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Not long now! PlayStation VR arrives in stores on 13th October. We know you’ve been looking for more info on which games you’ll be playing this year and into early 2017 — read on below for the full list as it currently stands.
Please note that this is not 100% final – we are expecting more titles to drop in, and we’ll keep this page updated as they are confirmed. And of course this is just the beginning – 2017 will not be too old before we welcome the likes of , and , to name but a few.
Finally, this list does not include ‘non-game’ PlayStation VR experiences – look out for a full confirmed list of those in the coming days.
100ft Robot Golf is a real time golf game where you get to control impossibly large robots on their quest for par. Never get your ball stuck behind a pesky tree or skyscraper ever again!
Command the most powerful tank ever built. Load it with devastating weapons and power ups and defeat legions of ground and air defences. Take on an endlessly replayable campaign in which no two playthroughs are ever the same.
Experience Gotham City through the eyes of the World’s Greatest Detective in an all new Arkham mystery. Think like Batman and utilize his legendary gadgets in Virtual Reality to unravel a plot that threatens the lives of Batman’s closest allies.
Bound transports you into a beautiful, fantastical world that exists in the mind of a woman revisiting the memories of her childhood. Use dance moves to traverse vast environments filled with platforming challenges. As the game progresses, the introspective story unfolds through powerful metaphor and imagery, adding emotional depth to the protagonist’s journey.
Driveclub VR is the most immersive Driveclub experience available where players can truly experience the incredible speed, sensation and precision of driving the world’s most exotic high-performance cars. Driveclub VR will feature more than 80 cars, new and classic Driveclub tracks, as well single player career and online virtually reality multiplayer modes.
Join the Valkyrie, an outlaw band of immortal pirates, and fight your way to glory across the galaxy. Unlock, upgrade, and customize your fleet of deadly ships to dominate in multiplayer space combat.
Harmonix Music VR allows you to unlock the transcendent potential of your music.From a whacky dance party, to 3D reactive art, a psychedelic trip or even chilling on a nice relaxing alien beach, Harmonix Music VR has it all. It is the next evolution of your music library through virtual reality.
Hatsune Miku and friends are back, but they need your help. The light is fading from their world and the only way to restore it is by helping Miku do the one thing she was born to do, perform!
Welcome to the Football Improvement Centre, which is not a prison. Inside our Heading Facility, you will undergo an intense re-education under the guidance of our world class staff. You will find your time spent here to be quite valuable, but do remember… improvement is mandatory
Developed by Tangentlemen under the banner of Santa Monica Studio’s external development group. Enter an uncanny horror experience where death is not a checkpoint. Delve into an inescapable, surreal world where unsettling encounters and environments come to life. Here They Lie is a mind bending first-person VR descent into madness.
Play US 8-Ball, Black Ball, Killer, Cut Throat, Snooker and many more cue sports as they were meant to be played with Hustle Kings VR. Measure the angles and line up your shots exactly as you would in real life. This is more than just a sports simulation. Step inside the virtual pool hall and see for yourself.
“In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the “”Job Simulator”” to learn what it was like ‘to job’. Players can relive the glory days of work by simulating the ins and outs of being a gourmet chef, an office worker, a convenience store clerk, and more.”
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
You’re trapped in a virtual room with a ticking time bomb. Your friends have the bomb defusal manual, but they can’t see the bomb… So everyone has to talk it out – fast!
Loading Human
Loading Human is the ultimate VR adventure. When your dying father beckons you to travel into space to save his life, your world is turned upside-down. Stakes are raised when a series of unforeseen events occur right before your mission.
Sports Bar VR
Sports Bar VR is social VR at its best, a virtual world of fun and frolics in an environment waiting to be explored, including 8Ball and 9Ball Pool, Air Hockey, Skee Ball, Darts and more.
Super Stardust VR
Super Stardust explodes onto PlayStation VR with a whole new perspective and a totally new way to play. Pilot your star fighter and defend your planet once more, but this time jump into the cockpit and battle the alien invaders face-to-face.
PS VR Worlds is a collection of five different VR experiences – The London Heist, Ocean Descent, VR Luge, Danger Ball and Scavenger’s Odyssey – that have all been built from the ground up exclusively for PS VR.
Experience 360 degrees of mind-blowing synesthesia as you blast through waves of enemies, with colors and sounds that sync and blend to the beat of Rez’s legendary techno soundtrack.
Take control of a range of massive athletic machines in the Mechanized Combat League – a near-future sports league which pits teams of pilots against each other in combat arenas around the world. Players choose their team and RIG, and take to the field in intense online multiplayer matches or against fierce AI competition in Career Mode. They’ll earn fame and fortune, and gain access to new RIGS and pilots along the way. In total, there are 24 unique RIGS to unlock, each with their own style of play.
The all-new “Blood Ties” chapter lets you explore Croft Manor in PlayStation VR and unlock its mysteries in a new story expansion to the upcoming action adventure sequel.
We hope Superhypercube captures the feeling you remember from playing a brand new game system, of exploring a completely fresh universe that looks and sounds like nothing you’ve experienced before, while challenging yourself to get better and better, so you can go further and further.
A first-person interactive story inspired by real-world anxieties, The Assembly is a long-form game designed for VR. Explore a morally ambiguous organization as two individuals and face tough decisions from contrasting perspectives, all culminating in one of multiple surprising conclusions.
Get ready for an innovative and social spin on virtual reality gaming. Available as a free download from PlayStation Store for all PS VR owners, The Playroom VR includes six games that are sure to leave a colossal impact on any party.
Thumper is rhythm violence: classic action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. In two dimensions, Thumper is an epic journey through nine levels of rhythm hell. If you play with PS VR, it’s completely overwhelming!
Tumble VR
Tumble VR is an accessible, fun, engaging and immersive puzzler with new levels built from the ground up for PlayStation VR from Supermassive Games. Get your hands on with gravity-defying building tasks, tricky balancing acts and explosive destruction challenges in an array of brain teasing tests and tough dexterity trials.
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is a VR horror arcade shooter, set on a rollercoaster ride through the world of Until Dawn. Choose your track on the terrifying rollercoaster and shoot your way through a parade of enemies whilst ducking and dodging everything that comes your way.
Volume: Coda
Volume: Coda is the PlayStation VR exclusive continuation of Volume, featuring a new cast, 30 new levels and even the original game playable in VR. Best part? It’s all free for everyone who owns Volume on PlayStation!
Wayward Sky is a third person adventure game that focuses on atmosphere and storytelling through light puzzle solving designed to ease players into VR.
World War Toons is a cartoony first person shooter designed for VR. In this class based shooter, players duke it out for supremacy as either the courageous allies or the indomidable axis. From changing classes on the fly, to transforming into a tank, World War Toons offers a variety of playstyles and modes.
The Penguins are trapped and they need your help! Guide them to the Rescue Ship by opening doors and moving blocks, while making sure to help them waddle around traps and escape patrolling guards in this Lemmings-esque puzzler.
Resident Evil 7 Kitchen demo
Get a taste of the terrifying horror experience that has had expo crowds cowering in fear over the past year, and whet your appetite for Capcom’s upcoming Resident Evil sequel.
EVE: Gunjack
Fast-paced and fully immersive action set in the gorgeous panoramic sci-fi EVE universe. Take on the role of a gun turret operator on the Kubera, the largest mining vessel ever constructed, in the Outer Ring region of known space. As part of the ship’s defence team, it is up to you to protect the rig from pirates, opportunists and anyone else looking to take what rightfully belongs to the company.
Carnival Games VR is immersive virtual reality experience allowing you to explore a park full of fun. It’s a great party game where you can play with friends, and play up to 12 different games, earning tickets for virtual prizes!
Moto Racer 4
The cult arcade biking series returns this year with special features for PlayStation VR owners.
Eagle Flight
Take flight over Paris and experience the freedom of flying like never before! Explore an iconic city from a new point of view, or team up with others in multiplayer dogfights for ultimate victories. The sky is yours!
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Command the bridge! Developed for VR, Star Trek: Bridge Crew puts you and your friends in the heart of a starship, where- as officers of the Federation- every action and decision you make together will determine the fate of your ship and more!
Werewolves Within
Game night comes to VR! Capturing the essence and competitive spirit of playing around the table, use randomly assigned roles & abilities to vote and eliminate the hidden werewolves among your group. No two games are alike!
Ace Banana
Ace Banana is a PSVR arcade archery game where you wield a bow to protect your banana stash from marauding monkeys. The game features waves of enemies, intuitive archery using Move controllers, and single and multiplayer modes. Get ready to go bananas!
Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: X-wing VR Mission
Play it first on PlayStation VR
Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: VR Mission will immerse players into one of the most iconic universes while piloting an X-wing and battling against the Empire.
Fated: The Silent Oath
Fear is easy to achieve in Virtual Reality, for Fated we wanted to explore compassion, sadness, happiness and other complex emotions. Nothing is stronger than the connection between a parent and his child. We knew we would strike a sensitive chord with players in Fated.
HoloBall
Compete for glory in a retro-future world ruled by rogue AI. Equipped with only a paddle and your own skill do you have what it takes to defeat your opponents and earn your freedom?
Pixel Ripped 1989
Imagine you’re back in school on 1989 and have to hide your game device under your desk without being caught by the teacher. A game within a game, Pixel Ripped challenges you to travel through the history of video games.
Proton Pulse
Get ready for 50+ levels of fast paced classic arcade brick-breaking action from a whole new point of view, featuring Music from Jake Kaufman [Virt], Dan Behrens [Danimal Cannon] and Justin Moravetz [Rave-TZ]. Use your PlayStation Move controllers (or just your steely gaze) to direct the Proton, an energy ball with awesome power and the only thing that can destroy the M.O.A.I. core.
Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin sees players back in the role of psychic acrobat Raz, now an official member of the Pscyhonauts. In this entirely new game specifically deigned for VR, Raz will unite with familiar characters and use his psychic abilities like telekinesis and clairvoyance to help rescue the captured head of the Psychonauts, Truman Zanotto.
Play it first on PlayStation VR
When the Esmeralda crashes on Tyson III, a boy named Robin is left stranded. He must rely on his wits – and HIGS, an AI companion from the ship – to survive. As he searches for the lost crew and comes face-to-face with dinosaurs, Robin discovers that Tyson III is not the paradise once promised…
Time Machine VR
A time-traveling cadet uses incredible technology to scan, track, and bait prehistoric creatures in the hope of understanding them and prevent a deadly virus from taking lives in the future.
Space Rift
Space Rift is the first part of a breathtaking action space adventure with a captivating story specifically designed for virtual reality. Experience the excitement of flying through the expanses of our galaxy up close in your own cockpit and join the fight for the freedom of humanity on Mars.
Trackmania VR
Through 40 exclusive and free VR tracks in Arcade and Campaign modes, Trackmania Turbo players can enjoy the spectacular jumps, loops and wall-rides of Trackmania Turbo, specifically redesigned to make the best use of virtual experience.
A VR flight experience that gives you the chance to take up the reins of a beautiful, giant Phoenix and explore an enchanting world. With your Dualshock 4 controller becoming your reins, you will find yourself seated on the back of this mythical creature and in full control of its every swoop, glide and dive.
Radial G
Climb into the cockpit of a futuristic race craft and tear up the anti-gravity track as battle commences against real or AI opponents. Offering single and eight-player online action, Radial-G delivers full immersion combat racing on tubular tracks featuring twists, jumps, splits and unique inverted racing.
Play it first on PlayStation VR
With a simple premise at its core – gather and prepare by day, survive by night – Tethered takes the best parts of a sand-box strategy game and combines them with gentle puzzle mechanics that help pull you through the experience, all wrapped up in a beautifully immersive universe.
Windlands
Soar through the ruins of a fallen civilisation and discover the secrets of the ancient world in Psytec’s first person grappling hook VR exploration game.
Viva Ex Vivo
Viva Ex Vivo’s tag line is “survival on a microscopic scale.” Assume the role of a busy microbiologist in the not-so-distant future, whose research partner has taken off for the week. The player is tasked with sifting through their partner’s notes, and completing their team’s work: researching biological samples using a nanoscale artificial organism capable of surviving in a multitude of familiar and foreign microscopic environments.
Pixel Gear
Pixel Gear is a colorful 3D pixel shoot-em-up with a variety of humorous cartoon monsters and ghosts as enemies. Each level is filled with interactive objects that exhibit entertaining reactions when hit and upgradeable weapons grant the ability to slow down or even stop time.
“The Brookhaven Experiment” is the wave-based survival horror shooter that terrifies players until they huddle up in a fetal position begging for it all to stop. You’ll need good aim and nerves of steel if you want to last the night in Brookhaven!
Weeping Doll
Weeping Doll is a story-driven horror adventure where dolls can come alive, animated by the negative thoughts of their child owners. Solve difficult puzzles in eerie environments as an abused girl’s doll takes revenge on her parents–and things only get scarier from there!
Take control of massive stone creatures to explore ancient ruins and recover powerful artifacts. Hone your fighting skills to defeat the golems of the Silent Watch and uncover your family’s mysterious past.
GNOG is a tactile puzzle game set in a world of vivid toys & mysterious monsters. Get up close to grab, flip, push, spin, and explore the enigmatic heads and their rich, dynamic soundscapes.
Statik is the VR game that WE wanted to make, and it’s about all sorts of things: a nobody with a puzzle to solve; being stuck in a room with terrible people; and the consequences of not reading the terms & conditions.
Our idea is to take players on a beautiful, fantastical and spiritual journey through the afterlife. The game is non-combative, as we want players to feel intrigued by the story and puzzles presented, but also relaxed in the lush environments.
Play it first on PlayStation VR
Control an interdimensional, indestructible super being as they attempt to thwart an alien invasion. You can’t die… but the cities have life bars, and if you let the aliens destroy them, you lose!
Played out in miniature right in front of the player, Korix is a retro-styled real-time strategy game infused with tower defence elements, offering old-school gameplay reminiscent of classic RTS games from the late ’90s.
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Please note that this is not 100% final – we are expecting more titles to drop in, and we’ll keep this page updated as they are confirmed. And of course this is just the beginning – 2017 will not be too old before we welcome the likes of , and , to name but a few.
Finally, this list does not include ‘non-game’ PlayStation VR experiences – look out for a full confirmed list of those in the coming days.
- Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: No Goblin
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
100ft Robot Golf is a real time golf game where you get to control impossibly large robots on their quest for par. Never get your ball stuck behind a pesky tree or skyscraper ever again!
- Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Rebellion
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Command the most powerful tank ever built. Load it with devastating weapons and power ups and defeat legions of ground and air defences. Take on an endlessly replayable campaign in which no two playthroughs are ever the same.
- Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Experience Gotham City through the eyes of the World’s Greatest Detective in an all new Arkham mystery. Think like Batman and utilize his legendary gadgets in Virtual Reality to unravel a plot that threatens the lives of Batman’s closest allies.
- PlayStation exclusive
- Developer: Plastic
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
Bound transports you into a beautiful, fantastical world that exists in the mind of a woman revisiting the memories of her childhood. Use dance moves to traverse vast environments filled with platforming challenges. As the game progresses, the introspective story unfolds through powerful metaphor and imagery, adding emotional depth to the protagonist’s journey.
- PlayStation exclusive
- Developer: Evolution Studio
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Driveclub VR is the most immersive Driveclub experience available where players can truly experience the incredible speed, sensation and precision of driving the world’s most exotic high-performance cars. Driveclub VR will feature more than 80 cars, new and classic Driveclub tracks, as well single player career and online virtually reality multiplayer modes.
- Developer: CCP Games
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Join the Valkyrie, an outlaw band of immortal pirates, and fight your way to glory across the galaxy. Unlock, upgrade, and customize your fleet of deadly ships to dominate in multiplayer space combat.
- Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Harmonix Music Systems
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Harmonix Music VR allows you to unlock the transcendent potential of your music.From a whacky dance party, to 3D reactive art, a psychedelic trip or even chilling on a nice relaxing alien beach, Harmonix Music VR has it all. It is the next evolution of your music library through virtual reality.
- PlayStation exclusive content
- Developer: SEGA
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
Hatsune Miku and friends are back, but they need your help. The light is fading from their world and the only way to restore it is by helping Miku do the one thing she was born to do, perform!
- Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Frame Interactive
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Welcome to the Football Improvement Centre, which is not a prison. Inside our Heading Facility, you will undergo an intense re-education under the guidance of our world class staff. You will find your time spent here to be quite valuable, but do remember… improvement is mandatory
- PlayStation exclusive
- Developer: Tangentlemen
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Developed by Tangentlemen under the banner of Santa Monica Studio’s external development group. Enter an uncanny horror experience where death is not a checkpoint. Delve into an inescapable, surreal world where unsettling encounters and environments come to life. Here They Lie is a mind bending first-person VR descent into madness.
- PlayStation exclusive
- Developer: EPOS Game Studios
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
Play US 8-Ball, Black Ball, Killer, Cut Throat, Snooker and many more cue sports as they were meant to be played with Hustle Kings VR. Measure the angles and line up your shots exactly as you would in real life. This is more than just a sports simulation. Step inside the virtual pool hall and see for yourself.
- PlayStation exclusive content
- Developer: Owlchemy Labs
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
“In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the “”Job Simulator”” to learn what it was like ‘to job’. Players can relive the glory days of work by simulating the ins and outs of being a gourmet chef, an office worker, a convenience store clerk, and more.”
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
- Developer: Steel Crate Games
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
You’re trapped in a virtual room with a ticking time bomb. Your friends have the bomb defusal manual, but they can’t see the bomb… So everyone has to talk it out – fast!
Loading Human
- Developer: Maximum Games
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Loading Human is the ultimate VR adventure. When your dying father beckons you to travel into space to save his life, your world is turned upside-down. Stakes are raised when a series of unforeseen events occur right before your mission.
Sports Bar VR
- Developer: Cherry Pop Games
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Sports Bar VR is social VR at its best, a virtual world of fun and frolics in an environment waiting to be explored, including 8Ball and 9Ball Pool, Air Hockey, Skee Ball, Darts and more.
Super Stardust VR
- PlayStation exclusive
- Developer: D3T
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
Super Stardust explodes onto PlayStation VR with a whole new perspective and a totally new way to play. Pilot your star fighter and defend your planet once more, but this time jump into the cockpit and battle the alien invaders face-to-face.
- PlayStation exclusive
- Developer: London Studio
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
PS VR Worlds is a collection of five different VR experiences – The London Heist, Ocean Descent, VR Luge, Danger Ball and Scavenger’s Odyssey – that have all been built from the ground up exclusively for PS VR.
- Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Enhance Games
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
Experience 360 degrees of mind-blowing synesthesia as you blast through waves of enemies, with colors and sounds that sync and blend to the beat of Rez’s legendary techno soundtrack.
- PlayStation exclusive
- Developer: Guerrilla Cambridge
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Take control of a range of massive athletic machines in the Mechanized Combat League – a near-future sports league which pits teams of pilots against each other in combat arenas around the world. Players choose their team and RIG, and take to the field in intense online multiplayer matches or against fierce AI competition in Career Mode. They’ll earn fame and fortune, and gain access to new RIGS and pilots along the way. In total, there are 24 unique RIGS to unlock, each with their own style of play.
- Developer: Crystal Dynamics
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
The all-new “Blood Ties” chapter lets you explore Croft Manor in PlayStation VR and unlock its mysteries in a new story expansion to the upcoming action adventure sequel.
- Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Kokoromi
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
We hope Superhypercube captures the feeling you remember from playing a brand new game system, of exploring a completely fresh universe that looks and sounds like nothing you’ve experienced before, while challenging yourself to get better and better, so you can go further and further.
- Developer: nDreams
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
A first-person interactive story inspired by real-world anxieties, The Assembly is a long-form game designed for VR. Explore a morally ambiguous organization as two individuals and face tough decisions from contrasting perspectives, all culminating in one of multiple surprising conclusions.
- PlayStation exclusive
- Developer: Japan Studio
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Get ready for an innovative and social spin on virtual reality gaming. Available as a free download from PlayStation Store for all PS VR owners, The Playroom VR includes six games that are sure to leave a colossal impact on any party.
- Developer: Drool
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
Thumper is rhythm violence: classic action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. In two dimensions, Thumper is an epic journey through nine levels of rhythm hell. If you play with PS VR, it’s completely overwhelming!
Tumble VR
- PlayStation exclusive
- Developer: Supermassive Games
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Tumble VR is an accessible, fun, engaging and immersive puzzler with new levels built from the ground up for PlayStation VR from Supermassive Games. Get your hands on with gravity-defying building tasks, tricky balancing acts and explosive destruction challenges in an array of brain teasing tests and tough dexterity trials.
- PlayStation exclusive
- Developer: Supermassive Games
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is a VR horror arcade shooter, set on a rollercoaster ride through the world of Until Dawn. Choose your track on the terrifying rollercoaster and shoot your way through a parade of enemies whilst ducking and dodging everything that comes your way.
Volume: Coda
- Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Bithell Games
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Volume: Coda is the PlayStation VR exclusive continuation of Volume, featuring a new cast, 30 new levels and even the original game playable in VR. Best part? It’s all free for everyone who owns Volume on PlayStation!
- Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Uber Entertainment
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Wayward Sky is a third person adventure game that focuses on atmosphere and storytelling through light puzzle solving designed to ease players into VR.
- Developer: Reload Studios
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
World War Toons is a cartoony first person shooter designed for VR. In this class based shooter, players duke it out for supremacy as either the courageous allies or the indomidable axis. From changing classes on the fly, to transforming into a tank, World War Toons offers a variety of playstyles and modes.
- Developer: Archiact Interactive
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
The Penguins are trapped and they need your help! Guide them to the Rescue Ship by opening doors and moving blocks, while making sure to help them waddle around traps and escape patrolling guards in this Lemmings-esque puzzler.
Resident Evil 7 Kitchen demo
- PlayStation exclusive content
- Developer: Capcom
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Get a taste of the terrifying horror experience that has had expo crowds cowering in fear over the past year, and whet your appetite for Capcom’s upcoming Resident Evil sequel.
EVE: Gunjack
- Developer: CCP Games
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Fast-paced and fully immersive action set in the gorgeous panoramic sci-fi EVE universe. Take on the role of a gun turret operator on the Kubera, the largest mining vessel ever constructed, in the Outer Ring region of known space. As part of the ship’s defence team, it is up to you to protect the rig from pirates, opportunists and anyone else looking to take what rightfully belongs to the company.
- Developer: 2K Games
- Release date: 28th October 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Carnival Games VR is immersive virtual reality experience allowing you to explore a park full of fun. It’s a great party game where you can play with friends, and play up to 12 different games, earning tickets for virtual prizes!
Moto Racer 4
- Developer: Anuman Interactive
- Release date: 3rd November 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
The cult arcade biking series returns this year with special features for PlayStation VR owners.
Eagle Flight
- Developer: Ubisoft
- Release date: 8th November 2016 (digital) // 15th November, 2016 (retail)
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Take flight over Paris and experience the freedom of flying like never before! Explore an iconic city from a new point of view, or team up with others in multiplayer dogfights for ultimate victories. The sky is yours!
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
- Developer: Ubisoft
- Release date: 29th November 2016 (digital) // 6th December 2016 (retail)
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Command the bridge! Developed for VR, Star Trek: Bridge Crew puts you and your friends in the heart of a starship, where- as officers of the Federation- every action and decision you make together will determine the fate of your ship and more!
Werewolves Within
- Developer: Ubisoft
- Release date: 6th December 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Game night comes to VR! Capturing the essence and competitive spirit of playing around the table, use randomly assigned roles & abilities to vote and eliminate the hidden werewolves among your group. No two games are alike!
Ace Banana
- Developer: Oasis Games
- Release date: Available at PS VR launch
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Ace Banana is a PSVR arcade archery game where you wield a bow to protect your banana stash from marauding monkeys. The game features waves of enemies, intuitive archery using Move controllers, and single and multiplayer modes. Get ready to go bananas!
Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: X-wing VR Mission
Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Electronic Arts
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: VR Mission will immerse players into one of the most iconic universes while piloting an X-wing and battling against the Empire.
Fated: The Silent Oath
- Developer: Frima Studio
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Fear is easy to achieve in Virtual Reality, for Fated we wanted to explore compassion, sadness, happiness and other complex emotions. Nothing is stronger than the connection between a parent and his child. We knew we would strike a sensitive chord with players in Fated.
HoloBall
- Developer: TreeFortress Games
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Compete for glory in a retro-future world ruled by rogue AI. Equipped with only a paddle and your own skill do you have what it takes to defeat your opponents and earn your freedom?
Pixel Ripped 1989
- Developer: Pixel Ripped Inc
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Imagine you’re back in school on 1989 and have to hide your game device under your desk without being caught by the teacher. A game within a game, Pixel Ripped challenges you to travel through the history of video games.
Proton Pulse
- Developer: ZeroTransform Inc.
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Get ready for 50+ levels of fast paced classic arcade brick-breaking action from a whole new point of view, featuring Music from Jake Kaufman [Virt], Dan Behrens [Danimal Cannon] and Justin Moravetz [Rave-TZ]. Use your PlayStation Move controllers (or just your steely gaze) to direct the Proton, an energy ball with awesome power and the only thing that can destroy the M.O.A.I. core.
- Developer: Double Fine Productions
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin sees players back in the role of psychic acrobat Raz, now an official member of the Pscyhonauts. In this entirely new game specifically deigned for VR, Raz will unite with familiar characters and use his psychic abilities like telekinesis and clairvoyance to help rescue the captured head of the Psychonauts, Truman Zanotto.
Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Crytek GmbH
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
When the Esmeralda crashes on Tyson III, a boy named Robin is left stranded. He must rely on his wits – and HIGS, an AI companion from the ship – to survive. As he searches for the lost crew and comes face-to-face with dinosaurs, Robin discovers that Tyson III is not the paradise once promised…
Time Machine VR
- Developer: Minority Media
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
A time-traveling cadet uses incredible technology to scan, track, and bait prehistoric creatures in the hope of understanding them and prevent a deadly virus from taking lives in the future.
Space Rift
- Developer: bitComposer
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Space Rift is the first part of a breathtaking action space adventure with a captivating story specifically designed for virtual reality. Experience the excitement of flying through the expanses of our galaxy up close in your own cockpit and join the fight for the freedom of humanity on Mars.
Trackmania VR
- Developer: Ubisoft
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatibility
Through 40 exclusive and free VR tracks in Arcade and Campaign modes, Trackmania Turbo players can enjoy the spectacular jumps, loops and wall-rides of Trackmania Turbo, specifically redesigned to make the best use of virtual experience.
- Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Penny Black Studios
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
A VR flight experience that gives you the chance to take up the reins of a beautiful, giant Phoenix and explore an enchanting world. With your Dualshock 4 controller becoming your reins, you will find yourself seated on the back of this mythical creature and in full control of its every swoop, glide and dive.
Radial G
- Developer: Tammeka Ltd
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Climb into the cockpit of a futuristic race craft and tear up the anti-gravity track as battle commences against real or AI opponents. Offering single and eight-player online action, Radial-G delivers full immersion combat racing on tubular tracks featuring twists, jumps, splits and unique inverted racing.
Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Secret Sorcery Ltd
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
With a simple premise at its core – gather and prepare by day, survive by night – Tethered takes the best parts of a sand-box strategy game and combines them with gentle puzzle mechanics that help pull you through the experience, all wrapped up in a beautifully immersive universe.
Windlands
- Developer: Psytec Games
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Soar through the ruins of a fallen civilisation and discover the secrets of the ancient world in Psytec’s first person grappling hook VR exploration game.
Viva Ex Vivo
- Developer: Truant Pixel
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Viva Ex Vivo’s tag line is “survival on a microscopic scale.” Assume the role of a busy microbiologist in the not-so-distant future, whose research partner has taken off for the week. The player is tasked with sifting through their partner’s notes, and completing their team’s work: researching biological samples using a nanoscale artificial organism capable of surviving in a multitude of familiar and foreign microscopic environments.
Pixel Gear
- Developer: Oasis Games
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Pixel Gear is a colorful 3D pixel shoot-em-up with a variety of humorous cartoon monsters and ghosts as enemies. Each level is filled with interactive objects that exhibit entertaining reactions when hit and upgradeable weapons grant the ability to slow down or even stop time.
- Developer: Phosphor Games
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
“The Brookhaven Experiment” is the wave-based survival horror shooter that terrifies players until they huddle up in a fetal position begging for it all to stop. You’ll need good aim and nerves of steel if you want to last the night in Brookhaven!
Weeping Doll
- Developer: Oasis Games
- Release date: Q4 2016
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Weeping Doll is a story-driven horror adventure where dolls can come alive, animated by the negative thoughts of their child owners. Solve difficult puzzles in eerie environments as an abused girl’s doll takes revenge on her parents–and things only get scarier from there!
- Developer: Highwire Games
- Release date: Q1 2017
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Take control of massive stone creatures to explore ancient ruins and recover powerful artifacts. Hone your fighting skills to defeat the golems of the Silent Watch and uncover your family’s mysterious past.
- Developer: KO_OP
- Release date: Q1 2017
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
GNOG is a tactile puzzle game set in a world of vivid toys & mysterious monsters. Get up close to grab, flip, push, spin, and explore the enigmatic heads and their rich, dynamic soundscapes.
- Developer: Tarsier Studios
- Release date: Q1 2017
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Statik is the VR game that WE wanted to make, and it’s about all sorts of things: a nobody with a puzzle to solve; being stuck in a room with terrible people; and the consequences of not reading the terms & conditions.
- Developer: White Lotus Interactive
- Release date: Q1 2017
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR compatible
Our idea is to take players on a beautiful, fantastical and spiritual journey through the afterlife. The game is non-combative, as we want players to feel intrigued by the story and puzzles presented, but also relaxed in the lush environments.
Play it first on PlayStation VR
- Developer: Pentadimensional
- Release date: Q1 2017
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Control an interdimensional, indestructible super being as they attempt to thwart an alien invasion. You can’t die… but the cities have life bars, and if you let the aliens destroy them, you lose!
- Developer: StellarVR
- Release date: Q1 2017
- Compatibility: PlayStation VR required
Played out in miniature right in front of the player, Korix is a retro-styled real-time strategy game infused with tower defence elements, offering old-school gameplay reminiscent of classic RTS games from the late ’90s.
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