What VR games are on the horizon for 2024? We’ve rounded up some of the most promising titles.
Note: The following VR games are listed in alphabetical order.
Aces of Thunder
Official game description
Experience the thrill of aerial combat like never before with Aces of Thunder, the upcoming VR game made specifically with capabilities of PlayStation VR 2 in mind. It will be focused exclusively on aerial combat and distributed on a paid model.
With different competitive online game modes available, such as team versus team and single duels, you’ll be able to test your skills against other virtual pilots in intense aerial battles.
The game’s physically accurate flight and damage models derived from the popular War Thunder military action game ensure that battles are immersive and believable, taking place exclusively from the cockpit view and with complete control over all flight systems.
Aces of Thunder will feature dozens of legendary planes of World War II, such as the American fighter P-51 Mustang and British Spitfire, at first, with more combat aircraft from other eras to come in future add-ons.
Arken Age
Official game description
Arken Age is a VR action-adventure game set in the Bio-Chasm—a terraformed fantasy world created by the Grand Arborist. Engage in full physics combat using Arkenite infused swords & guns—and freely explore the densely filled environments under siege by Hyperion’s neural corruption.
Bootstrap Island (Early Access)
Official game description
As the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the 17th century, you must quickly learn to adapt and survive on a mysterious and ruthless island filled with deadly threats and secrets to explore.
Bulletstorm VR
Official game description
Bulletstorm VR is a brutally creative action shooter that puts players in the ass-kicking boots of the hotheaded space mercenary Grayson Hunt as he shoots, kicks, and leashes all he can see across a hostile world in Virtual Reality!
Demeter
Official game description
In this revolutionary platformer, you will solve puzzles, fight enemies, and explore a new world in your living room. The game uses mixed reality to create levels and challenges that adapt to your environment.
Into The Radius 2 (Early Access)
Official game description
Into the Radius 2 is an immersive VR survival shooter, set in a realm of surreal landscapes and deadly anomalies known as Pechorsk Security Zone. Arm yourself with realistic weapons and venture deeper into the mysteries that lie within, either solo or as part of a team.
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Laser Dance
Official game description
Laser Dance is a Mixed Reality game for Meta Quest that turns your own living room into a laser obstacle course. Players move between two buttons on opposite ends of their room, and dance, dodge, and crawl their way through laser patterns that adapt dynamically to their living room’s size and layout.
Low-Fi
Official game description
You’re the sheriff of Cityblock 303, a retro-futuristic cyberpunk slum where the only inhabitants of note are other “low-fi”. Humans too poor to jack into the platform, and rusting old robots that didn’t achieve the intelligence singularity. What you do with your time is up to you. Are you a good cop, hotshot?
Mannequin
Official game description
Mannequin is an asymmetric multiplayer game for up to 5 players, filled with suspense, social deduction and fast, sudden action. Play as alien Mannequins and set up deadly ambushes by posing as humans frozen in time, or as human Agents and wield high tech gadgets to neutralize the Mannequins from a distance.
Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire
Official game description
Become a vampire slayer on a mythic quest to eliminate these powerful sleeping monsters — an endeavor undertaken by only the bravest souls.
In this single-player horror game filled with jumpscares, you must destroy a clan of ancient vampires by carefully disarming their coffins’ defenses with the help of your guide — a mystical book. A prybar, clippers, and a hook made from a finger bone are among the many tools within reach, but a stake through the heart is the only way to end it.
Skydance’s Behemoth
Official game description
Sink into an all new world of danger, survival, and mystery from the creators of The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. In Skydance’s Behemoth, take on the role of a diseased wanderer lost in the frigid Forsaken Lands. Overcome dangerous environments, deadly warriors, and towering Behemoths using immersive, weighty VR combat and life-like physics. Travel through strange, otherworldly environments and overcome all, no matter how large, that stands in your way.
Stranger Things VR
Official game description
Experience the world of Stranger Things from the never-before-seen perspective of Vecna as he explores unknown realities, forms the hive mind, and enacts his plan for revenge against Eleven and Hawkins.
Players will invade the dreams and memories of fan-favorite characters and harness telekinetic powers to possess minds and battle creatures, as Henry Creel’s transformation into Vecna and his influence on the events of prior seasons is revealed.
Underdogs
Official game description
Wrap yourself in 5 tons of metal and go smashing through a dark scene of underground mech fights! Bash, crush, maul and rip apart enemy bots and mechs.
Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate
Official game description
Embark on an epic, time travel action adventure to change the course of history.
Leave your passports at home, there’s no telling where you’ll go and who you’ll become as you explore ages and events lost to the hands of time. Discover rich worlds, encounter heart-pounding action and solve mind-bending puzzles as you rewrite the past to reshape the future.
Source: Mixed News
