Valve index. Got a lightly used one for a great price.
TBH I mainly bought this thing cause I want to play the Myst remaster in VR but I better get some use outa this. So what else is worth playing aside from Beat Saber? Any good VR mods?
half life alyx is dope
beat saber and pistol whip
superhot
I’d strongly recommend starting off with slower games with less movement. You heard a lot more about it when the VR headsets first started taking off, but it’s still an issue. You feel like you should be moving more than you actually are, it makes you feel sick at first. Myst and Beatsaber will be great starters. Valve also seems to have made their games work with VR quite well, I’ve heard great things about Portal and Alyx
Superhot is great, it was clearly made for the earlier, more nauseating headsets. The movement of the game lends itself perfectly to VR.
(CW: suicide)
I also recommend playing one of the older versions of the game that still have the suicide scene in it. Originally, there was a scene in the game where you’d win the mission by chucking yourself off a building. The dev doesn’t particularly like the scene anymore and took it out because he didn’t like the implications it had on the story and thought it was kinda edgy. I agree with this, however I feel completely different about the VR version of Superhot. When you throw yourself off a building because the game told you to and actually feel like you threw yourself off a building for a few seconds, it just really brought me into the story of the game. There’s another suicide scene where you shoot yourself, and yeah that one is just edgy and doesn’t do anything, but the medium of VR completely sells me on the building scene.
Dolphin (GC and Wii- also any other 3D game that had a virtual console release but I haven’t tested these), Citra (3ds), and RPCS3 have side-by-side (SBS) stereoscopic 3d output-modes that you should 100% try.
They aren’t “VR” in the sense that you’re the player, but it’s like playing a 3d movie in theaters (if you ever played a 3ds with 3d on imagine that but overwhelmingly good).
On that front you should also know that HSBS (half side by side) and SBS (side by side) 3d movies are also watchable in VR and are probably the best way to consume that media outside of a real movie theater.
If you have any questions feel free to ask
There’s a Dolphin fork that has a really cool VR setup for the Metroid Prime games, isn’t there?
Walkabout mini golf is super fun too, beyond all the other things folks have already recommended.
Humblebundle has a decent VR bundle right now, just fyi.
Keep in mind I’m poor so I mostly just play older games and Half Life:alyx and its 3rd party campaigns, some of which are really great. Arizona Sunshine was pretty good. Gorn, Crisis VRigade, I expect you to die, Propagation VR, The LAb is a classic, Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator are cute, Angry Birds VR can be pretty fun, Google Earth VR is awesome (check out the DPRK), Budget Cuts was really good, A Fisherman’s Tale was interesting, Cartoon Network Journeys VR, Hello Puppets was creepy but cool, ACRON is a really cool asymetrical multiplayer thing if you have friends over for game nights.
