I’ve played this game before a few times way back years ago and I always thought this was one of the more brilliant games in terms of storytelling and needing to know more about the story being told. But this time’s different, because we’re playing the entire journey through our Oculus Quest 2 in VR! At first you don’t really know what’s going on because there’s a lot hitting you all at the same time. But, once you get towards the end of the game you start realizing what exactly is going on here. Senua goes through an incredible journey both physically and especially mentally after being put through some of the worst, unbearable moments you can think of. How will she deal with all of this mental anguish? You have to make it to the end of the game and find out. And now, there’s a sequel coming out which makes me extremely happy and excited to play it!
VR Gaming
This is where all of the VR gaming clips and playthroughs go!
An hour of Reiko’s Fragments (Steam VR)
I played about an hour of this awesome Steam VR game that really utilizes some pretty cool technology I haven’t seen before. It allows for Twitch chat viewers to really mess up your gameplay when you are trying to find the fragment and bring it back to the gate before the AI ghost gets you and slices your throat off! It allows for up to eight Twitch chatters to try and scare you and mess you up as you try and achieve your goals. I really thought this was a lot of fun, and can’t wait to try it out again with a full stack of Twitch viewers really messing me up! There were a bit of bitrate drops in the process of this video, so I’ll probably have to go in and adjust the FPS limit or something, but overall this was a lot of fun and I really enjoy how it allowed for Twitch viewer participation!
Let’s Play Key of Impasse (Steam VR)
This is a panic room style game that will end in thirty minutes no matter how hard you try, because at the end of the time limit is a great, big kaboom! You’ve got to find four keys hidden around the room and figure out the puzzles to get to them and unlock the door to your freedom. This is a pretty nice little game that allows you to test your mettle in a few puzzles that are quite a bit challenging. I couldn’t figure out the fuse box puzzle for the life of me, until a viewer in my chat broke the news to me on how to solve it! If you are looking for something that’s pretty short and also utilizes the VR and is a puzzle style game, this is a pretty good one to try out!
Let’s Play Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond (Steam VR)
Playing through the very first Medal of Honor game in VR on the Oculus Quest 2. This was a two part series, with me gunning through the entire campaign and taking down nazis left and right to try and win World War II. I enjoyed some of the levels in the game, including the V2 Rocket Base and Normandy and there were a lot of funny moments like killing nazi’s with random items and doing funny things along the way. I thought the game was overall a lot of fun and a great way to expand the VR experience to WW2 shooters, but the arenas were quite small in each level and there were a lot of loading screens in between levels and segments. The post campaign vault was a nice touch, showing enemies, cutscenes and vehicles up close so you can really get a close look at things. The game was a bit challenging at times, but overall a fun experience if you enjoy VR shooters.
Let’s Play Hospitality VR (Steam VR)
Well, this game tells you right from the start on Steam that it is not a game in VR, it’s more of a rail riding game where you just sit and wait to see what happens next. The scares in this were mostly predictable, but some of them did get me. The fact you can’t move and are forced to just sit there does make it a bit creepy as you are just waiting for whatever to happen to happen next. Lots of things jumping out and scaring you and the visuals were pretty cool. If you want something to test out the capabilities of the VR and would like to try and get scared, this is the game for you. Enjoy the scary wheelchair simulation!
Let’s Play PAGAN PEAK VR (Steam VR)
You find yourself skidding out in your car and next thing you know waking up inside an isolated cabin in the middle of nowhere. There are scary Pagan masked people stalking you outside the cabin in the cold as you have to look around and try to figure out several puzzles on how to get out of the cabin. Once you make a break for it on the outside, you’ve gotta run and escape before the scary people catch you. There are several choices and diffrent paths you can take through this game, and I chose almost all of the different paths out of curiosity in this playthrough. Overall, pretty fun and the puzzles made you think. The suspense was pretty cool too as you never knew when something else was going to happen.
Let’s Play Propagation VR (Steam VR)
This is basically a wave based shooter game in VR that has you standing in place and taking out hordes of zombies that come in different variants, as well as a few creatures like giant spiders that eventually come for you. Once you get past the obvious final boss, you win the game. I played this on normal just to get my bearings, and I’m glad I did. You only get a limited amount of lives to continue through the game, and it does get really hard, especially for the fact that you just cannot move or walk around. You’ve got to be quick with your pistol and shotgun, and there is no laser sight in this game like there was for Resident Evil 4 VR, so it makes it even harder. Your health is based on regeneration, but when you get swarmed you go down fast. Not bad for a free VR game on Steam, but I can definitely see how RE4 VR capitalized on something like this and made it way more enjoyable and playable.
Let’s Play Resident Evil 4 VR
When this was first announced for VR, it was shortly after getting a VR, so I was super happy that the timing all worked out for this. I knew I definitely wanted to play this immediately, and it all just fell on Halloween in 2021 for the official playthrough to start! So much fun! Lots of standing, but so much fun! I played this on easy not knowing what to expect in VR, but I realized that I really got the hang of playing games in VR, so easy became really too easy for me. I’m ready for the next difficulty now, and I’ll be doing that in my next playthrough. Apologies for the game lag here and there, the Oculus Quest 2 doesn’t have a lot of support when it comes to streaming on Twitch, and using their casting technique isn’t the greatest right now. Hopefully in due time better options will come out for Oculus exclusive game streaming to websites like Twitch!
Let’s Play Test Subject 901 (Steam VR)
Yep, this is a game, lol. When I first got my VR headset in the form of an Oculus Quest 2, I scoured the Steam free to play games list looking for scary games to play that might take me to my limit. I came across this one and many others, but this one definitely stood out compared to all of the rest. You are locked inside a containment chamber and need to find three card keys to escape and get to safety. Only problem is, there’s a monster locked in with you and it will absolutely destroy you. You need to sneak around and advance through the short story while implementing stealth to avoid detection so you can make it out alive. This game scared me once so bad it knocked me literally on my ass in VR. This is one crazy game, I definitely recommend it!
Let’s Play Grave of the Petrified (Steam VR)
Thanks to my wonderful community at Croakitoad on Twitch, I was finally able to purchase my very first VR headset in the form of the Oculus Quest 2! I quickly went to Steam and looked through the free to play horror games utilizing the technology and found this game among many others. This is the very first game (outside of Phasmophobia) that I ever played in VR, and it was actually really cool and wicked for being a free game! While it is rather short and just a fetch quest for three items before leaving the room, it can get pretty scary at times, especially when Medusa is chasing you around and looks incredible in VR! For anyone new to VR gaming and looking for a game to kind of test out the capabilities, I actually recommend this game to get your feet wet! I really enjoyed this, and look forwards to maybe something more coming from this game. You don’t see too many Medusa-based games really at all, so this was pretty unique!