I landed on the waiting list like many of you, but that’s okay, it gives me more time to read feedback and experiences from folks who buy one in the first round.

While we wait, what games do you actually want to play on the Frame when you get yours? Please specify if it’s a VR title or non-VR title (unless it’s a super popular one like Hades or Portal that everyone will recognize).

I went through the Steam store “great on frame” listings as well as the overall VR listings, and IMO it’s quite a mixed bag. There’s fairly good variety but many of the “overwhelmingly positive” titles are relatively old, like even 2017-2022. And many of the newer titles don’t seem to have a lot of players yet.

Of course, if you have no intention of ever buying a Frame or want to discourage others or even hype some other device, please just refrain from commenting. This simply isn’t the thread for you.

  • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
    1·
    32 minutes ago

    If anyone wants to pretend they’re Spider-Man, give Yupitergrade a try. Crazy fun story, hard as fuck levels and the music is amazing.

    I want to try the second one so bad.

  • AgentSeven@lemmy.zip
    4·
    12 hours ago

    I really only need Elite Dangerous and I’ll be happy. I’m going from an OG Vive so having no tether and 150g less weight around my face is gonna be just great. But I’m also excited to try new stuff I wouldn’t have dreamed to try in the OG with the tether, like Beat Saber. Being able to do it anywhere, so I can pick the biggest room in the house instead of being limited to the one that has the computer is just like a whole different level.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    16 hours ago

    If Walkabout Mini Golf is available on steam frame, it’s the best game I’ve played so far! Highly addicting.

    • Killer_Tree@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      14 hours ago

      Second for Walkabout! While the game is “old” (it’s been out for a long time) they continue to add courses and content, at the rate of about a new course every other month. If you have one or more friends who also have this game, it’s about the best VR hang you can have.

  • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
    1·
    11 hours ago

    Currently I really just want something that Carnival Games VR works on. Tried it on my Quest and it crashes as soon as you select the first minigame. The devs knew about the problem and just told people to get a different headset.

    • Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceOP
      3·
      19 hours ago

      That’s pretty rad. Do you have a driving wheel and pedal rig? I’ve been contemplating getting one anyway, but if I enjoy racing in VR that will very likely push me into purchasing one.

      • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5·
        9 hours ago

        You can’t quite see the seat from a Ford Focus I got from a wreckers. I built that table specifically for simracing and just pull the seat away for regular viewing/gaming from the couch. I also recently added a haptic feedback seat pad for a bit of extra immersion.

        Simracing in VR is it’s killer app, I reckon.

  • G0ldenSp00n@lemmy.jacaranda.club
    13·
    1 day ago

    I am excited to finally have standalone Beat Saber, as a PC VR only user that never owned a meta device it will be nice to finally take Beat Saber wherever I want.

    Chants of Sennaar (a flat game) also just got verified today, so I will probably play that. I think it also might be time to play Half Life Alyx again, maybe I will try playing through the whole thing standalone.

    And I will probably also stream some of the other games I have been playing (Resident Evil Requiem, 007 First Light, and finally playing the Indiana Jones DLC).

  • DireTech@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    1 day ago

    Why would highly reviewed games being older be a bad thing? Those are the most likely to run well on Frame.

    Older games are awesome and cheaper than grabbing something right at release. If anything, something being newer gives me more pause since the issues haven’t been worked out.

    • Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceOP
      31·
      1 day ago

      Oh 100% I’m a longtime Patient Gamer so I know exactly what you mean. I just meant to say that playing older games (as in maybe 5-10 years after release) tends to be a different experience than something released maybe 2-3 years ago that happened to hit a deep discount. The tech landscape changes and maybe now you can fully max out the settings, including high res texture mods and an ENB that weren’t possible before, that sort of thing.

      Or maybe you can’t do any of that so it feels a bit crusty and letterboxed, that happens too.

  • vividspecter@aussie.zone
    15·
    24 hours ago

    I’ve already got a pretty large library, so I’ll give some recommendations (mostly older as haven’t had much time of late). All PCVR as I prefer buying on Steam:

    • Synthriders - rhythm game like beat saber but more dance focused

    • Dirt Rally 2.0 - not sure what the status of sim racing on Linux (and the Frame currently) but a great experience if you’re at all into racing

      • Automobilista 2 - similar quality but track instead of rally-focused

    • Doom 3 Fully Possessed Mod - Doom 3 mod. I never really enjoyed the original game but in VR it’s a lot of fun (and scary). Looks like the github repo has gone, so not sure where to find it today

    • Eleven Table Tennis - Just what it appears to be, a nice table tennis again with somewhat realistic physics. Suprisingly fun.

    • Half-Life 2: VR Mod - For when you’ve played Alyx to death and want something similar. A greater challenge as well since it wasn’t designed as an intro to VR.

    • Ragnarock - Another rhythm game that has a kind of viking drumming motif with a more rock/metal focused soundtrack

    • Sniper Elite VR - A bit janky but feels like an oldschool WW2 game but in VR. Maps are a lot smaller than the mainline series though, likely due to standalone limitations.

    • The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - This one has had controller issues with the open source Linux stack, but hopefully it will work well with the Frame. Semi-open world survival horror game with fun combat being the main draw. There’s also a sequel/DLC but I haven’t gotten to it yet.

    • Crysis VR - The original Crysis in VR. The game in flat never really grabbed me, but is a lot more compelling as a VR game (although I’m a bit more prone to nausea with this one). See: https://crysis.vrmods.eu/

    • UEVR mods - A bunch of games with unreal engine support this. A bit of a pain to setup and the quality of the experience varies, but opens up a lot of conventional games. See: https://uevr-profiles.com/

    EDIT: I also suggest digging into the Steam Workshop mods for Alyx. There’s a lot of good content there, and you get the fantastic Alyx engine and gunplay.

    EDIT 2: I’ll throw in a recommendation for this bundle: https://www.digiphile.co/collections/vr-games-showcase-the-new-essentials as it looks to have some well regarded games (Into the Radius 2 and Convrgence in particular)

  • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz
    23·
    1 day ago

    All VR titles:
    Beat Saber
    Moss
    MOTHERGUNSHIP Forge
    Tinertia
    Ragnarock
    Various racing games with my wheel
    Zone of the Enders 2
    Rez Infinite
    Redout
    Hellblade
    Psychonauts Rhombus of Ruin
    Vox Machinae
    Thumper
    Thrasher
    Bocce Time (I like Bocce Ball, sue me)
    Doom VFR
    Metal: Hellsinger VR
    Half Life Alyx

    Of note, Metal: Hellsinger VR is that far down the list because it’s apparently a bit brutal for people new to VR. Very fast movement, not for weak stomachs. So I’ll be trying that after I’ve gotten used to VR a bit. I will also play some flat games, but I have no idea what offhand yet. Only time will tell!

    • Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      22 hours ago

      Wait, Mothergunship has VR support? I’m surprised anyone even knows this game exists…

      I’ll have to look into that. Mothergunship is awesome.

      • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz
        6·
        1 day ago

        I’ve never played anything in VR. This will be my first VR headset and first VR experience in general.

    • Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceOP
      6·
      1 day ago

      Great list! I’ll have to check out some of the unfamiliar titles.

      I forgot about that Psychonauts game, awesome!

      Metal: Hellsinger does sound fun but yeah I’m a VR newbie too so I’ll save that one till I have more experience so I don’t get sick or punch a wall lol

      Hellblade was pretty psychologically abrasive on a regular monitor (and not fun IMO), might have to skip a replay of that in VR though.

  • NeryK@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    I have been building a backlog of both VR-native and VR-moddable games. I already own an Index and a Quest 3S. The latter I bought second-hand on the cheap and it really sold me on SteamVR streaming over WiFi. I have been waiting for the Frame in order to get a “modern VR” experience (wireless, pancake lenses, higher resolution, inside-out tracking, foveated rendering).

    Native

    • Metro Awakening
    • Arizona Sunshine 2
    • The 7th Guest VR
    • TaVRn’s Takedown
    • FlatOut 4 VR
    • G-Rebels

    Moddable

    • Resident Evil 7 & 8
    • Dead Island 2
    • Ready or Not
    • Nuclear Option

    And then there are the oldies but goodies. I’ll likely return to Half-Life: Alyx for a 4th playthrough, and also have another go at Moss Book I & II. BeamNG.drive will definitely be back on the menu for various driving shenanigans, and Dungeons of Eternity for some multiplayer dungeon crawling.

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    I’m really excited about playing Hellish Quart in VR. I haven’t played the non-VR version because I’m not interested in button mashing.

    Long story short, I’m in the SCA, so I do a fair bit of sword fighting, though not fencing. Wanting to see how well VR can do it.

    Other VR titles I’m looking forward to are Half Life: Alyx, Skyrim VR, Fallout VR, Boneworks, and I still need to see if there’s a VR mod for Kingdom Come Deliverance because if there’s one that’d likely be good too

    • Cricket@lemmy.zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      I’m really excited about playing Hellish Quart in VR.

      Woah, how have I not heard of this before, even though I spent considerable time looking for VR sword-fighting games? Maybe I was looking for Meta Quest specifically and missed this for PCRVR, but still weird that I had never seen this mentioned. Looks really good!

    • Metostopholes@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      I’ve only played Hellish Quart flat, and yeah it is ridiculous that way. I’m looking forward to trying it more seriously in VR. Really curious how it will feel when nothing is stopping your arm from moving when the sword stops.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        To add to my previous comment, I’m also going to pay close attention to joint health when playing Hellish Quart VR. Putting a lot of speed and power into your arms without something to absorb the energy wears on your joints, kinda similar to how it’s really bad to dry fire a bow.

        It’s worse if you’re swinging a sword through thin air due to the extra mass you’re accelerating and decelerating, but shadowboxing still wears to a degree. With VR you’re getting the adrenaline but no backstop.

    • Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceOP
      3·
      1 day ago

      I’ll want to try it out, but honestly NMS was a huge disappointment for me when I played though it about 2 years ago. I’m definitely interested in space/flight titles in VR though.

        • Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceOP
          4·
          1 day ago

          Tried Elite:D sorta briefly, yes. Not on my current higher-end machine though, that was the old (but decent) rig. The game felt too dry, and I say that as someone who even likes the Star Trek TNG episodes where Picard argues the details of Starfleet policy versus interplanetary diplomacy, heh.

          But I definitely got the impression that VR would be a huge boost so I definitely wanna give the title another shot.

          CORRECTION: It wasn’t my own impression, I deserve no credit. It was this editorial by Lee Hutchinson that put Elite VR on my gaming bucket list.

          • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip
            2·
            16 hours ago

            When showing people VR for the first time, Elite was one of the games that I would pull up, starting with a docked ship. The sense of scale, from starting in the ship to looking at the hangar, to the ship getting slotted into the docking bay, and then flying from the docking bay out into open space with a planet in the background? Incredible.

            You’re not wrong that the gameplay only has so much to it, and it does get grindy - but it’s one of the best of its genre at the moment, especially when you limit it to stuff that works in VR. Star Citizen might top it depending on your opinion, but 1) it’ll never see a full release and 2) it’s so resource hungry that I’m wary of trying to run it in VR. I upgraded my computer partly BECAUSE Star Citizen ran like molasses and it still didn’t hit 30FPS after getting a new CPU/mobo/RAM, probably because my GPU is seven years old.

  • Bongles@lemmy.zip
    6·
    1 day ago

    I had an hp reverb g2 before Microsoft killed it. I’m using the frame to get back into VR after all that time.

    I’m looking to use big screen again occasionally. I’ll probably see where VRchat is at nowadays. I never finished half life alyx so I’ll be doing that. Tabletop simulator I believe supports VR so that’ll be neat to try.

    I also have a handful of games in my steam wishlist that I’ll start checking out. These are all relatively old because I stopped keeping up with VR while I didn’t have a headset:

    Edit: oh I forgot I used to play dirt rally 2 in VR all the time, that was great. I think they stopped supporting VR in their newer games so I’ll probably just stick with that one.