VR Game Reviews
In-depth reviews with editorial gameplay footage and analysis.
Kid Pilot
A cartoonish game build around original mechanics of controlling small plane by moving your hand with controller in space
Kid Pilot
Editorial Rating
May 27, 2024
Pros
- + Authentic gameplay mechanics
- + Impressive environments
- + Carefully crafted levels
- + Attention to the details
Cons
- – Not very challenging gameplay
- – Performance issues and low optimization
- – High number of bugs
- – A little confusing main menu
- – Very light story line
Cute, but not very challenging game with incredibly detailed world. Might be a suitable for children or entry-level VR enthusiasts, who are in love of planes. We find it too simple for experienced VR gamers, even with all game's positive sides.
Masters of Light
A cosmic defense action game with innovative fitness-like hand tracking usage, light story line and vibrant sound track.
Masters of Light
Editorial Rating
May 19, 2024
Pros
- + Nice visuals and look
- + Good base mechanics
- + Nice retro-synth themed OST
- + Wide range of weapons and superpowers
Cons
- – When game advances, hand tracking goes worse, recognizing bad advanced gestures
- – Game mechanics is innovative, but very monotone
- – Story line is a bit passive and quite boring
- – Good (but not perfect) voice acting
First impression from the game is promising, but when game advances you could barely use new gestures due bad hand tracking recognition (especially if you use shield etc). You can improve this by playing using controllers, but you will lose game's authentic mechanics. We hope developers will work on update to improve it.
Synapse
Really impressive and stylish PS VR2 roguelike exclusive, which intensively uses all unique features of PS VR2 (including eye tracking, adaptive trigg...
Synapse
Editorial Rating
Apr 26, 2024
Pros
- + Amazing visuals and unique style
- + Perfectly made telekinesis mechanics
- + Overall feel and nicely build shooting/tactics
- + Vivid atmosphere and level design
- + Compensative enemies
- + Nice sound track
Cons
- – Game's infinity and lack of strong narrative
- – Fast-paced shooting mechanics
- – Might take some time to learn
Very immersive futuristic shooting game with amazing controls and immersion, that uses full power of PS VR2 and PS5. Some aspects like exploding barrels with telekinesis are mind-blowing. Strongly recommended to all owners.
Arcade Paradise VR
Funny mix of arcade machine simulator with smell of laundry management and funny 90's humor and lots of mini-games
Arcade Paradise VR
Editorial Rating
Apr 26, 2024
Pros
- + Really nicely done controls of arcade machines
- + Full of retro atmosphere
- + Good sound design and humor
- + Different authentic mini-games
- + Very nice retro-like cutscenes
- + Mixed reality features
- + Lots of nostalgia
Cons
- – Tutorial and routines are too boring
- – No arcade machine only mode
- – Voice acting is very average
This game will definitely impress every fan of 90's and everything related to this (of course including different recognizable arcade machines). For casual player it might be too boring as you have to do a lot of routines to unlock the arcade machines.
Echo VR
A technical and mental masterpiece for coop-multiplayer challenges between real people around the world. High entry threshold but mind-blowing fun for...
Echo VR
Editorial Rating
Apr 4, 2024
Pros
- + An absolute masterpiece that was way ahead of its time.
- + Technically perfect realized physics, graphics, look and feel
- + Best zero-gravity and full-body motion implementation ever made in VR
- + Great tutorial and practice
- + Social and coop-compilation, including voice chat, team play and competition vibes.
- + Absolutely free, additional totally different game mode offered as DLC (Echo Combat)
- + Infinite replayability, possibility to play in multiplayer mode or single-player practice versus bots
Cons
- – High entry threshold , easy to learn controls but needs some time of practice to learn playing effeciently
- – Lack of players in Echo Combat DLC extension, so you might wait for a game for dozens of minutes
This is a real gem of multiplayer VR esport competition games. It will blow your mind with 0g feeling and game mechanics, technical perfection and immersion. Even after Meta's official game shut down it lives with the community servers and still have huge audience! To play it today you have to follow the manual on <a href=https://discord.com/channels/779349159852769310/1215419285757894656 target=_blank>Echo VR Lounge discord</a> or <a href=https://kb.vrguru.net/>check out our KB</a> for step-by-step guide. It will be hard to learn playing it, but if you do, you'll find other dimension of VR gaming. In our opinion, this is a game that was ahead of its time and if you want something extraordinary, you have patience configure it and learn playing, you you definitely have to try it!
Stilt
Cute first-person platformer with funny character, elastic-like physics and vivid words and challenging parkour puzzles
Stilt
Editorial Rating
Apr 3, 2024
Pros
- + Nice look and graphics
- + Authentic and original character movement
- + Catchy game mechanics and idea
- + Very cute worlds and environments
- + Variety of tools changing character's behavior
- + Multiplayer support from day one
Cons
- – Lack of variety of enemies
- – A bit monotone mechanics, but still fine
Very nice and original first person game, inspired by classic platformers genre, featuring single player campaign and mutliplayer co-op and PvP modes
Lawn Mowing Simulator VR
A tranquil adventure promising to immerse you in something you're sure to adore makes you feel bad literally from the first minutes of simulation
Lawn Mowing Simulator VR
Editorial Rating
Apr 3, 2024
Pros
- + Authentic idea
- + Acceptable graphics
- + Tolerable lawnmower control
- + Different locations and tools
Cons
- – Really strong motion sickness from the simulation
- – Clumsy mechanics and poor and long tutorial
- – Unclear purpose of additional tools
To be honest, this is the first game we've encountered that induces such intense motion sickness once you begin driving. Personally for our editors it was impossible to play it for more than 15 minutes, and we strongly advise to avoid it for anyone who doesn't have an exceptionally strong stomach. We didn't had a chance to check all the game's features due motion sickness, so this review can't be considered as complete article.
Max Mustard
Great and solid VR platformer game, similar to Lucky's Tale and Ven's VR adventure, but additional first person game mechanics, where you have to help...
Max Mustard
Editorial Rating
Mar 20, 2024
Pros
- + Really awesome look'n'feel
- + Great vivid levels and characters
- + Nice sound/music and camera behavior
- + Optimal difficulty
- + Original gameplay mechanics
- + Really cute creatures and levels
- + Menu environment is very nice
Cons
- – Might be a bit better with voice acting and stronger narrative
- – We didn't enjoyed the upgrades mechanics
Really awesome platformer game with stunning graphics, controls and characters, your personal involvement into his challenges and balanced difficulty game design. If you like platformers, this is a polished example of genre with some original gameplay elements. We'd strongly recommend you at least to try it!
Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend
A story-oriented narrative naval adventure with puzzle elements, telling a story of most famous pirate leader woman. Game is inspired by Asiatic vibes...
Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend
Editorial Rating
Mar 20, 2024
Pros
- + Nice graphics and original visual style
- + Impressive naval fleet scenes
- + High quality voice acting
- + Authentic environments and atmosphere
- + Original style of storytelling
Cons
- – Weak game mechanics in general
- – A bit boring and repetitive gameplay
- – Not a strong story line
- – Gets boring after playing a couple of chapters
- – Quite short (around 1-1.5 hours in total)
- – Historical inaccuracies
Very authentic game with some impressive and cinematographic scenes, but in general monotonous, quite 'scriptish' and with a bit weak story. We'd recommend it as a short immersive tour with naval vibes for the fans of pirate stories and/or asia
Border Bots VR
In the robotized AI-powered world you win a lottery to be a human border agent, checking the robots. This game is a beautiful example of turning routi...
Border Bots VR
Editorial Rating
Feb 8, 2024
Pros
- + Nice game mechanics
- + Pleasant look and feel
- + Diversity even in routine tasks
- + Good voice overs and lite story line
- + Impressive and futuristic environment
- + Funny set of tools
- + Cute and angry robots :)
Cons
- – Unskippable dialogues
- – Missing difficulty/duration settings
- – Lacks free/endless mode
Really nice game, a variant of "Papers, please" in VR set up in robotized future. Some of the robots you interact with will appear life-like, with special personalities, tricks, and funny reactions to your actions. We'd recommend to try this game, especially if you like robots and puzzles :)
Bulletstorm VR
A VR remake of original flat game from 2011, a fast-paced shooter "Bulletstorm" with single-player campaign, where your primary task is combo kills of...
Bulletstorm VR
Editorial Rating
Jan 19, 2024
Pros
- + The game itself is fully consistent with the original
- + Not the worst VR adaptation, but still far from OK
- + Nice voice acting, fine cut scenes (but still in cinema-like 2.5D)
- + Full-length story-rich campaign
Cons
- – Low resolution and low-detailed graphics
- – Clumsy controls and gameplay mechanics
- – Loooots of bugs and crashes
- – Performance issues on Quest 2
In general this might be OK for the fans of simple shooters or original Bulletstorm (we've seen worse adaptations like Fallout VR), but in general game is boring, doesn't look great and feels a bit clumsy, especially for the price requested. We recommend to avoid it, if you don't feel anything special to Bulletstorm franchise.
Toy Trains VR
Toy Trains VR is an engaging retro-tabletop-stylized puzzle game featuring adorable railroad pieces.
Toy Trains VR
Editorial Rating
Jan 17, 2024
Pros
- + Charming cartoonish graphics
- + Intuitive controls and user-friendly interface
- + Great atmosphere and well-crafted level design
- + Cute characters and models
- + Accessible and easy-to-use mechanics
Cons
- – Missing difficulty settings
- – Camera controls aren't good
- – Very light and short story line
- – No sandbox mode and custom level editor
Wonderfully-crafted short game to solve simple puzzles and enjoy train models you've been so missing in your childhood :)