I landed on the waiting list like many of you, but that’s okay, it gives me more time to read feedback and experiences from folks who buy one in the first round.
While we wait, what games do you actually want to play on the Frame when you get yours? Please specify if it’s a VR title or non-VR title (unless it’s a super popular one like Hades or Portal that everyone will recognize).
I went through the Steam store “great on frame” listings as well as the overall VR listings, and IMO it’s quite a mixed bag. There’s fairly good variety but many of the “overwhelmingly positive” titles are relatively old, like even 2017-2022. And many of the newer titles don’t seem to have a lot of players yet.
Of course, if you have no intention of ever buying a Frame or want to discourage others or even hype some other device, please just refrain from commenting. This simply isn’t the thread for you.
If Walkabout Mini Golf is available on steam frame, it’s the best game I’ve played so far! Highly addicting.
Second for Walkabout! While the game is “old” (it’s been out for a long time) they continue to add courses and content, at the rate of about a new course every other month. If you have one or more friends who also have this game, it’s about the best VR hang you can have.
That Wallace and Gromit course was such a good idea
Currently? VRChat. Only thing I was playing on my Quest until I sold it; you don’t need VR for it anyway. Alyx was good, but it’s not really long or replayable.
Automobilista 2.
Okay, I already spent countless of hours on it in VR. But it was with a shitty CV1 headset!
Maybe this time I’ll finish Alyx too.
Moss was a lot of fun.
VRs biggest issue. There’s no games. Meta basically killed the segment before it could even get started.
I’ve seen a couple devs talk about this on their YouTube channels. They call it a chicken and egg problem. It’s hard to get funding to develop games for a platform if you don’t expect a decent sized audience. And nobody wants to buy hardware if there are no games for it. And it’s resource-intensive to port a game to multiple very different pieces of VR hardware.
Hopefully Valve can break through that, because I hate having horrible spyware like the Quest as the industry standard.
It makes sense. But there were studios attempting to make games, until Facebook/Meta snatched them up to build an exclusive platform. Killed VRs momentum.
My Steam library is about 400 games. ~30% of those are exclusively VR titles, 10-15% are pancake with VR support, and less than 5% are VR with desktop support.
The only shortage I see is AAA titles, which I could care less for.VRs biggest issue. There’s no games.
*gestures at all the comments in this thread*
Most are old, from when the Vive and then the Index arrived. Most are janky old VR titles or existing games adapted. Alyx was the first real quality game we got.
The rest are locked behind the shitty Quest and PSVR.There’s plenty of silly little experiences, but the amount of actual games with substance is low.
All VR titles:
Beat Saber
Moss
MOTHERGUNSHIP Forge
Tinertia
Ragnarock
Various racing games with my wheel
Zone of the Enders 2
Rez Infinite
Redout
Hellblade
Psychonauts Rhombus of Ruin
Vox Machinae
Thumper
Thrasher
Bocce Time (I like Bocce Ball, sue me)
Doom VFR
Metal: Hellsinger VR
Half Life AlyxOf note, Metal: Hellsinger VR is that far down the list because it’s apparently a bit brutal for people new to VR. Very fast movement, not for weak stomachs. So I’ll be trying that after I’ve gotten used to VR a bit. I will also play some flat games, but I have no idea what offhand yet. Only time will tell!
Have you tried vr hot?
I’ve never played anything in VR. This will be my first VR headset and first VR experience in general.
Wait, Mothergunship has VR support? I’m surprised anyone even knows this game exists…
I’ll have to look into that. Mothergunship is awesome.
Great list! I’ll have to check out some of the unfamiliar titles.
I forgot about that Psychonauts game, awesome!
Metal: Hellsinger does sound fun but yeah I’m a VR newbie so I’ll save that one till I have more experience so I don’t get sick or punch a wall lol
Hellblade was pretty psychologically abrasive on a regular monitor (and not fun IMO), might have to skip a replay of that in VR though.
I want to try games like beat saber, and the talos principle vr.
Oh man thanks for reminding me about Talos Principle. That just shot to the top of my list 🙂
The Talos Principle VR is such a great story. Needs a bit of bug fixes last I played it. I wish they did VR for the second game.
Tbh, the only vr games that I’ve actually played have been skyrimvr and vrchat, and a tiny bit of subnautica with mods to improve the vr. I might play around with new ones a bit, but what I mostly want it for is to more conveniently hang out/try game worlds with friends of mine who are on VRC a lot.
My current headset can do it, but since switching over to linux it takes a significant amount of hassle to reboot to windows, probably let it update because I otherwise never use that partition, launch both steamVR and the pico link drivers and connect up all the cables and confirm that it’s all working, just to have to reboot back to linux when I’m done with it.
That’s not enough to spend money on new hardware by itself, but a close friend of mine has been wanting to try VR and hasn’t gotten fed up with windows like I have, so I offered to give him my current headset when something that works with linux more smoothly comes out, which I figure the frame is probably the best bet for.
I dropped Windows years ago, and use VR all the time (Quest 3). Do I do something wrong?
I’ve been playing:
Hotdogs, Horseshoes, and Handgrenades (looking forward to 2 coming)
Elite: Dangerous
DCS World
Derail Valley
Pavlov
Contractors (Battlefront mod FTW)
Beat Saber
MechWarrior 5 (modded)
Phasmophobia
TriveXR (sometimes in conjunction with VRChat)
War Thunder
Assetto Corsa
Project Cars 2
SUPERHOT Pistol Whip
Waltz of the WizardGames I haven’t played in a while, but I recommend:
Sprint Vector (I need people to race against)
GORN
Battle Zone Gold
Iron Wolf
Star Trek Bridge Crew
Boneworks (haven’t tried Bonelab) Zero Caliber
Job Simulator
Blasters of the Universe
Star Wars Squadrons
Electronauts Open Brush (replaced Tiltbrush) Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Sairento
Raw Data
Gunheart
War Dust
Drunkn Bar Fight
Please Don’t Touch Anything 3D
Hard Bullet
Blade and Sorcery
Budget Cuts 2Games I am looking forward to getting VR support:
Nuclear Option
Iron Nest
Star Trucker (I hope)Games I plan to play:
Skyrim VR (with QoL mods)
Fallout 4 VR (same)
Among Us VR Vermillion Vox Machinae
VTOL VRTriveXR (sometimes in conjunction with VRChat)
What is this one? I couldn’t find it.
Whoops! Typo. Tribe XR
https://store.steampowered.com/app/877850/Tribe_XR__DJ_Academy/Awesome, thanks! Added. Very interesting, I found out that there’s a whole genre of VR DJ games. I added a few others too, since I’m interested in this. Thanks!
The Tribe folks have been very good to me. Great group of people.
It also helps me get practice on gear I can’t afford, but encounter at shows.
First game to play would certainly have to be Beat Saber, I think that’s my all time favorite game. Then probably play a fresh save of Half Life Alyx (I started one in 2023 but kind of stopped playing).
VRChat and nonvr Indies sitting on the couch with a stream controller.
I haven’t applied for one yet though. Waiting for oled. My index will hold me over till then
I went through the Steam store “great on frame” listings as well as the overall VR listings, and IMO it’s quite a mixed bag. There’s fairly good variety but many of the “overwhelmingly positive” titles are relatively old, like even 2017-2022. And many of the newer titles don’t seem to have a lot of players yet.
One thing I’ve started to be disappointed by as I start to look for titles is that there seem to be several VR games that are exclusive to either Meta Quest or PSVR. As if the VR market weren’t small enough, they had to go and divvy it up to be even smaller. SMH.
BeatSaber, Arizona Sunshine (it’s really fun especially in multiplayer), Pistol Whip (somehow really cool and imo better than beat saber), and Alyx
I’ve wanted to play Thrill of The Fight and Dragon Fist like forever. Hopefully there will be some kind of reasonable full body tracking solution for the Frame at some point, because I think that playing a Kung Fu game with full body tracking (punches and kicks) would be amazing.
I would also like to try Dirt Rally in VR, as well as Kayak VR: Mirage because it looks amazing and relaxing. I also just found out about Ocean Rift. That looks good, but I hope that it works with the Frame.
Other than that, some AR games on the Quest look amazing and I hope that they eventually make their way to the Frame.
I somehow overlooked those first two, but Underdogs looks like another fighting game I wanna try.
Racing sounds fun, and I have a copy of Dirt Rally I’ve never played (but enjoyed Dirt 1-3). I’d buy Rally 2.0 but it looks like it still requires a constant net connection for singleplayer, yuck.
I’ll have to buy Kayak VR just so my girlfriend can play it if she gives me a hard time about buying the Frame lol. Subside looks like a similar relaxing title FYI
Those first two seem like must haves if you are at all interested in (realistic?) fighting in VR. TTOTF for boxing (including both multiplayer and passthrough so you can see your opponent in your own room) and Dragon Fist for punching and kicking (with full body tracking if you have the hardware for that). Underdogs is supposed to be great, but I’m not a fan of the whole mecha concept.
Oh, I did not realize that about Dirt Rally 2.0! I’m glad I haven’t bought it yet then. Yikes. I have Dirt Rally 1.0 already.
I think flight sims would be another great use if you’re into that. I hear lots of good things about VTOL VR.
It just seems like there are so many good VR games that I’m often surprised when I hear people say that there are no games.
Other suggestions are good but also: Tetris effect.
Doesn’t seem like a big deal, I don’t really like Tetris, but I really enjoyed it. And didn’t really like it trying without VR afterwards.
I own Tetris effect and it’s… Ok. But I’ve never played in VR, what changes about it? It just feels more immersive to see the effects around you?
Something about the immersion, especially the campaign mode just sucks you in. Functionally it’s the same
And exactly, when I played without VR after the fact it was just ok
