The last few months of 2024 were potentially the most exciting times for VR gamers in recent memory. We got games like Batman, Alien, Metro, and Behemoth back to back, one after another. It was an incredible lineup of VR releases. So, coming off the back of that, it has felt like 2025 has lacked the visibility of AAA VR content that made 2024 so exciting. Now, let me be clear. I don’t think we’ll see four back-to-back AAA big hitting VR titles like that again for quite some time, if ever. But 2025 is starting to take shape thanks to some recently announced AAA VR products and one rumored indevelopment massive if true VR game. So let’s take a look at those games and a few more that you can get your hands on soon. Let’s kick things off with Alliance Peace Fighter. This is a linear storydriven space sim in the style of ’90s classics like X-Wing and Wing Commander. Fans of Star Wars Squadrons or the flight and combat sections of No Man’s Sky should pick this up when it releases for PC VR on the 4th of June. Now, if you were disappointed that the upcoming Star Wars pod racing game is a mixed reality top-down experience rather than a firsterson VR experience, then worry not. Vraer Hoverbike has you covered. Now, the game has been available for PC VR for quite some time now. So, if you are impatient and don’t want to wait for this quest release, you can go and pick up the game right now to jump into some high-speed, high octane wipeout Tron pod racer style hover bike races in VR. But if you only have a Quest device and want to wait for the standalone version, you don’t have to wait long as it’s releasing summer 2025. You can even pre-order now to receive a shiny gold skin for your pilot. The sweatiest, most gambling ridden, highse ceiling skill level FPS of all time is coming to VR thanks to Team Beef in an unofficial capacity. Now, Team Beef have been working with the Flat VR dev team to release some official VR ports, or at least they will be working with them to release official VR ports in the future, but they are still working unofficially on releasing VR games on their Patreon page. And this is a very exciting one. Now, I’m not entirely sure how Counter Strike will translate into a VR experience, but I for one am very excited because I think it will be a more casual and enjoyable way to experience this absolutely classic multiplayer firstperson shooter. If you try to play this flat screen on PC and you haven’t been playing it all your life and honing your skills, you will just get absolutely destroyed within seconds. So, in VR, I’m hoping for a more relaxed and ultimately fun multiplayer experience. The dev team behind Budget Cuts and Garden of the Sea are trying their hand at an actionfocused roglike co-op experience for their next game. This is Crossings, and it’s all set within the Norse afterlife. Players in Crossings find themselves dead and wandering the afterlife in search of other players or companions to fight alongside. Now, developers Neat Corporation have emphasized that there will be no voice coms in Crossings. Despite it being a co-op experience, the game is all about the vibes, and the devs want players to form bonds through shared combat experiences and body language. You’ll be able to fight with a wide variety of weaponry from axes to swords, bows to bombs, and even magic abilities that see you casting fire, ice, lightning, and other spells with gesture-based controls. Now, I’ve loved everything Neat have made up until this point, so I’m excited to take Crossings for a spin when it releases sometime in the future to be confirmed. I’m not sure how, but I completely missed this one when it was originally announced, but after watching the trailer, Adept’s Arena looks like the exact kind of VR game I absolutely love. Now, if you’re a fan of Avatar the Last Air Bender, and when you’ve been watching it, you’ve thought to yourself, “Ooh, I’d really like to try my hand at some of that airbending nonsense.” Well, this game won’t let you do that. But it will let you try your hand at Earthbending. That’s right. In Adept’s Arena, you can conjure rocks from the ground to fling them at your foes. You can bring up pillars that allow you to get to higher vantage points in the level, or even traverse over enemies that are a little bit taller than you. You can even pull massive spires of rock from below the ground to knock enemies flying. This looks so fun in VR. Now, I emphasized just there that it looks so fun in VR, and that’s because the game will also be playable flat screen, and I think that’s an incredibly smart move in 2025. Hybrid games, I think, are the way forward. They’re the best of both worlds. The devs get to sell to the bigger portion of gamers, and VR players are still included. Keep an eye on Adepts Arena. I think this looks fantastic. Okay, the next six games on this list are where things start getting really exciting. Each of these titles are potentially either AAA releases are based on established IP or existing franchises, or they’re new developments that make a VR product even better than it was previously. Kicking things off, we have Siberia Remastered coming to MetaQuest 3 devices at sometime in the future. I do believe though it is to be confirmed 2025. Now, I have never played a Siberia game before, but I know these point-and-click puzzle adventures are considered absolute classics for a huge portion of the gaming community, and I’m happy that I can have my first experience with the franchise in VR. Not much is known about the VR version of this remaster at the time of writing. I assume it will still be a thirdp person experience packed with puzzles to solve, but developers Microids might surprise us all with some big changes for the virtual reality audience. Hopefully, we’ll see some gameplay soon as the remaster is set for TBC 2025. Next up, we have a brand new free DLC update for one of the best VR games of 2024, Behemoth. This is the Rights of Wrath DLC, and it’s available for all users for free on the 3rd of June, which is mere days away at the time of this video going live. So, what does the DLC add? I hear you cry. Well, right now I’m still waiting for Sky Dance Games to completely clarify those details, but it certainly looks like following in the footsteps of Walking Dead Saints and Sinners, there will be a new arena mode, which allows players to challenge themselves against waves of enemies. And then it also seems like there is a boss rush mode, which I know is something people have been asking for since the game came out. A way to replay those incredible behemoth bosses. Alien Isolation is, in my humble opinion, one of the very best VR games of all time thanks to the Mother VR mod. The game was never officially released as a VR product, but some clever modders came in and gave us an incredible way to experience this game in the most immersive and terrifying way imaginable. Now, all these years later, a brand new VR modder by the name JP has come along and given us motion controls, something I thought we would never get for this incredible VR experience. This new version of the Alien Isolation VR mod is called the Grandmother VR mod, and it’s available now publicly in its first release. You can reach out and interact with things on tables, like I just was there with those beer cans. You can wield weapons and point them with your physical hands. You can do the same for motion trackers. And the visuals have also been improved and overhauled. The resolution is higher. The game looks better than ever. And this is now the definitive best Alien experience you can have in virtual reality. The movie World War Z was pretty [ __ ] The book is pretty good and the video game is really good. I’ve sunk a ton of time into the co-op zombie shooter World War Z with a bunch of friends. It’s incredibly replayable. The hordes of zombies look amazing. There are hundreds of them, maybe even thousands of them on the screen at any one time. So, I was so excited to see we’re getting this whole game ported to VR. And I am still excited. But one thing baffles me. This is not playable in co-op. This is a singleplayer VR experience. Now, that feels like a massive missed opportunity. I’m really hoping Saber add multiplayer at some point, but I’m still really excited to play World War Z in VR this August. A fourplayer Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game is coming to VR from the developers of Gorn. I am so hyped for this. We don’t know much at this stage other than the fact it’s a fourplayer game. Each player can play as a different turtle and as I’ve said it’s being developed by the devs Ctopia who were behind the Gorn franchise. I can’t wait for this. It’s a little ways away coming out 2026, but this is the kind of AAA VR content I’m happy to see teased. Buckle your seat belts and strap on your tinfoil hats. This one is just a rumor at this stage, but if it’s confirmed, this is probably going to be the biggest AAA VR release of 2025. Deadpool VR developed by Twisted Pixel. Now, this gameplay that you’re seeing right here isn’t of the affforementioned rumored Deadpool game. This is Marvel Powers United. I’ve just stuck this here to demonstrate what a VR Deadpool game might look like, but hopefully, and probably anything made by Twisted Pixel will almost certainly be better than Marvel Powers United. Now, this rumor has sprung up a few times over the last couple of weeks. It’s appeared on multiple games journalism sites and in a couple of different Reddit threads. People are saying the game is in development at Twisted Pixel in conjunction with Meta. Twisted Pixel are owned now by Meta and it’s going to be revealed at the Summer Games Fest. Now, if this ends up being true, this is a huge deal for me for probably three different reasons. Firstly, I love Deadpool and I think a VR Deadpool game could be fantastic. Secondly, Twisted Pixel are responsible for two of my favorite VR games of all time. Defector that you’re seeing now and the incredible Wilson’s Heart. Twisted Pixel know how to make fantastic VR games, but they haven’t done anything for such a long time. I really cannot remember the last VR game they made. Was it Defector? I’m not sure. It was a very long time ago. And thirdly, if this is true, then it shows that Meta aren’t done with acquiring and publishing exciting AAA high impact IP VR games, which is something I was a little bit worried about. I will admit it felt almost like 2024 was a bit of a last harrah from them. So something like this would put those worries to bed. The Quest would also end up being the home of Batman, Iron Man, and Deadpool in VR. What an amazing superhero video game lineup on one piece of hardware. I don’t think we’ve had it that good since Xbox 360 and PS3’s heyday. Fingers crossed there’s truth behind this rumor. Hopefully, we’ll find out more at Summer GameFest. That brings me to the end of this video. Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed. Things are starting to heat up for VR games as we move further into 2025. I’ll see you soon for another video. Take care, everyone. [Music]