Best VR Games of 2026
Last updated: September 30, 2026
Part of our Best Of 2026 guide collection.
Two thirds of the way through, 2026 is delivering on its promise as one of the biggest years for VR gaming. Microsoft Flight Simulator hit PSVR 2, TMNT: Empire City brought the turtles to VR, H3VR capped a decade in Early Access with its 1.0 release over the July 4 weekend, and the tactical shooter GERONIMO arrived on July 10 to the strongest reception any new VR release has had this summer. On the hardware side, the Steam Frame cleared the FCC on July 29 and Valve put the headset's compatibility layers on Steam on August 2, and Valve launched it on September 14 at $1,059 with Half-Life: Alyx in the box. Here are the best VR games of 2026 so far, plus the titles still ahead.
Best new releases of 2026 (so far)
Resident Evil Requiem
Developer: Capcom | Platform: PC (VR mod available) | Released: March 2026
The VR mode is a community PC mod for the Steam version. The PS5 release has no PS VR2 support.
Capcom's latest Resident Evil entry already has a PC VR mod less than a week after launch. While not an official VR release, the modding community has made it functional and the VR community is buzzing about it. A reminder that PC VR modding continues to be one of the most exciting frontiers in VR gaming.
Batman: Arkham Shadow
Developer: Camouflaj | Platform: Quest | Released: Late 2025 (still peaking in early 2026)
Arkham Shadow carried massive momentum into 2026. The combat system translates Rocksteady's freeflow fighting into physical VR punches, counters, and gadget use. The stealth sections where you perch on gargoyles and swoop down on enemies feel genuinely empowering. It's the best superhero game in VR by a wide margin and one of the strongest Quest exclusives to date.
Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes
Developer: Bandai Namco | Platform: PSVR2, Quest, PC VR | Released: April 24, 2026
Bandai Namco's acclaimed puzzle-platformer franchise made the jump to VR on April 24 with a new standalone story following Dark Six through a deeply unsettling world of outsized threats and intricate puzzles. It is out now on PSVR2, Quest, and PC VR, and the sense of scale and creeping dread carries over from the flat-screen originals.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (PSVR 2)
Developer: Asobo Studio | Platform: PSVR 2 | Released: April 29, 2026
PS VR2 support is optional on PS5; the Standard Edition is the base game.
The biggest thing to happen to PlayStation VR in a year. Microsoft Flight Simulator finally landed on PSVR 2 in late April, bringing one of the most visually impressive games ever made into stereoscopic VR. The sense of scale at altitude is genuinely staggering, and the PSVR 2 OLED panels handle the lighting beautifully. Read our full launch coverage for the complete breakdown.
TMNT: Empire City
Developer: nDreams | Platform: Quest, PC VR | Released: April 30, 2026
The turtles arrived in VR. Empire City is a physics-driven beat ‘em up where you can play as any of the four turtles, with two-handed weapons that actually feel weighty in your grip. The co-op delivers the cartoon energy fans wanted. Read our launch-day impressions for our full take.
One More Delve
Developer: ATVR | Platform: Quest, PC VR | Released: April 28, 2026 (Quest), July 23, 2026 (Steam)
The PS VR2 version is announced with no date or price yet.
A largely solo-developed three-player co-op dungeon crawler with real physics and hand-made levels, and the spring's best argument that one developer with the right idea can still carve out a moment in VR. The Quest reception has been strong. Its July 23 Steam debut has been rockier: as of early August it sits at Mixed, 69 percent positive across 36 reviews, with the praise going to the combat feel and the complaints going to sluggish body physics and thin late-run replayability. That is a small sample on a game still shipping updates, so treat it as a work in progress rather than a verdict. Our full launch coverage and review has the details.
Into the Radius 2
Developer: CM Games | Platform: PC VR, Quest | Released: April 23, 2026 (1.0)
The PS VR2 version releases October 8; the PlayStation page has no preorder yet.
The closest thing VR has to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. left Early Access on April 23 with its full 1.0 release. CM Games' survival shooter drops you alone into a surreal anomaly zone where you manually rack your slide, count every round, and maintain your guns by hand. The 1.0 launch added a full story campaign, new weapons, and night vision, and a later update brought the multiplayer co-op players had been waiting for. It is one of the best hardcore VR games most people still have not heard of. Our full release coverage has the breakdown.
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (H3VR)
Developer: Rust Ltd | Platform: PC VR | Released: 1.0 on July 4 weekend, 2026 (Update 120)
Ten years after entering Early Access at the dawn of consumer VR, H3VR finally shipped its 1.0 over the Fourth of July weekend. It is the definitive firearms sandbox in VR: hundreds of meticulously simulated weapons, the gleefully weird Take and Hold mode, and a decade of free updates from a tiny team. Few games in any medium have been supported this well for this long, and the scoreboard reflects it. As of early August it holds an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam, 97 percent positive across more than 23,000 reviews, which makes it comfortably the best-reviewed VR game on the platform. Rust Ltd has also put up a store page for a sequel, Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2, with no release date attached. Our ten-year retrospective covers what the journey represents.
GERONIMO
Developer: Dark Matter Studios | Platform: PC VR (Early Access) | Released: July 10, 2026 | $19.99
The strongest new VR release of the summer, and the one most likely to still be in rotation at Christmas. GERONIMO is a close-quarters tactical shooter in the Ready or Not mould: breach a room, clear it slowly, and get punished hard for moving before your squad is set. It supports solo infiltration or six players together, and the weapon handling and attachment depth are the parts players keep singling out. It sits at Very Positive on Steam, 82 percent positive across 1,360 reviews as of September 30, which is a rare hit rate for a VR shooter this early in its life. Expect rough edges, because the content pipeline is still filling in, but the core loop is already the real thing.
CONVRGENCE
Developer: Monkey-With-a-Bomb | Platform: PC VR | 1.0 released: September 17, 2026 | $24.99
The September release that belongs here. CONVRGENCE is a VR-only, single-player extraction shooter set in the Chernokamensk Anomaly Zone, a procedurally generated exclusion zone full of bandits and artifacts, and it is the work of one developer, who goes by Nik. The 1.0 update on September 17 took it out of Early Access and gave it a fully voiced story, an ending and a new final location, while cutting most of the fetch missions from the main quest line. Steam has it at Very Positive, 88 percent positive across 1,865 reviews as of September 30, most of them from the Early Access run. New difficulty modifiers split the audience neatly: Permadeath wipes your whole playthrough when you die, and Infinite Insurance means you never lose your gear at all.
Star Trek: Infection
Released March 31 on Quest 3 and PC VR, this narrative survival horror is set in the Star Trek universe. You play a Vulcan Starfleet officer aboard the U.S.S. Lumen as the mission collapses into something darker. Reception has been mixed: critics praised the atmosphere and franchise authenticity while flagging finicky controls and a short, roughly six to seven hour runtime. Worth it for Trek fans who can tolerate the rough edges.
Aces of Thunder
Released February 3 on PSVR2 and PC VR, this World War I and II flight combat game focuses on cockpit-only VR gameplay with physics derived from War Thunder. It supports full HOTAS controls, ships with 24 aircraft, and won praise for its physical accuracy and audio while drawing criticism for a steep learning curve. Sim enthusiasts have embraced it.
Virtual Hunter
Released May 27 on PSVR2 and Quest at $24.99 after a stretch on Steam, Korpi Games' realistic hunting sim is the most serious attempt the genre has seen in VR. It is built around 64 square kilometer open worlds with solo play or six-player co-op, and it leans hard on each headset's hardware. If you have wanted a patient, tracking-focused hunting game in VR rather than an arcade shooting gallery, this is the one to watch. Our launch coverage breaks down the platform differences.
Out in September
Steam Frame, and the Half-Life: Alyx bundle
Valve launched the Steam Frame on September 14 at $1,059 for 256GB and $1,299 for 1TB, and the launch game turned out to be one VR players already know: every headset includes a copy of Half-Life: Alyx, which runs natively on the headset with no PC, one copy per device. Valve announced no new first-party game alongside it. What it has instead is a catalog that kept growing after launch: Valve's Great on Frame section listed 131 certified titles on launch day and 204 by October 7, with Gorilla Tag, GORN 2 and TMNT: Empire City among the additions. Purchase emails have gone out in waves since September 18 and units ship as they become available, so most people who signed up are still on the waitlist. Our guide to what runs on it covers all three ways to play.
Detective VR
Out September 9 on Steam for $14.99 and on PS VR2 the same day, after more than a year and a half as a Quest exclusive. Studio Chipo y Juan and VALEM Studio built a first-person investigation game for VR and mixed reality: examine a scene, bag evidence, interrogate suspects and assemble the case yourself. It was designed around your own living room, which is an open question on headsets with weaker passthrough.
Gunman Contracts: Stand Alone
Out September 10 in Early Access on Steam for $24.99. ANB_Seth's free Half-Life: Alyx mod drew more than 300,000 subscribers before it became a paid standalone game, and the developer set the September 10 date on its own, without waiting for Valve. Three weeks in it holds a Mostly Positive rating across more than 1,500 Steam reviews. A tight, physics-heavy action shooter that plays like a John Wick set piece.
Sol Protocol
In Early Access on Quest 3 and 3S since September 19 for $11.99, with the Steam version listed for October. Singular Perception's three-player co-op space roguelike puts you in the pilot, gunner or engineer seat of the same ship, and the ship only survives if everyone does their job. The bots meant to fill empty seats are not in yet, so bring two friends.
Still ahead in 2026
Bad Inmate
Due October 15 on Quest and PS VR2, with a Steam page up but undated. HyperVR Games' physics-driven prison escape sandbox has you turn junk into tools and brawl or bargain your way through a yard full of inmates. Our August look at it has the details.
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2
Dated at Meta Connect for November 12 on Quest 3 and 3S. The twist for the PC players who made the first game a legend: the Steam version follows in the second half of 2027, once its modding framework is ready, UploadVR reports. RUST LTD.'s sequel, published with Creature, is built around extraction runs through a procedurally generated megastructure called the Facility. The original hit 1.0 in July after a decade in Early Access.
PAYDAY: Aces High
Listed for Q4 2026 on Steam and fall 2026 on Quest, and you can play it before then. Fast Travel Games opens a public playtest on Quest 3 and 3S on October 19, the same day a two-heist demo joins Steam Next Fest, following the closed playtest in August. Four-player co-op heists, and the first game to list Steam Frame as a target platform.
What to watch for
The Steam Frame is out: Valve launched it on September 14, purchase emails have gone out in waves since September 18, and its Great on Frame catalog has grown from 131 certified games on launch day to 204. Meta Connect on September 23 showed no new Quest and put Meta VR Glasses on the calendar for spring 2027 instead, with more than 75 games playable by hand at launch. The rest of this year is about software: Bad Inmate on October 15, H3VR2 on Quest on November 12, PAYDAY: Aces High before the year is out, and a steady run of dates tracked on our VR release date tracker. Streets of Miami VR, once dated August 28, still shows Coming Soon on Steam. Our first-half standouts roundup recaps the six months that got us here.
We'll keep this page updated as new titles are announced and released throughout 2026.