Software Reviews & Previews
Our reviews and previews of the latest XR games and software.
‘Windlands 2’ Review: The True Starting Point For a High-flying Series
As one of the first full-length games for VR, Windlands (2016) pioneered a movement scheme that sends you soaring high into the air, using your grappling hooks to swing from bush to tree in the desolate world that was fractured...
‘Torn’ Review: Masterful ‘Black Mirror’ Style Storytelling Tarnished by Repetitive Puzzles
Torn is a single player adventure game that's inspired by arguably the greatest sci-fi television of all time, The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. There's much to like about Torn, but in the end it left me feeling, well, a bit...
Firewall Zero Hour Review: Tactical Multiplayer Action Comes to PSVR
Firewall Zero Hour has landed on PSVR, and with it comes the platform's first tactical multiplayer FPS. While the slow one-life-only pace might not suit everyone's taste, it makes for undeniably tense and strategic gameplay that's enhanced by the immersion...
Hands-on: Upcoming VR Shooter ‘Telefrag’ Boasts Impossible, Escher-style Arenas
Anshar Studios, the developers behind Detached (2017), showed off a new arena shooter at Gamescom this year. Dubbed Telefrag VR, the game (still in pre-alpha) pits you against another player in a futuristic, gladiatorial-style battle taking place in impossible spaces.
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Hands-on: ‘Population: ONE’ is Poised to Become VR’s First Great Battle Royale
BigBox VR, the developers behind VR multiplayer shooter Smashbox Arena (2017), are making their way into new territory soon with their upcoming battle royale shooter Population: ONE. The studio showed off at this year's Gamescom what promises to be a full-featured...
‘Electronauts’ Review – Unlock Your Inner Groove
Electronauts sits at an interesting intersection somewhere between game, experience, and tool. Your experience with Electronauts then may vary depending upon what you hope to achieve with it. If you're anything like me—someone who can fall deep into music, but...
‘Marvel Powers United VR’ Review – Wave Shooting Meets Cosplay
Developed over the course of two years, Marvel Powers United VR is the first VR superhero game of its scale. A large roster of playable heroes lets you step into the boots, masks, and leotards of 18 Marvel superheroes. But rather...
Review: ‘Seeking Dawn’ Is a Beautiful Sci-Fi Shooter Marred by Too Many Dull Chores
Seeking Dawn (2018) is a sci-fi first-person shooter which puts you in the boots of a space marine who's assigned to carry out a search and rescue mission on a mysterious alien planet. Including a single player campaign, and online...
Preview: ‘Space Junkies’ Feels Like VR’s Spiritual Successor to ‘Unreal Tournament’
Unreal Tournament (1999) was one of the staple arena shooters of my youth. It's simple; find the best gun you can, stock up on as much health and armor as possible, always keep moving until you die, respawn, rinse...
Hands-on: ‘Firewall: Zero Hour’ Replicates a Familiar Shooter Formula in VR with Deadly Skill
Ever since the early days of PSVR, fans have been hoping for games like Counter Strike or Rainbow Six—the sort of team-based shooters most gamers are familiar with one way or the other, be it on PC or console. Now...
Hands-on: ‘Megalith’ is a Promising First-person MOBA Brawler Landing First on PSVR
Megalith is an upcoming first-person arena brawler from Disruptive Games which puts you in MOBA-style combat against other heroes as you—and your pint-sized minions—sally forth to destroy the other team's base.
Fans of MOBAs like Dota2 and League of Legends will immediately recognize...
‘Budget Cuts’ Review – Killer Robots Meet Killer VR Game Mechanics
Budget Cuts, a first-person stealth VR game, has been eagerly awaited since Stockholm-based indie studio Neat Corporation first released a free demo in 2016. The demo, which quickly became a breakout success in the early days of consumer VR, demonstrated...
Hands-on: ‘Trover Saves the Universe’ Subverts Action-Platformer Genre to Hilarious (and Bizarre) Effect
Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland's has a game studio called Squanch Games, and their next big VR title, Trover Saves the Universe, looks to subvert another genre to an always weird, always hilarious effect. And while the reveal yesterday on...
Hands-on: ‘Echo Combat’ Brings High-Speed, Zero-G Shooter to VR in ‘Echo Arena’ Expansion
Ready at Dawn, the studio behind zero-g adventure Lone Echo (2017) and its companion multiplayer sports game Echo Arena (2017), held a closed beta session with their upcoming Oculus Rift expansion Echo Combat last week. Given a beefier-looking avatar and a...
Review: ‘Downward Spiral: Horus Station’ is a Visual Feast, But Skimps on Story & Gunplay
Downward Spiral: Horus Station is a sci-fi adventure that puts you aboard a vast, abandoned space station that was cleared out of all life after military-grade robots turned on the station's human inhabitants. There's a lot to admire about the full...




















