The Best VR Games of 2025 (So Far)

2025 has been an amazing year for VR gaming. With the year now being halfway over, I thought it would be a good time to revisit some of the best Virtual Reality games I have played this year. From AAA releases from well-known franchises to small teams shocking the industry, 2025 has not let me down.

While it’s impossible to cover every game released this year, here are 5 of my absolute favorites in no particular order:

Ghost Town

From the makers of The Room, Ghost Town is an adventure game with a strong focus on environmental puzzles. The game has players take on the role of a psychic with the ability to see spirits. This unlocks a unique puzzle system where players have to use their abilities to progress through a truly unique world.

With absolutely stellar graphics, a pretty gripping story, and fantastic gameplay, I was truly shocked by this one. Ghost Town is one of those games that, while I could see it working on a monitor as a flat game, I just couldn’t imagine the same level of immersion. It is truly a showcase for what a narrative-based VR game should be.

Arken Age

This fantasy action game blends futuristic enemies and weaponry with a post-apocalyptic world overgrown by nature. I love when games in VR allow players to take both guns and swords in combat, but I feel like, to date, most games that allow this are mostly just sandbox in nature, or zombie games. Very few games take a unique take on this system that makes sense, but Arken Age blew it out of the water.

With the ability to use futuristic guns and a perfectly designed retracting sword against robots invading the world around you, this theme works perfectly for the epic gameplay systems the developers built. While I love a good story in gaming, and this one is serviceable, the gameplay is what truly shines. This is easily one of the most fun VR games I have ever played.

VRacer Hoverbike

As a massive Wipeout fan back in the day on PlayStation, and as someone too young to remember the golden age of F-Zero, I’ve been waiting for another futuristic racer in VR. While Wipeout on PSVR certainly scratched the itch for a while, with no port to PSVR2, I’ve been missing these types of games.

In steps VRacer Hoverbike. This is the best racer I have played on Meta Quest. Period. The developers on this one truly went above and beyond with some absolute magic being achieved. For how fast-paced and busy this game is, I didn’t feel a hint of motion sickness, something I have historically struggled with. I lost a ton of time to this one over the last few weeks, and I cannot recommend it enough.

Cave Crave

Ever watch those videos online where people slip into caves through openings only a dime-sized bigger than their chest? Ever want to do that yourself? Me neither, but Cave Crave lets you do it in VR without the risk of a truly painful death.

With a full campaign, free climb modes, and even a horror mode, this game surprised me. I was not expecting much going in, but this game gives a great sense of scale in VR that not a lot of other games have been able to accomplish. If you are a fan of taking on real life experiences through the power of VR, I think this one is a solid pickup.

Alien: Rogue Incursion

Ok, ok, I’m kind of cheating on this one. It technically came out last year, but it didn’t come out on Meta Quest until this year, so I’m counting it.

I’ve written about this one before, but I stick by my opinion that this is one of the best single player, story based shooters in VR outside of Half Life Alyx. Sure, its not pushing innovation on the same level as Half Life, but does every game need to? Sometimes, I think it is perfectly ok to enjoy a game for what it is: a solid action game throwing you into one of the most iconic sci-fi horror franchises in history.

Disagree with my list? Let me know in the comments, and I hope you enjoy these games as much as I do. If you are interested in picking any of them up, use the links above for 10% off on Meta Quest (sorry, Arken Age fans, PCVR and Playstation only on that one!) With 2025 only half over, there’s still plenty of new games to come. Let me know which ones you’re looking forward to. I’m partial to Deadpool myself!