As we step into the new year, it’s that familiar time when we all start thinking about what we’d like to see happen in the months ahead. Today, I want to share my hopes and wishes for the virtual reality industry in 2025. But this isn’t just about my wishlist – I’d love to hear what’s on your mind too.
More asynchronous multiplayer games
During the holidays, I discovered something interesting while showing friends my Quest 3S. While VR players had fun, everyone else just sat around watching. That changed when I found Acron: Attack of the Squirrels, a game that gets everyone involved.
Better value for Playstation VR 2 subscribers in PS Plus
Meta’s Quest+ subscription has evolved nicely since its launch. What started as a simple two-games-per-month service now includes 27 major titles like Asgard’s Wrath 2, Walkabout Mini Golf, Demeo, Red Matter and Tetris Effect: Connected. New Quest 3 owners even get three months free, giving them instant access to plenty of content.
Buy once, play anywhere
I was already a big fan of cross-buy back in my PS3 and PS Vita days. You buy a game for a Sony platform and can then automatically use it on the manufacturer’s handheld device. What a great idea!
Cross-buy options have improved within individual platforms — buy a game for Meta Quest, get it free for Rift, for example. However, this is far from enough for me to advance VR gaming as a whole and grow the user base. I envision something bigger: true cross-platform ownership.
I feel like people who say this just don’t know the insanely good games that exists for VR. Lone echo 1 and 2, moss 1 and 2, vertigo 1 and 2, windlands 1 and 2, asgard’s wrath 1 and 2, behemoth, boneworks, grimlord, legendary tales, blade and sorcery, eye of the temple, until you fall, underdogs, walking dead saints and sinners, wanderer, robinson: the journey … and those are just some of my personal favorites. There are a lot of great VR games!
Just got a headset, any JRPG style games you would recommend. I don’t really dig shooters which eliminates a lot of your list. (Still going to check a lot of them out over time though).
Are you on PC? Do you mean turn based JRPGs? I never really played JRPGs. Do you mean something like ruinsmagus or more like arcaxer or maybe not japanese like demeo or table of tales: the crooked crown? I’m not too sure. I have a really weird japanese game that might be called an rpg and is ok fun called girl civilisation 2 VR idk if that could interest you XD
I don’t have that game but the tale of onogoro might be something for you. I have no idea what the gameplay is like.
Sorry yeah I got a quest so no PC. I was definitely thinking final fantasy or dragon quest styles with turn based combat and city/dungeon exploration.
I’ve played a little over half of those games and wasn’t impressed. They don’t fit my taste in games I guess.