Software Reviews & Previews

Our reviews and previews of the latest XR games and software.

Software Reviews & Previews

Our reviews and previews of the latest XR games and software.
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Watch the First 12 Minutes of ‘Budget Cuts’

Budget Cuts (2018) is a room-scale VR stealth game from indie studio Neat Corporation. Launching on May 31st on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, we took the time to show you just what this objectively fantastic game looks like from...

‘Red Matter’ Review – Adventure, Intrigue & a Retrofuture Cold War in Space

Red Matter is a first-person puzzle adventure set in a strange and mysterious alternate universe, which takes old Cold War rivalries and teases them out to an interesting logical conclusion: space bases, astronaut espionage and a healthy dose of intrigue...

‘Sacralith’ Review – a Superb VR Bowshooter With High Action & Real Narrative

Moscow-based indie developer Odd Meter isn't a household name in VR development yet, but with their latest game Sacralith: The Archer's Tale (2018), that may change somewhat. It's a surprisingly clever bow shooting game draped in impressively polished visuals...

‘Beat Saber’ Early Access Review – a VR Rhythm Game for Budding Jedi Knights

Beat Saber is a single player rhythm game in Early Access that puts two lightsabers in your hands and tasks you with one of the funkiest, most stylish Jedi training regimes this side of Alderaan. Slicing incoming blocks to...

‘Paper Valley’ Review – Settling the Busy Mind by Throwing Paper Airplanes

Paper Valley is as pretty unique experience. Although it's decidedly a more zen-like game without any real pressure to succeed, there's something to it that's just engaging enough to keep you moving forward, hopefully getting you into the quiet, focused flowstate. Paper...

‘Psychonauts In the Rhombus of Ruin’ for PC Review – a Veritable Saturday-morning Cartoon in VR

Psychonauts In the Rhombus of Ruin takes place between the events of Psychonauts (2005) and the upcoming Psychonauts 2 due out later this year. Exclusively available in VR, In the Rhombus of Ruin strays from the 3D platformer genre of its flatscreen...

‘Skyrim VR’ for PC Review – a Dragon-sized Feast for the Eyes

Skyrim VR (2017), Bethesda's premier virtual reality port of the hit open-world RPG Skyrim (2011), has finally made its way to PC VR headsets after its November 2017 launch on PlayStation VR. Unlike the studio's recent release of Fallout 4 VR...

‘Bravo Team’ Review – Shoot, Cover, Rinse, Repeat

Filling something of a gap in Sony's PSVR content lineup, Bravo Team is a cooperative title which aims to bring military shooter style first-person action to the platform. Will you revel in cooperative combat, or is this one bullet worth dodging? Bravo...

‘Moss’ Review (PSVR) – The Opening Chapter of an Adorable Adventurer

Moss, the promising puzzle platformer from indie studio Polyarc,  has finally arrived on PlayStation VR. You'll guide Quill, an undeniably adorable mouse, on the start of what could become a grand adventure. Moss Details: Official Site Developer: Polyarc Available On: PlayStation VR (PlayStation Store) Reviewed...

‘Brass Tactics’ Review – a Sturdy Steampowered RTS Lacking a Solid Story

Brass Tactics (2018) is a node-based real-time strategy game that comes with a bit of a pedigree. Created by Hidden Path Entertainment, the minds behind the Defense Grid franchise and Age of Empires II, you'll probably enter the world of Brass...

‘Sprint Vector’ Review – Innovative Locomotion Makes Adrenaline-soaked Foot Racing a Reality

Sprint Vector (2018) is a VR racing game of a different stripe. Dubbed an "adrenaline platformer" by production studio Survios, the developers behind Raw Data (2017), it actually sticks to some pretty well-established arcade racing tropes pioneered by the Mario Kart franchise. Still, it's...

‘L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files’ Review – A Virtual Scavenger Hunt

L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files is the debut VR title from Rockstar Games, and a remake of unique action-detective game L.A. Noire which was released in 2011. LA Noire VR draws upon the same foundation of impressive facial motion...

‘Fallout 4 VR’ Review – A Radioactive Open World Mutated for VR

Fallout 4 (2015), Bethesda's beloved post-apocalyptic open world RPG, is now in VR, letting you stalk the Wasteland as the sole survivor of Vault 111 from the immersive point of view of the HTC Vive headset. This comes with most...

‘Front Defense: Heroes’ Early Access Review – Brief Glimpses of WWII Greatness

Front Defense: Heroes (2017), Fantahorn's next installment of its WWII-themed shooter, is available in Early Access today for HTC Vive, now serving up multiplayer action in classic 5v5 shooter fashion. We don't score reviews in Early Access, which is...

‘DOOM VFR’ Review – Hell Can Wait

The name Doom carries a great weight of expectation in video game circles. One part technical showcase, one part genre-defining milestone - with a giant dash of adrenaline for good measure - the series is rightly feted as one...
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