playing, you will understand why you can’t help but get sucked into this game.
Publisher: Steel Crate Games
Developer: Steel Crate Games
Platforms: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PSVR
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Star Trek Bridge Crew is one of the best co-operative VR game on the market. In this game you are a member of the bridge on the starship Enterprise, and it is your job to handle the helm, tactical, or engineer operations. Or you can also play as the captain to give orders to everyone. The reason why this is the best co-operative VR game because it is far better in multiplayer with friends. Few titles have allowed players to compete against and alongside each other, as well as communicate with fellow gamers.
Publisher: CCP Games
Developer: CCP Games, Oculus VR
Platforms: PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift
EVE: Valkyrie
Eve: Valkyrie can provide you great VR experience that delivers space combat directly from the cockpit. In this game, you will be experiencing loop-the-loops and barrel rolls in space, and also players can take part in intense multiplayer dogfights, unlocking new ships and items as they progress through the ranks.
EVE: Valkyrie VR Carrier Tour (360 Degree Video) by CCP Games
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Red Storm Entertainment
Platforms: PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
Hover Junkers
In this game, player will duck and dive as you control a hunk-a-junk cart around a Mad Max, an inspired world, shooting anybody who dares to cross your path. With control wands and motion trackers that HTC Vive brings can provide excellent VR experience available right now in the market.
Publisher: Stress Level Zero
Developer: Stress Level Zero
Platforms: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift CV1
Elite: Dangerous
If you loves space and dreams to explore space, this is the game you must try. Elite: Dangerous was design to be the biggest space simulation in VR history, providing you free region in a universe of 400 billion star systems. It is said that around 150,000 of them are actually modelled on real-world astronomical data with rest of them algorithmically generated by using current known scientific models.
Publisher: Frontier Developments
Developer: Frontier Developments
Platforms: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive
Batman: Arkham VR
Do you always wanted to be the Batman? If you do, this is the must play game for you. In this first-person game, it provides you a great level of superhero immersion just by stepping in to the boots of the Batman and strapping on the cape of the iconic crime fighter as you glide across the grimy streets of Gotham. This is simply a must-buy for any Batman fan!
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Developer: Rocksteady Studios
Platforms: PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive
Rick and Morty Simulator: Virtual Rick-Ality
This game takes place with the world of Adult Swim’s sociopathic mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his pubescent grandson Morty. The world is full of ludicrous wonders and madcap danger, which gives fans a new way to put themselves right in the middle of it with a fun and funny through VR experience. In the game you will play the role of one Clone Mortys and help with mundane tasks like doing laundry or repairing his spaceship.
Publisher: Adult Swim Games
Developer: Owlchemy Labs
Platforms: Oculus Rift
Minecraft VR
Many people already know what Minecraft is, but if you haven’t played it, watch out for getting stocked on a VR headset. The main concept of this game is simply to build, explore and battle mobs. In the VR world, it is still the same blocky world of course, except now you really get to wield a diamond sword while killing baddies in the Nether. And before playing this VR game, you can take a look at some 3D minecraft VR videos.
Publisher: Mojang, Microsoft Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: Mojang
Platforms: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive
Farpoint
Farpoint is a riveting VR space adventure set on a hostile alien planet. You will be on a mission to pick up scientists studying an anomaly near Jupiter, and you must use holographic logs scattered throughout the landscape to survive and escape the planet. If you are looking for quality not quantity of the game, then this is highly recommended for you.
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Developer: Impulse Gear
Platforms: PlayStation VR
The Climb
As we can tell from the game title, The Climb is VR climbing game, which is to climb the stone walls to the top for each stages. This is more fun than it sounds, the game combines gorgeous, hyper-detailed scenery with immersive thrills.
Publisher: Crytek
Developer: Crytek
Platforms: Oculus Rift
Robo Recall
Robo recall is an action based shooter game with an in-depth scoring system. You will be shooting robots, but you also get to tear off their limbs, use them as shields and hop onto the back of bigger, meaner robots to steal weapons. This is one of the funniest, and most fun games on the market.
Publisher: Epic Games
Developer: Epic Games
Platforms: Oculus Rift
Lucky's Tale
In Lucky’s tale, your view controls the camera, and Lucky’s Tale makes great use of your ability to manipulate perspective, hiding secrets behind trees and under obstacles. This game is not as fast-pace and frantic as like Mario, but Lucky, the wily fox himself, has a much floatier jump animation making the game more forgiving.
Publisher: Playful
Developer: Playful
Platforms: Oculus Rift
Fantastic Contraption
Fantastic Contraption is building game for creating life-sized machines and sending them whirling, flinging, and trundling off to solve puzzles on the other side of a floating island. The process of building is simple yet it is difficult to get your creativity moving right.
Publisher: Northway Games & Radial Games
Developer: Northway Games & Radial Games
Platforms: Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
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