LONE ECHO

$62.99 | Rift | echo.games Taking the VR cake this year is a title that borrowed the popular climbing mechanic from Crytek’s The Climb and took it to the stratosphere... well, to Venus. Lone Echo’s zero gravity traversal mechanic is the most intuitive VR control scheme to date.

FARPOINT

$39.95, $99.95 with controler | PSVR | playstation.com While it might only amount to a mediocre shooter on a traditional screen, Farpoint has a secret weapon: the gun-shaped Aim Controller. Unveiled, it looks like a piece of bent pipe wearing a clown nose, but add a VR headset and it’s indistinguishable from a weighty machine gun.

HORIZON ZERO DAWN

$99.95 guerrilla-games.com/play/horizon Off the back of the Killzone series, Guerilla Games proves it can tackle the third-person open world action game with aplomb. Not quite as rich as The Witcher 3 when it comes to the story, Horizon makes up for it with graphics and scale.

NIOH

$99.95 | teamninja-studio.com/nioh Nioh is basically a new Ninja Gaiden that inherits the mechanics of FromSoftware’s Dark Souls series. Its combat is impeccable, and while the exploration can’t match other similar games, this game will keep you busy for weeks.