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17 Amazing Half-Life: Alyx Mods That Give You More Of The Game For Free

Half-Life: Alyx is widely recognized as one of the best VR games out there, and is a prime example of what a well designed AAA quality game can look like on Virtual Reality.

Unfortunately, Half-Life: Alyx was released years ago and hasn’t received any new official content for quite a while. So once you’ve mastered the main campaign of the game you might get bored with it.

So here are 17 Amazing Half-Life: Alyx Mods that will add more levels and content to the game for you to play through. These Half-Life: Alyx custom campaigns are some of the best around and will surely give you more good times in this fantastic VR game.

You’re guaranteed to have a good time with any of these HL:A Campaign-Likes.

Half-Life: Alyx is widely recognized as one of the best VR games out there, and is a prime example of what a well designed AAA quality game can look like on Virtual Reality.

Unfortunately, Half-Life: Alyx was released years ago and hasn’t received any new official content for quite a while. So once you’ve mastered the main campaign of the game you might get bored with it.

Luckily the developers at Valve also released fantastic modding and level creation tools along with the main game, and many talented and dedicated modders are here to fill the content gap for Half-Life: Alyx.

So here are 17 Amazing Half-Life: Alyx Mods that will add more levels and content to the game for you to play through. These Half-Life: Alyx custom campaigns are some of the best around and will surely give you more good times in this fantastic VR game.

You’re guaranteed to have a good time with any of these HL:A Campaign-Likes.

Gunman Contracts Chapters 1 And 2

The logo for the first chapter of the Gunman Contracts *Half-Life: Alyx* mod.

No list of Half-Life: Alyx mods or Half-Life: Alyx custom levels can be complete without Gunman Contracts Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

You might have seen this game referred to as a “John Wick” game, and that is an extremely accurate description for it. The Gunman Contracts mods pits you and your custom pistol against armed human goons, henchmen, and thugs just like John Wick in the movies.

You’ve got a mission to complete, and a ton of enemies in your way that you’ll have to fight through. Gunman Contracts does a great job of using Half-Life: Alyx’s Source 2 engine in a more true to life setting, and staging interesting, fast paced, dynamic, and intense firefights for you to enjoy.

Instead of fighting through alien infested ruins and ancient metro tunnels, Gunman Contracts has you blasting through windows in high rises and bottles of booze in bars. It’s great, and makes you feel faster and more powerful than you do in the base game, but also throws many more enemies at you.

If you want some fast paced urban shooting action in a Half-Life: Alyx mod, then give Gunman Contracts a try. The author of this mod is even working on a standalone VR game as well.

Half-Life: Incursion

Half-Life: Incursion places you in a small area of the Quarantine Zone surrounding City 17 and throws waves of combine soldiers at you.

You’ve only got so much time to scrounge of ammo and prepare your defenses, like placing tripwire mines, before another attack comes. They start out easily enough, but get harder and harder.

Luckily you won’t only get more supplies, but better weaponry as the waves get tougher. Survive them all and you’ll win. Half-Life: Incursion lets you get really crafty with your defense. You can lure soldiers into traps or try to evade and confuse them in the narrow alleys and city streets.

The attack waves are very well designed and varied, and there is even some excellent voiceover work to enjoy as well in Half-Life: Incursion.

Return To Rapture

Remember Rapture from the first two Bioshock games? Well now you can return to it in Virtual Reality in Return To Rapture.

That’s right, the combine have invaded Rapture and so now so will you. What is absolutely fantastic about this mod is how it transfers so much of the environment, gameplay, and vibe of Bioshock into Half-Life: Alyx.

There are all sorts of old favorites to enjoy from Vita Chambers to Plasmids. So if you want to experience Bioshock VR then try this mod. It is incredibly expansive, well made, and a creative combination of two game worlds.

Levitation

Half-Life: Alyx - Levitation feels like a continuation of the main campaign of Half-Life: Alyx both in terms of tone and quality.

Set right after the events of the main game, the story really kicks off when Alyx looks for two fellow resistance members investigating a mysterious floating building. Things escalate from there, and you’ll find yourself facing new challenges, seeing new fantastic sights, and enjoying yourself immensely.

Levitation is huge for a mod project at easily four hours in length, and is visually stunning in places, while also being a fun challenge for those who have already completed Half-Life: Alyx. It really feels like a continuation of the main campaign, despite being a mod.

Goldeneye Alyx 007

Remember the Nintendo 64 classic Goldeneye? Well the authors of Goldeneye Alyx 007 certainly do, and they’ve been busy recreating maps from the classic James Bond Goldeneye game in Half-Life: Alyx.

As far as Half-Life: Alyx mod ideas go, this is pretty ambitious considering the scale and detail of the maps recreated here, but the mod authors pulled off recreating those old areas with detail very well. Not to mention they’ve managed to fill them with great combat and exploration challenges.

Whether you want to relive some Goldeneye nostalgia or just want a fun series of James Bond themed maps to play through, check out this mod.

Hotline Alyx

If you’ve ever heard of the top down shooter Hotline Miami then you probably recognize the reference in the title of Hotline Alyx.

Everything, the masks, the music, the gritty 80s easthetic, and of course the fast and frantic combat of Hotline Miami are recreated here in Virtual Reality in this Half-Life: Alyx mod. There’s even a story, just like in Hotline Miami.

Each level is challenging, packed with enemies, fast paced, and a true challenge of your reflexes and tactics. You’ll also have to be very careful with your ammunition usage, so precision is key. Though you can always use melee weapons.

That’s right, this mod has melee weapons and they’re… okay. Still, it’s very impressive that they work at all. Hotline Alyx is impressive from how it includes such unique features and ties them together into a frantic package of VR close quarters shooting carnage.

From Here To There

If you want an entirely new story set in the Half-Life universe with a long campaign, new enemies, and new mechanics, then you’ve got to give From Here To There a try.

This is a very long Half-Life: Alyx mod that can run you up to 8 hours. It is fantastic, and you’re also a different character, Dr. Smithers from Half-Life 1.

After the Black Mesa incident Dr. Smithers works as a custodian and has a secret laboratory underground. In case you’re wondering, yes the secret lab is amazing, and there are a ton of experiments to play with. In fact there are a ton of new toys to interact with in From Here To There.

It’s got new weapons, a new story, and so much creativity on display for such a long run time. There are even some sections that will require puzzle solving skills and creativity. There is a ton of additional content in this mod, and it is all of very high quality.

Re-Education

Re-Education is a more slow paced mod that focuses on exploration, environmental storytelling, and taking things slowly.

In it you, as Alyx once more, make your way through an abandoned school in order to get to the safe house on the other side of it. Things start off inauspiciously at first, but as you get further into the Zen infested school things get more dangerous.

Why? There’s yet another Jeff inside of the school, but as far as Jeff encounters go this one was a much more creative use of the monster. Re-Education is a solid 45 minutes to hour of Half-Life: Alyx modded gameplay for when you want to do more careful exploring than shooting.

Cornered

In Cornered Alyx is laying low inside of an Apartment building. You wake up to an alarm and poke around your temporary apartment.

There you’ve got plenty of weapons and supplies, that you should definitely gather up quickly, but soon the combine find you and blast through the walls and front door to attack you.

This mod is extremely difficult, and the combine throw everything they’ve got at you. Though at the same time you’ve got a lot of weaponry and ammunition to fight them with. While you might die a lot, this mod is a real test of your close quarters combat skills in Alyx, and the feeling of relief when you fight your way out is fantastic.

Goon Squad

Want to be a combine soldier in Half-Life: Alyx? Well now you can in the Goon Squad mod.

You and the other members of your squad are exploring an old underground sewer within the Quarantine Zone when things suddenly go very wrong.

Can you survive as a lone combine soldier cut off and without support?

The Undertow

So you’re going to a nightclub with a briefcase, and you’ve got to deliver it to the owner. Unfortunately, things won’t end up being that straightforward in The Undertow.

This Half-Life: Alyx mod features a very fun setting with its neon saturated nightclub, though things do change up from there, and take a strangely horrifying turn.

There are more engaging combat challenges and puzzles in an hour long package. Not to mention the vodka is now drinkable!

Half-Life: Zheptics

Half-Life: Zheptics is another long story campaign that you can enjoy for Half-Life: Alyx that puts you in the shoes of a Resistance member that is investigating a strange old facility with their brother.

This facility is called Zheptics, and is related to the original Black Mesa from the first Half-Life game. You’ll find a really surprising breath of fresh air in Half-Life: Zheptics, and it almost feels like a whole new game than the original.

There are new puzzles that take very surprising turns, new gameplay mechanics, new puzzles, and even new enemies. All of these fantastic surprises in this mod keep coming and are all of very high quality.

If you’re looking for a fresh new experience with a great playtime then of all Half-Life: Alyx mods none delivers more new content than Half-Life: Zheptics.

Euphoria

Goon Squad isn’t the only mod that lets you play as a combine soldier.

Euphoria differentiates itself just as Incursion does in the world of Half-Life: Alyx mods by being more of a wave defense campaign than an actual set of linear levels you play through. Also it heavily features allied combine soldiers. You feel more like part of a squad than a lone survivor this time.

In Euphoria you and your squad of combine buddies are in a ruined nightclub that is heavily infested with zombies. The zombies keep coming, you and your buddies keep blasting, and fantastic music keeps playing. It’s a good time.

Buckshot Bugs

If you’re bummed that you don’t get to use the shotgun enough in Half-Life: Alyx then the Buckshot Bugs mod is for you.

In this mod the shotgun is your only weapon. Once more you need to fight your way out of an infested area and make it to a train to escape. There are a ton of enemies, and more importantly a ton of shotgun shells.

That is, if you know where to find them. Constantly being on the lookout for ammunition is very important here, but the satisfaction of shotgun blasting your enemies is fantastic. It’s surprising how intricate the combat can get with just a single weapon, and how great the upgrades for it are.

Abduction

In Abudction you wake up in a combine prison and escape, gather some weapons, and fight your way out while avoiding being recaptured.

This map is also short, but very tightly designed and well made. The premise is solid, and while nothing was truly surprising in this mod it was an overall solid experience. Nothing groundbreaking, but just a ton of fun that uses the mechanics of the original Half-Life: Alyx campaign well.

C17YSCAPE

In C17SCAPE you are once more in prison, except you’re no hero, just a normal citizen.

Luckily your cell malfunctions and you can escape. Unluckily the combine are after you and you are unarmed.

You’ll have to find a weapon and fight your way to, hopefully, safety. It’s hard out there for most in the Half-Life universe, and C17SCAPE is an old but great example of a solid hourlong map, and its been updated since then.

Overcharge

Saving arguably the best for last we have Overcharge, a mod that early on in the life of the Half-Life: Alyx modding community revealed just how great Half-Life: Alyx mods can be. It is the #1 rated mod for this VR game.

In Overcharge you are a rebel soldier tasked with the near suicidal objective of disabling a combine substation in the area before it is built.

Overcharge is an absolute classic and a must try for anybody who really wants to get into Half-Life: Alyx mods. While it isn’t the longest, it is the highest rated for good reasons.

Anyhow those are 17 amazing Half-Life: Alyx custom campaign mods that give you more amazing Half-Life: Alyx gameplay for free!

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11 Ways Into The Radius 2 Is Better Than The First Game

So Into the Radius 2 (aka Into The Diameter) has finally released into early access!

This game is an absolute blast and is a VR survival shooter that is even better than the original Into The Radius, despite some early access jank and bugs.

That's because Into The Radius 2 does exactly what a sequel should do, take what made the first game so enjoyable and refine it. Update things, add new pieces, change up the existing formula, and create something even more fantastic.

So Into the Radius 2 (aka Into The Diameter) has finally released into early access!

This game is an absolute blast and is a VR survival shooter that is even better than the original Into The Radius, despite some early access jank and bugs.

That's because Into The Radius 2 does exactly what a sequel should do, take what made the first game so enjoyable and refine it. Update things, add new pieces, change up the existing formula, and create something even more fantastic.

1 - Improved Visuals

The big orb in the center of the radius looks better than ever in *Into The Radius 2.*

This is the most obvious in the visuals. Into The Radius 2 is gorgeous. As you'll see from these screenshots, the beauty of the game's environments goes beyond the technical details of nice particle effects and textures.

Into The Radius 2 is like fighting to survive inside a surrealist painting. Everything from the mundane objects that you'll find in the oddest places to the deadly red water to the trees both seem entirely strange and out of place, while also being close enough to a real life environment to be somewhat believable as a real place.

It's that classic mixture of Soviet era decay, unknowable horror, and apocalyptic blast, sharper and better than ever before.

2 - New Anomalies

This fantastical aesthetic and artistic direction extends to the new Anomalies, many of which were basically just deadly geometric shapes in the first game. Now they look better, and more like real objects twisted by the radius's phenomena into something otherwordly.

They also have more interesting new mechanics surrounding them. Not all will just hurt you the moment you come into range, and so while anomalies are still very deadly, you'll have to be much more clever to circumvent them.

3 - New Artifacts

Some artifacts float around in containers you need to shoot to open. Others are trickier to get to.

Even when you get past the anomalies to the profitable artifacts that they hide, collecting them isn't as straightforward as just flashing a light on them like in the last game. Nope, now you'll need to figure out and understand the world of the Radius in order to get to the artifacts.

Some you can just grab or shoot to collect, but others... others will take more equipment or more cunning to get your hands on.

4 - New Home Base

Look at the new UNPSC base in *Into The Radius 2*! Very pretty.

Where you'll go to sell these artifacts has been improved on as well. While many lovers of the original Into The Radius will surely always have a soft spot for the dilapidated trainyard of Vanno in their hearts, Into The Radius 2 features a much sleeker and modern looking home base.

It has impressive walls and guard towers which might make you feel safe or trapped, and more buildings and space to store items than ever before. It's like you're on a futuristic military base.

Everything seems new, and even the computers all look much more modern.

5 - Interactive Store

New you can create loadouts before you buy them.

Of course after you sell those items you'll also be buying things in the base, and that's where the new store comes in. Unlike Into The Radius 1, the sequel has a store where you can actually pick up and put on the items you want to buy before you buy them.

This is a fantastic idea, and makes every trip to the store when you're fat with cash and ready to get a major upgrade a ton of fun.

6 - Loadout Options

There are a bunch of different rigs to try out.

This is also especially important because now you have many more options to experiment with before you buy them. Your choice of loadout is now much more personalized, with a variety of backpacks and tactical rigs to customize how you store your weapons and magazines.

There are rigs that store your pistol at your side and a long gun over your shoulder in classic Into The Radius fashion, and others that change things up in intersting ways. There's even a rig with two pistol holsters, or just one long gun holster.

7 - Gun Weight

This Saiga shotgun is VERY heavy and feels like it in this game.

With these new loadout options comes a wide array of firearms, and those firearms feel more impressive in Virtual Reality than ever. Seriously, a surprising amount of VR games, including the first Into The Radius, have weightless and floaty feeling weapons. Not Into The Radius 2, these guns feel like guns.

They're heavy, and if you try to whip a large assault rifle around like you're John Wick then you'll be surprised to find that the heavy weapon you're holding will take a while to catch up to your unencumbered physical hands.

The weight of the weapons makes you move and shoot more carefully, and overall is very immersive.

8 - Weapon Wiggle

Running with even a light weapon out like this pistol makes it incredibly hard to aim in *Into The Radius 2.*

It also helps that every time you run, your weapon will actually wiggle a little bit. Surprising, right? Well, this is a pretty radical change, and an innovation in how a VR game can keep you from just running and gunning all of the time.

You can technically still aim while moving quickly, but it is much harder to hit a target with your sights jiggling all over the place. Kind of like if you were actually trying to run while keeping a gun steady at the same time.

9 - Gun Sounds

The guns sound absolutely tremendous in this game.

The guns in this game don't just feel weighty when you carry and point them, they have a lot of kick to them when you shoot them, and they sound tremendous.

These guns sound absolutely forceful, and feel and sound like firing an actual firearm much more than in Into The Radius 1.

10 - Better AI

The AI is much improved in *Into The Radius 2*. This mimic is running to a new piece of cover after being hit.

The enemies you will face also have powerful sounding weapons, and they aren't afraid to use them. The AI in Into The Radius 2 is much improved over the first game.

Where the AI enemies in Into The Radius 1 did a lot of crouch walking around towards you, the enemies in the sequel dash from cover to cover, and will suppress your last known position with withering fire if given the chance.

The AI in Into the Radius 2 is much better at taking cover and exchanging shots with you.

11 - Fantastic Firefights

You’ll be outnumbered all of the time in *Into The Radius 2*, but the gunfights feel fantastic.

All of this adds together to create firefights in Into The Radius 2 that force you to treat them seriously, and don't allow you to just run and jump around through them while firing from the hip like you're in a Call Of Duty lobby.

There is a lot more emphasis on fighting enemies with guns in Into The Radius 2 than in the first game. While that being an improvement is debatable, it is impossible to deny that these firefights feel stunning to take part in on so many levels.

BONUS - Multiplayer

Eh well, that's eleven but let's throw in one more. MULTIPLAYER. Enough said.

Multiplayer in a game like this is tremendous.

That’s all for this list of 11 ways Into The Radius 2 improves on the original game. Enjoy yourself out there in the Radius.

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4 Awesome VR Space Games on the Oculus Quest 2

Want to experience the dark depths of space? Want to immerse yourself in the final frontier? Well there’s no better way to immerse yourself than with Virtual Reality, and no more convenient platform for VR than the Oculus Quest 2. While there are a lot of Sci Fi games set in the depths of space, this list will focus on non-sci fi games that are about our Solar System, and the technology that we already have. No hyperdrives or laser cannons here.

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Interkosmos 2000

Instead of saving the best for last, let’s get to it first. Interkosmos 2000 may be the ultimate space flight simulator available on the Meta Quest 2, and Virtual Reality in general. If you ever wanted to feel like an early astronaut, alone in a metal ship zooming around the earth at over 25000 kilometers per hour, then this is the game for you.

In Interkosmos 2000 you are the sole pilot of an aging spacecraft sent to the ISS to correct its orbit… and a variety of other places and things around the Earth (I won’t spoil it all). The piloting is tough and is pretty accurate to how piloting an actual orbiter would work, and the docking procedure for when you reach your destination is pretty faithful as well.

It’s not all piloting though, you’ll also have to deal with the realities of using aging technology in the harshest environment known to humankind. Manage your power, or your batteries will either go out, or overcharge and blow a fuse. Keep an eye on your CO2 levels and cabin pressure, and so many other malfunctions. Keeping your ship running is just as much a part of this game as piloting it.

If you want a game to sink your teeth into that really makes you feel like you are navigating through space in a (somewhat) modern and realistic craft, then Interkosmos 2000 is the game from this list to get. Nothing else on the market currently beats it.

Apollo 11 VR

Want to experience the moon landing as immersively as you can without going to the moon yourself? (I mean not even Jeff Bezos can afford that) Then Apollo 11 VR is as good as you’re going to get, for now.

It’s sort of a mix between a documentary and space piloting simulator. While you are given control at a few moments, such as docking two modules in space or landing on the moon, generally Apollo 11 VR is a very passive experience for the player. You don’t even have to do any of these things if you don’t want to, and can just have the game do it for you in a cinematic.

Most of Apollo 11 VR is essentially watching really cool cinematics from a perspective external to the craft, or from one of the crewmembers’ views. It’s main draw is that it looks really cool, and is a great passive experience. If you want something interactive though, look elsewhere.

Titans of Space PLUS

Want to explore the Solar System? Well that’s what Titans of Space PLUS does best. In this game you aren’t constrained to a space ship or other craft, or even to earth. Instead you board a sort of magical flying chair and zoom around the Solar System, with everything to scale. Want to feel like a giant? Well then scale everything down, or bask in the huge scale of the planets by keeping yourself in human size.

You can even ditch the chair if you want, but inside it is a whole lot of information. Listen to voiceovers telling you more about the celestial bodies of our Solar System and the space missions that revealed them to us. Titans of space doesn’t have any real any real gameplay to it. All of the interactions with the world are focused around viewing and moving around it. It is a purely exploration and learning based experience, though if you want to learn some interesting facts about the Solar System, it is a great VR experience.

Mission: ISS

Mission: ISS is another experience that is more educational tool than game. There is some interactivity to it. Using the handholds in the walls of the International Space Station to fling yourself down its hallways and modules is really fun. There is a brief spacewalking section, but it doesn’t really seem like an actual spacewalk. You are really light first of all, and they couldn’t even be bothered to change your hand models to look like an EVA suit. It’s disappointing really.

Otherwise using the ISS’s grabber arm (Canadarm) to secure a supply mission is an interesting and novel experience. Unfortunately that is basically where the fun ends. You can always explore the ISS and watch little video clips on the objects found inside, but that’s about it. So the bulk of Mission: ISS is an interactive museum. Still, it is free, and there are some very fun things to learn about humans living in space.

Anyway there you have it, these are the best realism focused VR titles on the Oculus Quest 2, for now. Hopefully one day there will be more interesting games that come out to flesh out this list a little more. For the time being the more realistic spacefaring experiences are mostly educational and dry with little interactivity.

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7 Best VR Survival Games for Meta Quest (And PCVR)

Something about Virtual Reality just makes for great Survival Games, especially on standalone platforms like the Quest 2. Maybe it’s the feeling of actually being inside of the world you’re playing in, or using your actual hands to use the tools you need to keep yourself alive. Whatever it is you’d be crazy not to try VR Survival Games on the Quest 2, it is one of the best genres to experience in Virtual Reality. Here are some of the best VR Survival Games on the Quest 2 to consider getting.

Something about Virtual Reality just makes for great Survival Games, especially on standalone platforms like the Oculus Quest 2. Oh, and if you’re here for PCVR games then you’ll find that most of these are also available on Steam.

Maybe it’s the feeling of actually being inside of the world you’re playing in, or using your actual hands to use the tools you need to keep yourself alive. Whatever it is you’d be crazy not to try VR Survival Games on the Quest 2, it is one of the best genres to experience in Virtual Reality.

The Survival Game genre has seen a massive boost in recent years with many great flatscreen games coming out like Valheim and Sons Of The Forest, and luckily some studios have also been focusing on this genre in Virtual Reality. More and more VR Survival Games have been coming out over the years, and as more are added to the Quest platform we’ll also be adding them to this list here.

So here are the best VR Survival Games on the Oculus Quest 3 and Quest 2.

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The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners Chapters 1 and 2 - VR Zombie Survival Games

The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners Logo

Well known as one of the greatest VR game series out there, The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners and its newest iteration The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution are knockout Zombie Survival Games on the Quest 2 based in the universe of The Walking Dead.

If you are even neutral on the concept of a zombie apocalypse you should play these games. Not only are there a ton of zombies (or rather walkers) to dispatch with one of the most straightforward yet elegant melee combat systems in VR survival gaming, but there are also human NPCs to get into firefights with and advance a very compelling story.

In this VR Survival Game there are a ton of zombies and people to fight with a variety of melee weapons and firearms

Most importantly to fans of VR Survival Games, not only will you have to fight to survive, but you will have to scavenge the ruins of New Orleans for materials to craft weapons, medical supplies, and food. Each day you will find less and less as supplies and materials from before the outbreak become scarcer and scarcer.

You’ve probably already heard of The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners, and that’s for good reason. It is one of the few VR games to combine a dangerous open world with a variety of secrets and systems to draw you into the gameplay, as well as a great story.

So if you’ve ever wanted to see how well you would do surviving in a zombie apocalypse, there’s really no better VR Survival Game I can recommend to you than The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners and it’s sequel. It’s got fantastic combat, heart pounding moments, and compelling characters.

Cosmodread - VR Sci Fi Horror Survival Game

Zombies are scary, sure, but what if they don’t scratch that scare itch for you like they used to?

Well if horror is what you want in your Virtual Reality survival game then Cosmodread is the scariest survival game on the Quest 2. In it you attempt to repair and fly a half destroyed and alien infested ship back to Earth. Along the way you collect crafting recipes to create more weapons and items to help you survive in this VR roguelike horror survival game.

*Cosmodread* combines resource scarcity and terrifying enemies to make for a fantastic VR Roguelike Survival experience

Cosmodread is not only one of the best survival games on the Quest 2, but one of the best horror games. It’s terrifying looking enemies and creepy sound design will have you sweating to open a door and jumping at dark corners. The creaks of the decaying ship combined with the disgusting fleshy sounds of the alien growth means you never feel truly safe.

You shouldn’t feel safe, either, as the aliens only grow stronger as time goes on, and they can find you anywhere.

Cosmodread uses resource scarcity and an interesting crafting system to make you think on your feet and use every resource available to you to make your way from one end of the ship to the other through all of the dangerous aliens and malfunctioning robots so that you can make it back to earth and survive.

There’s really no other VR Survival Game like it, and when you’re low on ammo and hear the roar of an alien on your trail there’s nothing scarier in Virtual Reality.

Green Hell VR - VR Jungle Survival Game

If you want a survival experience that takes you far away from civilization and deep into the bowls of the Amazon rainforest, then Green Hell VR is the game for you. The jungle is an unforgiving place in this VR Survival Game, and so are its inhabitants.

When you are not hunting for food or figuring out which plants will make you vomit up all your nutrients, you’ll be fighting for your life against predators like pumas and leopards, and the native tribespeople who are very unhappy with your presence.

Green Hell VR combines a fantastic crafting system which involves combining items in your hands with intuitive actions like wrapping vines around a simple stone axe to make it stronger, or running a sharpened stone across a long piece of wood to make a sharp spear.

Even the leeches in the water make surviving in *Green Hell VR’s* jungles difficult

Gathering resources from the jungle and then building your tools and campsites out of the natural resources of the Amazon makes the most basic necessities of survival feel difficult to achieve and very earned when you do.

For a more rugged and true to life survival experience, there is no better game than Green Hell VR. It’s less combat focused than other survival games here, though there is plenty of combat to be had, and you’ll find that in Green Hell VR you’re far more challenged by more true to life challenges of survival like building your camp, finding the right food to eat, and staying hydrated.

Also just like its flatscreen counterpart Green Hell VR has seen and will continue to see updates like it has with the addition of the free Spirits of Amazonia DLC that was recently added. Now there’s new environments, new objectives, and new ways to survive in this fantastic VR Survival Game. It just keeps getting better.

Into the Radius - Surreal VR Survival Shooter Game

What is a list of VR Survival Games for the Quest 2 without Into the Radius? Inspired by Roadside Picnic, the book which also inspired the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. movie and games, Into the Radius combines fantastic gunplay with a surreal and dangerous setting.

In it you are an explorer navigating the Pechorsk Radius, a wide section of land in Russia dominated by a massive black sphere hanging in the sky where the usual laws of reality do not apply.

While completing missions for the mysterious Committee you have to fight off hostile entities, which look a lot like humans (in most cases) but made of a strange black material, while also navigating fields of deadly anomalies that hold valuable and otherworldly artifacts inside.

*Into the Radius* has very intense and scary fighting

Into the Radius gives you a wide variety of weapons to choose from, which all handle incredibly well in Virtual Reality, and it’s gunplay is definitely a huge draw for this VR Survival Game. What enhances it beyond a normal shooter is not only the need to scavenge and hunt for artifacts to survive, but the mystery of the Pechorsk Zone.

Delving deeper and deeper into the Radius towards greater danger, while discovering bizarre sights and uncovering more about this strange place, is what makes Into the Radius a Virtual Reality Survival Game like no other.

Into the Radius is a classic of the VR Shooter and VR Survival genre, and it’s even got a sequel on the way, Into the Radius 2.

Song in the Smoke - Prehistoric Caveman VR Survival Game

Want a survival experience that not only takes you far from civilization, but back in time before civilization even existed? Then Song in The Smoke might be what you’re looking for. In this VR Survival Game you are a caveperson discovering the secrets of the land as you craft a number of tools and weapons to hunt and fight prehistoric creatures.

Surviving the vicious predators of a wilderness before time is the hard part, but there is also a lot of fun to be had in the exploration of Song in the Smoke’s untouched wilderness. Not only do you find the sticks and stones needed to create your weapons, but mystical herbs and fruits to craft powerful elixirs.

Song in the Smoke immerses you in its mysticism from the very beginning, and through its many areas you can find secrets that not only reveal more of the forest around you, but your own potential.

Medieval Dynasty VR - A VR Medieval Life Simulator and VR Survival Game

The *Medieval Dynasty New Settlement* Logo

Medieval Dynasty New Settlement, or rather Medieval Dynasty VR, is a VR remake for the Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 2 of the 2021 flatscreen medieval life simulator Medieval Dynasty. Unlike other Virtual Reality survival games on this list, Medieval Dynasty VR focuses more on being a life simulator than a purely survival focused experience.

This means you'll be spending a lot of time talking to the locals, completing tasks for them, and most importantly building a thriving settlement of your own on any of a few available plots of free land. It's very satisfying to go from nothing to putting up your first house to sleep and cook in, to erecting a huge variety of crafting and storage buildings to harvest all kinds of resources and make all kinds of tools.

What is most satisfying about Medieval Dynasty VR is engaging with its huge variety of crafting systems to make all sorts of things from tools to planks to pottery and beyond, and most importantly gathering and constructing buildings. You can even hire workers to work on your land for you and find a wife to marry and have children to continue your dynasty in future generations.

Stirring up some soup in *Medieval Dynasty VR*

While Medieval Dynasty New Settlement might not have the most satisfying end game at the moment, because those quests and tasks do eventually dry up and become repetitive, it does have a huge map to explore and secret treasures to find as well.

Uncovering the mysteries of Green Valley, the place where you are building your new home, offers some survival challenges of its own, though it is not hard to keep yourself hydrated and fed in this game, and the combat could use some more work.

Still, it is so satisfying to build yourself and your new home up from nothing, and there are many hours of fun to be had going from a nobody to a well respected local landowner in Medieval Dynasty VR.

If you want to know more about this fantastic VR game then check out our review of Medieval Dynasty: New Settlement.

Survivorman VR: The Descent - A VR Survival Game For Teaching You Real Survival Tactics

Survivorman VR: The Descent is, of all of the VR Survival Games on this list of Virtual Reality Survival games, the most aimed at realism and teaching you actual survival tactics for the real world.

In this Virtual Reality game, you play as a survivor of a helicopter crash on a cold and desolate mountain. From the start you have very little to work with, and the cold and darkness of the arctic wastes that you have to survive in closing in around you. Luckily survival expert Les Stroud will tell you exactly what you need to do in order to stay alive, stay dry, stay warm, and stay fed.

Survivorman VR: The Descent is more of a survival learning tool than a real game, but is very interesting nonetheless. If you're interested in VR games for the purpose of learning actual things about the real world, then I highly suggest you take a look at this one.

The downside of Survivorman is that it's less a game and more a way to introduce you to these methods of real world survival for this potential real world situation. There is very little replayability, and it functions more as an interactive lecture than a game in the traditional sense of the word. It's also a very short VR survival experience at just a couple of hours.

Still, if you're really interested in survival in the real world instead of just the virtual world, give Survivorman VR: The Descent a look and see if you've got what it takes to listen to Les Stroud's advice and stay alive on the mountain.

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The Only VR Battle Royale Games Worth Playing

Despite the popularity of Battle Royales on the flat screen, there really isn’t a lot of them to enjoy in Virtual Reality right now.

If you want a fun and engaging VR Battle Royale game then you aren’t exactly spoiled for choice. Though luckily there are still some fantastic VR Battle Royale games for you to try out there.

Here at Reality Remake I’m not going to waste your time with unfinished games or others that just barely fit the definition of the genre like some other sites do

Instead here are games that fit the real definition of what a Battle Royale is. They’ve got guns, intense moments, looting, team play, interesting items, and big maps. Of course, there’ll be a circle that closes in on the map as well, until only the winning team remains. These games have everything that you would expect from a VR Battle Royale, and they’re very polished and very fun.

Despite the popularity of Battle Royales on the flat screen, there really isn’t a lot of them to enjoy in Virtual Reality right now.

If you want a fun and engaging VR Battle Royale game then you aren’t exactly spoiled for choice. Though luckily there are still some fantastic VR Battle Royale games for you to try out there.

Here at Reality Remake I’m not going to waste your time with unfinished games or others that just barely fit the definition of the genre like some other sites do

So here are the only VR Battle Royales worth playing.

Contractors Showdown

This won’t be a surprise to to anyone who has been tuned into the latest VR games that have been coming out. Contractors Showdown was released recently at the time of originally writing this article, and had a lot of hype from tweets to Facebook posts to YouTube videos all showcasing this game and stating that a true VR Battle Royale game was finally coming.

While I certainly wouldn’t consider Contractors Showdown to be the only “true” Battle Royale game in Virtual Reality (more about that when we talk about our next game) it definitely is a fantastic VR Battle Royale that was completely deserving of the hype that it received and continues to receive.

Contractors Showdown has a very active player base, a practice range, quests, a leveling system, customization, and most importantly of all it really has just about everything that you would expect of a VR Battle Royale game featuring realistic modern weapons and a massive island map to fight others across.

Gunfights are a ton of fun in this VR Battle Royale Game.

Contractors Showdown plays a lot like a VR version of Call Of Duty’s Warzone game mode. Everyone drops off from a big C-130 transport plane onto the island, and then you gather cash, modern weapons, ammunition, and consumable items that spawn on the ground.

There’s a circle around the map that closes in, and you’ve got to stay inside of it or perish. You can even buy new equipment (or even extra lives or respawns for your teammates) from vending machines scattered across the map.

So you get the idea, it’s a BR after all, and all of the classic elements of the genre are here in Contractors Showdown, but what makes this game truly special is that all of this is in Virtual Reality, and all of it is done so well.

Just like Contractors, the VR shooting game on which this game is loosely based, the weapons are accurate and deadly, the time to kill is pretty low, and all players can move, jump, and slide very quickly. Fast reaction and movement are very important in Contractors Showdown, but so is proper planning and strategy. You can be knocked really quickly, and so you’ve got to choose your actions carefully.

There are a lot of realistic and modern weapons to choose from in this Virtual Reality Battle Royale game.

In this game, you can collect or buy support that you can call in like air strikes, deployable cover, and so much more. Another thing inspired by Call Of Duty: Warzone. Even if you get knocked down (which can happen frighteningly quickly if you aren’t vigilant) if you have a self revive you can pick yourself back up and get back into the fight.

It’s like the developers took all of the latest and greatest innovations in Battle Royale design and rolled them up in a well created and pretty bug free Virtual Reality game.

Overall Contractors Showdown is a well polished game and an overall fantastic VR shooter if you want a VR Battle Royale game with realistic modern weapons and fast and addictive combat. I highly recommend it to any fan of the Battle Royale genre who wants to experience it in Virtual Reality.

Contractors Showdown is available on Steam for PCVR and on the Meta Quest store.

POPULATION: ONE

POPULATION: ONE is pretty old in the brief timeline of the Virtual Reality gaming industry, but was and still is a trailblazer of what can be done in Virtual Reality, and on a standalone Meta Quest headset no less.

POPULATION: ONE was the first ever VR Battle Royale that was really deserving of the title, and is an extremely well polished game that has been consistently popular over the years since it was released in 2020. Though the popularity of this game was definitely assisted by its transition to a free to play business model.

POPULATION: ONE took more inspiration from Fortnite than other Battle Royales, but is very far from feeling like a VR Fortnite clone. It also features some unique innovations that take VR hand tracked controls into account, like needing to rub shock paddles together to charge them and revive a teammate (more on that soon). It features building and every player has a generous amount of health when compared to other Virtual Reality shooters. So this is a bit more casual feeling than most VR shooting games, but there is still a lot to learn and master.

The weapons and character models are more stylized and not reflective of real soldiers or weaponry but still don’t stray as far into the cartoonish as Fortnite does. POPULATION: ONE strikes a firm middle ground, but is not meant to be a realistic shooter or base anything off of realistic weapons. It’s a middle ground the game uses well, and aesthetically it is very pleasing.

You’ve got the health to survive being surprised in this VR Battle Royale Game.

Just like in any Battle Royale, POPULATION: ONE has you dropping into a huge map with your own team and teams of enemy players. Except in this VR game everyone launches in their own individual pod, so dropping into the map is a little different and honestly feels more fun in VR than just jumping out of a plane.

Once you land you’ve got to gather what equipment you can from your surroundings like weapons and consumables, so that you can fight and defeat enemy players before they manage to take you and your team out first. Naturally, you’ll also have to stay inside of the ring that slowly constricts the map. Classic Battle Royale fare here.

There are a lot of weapons to choose from in POPULATION: ONE, and they hit the usual categories with some variations for preference. Pistols, sniper rifles, assault rifles, and all of the usual greats are in this game. There are also grenades and such, and a fun variation on a healing item that is a banana which you need to peel to eat, fun stuff.

The on screen reticle makes shooting much easier in this Virtual Reality Battle Royale game, but long ranged shots are still hard to pull off.

POPULATION: ONE also features building, though you’ll need to find resources to build with around the map, and the building is fairly slow, though still good for fortifying an area. More often though you won’t see players bothering with it as much and preferring to rely on their mobility to get an advantage in combat.

That’s because the movement system is really what sets POPULATION: ONE apart not just from other Virtual Reality games, but also from flatscreen Battle Royales. Climbing and gliding, yes gliding, through the air with your arms feels absolutely fantastic in this game and for not just VR Battle Royales, but all VR games, POPULATION: ONE gives a prime example of a creative and fun movement system done right in Virtual Reality that encourages you to use your real life arms and gives you a real feeling of freedom and excitement when you use it.

To climb you have to grab onto the sides of a building and pull yourself up quickly like you’re a monkey scrambling up a tree. To glide you spread your arms out like they’re wings while you fall through the air. It’s really a ton of fun. Your ability to move around freely and quickly not only feels great but also dictates the pace of this VR game’s gameplay.

Speed and maneuvering are everything, and the gunplay is simplified by a reticle that appears wherever your gun is pointing. The focus is less on accurate shooting or fast reflexes, but on using the map to your advantage.

POPULATION: ONE is available on Steam for a price, and on the Meta Quest store for free!

Sooooo yea, if you want to have the Battle Royale experience in a VR game then try one of these. Don’t waste your time, these are the only VR Battle Royale Games worth playing. Enjoy!

5 Epic VTOL VR Campaigns for the F/A-26B That You’ll Love

Did you know that VTOL VR has an absolute ton of free community made singleplayer content?

Well here are just a few of the many free enjoyable singleplayer campaigns for the F/A-26B.

9 Ways To Terrorize A City In Monster: Titan’s Playground - A Great VR Godzilla Game

If you find yourself as a giant Kaiju Godzilla type monster in the brilliant Virtual Reality game Monster: Titan’s Playground then here's 11 ways to absolutely terrorize this little city.

This is an amazing VR Godzilla game where you’re a massive monster just smashing your way through a city. Here’s how.