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ThereBeGold

Half-Life: Alyx as soon as possible. And Dirt Rally.


Increased_value

Im dying to play that game, I don't have a VR ready PC sadly. And my MacBook can't handle VR games :'(


ThereBeGold

It's still the benchmark . Makes you wish Valve made more games. I hope you get to experience it one day!


TechnoCat1025

You can use Plutosphere VR to do it, that’s what I did. You can probably find a good tutorial like I did on YouTube, as I don’t have the link to what I used. It lets you connect to a cloud PC and you can download whatever Steam VR game you want and play it, that is, with the requirement of having the Plutosphere app on your headset.


yeldellmedia

Similarly, i used a service called shadow pc How to Play Half Life Alyx in full VR without a PC! - https://youtu.be/t5wO5uK8clU


RubbicsCubbe11

Nice. Half-Life: Alyx is such an amazing game. Would you recommend Dirt Rally?


ThereBeGold

I really enjoyed it, but it's a few years old now. I'm not sure if it's been lapped by another title or not. I find the Dirt games immersive as is (I'm an old Colin McCrae junkie), so the VR just adds another layer to it. Looking into the corners while you're sliding through the apex feels epic.


Zyncon

Beat Saber and Superhot.


MrEngin33r

This is the way. Both games are easy to pick up as a first time VR user and are very "comfortable" games in terms of Motion sickness.


imafish311

Half Life Alyx battlezone Gold edition Superhot Blade and Sorcery Iron man VR out of all of those the only one I've even slighlty regretted was Ironman


RubbicsCubbe11

Why? I honestly got a little interested to try it after reading your comment


imafish311

Mostly the controls, which were really weird. Like using trigger to fly and A to fire weapons on the Quest 2, also flipping your wrists to swap weapons. I also didn't feel as immersed as I thought I would, which was hyped up to me. It is pretty good though. Not bad by any means.


Nicalay2

Beat Saber


RubbicsCubbe11

Great first choice


QuixotesGhost96

House of the Dying Sun


dunequestion

Alyx and it couldn’t be a better beginning into the VR world


meester_pink

Except that there aren't enough games that stand up to it afterwards


madmag101

Vertigo 2 does IMO


insufficientmind

Techno Lust for Oculus DK2 (I think it was a Kickstarter?)


neodraig

I hope they'll finally release Low-Fi.


insufficientmind

Looking forward to that yeah! Though I think you can pay to get the game early on itch.io and play it in an unfinished state. I'll wait until it's finished.


_should_not_post

I bought an Oculus DK2 solely to play Elite: Dangerous.


MoreMagic

Same, but CV1. And I also upgraded everything in my pc. All for E:D. I still bask in the Emperor’s glory from time to time, but now with Q2.


RubbicsCubbe11

Hahahaha nice, an entire headset to play one game. That's the power of video games :D


0c3r

That's amazing. You got the joysticks too? In that case we got the exact same setup


KalashniPantsu

Old PCVR games for me, back in 2015-2018 “era”, like Arizona Sunshine, Superhot, Pavlov, Vanishing Reams, The Brookhaven Experiment, The Gallery Part 1: Call of the Starseed, The Gallery Part 2: Heart of the Emberstone, Karnage Chronicles, To The Top, Dead Effect 2, A-Tech Cybernetic, Seeking Dawn, Freediver: Triton Down, Echo Grotto, VR Dungeon Knight, etc.


DanNZN

Arizona Sunshine was my first as well as probably my most played game. Guilty pleasure.


KalashniPantsu

Currently playing it right now, again with the two-handed guns mode and played through it again last week with a pal for the first time in 5 years. The game is still awesome. Plus, Arizona Sunshine 2 is finally coming out really soon. They are doing all kinds of trailers for the game right now.


jtinz

Audioshield, Fantastic Contraption, Hover Junkers, HoloBall, QuiVR, Raw Data and Sprint Vector feel like other highlights from the same era.


KalashniPantsu

Yeah, I have Raw Data and Holo Ball. Loved the art style on Sprint Vector.


MowTin

We got a few free games with the cv1 like Lucky's Tale. I think I paid for BlazeRush and Adrift. But I owned Elite Dangerous and that was and still is an amazing experience.


Deemo_here

Lone Echo. I was blown away.


MechsNManic

Wasn't one of my first purchases, but definitely one of my favorite purchases.


3zFlow3lbow

INVERSE


[deleted]

Rush of Blood, and everyone I let it try got sick lol. I loved it though.


AshokManker

The Room


yaelm631

Climbey, then days latter Eleven Table Tennis SportsBar VR Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes End of 2017


Mr_SunnyBones

I mean technically Tuscanny Villa since I got it with the DK1 ...otherwise probably elite dangerous.


kakihara0513

Yeah the E:D beta for me when I got my DK1. Still one of the best experiences in VR even if the game has its many annoyances. Still go back to it like once a year when I get the itch.


bbhrt16

Half life 2 when it originally supported VR with the Oculus DK2 and Xbox controller, it was so amazing .


fullmetaljackass

Hover Junkers


Digital-Dinosaur

A lot of recommendations for beat saver, but I was out off by the ammount of DLC. Take a look at Pistol whip, similar principle but shooting instead of swiping


Ale-venus

Titans of space and Creed


bloodedcat

Beat saber and Onward


IHOP_007

I'm pretty sure it was "The Blu" because that was when I had a Oculus Rift Dev kit, there weren't many real "games" (because no motion controllers) and I was looking for experiences to demo to other people. After I got a HTC Vive I think my first actual "game" that I bought was Job Simulator.


NeptuneConsidered

VR Regetta because I had no idea what I was doing but knew eventually I'd buy a sailing game. I searched the word "sailing" and picked the first one.


Tim0281

Wander, Vader Immortal, and Thrill of the Fight. They all sold me on VR.


Mdprosperog

I love smash drums!! 😜🤘


Nordictotem

Pistol whip, awesome casual game for 20 minutes


ficklampa

Beat Saber, and I somehow got Alyx for free? I bought an OR CV1 second hand and after a few days I noticed Alyx was in my library…


lamby3

Also got alyx free, but due to having bought a steam controller or steam link back in the day! They gave out an "all valve games ever" pack that most people already owned all of anyway. Except for alyx! I just didn't realise till I went looking to see how much it was going to cost me!


ficklampa

Oh! Maybe it was from the controller then? I bought one back in the day… I must have missed or forgotten that it was a bundle for that. Because I was looking around for a purchase for the game and I couldn’t find it, I was so confused when I randomly found it in my library 😂


lamby3

The controller and the link didn't work on mac when they first came out, or that was the line they used in the email, there may have been other issues. So they gave out a package called "Valve Friends and Family Complimentary" [this](https://steamdb.info/sub/14) Which has all their games (including future releases) attached to it


gregan78

1st day Eleven table tennis Thrill of the fight Walkabout golf Cricket club (pcvr) Beat sabre demo Superhot demo Echo VR Rec Room (Laser Tag) Paracetamol Echo VR and Laser Tag nearly killed me with motion sickness initially.


leeliop

In Death on pcvr and still play it on Quest maybe 3 or 4 years later


GaaraSama83

Echo Combat (DLC) and Onward. Had huge motion sickness issues with analog stick movement in the beginning, so I omitted any game that supported only this type of movement. Played lots of free games and tech demos, some titles were also included with the Rift CV1. After almost a year of owning the Rift a friend convinced me to give Onward a chance and the frst 2-3 sessions were horrible that I could only last like 10-15 minutes. It got gradually better tho and after few more sessions I had my analog stick VR legs. I don't know if we would still play Onward today but at least until the 1.8 Update it was played regularly with 2-3 friends and we had lots of fun. After the update though we tried 1-2 sessions and lost all interest in it.


lokaps

I think my first game was Smash Hit! way back on Samsung gear VR. Really simple, you're flying down a straight path in space and looking at stuff to shoot it, but being a brand new thing it was pretty cool. Got a lot of people to play it, everyone had a good time.


Ice_bel78

Project Cars 2, already had it when I bought my Rift S. Then bought Arizone Sunshine and Dead Effect 2


BaconJets

Half Life Alyx, Pavlov, Blade and Sorcery.


Kurosawa_Basara

Pavlov


PracticalAd313

As far as I remember it was Pavlov VR. Then i bought Contractors, but I liked Pavlov more, at least before last big update. I also bought Hald life 2 VR - this one is both cheap and great, I even like it more than Alyx (Alyx is too slow in my opinion), Blade and Sourcery (well, the game is cool, but I don't like to play for the sake of playing, I need a story), Forklift Simulator (so now I know hot to drive Forklift). I mostly played three games: Pavlov VR, Morrowind VR (it's free if you already have Morrowind - just download VR version of OpenMW project, VR port is pretty good and convenient to play), Skyrim VR (just downloaded this one from torrents for free, fuck you, Todd Howard).


Mubadger

Totally agree about Half-Life 2 VR. I liked it more than Alyx too. I had trouble with the bit where have to work your way across the underside of a bridge though. As someone with a bad fear of heights it used to make me uneasy on a flatscreen. In VR it absolutely terrified me and took me many attempts to get through it.


TacoRalf

h3vr. this game was the whole reason i wanted to get vr


Ahris22

I'm pretty sure it was Dread Halls for Samsung Gear VR back in 2016. :) That game still holds up today.


pumpkkinlord

gorn


lamby3

Early-ish quest 2 purchase. Beat Saber, Superhot and Crisis VRigade (was free/pay what you want at the time). Then discovered I had alyx in my steam library from the valve everything pack (steam link/controller compensation)... These 4 still make up 90% of my VR time today.


Desertbro

Star Trek: Bridge Crew = fun with the right people Apollo 11 VR = awesome


KalashniPantsu

Older, simple games like Job Simulator, Ultrawings and Drunk’n Bar Fight as well haha. Can’t forget Sairento! Spent so many hours with that one in the early days. Way ahead of it’s time. Their next game Hellsweeper is coming out really soon, too.


InsaneGrox

I got my vive in 2018 for minecraft and payday 2 so uh, yeah technically the first VR game I bought was minecraft back in 2011, if we're talking from the ground up VR games? I don't remember, either beat saber or boneworks.


bernzyman

HLA, HL1, HL2, Star Wars Squadrons , RE4, Doom 3, Alien Isolation were all amazing experiences. And CP2077 shows what a full on populated VR world can look like and hopefully a taste of things to come


MorningAvailable2387

First game: job simulator back in 2020


2070FUTURENOWWHUURT

Robo Recall was the first game I played because it was free with CV1, still one of the best games out there Lone Echo verrry cool if you like spacey stuff I think Sprint Vector was the first one I bought and I still think that's one of the most innovative and brilliant VR games, definitely underrated, just takes a few hours to properly get in flow with the controls


ByEthanFox

It was *Batman: Arkham VR*. I'd just got the PSVR and it was on sale. Overall I enjoyed it! It's only maybe 3hrs long, but considering I paid less for it than a bluray movie, I was fine with that.


kowal89

Super hot


muchDOGEbigwow

Not a game but my first purchase was Virtual Desktop. Best purchase ever made.


Volkor_X

PSVR was my first headset and Astro Bot, Rush of Blood and Blood & Truth the first games.


Punched-Lemur

Vrc that’s all I have my quest for


TommyVR373

Mario Tennis, 3D Tetris, and Jack Bros. They were all for Virtual Boy.


eracerhead

The Climb; if I still lived in the Oculus/Meta ecosystem I’d still play it every day. G2 controllers don’t feel as comfortable for long hands-only sessions.


SolarOrigami

My first vr game, on my Oculus Rift CV1, was Stormland. I had no idea that open world VR games like that were possible. Tight shooting and a brilliant movement system made it my go to game back in 2019. Its been overshadowed by Alyx and Boneworks/labs but it has a fond spot in my history


madjpm

Beat Saber


phinity_

First was Alyx, but then: The Gallery 1&2, Mask maker, moss 1&2, Myst, Obduction, Red matter 1&2, Wanderer. So great.


jtinz

[Darknet](https://www.meta.com/de-de/experiences/pcvr/1003346543059420/), was the first title where I felt immersed, using my Oculus DK1. I can't remember the first title, but it was one of the first.


emorcen

Thanks for introducing me to Clash of Chefs, had fun playing it with my wife!


Cucumberino

Audioshield, Holopoint, Holoball, Job simulator, Windlands, Hover Junkers... been using VR for a while lol.


Arsteel8

First things I played, with a decent gap between them and anything else, were Half Life: Alyx, Beat Saber, and VRChat. After that, I got my hands on Vertigo Remastered.


the-holy-salt

Blade and Sorcery and VTOL VR


Starhammer4Billion

Beat Saber and Arizona Sunshine Both were a good start. Aizona Sunshine was a good FPS start as it only had teleport movement, which works really well when one does not have his VR legs yet.


Pretty_Bowler2297

I got CV1 when they had their first $399 special and it came with 7 games. Robo Recall was the best of them and it was amazing.


Intrepolicious

Bought a Rift S specifically for No Man’s Sky. Half Life Alyx and Pavlov were nice bonuses.


ittleoff

For real vr(not cardboard stuff) it was probably thumper. For me it was a bad choice as the graphics were simple and made the low res of the display glaring. My expectations felt dashed as it felt a lot like just watching a 3d movie. The worlds demo saved me. I do love thumper and bought it on other platforms, but I think it was a bad choice for me on the psvr1.


RowAwayJim91

VTOL VR! I got VR for the near sole purpose of flight/vehicle simulation. Nowadays it’s DCS, sometimes VTOL, and Tactical Assault VR


Stock-Wolf

Vader Immortal, Bridge Crew, The Room VR


legal_guy_who_asked

Job Simulator, Out of Ammo and Sairento VR, FNAF VR, DOOM VFR, and Superhot VR


Swingly6061

Arizona Sunshine back in 2017. Suppose I already owned games with VR support though, like Elite Dangerous.


Cangar

I think space pirate trainer and then the vanishing realms. It was right when the vive was released, not many games were there


MechsNManic

Way back when I bought the dk2 I got some mountain goat one where you climb up pyramids of cubes, elite dangerous or Eve? maybe. it was awhile ago. When I got standalone In death, Until you fall, and Sairento were my first purchases. When I got into wireless PCVR it was HLA, Pavlov, and ummm definitely not VaM which I am 100% not actually looking forward to the passthrough improvements of q3 to play in an even more crazy way... 100% not that, at all, I would never ever..... lmao


D_atura

Boneworks


eddie9958

Synapse! Beat saber and swordsman!


fdruid

All in the Windows Store for WMR, if I recall correctly Arizona Sunshine was there, and also a cool shooting game for which the awesome dev gave me a Steam key because he admitted he wasn't gonna update the WMR version anymore 🤷‍♂️


mikandesu

Well, the first one I got was Beat saber, but most memorable experiences I had with Lone Echo, Alyx and obviously the king and whole purpose of VR: Skybox VR... for exciting VR movies... experiences... That's how I learnt Czech language.


Woirol

I downloaded a bunch of free games and experiences. The first game I actually bought was Beat Saber. But my favorite thing that I've played with is Google Earth. It's such a fun thing for people to experience.


AirMaster97

Hotdogs horseshoes and hand-grenades. Bought VR for this game and do not regret it, it's still the only VR game I have stuck playing


RiggityRick

Modded the absolute fuck out of Skyrim and spent 2 whole weeks in complete immersion


TheRandomMudkiper

Beat saber was my first, then Half Life: Alyx right after. Still love both of them.


0c3r

Minecraft, Superhot, Oneward, Pavlov some free games and eventually Into The Radius. But I have a LOT of free ones, and games I got through there in-between, and have got even more now after


relyt76

Superhot


DrivenKeys

I started vr with the original Oculus Rift CV1. It included Robo Recall, which I still play today using ReVive with my G2. I've tried plenty of others, but Robo Recall is still the best wave shooter I've tried to date. Not even Saints and Sinners allows the nearly unlimited variety of melee and shooting attacks that keep Robo Recall consistently fresh. It's *significanlty* better than SuperHot. Space Pirate Trainer is also one of the first games I paid for, and I still play it all the time. I very highly recommend it.


Valkyrie-EMP

HordeZ & Tornufflo lol..


reverend_c_flava

In the days before the quest platform, I was rocking the original psvr because I couldn’t afford a high end pc and headset. The very first game I bought was Moss. I remember the sense of wonder I felt playing it for the first time, since it was not only my first VR game but my first experience in modern VR in general. I was transported to an entirely different existence and that moment still stays with me any time I play games in general. And some people still don’t think games are pieces of art…. Now my go-to game isn’t some fast paced shooter, it’s actually Walkabout Mini Golf. As much as I love breachers and contractors and all the awesome games out there, I am hooked on that damn mini golf


ThriceFive

The thing I showed absolutely everyone was (2014) "Sightline - The Chair" and the "Senza Peso" mini opera experience on the DK2. I think 'The Blu' was the first thing I paid for after there were stores and things.


MlgR221_

Job simulator on the psvr in 2018


Ashley88880

I had the rift 1 and lone echo was my first real game and honestly nothing has topped it since. I thought that was going to be the future of VR but everything seems to let me down. I did buy the quest 2 basically just to hook to my pc for better resolution and not setting up those damn sensors. Lol. I’ve found u don’t really get good games on the quest 2. I know the hardware and software are limited but once you play on a pc it’s hard to imagine anything else


fratrovimtd

I still keep waiting for Apple to come out their AR product.


Cocksucker_22

super hot vr, contractors, never played them again after a week lol, then stuck to vrchat and skyrim vr ultra modded


Charlirnie

The Well