So you’ve gotten your palms on that sizzling new VR arrange, plugged within the headset, cameras, and controllers and are able to dwell the sci-fi dream. But you’re lacking one key element: video games. Where are you able to go to replenish this interactive gap in your life? You know the reply: it’s itch.io!

That’s proper, not solely do we’ve got superior indie video games, comics, books, and jams, however we even have VR experiences prepared for you as you learn this. Just like another specialised form of content material, we’ve got a tag arrange for VR prepared so that you can flick thru. You can type by all of those experiences in quite a lot of methods from recognition to platform to cost. You also can refine your search by together with different tags. If I had been to record all the methods you may type VR video games right here, this submit could be a mile lengthy, so try the tag and also you’ll most likely discover one thing to like.

Now the place do you begin relating to discovering video games to play? Well as I discussed above, sorting by recognition is a good way to determine what the itch.io neighborhood thinks is neat, or in the event you’re feeling extra adventurous you may try the Most Recent tab to see what builders have been importing. To sweeten this deal much more, each of those tabs are regularly up to date so irrespective of while you’re studying this (hi there, readers sooner or later!) you’ll discover present content material.

But what in the event you want a extra particular place to start out your VR journey? Fret not pricey reader, I’ve a pair of video games that received me enthusiastic about VR and can (hopefully) excite you too. First up: Superhot VR.

The authentic Superhot was a wildly ingenious FPS that was constructed below one easy premise: time solely strikes while you do. In apply this meant {that a} style typified by lightning fast reactions turned a slower, virtually puzzle-like expertise of gunshots and punching. The workforce behind what turned one in all my favourite FPS ever determined to take their abilities and make a model new expertise for VR. Rather than simply strapping bizarre VR motion to their current product, Superhot VR takes the core mechanics of Superhot and reimagines it for VR. This signifies that as an alternative of slowly strolling and stopping across the sport’s self-contained ranges you’re teleporting round whereas Matrix-dodging round bullets. This may not look like a wild change, however the feeling of crouching beneath bullets whereas throwing a katana at an enemy is unmatched.

If first individual shooters aren’t your jam, contemplate Thumper. Unlike Superhot VR, Thumper is an current sport with VR constructed on prime of it however it’s an expertise that works so nicely that you may be forgiven for believing that truth. Described by the builders as a “rhythm violence” sport, Thumper is journey of a silver beetle that hops, slams, and grinds its approach down a observe set to one of the aggressive and pulse-pounding soundtracks I’ve heard in a sport. Instead of monitoring your motion and placing the sport into a primary individual perspective, Thumper places the motion proper up in your face and makes what was already a completely engrossing rhythm expertise a recent new beast that retains you on the sting of your seat and coronary heart thumping alongside to the beat. None of this actually thrilled me once I heard about it however as quickly as I strapped on the goggles I felt the facility of VR as an audio-visual expertise and had the time of my life.

Now what about you, VR followers? What have you ever been taking part in? How did you get into VR? Have you developed a VR sport? Let us know within the feedback so we are able to welcome extra gamers into the VR neighborhood.