Flying VTOL VR Planes Is Some Of The Greatest Fun In Virtual Reality Gaming

VTOL VR is my personal favorite flight simulator of all time, and it’s completely playable entirely within Virtual Reality. There is no modern flight simulator that this as easy to pick up and as easy to play as VTOL VR.

Other flight simulators like DCS or IL-2 Sturmovik might be capable of running in Virtual Reality, but they rely on you buying and then setting up a bunch of hardware like physical joysticks, throttles, and even display screens. Imagine setting up and tearing down all of that hardware every time you want to fly!

Well the greatest part of VTOL VR is how it uses Virtual Reality to avoid all of this. Everything you need to fly the plane is completely accessible and usable in your virtual cockpit in this fantastic VR flight simulator.

Flying any of the numerous VTOL VR planes whether it be the dual engine F/A-26 high powered fighter jet or the sleek and stealthy F-45 is easy because the game itself displays all of the various interfaces, switches, and buttons of your chosen VTOL VR aircraft and you can use them with your VR hands.

The cockpit of the F/A-26 in VTOL VR. The most straightforwardly powerful of all VTOL VR planes.

That’s the magic of Virtual Reality that VTOL VR utilizes so well. You can just be sitting in a chair in a room, but by slipping on a VR headset and starting a VR game you can be transported to the inside of a fully interactable fighter cockpit. VTOL VR’s aircraft are absolutely incredible, and this is really a must play game for any VR or flight simulator enthusiast.

What is most impressive about VTOL VR’s planes is how good they feel to fly. It doesn’t take a whole lot of time to get used to the joystick or other controls inside the virtual cockpit, and the controls and reactivity of each aircraft are so smooth and genuine feeling even when compared to other flight simulators that you can experience on the flatscreen or in Virtual Reality. This is all despite those controls being entirely virtual.

Most impressive of all is just how much content there is in this game. While some aircraft require the purchase of additional DLC along with the base game in order to try, there are three available with the base game, and those three alone are extremely different, from a VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) ground attack aircraft to the F/A-26 fighter jet to the F-45 stealth fighter, each is wildly different and gives you a lot of interesting decisions to make while flying them in the game.

Each aircraft can also accommodate a basically endless variety of loadouts, and there are a ton of different munitions to try when using any of them. From GPS guided bombs to radar guided missiles to ancient short range infrared missiles to dumb bombs to guns guns guns, there are a huge variety of different munitions to use as well. Customizing your loadout to fit the mission you are about to undertake is an integral part of the experience.

Closeup of an F/A-26 firing a missile in VTOL VR.

Learning each of these aircraft and playing them in Singleplayer or Multiplayer is an absolute blast for any fan of flying. There are a decent amount of missions in the base game, and Multiplayer servers that are always full of opponents. There are casual servers and dynamic conquest missions to just jump in and play, or hardcore milsim groups that are always looking for members.

Best of all are the many Steam Workshop missions and campaigns, which are made by the many enjoyers of this VR game via the built-in VTOL VR mission editor. There is a practically endless amount of content to enjoy in this game from the official to the user generated. It’s all easy to install and use as well. All you have to do is click a button in the game and the mission is downloaded to your computer.

What is most amazing about VTOL VR is that it is made completely by a single person, and updates come out very regularly, at least twice a year for the most major changes. It’s strange to think that the world of VR flight simulators would be so much more dull and difficult without the efforts of the single developer behind VTOL VR who is known as Baha or Bahamut.

Well, my hat is off to him, and we all owe him a big debt of gratitude for bringing the modern flight simulator into the virtual world and continually improving upon it. VTOL VR’s planes are an absolute blast to fly and fight in and will be for a long time to come.