The spooky season is upon us, and there’s no higher time to rattle ‘dem bones in VR. Right here we check out a number of the finest VR horror (and horror-adjacent) video games throughout Quest, PSVR 2, and PC VR.
Lots of our prime picks beneath assist all three platforms, though you’ll see a number of mentionable exclusives you must take into account grabbing this Halloween.
Regardless of the case, be certain to deadbolt the doorways, lock the home windows, prepared your grownup diapers, and take into account warning everybody in earshot—as a result of it’s VR fright evening!
The Strolling Useless: Saints & Sinners 1 & 2
Whether or not you select the unique single-player RPG or its sequel (additionally obtainable in cheaper bundles), you’ll not solely be knee deep in zombie gore, but additionally random ins and outs value scrounging as you craft weapons and nab provides to maintain up with the each day hordes. Physics-based melee in opposition to walkers is tense, however just like the TV collection, the hazard additionally lurks within the type of warring human factions. Shoot, stab, relaxation and survive for one more day within the this gray, terrifying world.
The Strolling Useless: Saints & Sinners: Quest – PSVR 2 – Steam
The Strolling Useless: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2: Quest – PSVR 2 – Steam
Arizona Sunshine Remake & Arizona Sunshine 2
Arizona Sunshine is extra than simply zombie-killing motion within the arid deserts of Arizona. Together with single participant or co-op play, Arizona Sunshine lightens the tone of the post-apocalypse by being a bit extra on the comedic facet, providing up an episodic narrative that follows the protagonist (and in quantity two) his canine scrapping their means by means of the wasteland. Physics-based melee and reasonable weapons make for an immersive zombie-ganking good time that’s much less moody general.
And when you personal the unique Arizona Sunshine (2016), you’ll be able to improve to the brand new remake for simply $10.
Arizona Sunshine Remake: Quest – PSVR 2 – Steam
Arizona Sunshine 2: Quest – PSVR 2 – Steam
The Room VR: A Darkish Matter
The Room VR: A Darkish Matter is a puzzler that permits you to step again into Edwardian-era London, 1908. As a detective, you’re tasked with investigating the disappearance of an esteemed Egyptologist the place you’ll discover cryptic areas, study devices and uncover an otherworldly discovery which blurs the road between actuality and phantasm. No leap scares, loads of puzzles and creepy vibes.
Obtain it on: Quest – PSVR 2 – Steam
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Needed 1 & 2
No VR horror video games checklist is full with out 5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Needed, and now its sequel ought to be in your radar too. The jumpscare-tastic video games pits you in opposition to a digital retinue of mechanical foes and a really temperamental energy generator that solely has a lot energy to run the lights, cameras, and thick metal doorways to maintain you secure. There are mini-games too, however the primary attraction is really essentially the most unsettling in VR.
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Needed: Quest – PSVR 2 – Steam
5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Needed 2: Quest – PSVR 2 – Steam
Into the Radius
The forbidden ‘Radius’ zone requires grit—that and all of the tactical gear you’ll be able to scrounge up as you tackle spooky and lethal anomalies on this open-world, survival-horror journey. Time and ammo are valuable although, so each encounter might imply you’re ejected from the Radius earlier than you’ll be able to clear up the thriller at its core.
Obtain it on: Quest – PSVR 2 – Steam
Resident Evil 4 VR (Quest, PSVR 2)
The almost 20-year-old recreation could also be a blast from the previous, dated tropes and all, however Resident Evil 4 has undoubtedly gained new life en realidad digital. Tackle ‘El Gigante’, courageous the senseless cult of Spanish villagers, and step into the footwear of particular agent Leon S. Kennedy on his mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter.
Observe: we’ve lumped in each Resident Evil 4 variations right here: Resident Evil 4 VR for Quest is the uprezzed authentic with native VR controls, and Resident Evil 4 Remake with VR mode is unique to PSVR 2. When you personal each headsets, positively get it on PSVR 2.
Obtain it on: Quest – PSVR 2 (free VR mode obtain required)
Dreadhalls (Quest, PC VR)
Outdated, however gold, Dreadhalls traps you deep inside a large dungeon the place you’re tasked with exploring, surviving, and discovering a strategy to the floor by means of the enemy-encrusted labyrinth. No combating, loads of leap scares, and solely a bit mild to information you. It’s a type of video games that’s straightforward to suggest, if just for elemental shock worth it continues to supply 12 months after 12 months.
Obtain it on: Quest – Steam
Cosmodread
From the developer of Dreadhalls comes the 2021 sci-fi horror recreation Cosmodread, which invokes lots of the identical horror of its forebear. Trapped in a dying spaceship stuffed with terrifying cosmic creatures, you will need to discover your means again to the security of Earth. Like in Dreadhalls, you seek for sources by means of procedurally generated room layouts, and can most definitely be jumpscared to dying, however this time round you’ve acquired some trusty weapons to tackle the darkness.
Obtain it on: Quest – PSVR 2 – Steam
Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire (Quest, PC VR)
Vampire slayers be warned: highly effective sleeping monsters lurk inside more and more troublesome coffins able to jumpscare you dying when you a lot as breathe flawed means. Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire in choc-full of defensive mechanisms designed to guard a very nasty vampire clan, tasking you with reducing fiddly wires, prying out nails, and breaking protecting boundaries with blood magic. And for Van Helsing’s sake, don’t drop something.
Obtain it on: Quest – Steam
The Exit 8 VR (Quest, PC VR)
The Exit 8 VR is a brief strolling simulator impressed by Japanese underground passageways, liminal areas and Web cult sensation ‘The Again Rooms’. Do you see something misplaced? When you do, be certain to show again, since you’re principally within the Japanese Twilight Zone and also you by no means know when an anomaly can strike.
Obtain it on: Quest – Steam
Phasmophobia (PC VR, PSVR 2 on October twenty ninth)
What bumps within the evening? Ghosts. The reply is at all times ghosts. On this four-player co-op recreation, you’ll be able to tackle over 20 completely different ghoulies with a spread of ghost-finding paraphernalia, together with EMF readers, spirit containers, thermometers, evening imaginative and prescient cameras, and CCTV so your teammate might help direct the motion. Supporting PC along with PC VR headsets, you gained’t have to push your non-VR proudly owning associates too onerous to get a play session this Halloween both. The PS5/PSVR 2 and Xbox variations are additionally coming, so be careful.
Obtain it on: Steam – Wishlist on PSVR 2
Stranger Issues VR (Quest)
Stranger Issues VR is an absolute psychological journey. Make your means by means of Eleven’s inner hellscape while navigating the actual world, which is much less actual than it might appear at occasions. Whereas it may be complicated, and a few mechanics really feel experimental, it appears like Stranger Issues VR is blissfully doing its personal factor, all of the whereas sticking to a again story you already know and love.
Obtain it on: Quest
Noclip VR (Quest)
‘The Backrooms’ Web lore has spawned a torrent of video games, however Noclip VR is likely one of the finest (and free!), letting you and on-line gamers discover the liminal areas, clear up puzzles, and escape that which lurks inside. All the time hold in ear-shot of your pals, in any other case they gained’t hear you scream.
Obtain it on: Quest
The Darkish Photos: Switchback VR (PSVR 2)
Like the unique PSVR fan favourite Till Daybreak: Rush of Blood, this fast-paced, on-rails rollercoaster shooter tosses up thrills and chills, and a superb dose of pew-pew-pew motion too. As a PSVR 2 unique, it additionally makes use of eye-tracking, so don’t blink or enemies could come out the place you least suspect them. It’s shorter than we could have appreciated, nevertheless it’s longer than a film, and cheaper than using a rollercoaster.
Obtain it on: PSVR 2
Resident Evil Village (PSVR 2)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, step apart. Whereas Sony hasn’t up to date the basic go-to horror recreation for PSVR 2, Resident Evil Village has nestled firmly as a replacement, providing up the complete survival-horror journey in VR. Set a number of years after the occasions of Biohazard, you step into the footwear of Ethan Winters who should delve into the culty, sinister pits of Romania. We solely want there have been extra prefer it. Sony.
Obtain it on: PSVR 2 (free VR mode obtain required)
Half-Life Alyx (PC VR)
Don’t faux you’ve by no means heard of Half-Life: Alyx, as a result of we all know you’ve. Nonetheless, when you haven’t picked up VR’s preeminent horror-shooter, you’re doing your self an excessive disservice. The quarantined zone is brimming with zomboids and tactical baddies alike, though the dilapidated (and very detailed) East Bloc-esque world ought to be greater than sufficient to place the chills down your backbone. Additionally, it’s Half-Life! In VR!
Obtain it on: Steam
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR Version (PC VR)
Spoiler to attentive readers of our horror recreation roundups: we are going to by no means not suggest Hellblade: Senau’s Sacrifice. This horrifying action-adventure recreation is ready on the Orkney Islands with dips into Norse-inspired celestial realms, tasking you to combat the demons with out and inside. Beware: Hellblade simulates psychosis with continually shifting recreation geometry and disembodied voices that whisper in your ears, and criticize your each transfer. We (and BAFTA) appreciated it a lot, we will forgive it for being a third-person expertise.
Obtain it on: Steam
The Forest (PC VR)
Because the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you end up in a mysterious forest battling to remain alive in opposition to a society of cannibalistic mutants. Construct bases, discover the island, and journey round on this 12+hour horror-survival recreation. Whether or not you play in solo or in co-op mode, in VR or on flatscreen—you’re positively not alone.
Obtain it on: Steam
What’s your favourite VR horror recreation, and what platform are you taking part in it on? Tell us within the feedback beneath!
