PSVR2 Hall of fame

THE VIRTUAL REALITY HITS YOU HAVE TO PLAY

Synapse

Telekinesis and guns make a wonderful combo in VR. With one mapped to your left hand and the other to your right, you feel like a conductor of chaos as you blast your way through a rogue colonel’s mind to uncover secrets. Eye-tracking is wonderfully used to target your telekinesis, meaning you can slam enemies all over the place as you reload your arsenal. It’s got a roguelite structure, so you’ll keep coming back.

Horizon: Call Of The Mountain

Manages to make level after level of climbing compelling with different environments to pull yourself up through, the Sense controllers allowing for neat player expression. Just make sure you take a break, or all that spider monkeying will make your arms throb.

Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge

Who shot first? You. Tactile controls make being a droid techie-turned-scoundrel a blast(er), from pulling gear off your body to using tools to meddle with machines. A bonus mode allows for lightsaber waggling too.

Rez Infinite

When you thought Testuya Mizuguchi’s synaesthesia shooter was done, it moves to a new beat. Laden with sharp particle effects, twitchy controls make this unmissable, with eye-tracking aiming a revelation for this experiential shoot-’em-up.

Tetris Effect: Connected

While also on PS5, Mizuguchi’s trippy, transcendent take on the block-based puzzler is nothing short of a masterpiece in PSVR2, placing you within a world of tumbling tiles like never before, enhanced from the base version with more collaborative elements.

No Man’s Sky

The frontier is far from final, this free refresh for the latest headset propelling you to the stars. All the prior updates are here, and you’ve an unmatched level of fidelity to reach out and touch the bizarre randomly rolled planets you uncover (and to fiddle with your ship).

Moss: Book II

Both rodent puzzle platformers benefit from PSVR2 enhancements, but the star performer of the pair is this sequel that’s every bit the mouse’s whiskers. As charming as ever, expanded combat options mean you feel even more connected to your li’l hero, Quill.

Gran Turismo 7

Ever driven a car? Then you’ll know what to expect. GT7’s already incredible simulation races gain a new level of immersion simply from checking your GPS and mirrors and seeing the courses whizz by. It’s only a new view mode, yet it’s enough to be a must-try.

09 Before Your Eyes

Blink and you will indeed miss it. Put down the Sense controllers, as here you interact using eye tracking, piecing together your life scene by scene, progressing whenever your peepers close (generously, the mechanic can be turned off if you want to see everything).

Song In The Smoke Rekindled

The devs have taken great pains to ensure this strippedback survival game remains immersive at all times, placing much of what you need to do, from skinning pelts to pinging arrows, directly in your hands. Be careful to keep the dark at bay at night, too.

The Last Clockwinder

This spatial puzzler is all about putting things in the right place, whether that’s flinging objects around or putting yourself to work. Thanks to the ability to summon clones, you’re quite the helping hand (now if only we could do that at PLAY Towers).

The Last Worker

Work hard, revolt harder. As a token final human working alongside machines in a send-up of big online retailers, you need to balance the oddly compelling mundanity of sorting and organising packages with sneaking around vents to bring down big business.

Jurassic World Aftermath Collection

Clever girls for a clever game. You’re looking to salvage research data from the dino park’s ruins and get out alive, all while being hunted by ’raptors (like the tense scene from the original movie). Other dinos pop up, but the velociraptors are the focus, for better and worse.

What The Bat?

With your arms transformed into baseball bats, you must progress through loads of minigames that take you through different periods in your life. A great way to get used to 1:1 hand-tracking, the zany challenges are only let down by a slight lack of variety.

Tentacular

Get stuck into this coming-of-age story where you play as an adopted sea monster finding their place in their seaside town community. Joy comes from playful, wholesome interaction, using your twisty appendages to grapple with problems and suckers to pick things up.

Astro Bot Rescue Mission

This pint-sized adventure packs charm in spades even if it isn’t exactly chock-full of challenge. Bringing the classic puzzle platformer formula bang up to date in PSVR, it won’t take many levels before you’re calling out, “Beam me up, Botty!” Also, the nippers will love it.

The Persistence

This first-person horror roguelike offers perfectly sized chunks of survival bursts. It’s everything you’d expect from a full PS4 release, but in PSVR it’s filled with clever ideas, unique weapons, genuine jump scares, and fab looks – plus great couchplay as well.

Star Wars: Squadrons

A fan’s dream come true: experience epic Star Wars space battles from the cockpits of the films’ most famous starfighters. Whether you’re flying a TIE fighter or X-wing there’s absolutely no thrill like skimming the surface of a Star Destroyer in PS VR.

Resident Evil VII: Biohazard

Can you can go eye-to-eye with the Bakers? Playing in VR raises the tension to almost unbearable levels and has gameplay benefits such as face-aiming, which makes shooting a lot easier. A brilliant example of how VR can improve already great games.

Blood & Truth

The truth? You can’t handle the truth. But if you can, then you’ll discover one of PSVR’s best shooters, tied to the kind of slick cinematic narrative we’re used to from Sony’s non-VR releases. Blood & Truth is one of the most complete games for PSVR.

Beat Saber

With your PSVR headset firmly on and PS Move controllers in hand, Beat Saber feels like the game both pieces of hardware were made for. In it you have to master songs and challenges by swiping your neon swords through the air and dodging with your head.

Iron Man VR

With a finely-crafted control setup that enables flight within small sandbox maps, and gives you the option to inhabit the designer shoes of the billionaire playboy too, Iron Man VR is an almost-perfect interpretation of the famous Avenger. It’s a PSVR must-play.

Hitman 3

Every mission in the World Of Assassination trilogy can be played in PSVR via the latest entry in the series. That’s a lot of murderous action. It all plays brilliantly too, with the act of puzzling through hits as Agent 47 perfectly suited to virtual reality. One of PSVR’s best.

To The Top

This creative platform-puzzler enables you to scamper, jump, and skate across its 35 sandbox worlds with the aid of your PS Move controllers. It’s as physically demanding to play as it is perplexing, and all the better for it. To The Top is a PSVR one-off.

I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and The Liar

A spy comedy offering a front-row seated experience. Known as The Phoenix to your foes, you thwart villains across six missions delightfully steeped in genre tropes. Short, silly, and slick – like only the best agents.

Hugging cover is maybe a touch too vital to Mafia 2’s shootouts. Still, we’re not gonna tell a man with a Tommy gun ‘no.’