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New VR Games June 2022: All The Biggest Releases

Looking for the new VR games June 2022 list? We’ve got you covered with our full rundown.

June is promising to be a packed month for new VR games and announcements. Alongside a raft of launches for Quest and PC VR headsets, we’ll be back with the Upload VR Showcase on June 9 for yet more reveals and trailers! Let’s take a look at what’s coming your way this month.

New VR Games June 2022

Upload VR Showcase June 9, 8am PT

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First off, if you haven’t heard the news, make sure to mark down the Upload VR Showcase on June 9 at 8am PT. We’ll be back with our bi-annual show to announce new VR games and reveal more trailers and gameplay for titles coming soon. Who knows, we may even have a few surprise launches.

Wings 1941 (June 2) – Quest

An arcade shoot ’em up in the style of Capcom’s classic 1942, Wings 1941 has you guiding different aircraft through 10 levels as you dodge bullets and return fire. The promise of a co-op campaign has us especially interested in this one.

First Person Tennis (June 2) – Quest

This take on VR tennis is jumping off of App Lab and onto the full Quest store very soon. Get ready to serve and return like a pro with both online multiplayer and single player modes.

The Last Clockwinder (June 2) – Quest, PC VR

A single-player co-op puzzler in which you take control of a robot and record your actions, working with your past recordings to form a production line. Expect mind-bending puzzles that have you thinking outside the box.

Green Hell VR (June 9) – PC VR

The PC VR version of this flatscreen survival game is finally ready for launch. As opposed to April’s Quest 2 launch, Green Hell VR on PC brings the entire experience to headsets, offering a demanding challenge as you fight to stay alive in a harsh jungle wilderness.

Mothergunship: Forge (June 16) – Quest 2, PC VR

A new VR wave shooter building off of the original Mothergunship, Forge lets you build ridiculous weaponry with a constant barrage of attachments to add to your wrist-mounted gauntlets.

Demeo: Curse of the Serpent Lord (June 16) – Quest, PC VR

Demeo Serpent Lord

The fourth free campaign for Demeo is nearly here. There’s still a lot to learn about what’s to come in Curse of the Serpent Lord, but we do know a two-player mode where each user controls two characters is on the way.

Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok (June 17) – PC VR

A classic adventure series returns for some VR dungeon crawling. Expect to wield magic and take on fantastical beasts in what’s intended to be the first in a series of VR experiences.

Kayak VR: Mirage (June 28) – PC VR

A visual arresting take on kayaking in VR, this physics-driven experience lets you take part in single-player exploration and races across several stunning environments.

Ragnarok Hellfest DLC (TBA June) – Quest, PC VR

One of our favorite VR rhythm games is getting DLC featuring artists from one of the biggest metal festivals on the planet. Expect from tracks from bands performing at this year’s event and themed levels to play in.

Stride Multiplayer (TBA June) – Quest, PC VR

Dropping at some point this month, the long-awaited multiplayer update for Stride will bring online parkour to virtual arenas.

And that’s the list of new VR games June 2022 line-up! What are you planning on picking up? Let us know in the comments below.

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Requisition VR Getting PvP, F1 22 Course Updates – VR Games On Our Radar This Week

Requisition VR’s new PvP mode and course updates for F1 22 are just some of the new VR games on our radar this week!

Every week we get a lot of updates on new VR games at Upload – so much so that we don’t have time to cover them all. This week we talked about news from Beat Saber, new Coatsink projects, Stride and more, but here are some other titles we didn’t get to take a look at.

Requisition VR

The latest update for Arcadia VR’s co-op zombie survival game reveals a PvP multiplayer mode. The core Requisition game focuses on players assembling weapons out of household items and that’s the case here too. Alongside traditional firearms you can see toasters being used as melee weapons, bats being taped together with bug lights and even darts being used as projectile attacks. It’s safe to say this mode has a lot of potential, then. Requisition itself is set for release in early access later this year.

F1 22

Here’s more gameplay from the upcoming racing game, which is going to feature full support for VR headsets on PC. This is a hot lap for a Spanish track, which gets a new layout in this edition. Tracks in Australia and Abu Dhabi have also been updated to reflect the real world courses better.

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Demeo Sorcerer Buff

We’ve already heard about the new update heading to Demeo on June 16 that’ll add a new campaign and more features to the Heroes’ Hangout. More recently, though, Resolution Games confirmed that the Sorcerer class, Zedokar, will be getting a buff in this update too. He’ll get a new card that allows you to apply ‘Overcharged’ to enemies, which enables a more powerful Lightning Bolt attack. This deals more damage than the standard Zap attack and bounces to different enemies. Resolution is also holding a competition to design dice for the game, which is underway now. More info here.

Dragon Fist: VR Kung Fu

Indie developer Ben Olding is working on this VR combat game, which is out on Steam and will be making its way to Quest 2 via App Lab soon. Check out a video using full body tracking above, which employs three Vive Trackers to let you kick as well as punch (which is coming to the PC VR build soon).

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Demeo Is Getting Figurines You Can Paint (But Not Use) With Friends

Demeo’s social hub, Heroes’ Hangout, is getting a new update that will let you paint figurines.

Sadly, you won’t actually be able to use them in battle.

Demeo Getting Figurine Painting

A recent post on the game’s Twitter account revealed the new feature, which will arrive in the next update for the Hangout. An image showed a user painting a monster down to tiny details. Given painting has become a huge part of real like tabletop games like Warhammer, it’s a really smart inclusion. A release date for the update hasn’t yet been announced.

But, in a follow-up tweet, developer Resolution Games clarified that you won’t actually be able to take these creations into battle. It didn’t given any indication that this might be a feature in future updates, either. That’s a shame considering just how promising the core concept is, but it’s still a great inclusion all the same.

Another tweet also suggested Heroes’ Hangout will be getting music via a radio in the next update. Elsewhere, we know that the game’s next major expansion, Cure Of The Serpent Lord, will arrive for both the VR and flatscreen versions on June 16.

Plenty more to come for our favorite VR game of 2021, then. Resolution Games is also busy maintaining Blaston with several new updates and recently gave us our first look at its next multiplayer title, Ultimechs.

Will you be painting figurines in Demeo’s next update? Let us know in the comments below!

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Demeo’s Next Campaign, Curse Of The Serpent Lord, Arrives June 16

Resolution Games unveiled a teaser for its next Demeo campaign, titled Curse of the Serpent Lord, which is arriving soon.

The new campaign will arrive on June 16, available as a free update on all platforms. It will be the fourth campaign for the game, following on from the initial launch campaign, The Black Sarcophagus, and subsequent expansions, Realm of the Rat King and Roots of Evil.

Demeo Serpent Lord

There’s no other details available about Curse of the Serpent Lord besides the image above, but safe to say we can expect to hear more across the next few weeks before launch.

Demeo saw great success on release last year and we loved it, calling it a “near-peerless social VR experience” in our review and awarding it the titles of Best Co-op Multiplayer, Best PC VR Game and Game of the Year in our Best of 2021 awards. Since then, Resolution Games has expanded the game out with extra campaigns, a social hub area, and a flatscreen PC version of the game that offers cross-play with VR platforms.

The most recent campaign, Roots of Evil, took us to a slightly different enviornment from the first two campaigns and added a new class, the Bard. Here’s an extract from our hands-on:

If you loved what was on offer with Demeo’s base launch and Realm of the Rat King expansion, there’s little reason not to jump into Roots of Evil. There’s enough new twists here to give your party of 4 some welcome new challenges, and it’s great to see the game quite literally branching out (sorry) into new territory. VR’s best social gaming experience just keeps getting better.

You can read our full impressions here.

We can’t wait to see how Curse of the Serpent Lord developers Demeo further. Keep an eye out for more details soon.

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Demeo’s Next Table Top Adventure is ‘Curse of the Serpent Lord’

Demeo was an instant hit for Resolution Games last year, combining D&D style gameplay with virtual reality (VR). Since the initial launch, the studio has released several expansions with Realm of the Rat King and Roots of Evil providing new quests to conquer. Today sees the fourth update teased, Curse of the Serpent Lord.

There’s only one singular image to go on currently, showcasing the titular ‘Serpent Lord’ that you’ll face as the final boss, looking like quite the intimidating character. Then you’ve got what looks like a new player character. When Roots of Evil arrived Resolution Games introduced a new character class; Molthas the Bard. So Curse of the Serpent Lord could very well add a sixth character class.

No other details are currently available regarding what else the expansion may contain, more will be teased in the coming weeks. What we do know is that Curse of the Serpent Lord is the first of two new adventures coming to Demeo this year.

This follows on from the PC edition of Demeo that launched last month. The PC version is completely compatible with the VR edition, making it even easier for friends to join in and populate a four-player game. Demeo is a turn-based title, where players have to work as a team to fight monsters, clear dungeons and vanquish the end boss.

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Gmw3 is a big fan of Demeo saying in its review: “Demeo continues Resolution Games’ run of well-crafted VR titles, moving away from the frantic gameplay of Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale and Blaston into a far more laidback experience…Its slower style isn’t for everyone yet as an example of D&D in VR, Demeo excels.”

This hasn’t been the only videogame announcement from the Resolution Games team this week. They released the first gameplay trailer for upcoming sports title Ultimechs.

Demeo is available for Quest and SteamVR headsets with the Curse of the Serpent Lord expansion available as a free update from 16th June 2022. For continued updates on the latest Resolution Games titles, keep reading gmw3. 

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Demeo VR Players Will Receive PC Version For Free Next Month

Resolution Games announced pricing details for the PC flatscreen edition of Demeo, set to release next month, and it’s good news for everybody.

Anyone who owns the existing VR version of Demeo, on any platform, will receive a version of the PC edition for free. Likewise, anyone who buys the PC edition will also receive a copy of the VR version for free.

In short, any purchase of either the VR or PC version of the game also grants you access to the other version for free. One purchase, both versions of the game.

This applies retroactively to those who bought Demeo VR before the launch of the PC version next month, and will continue to apply to all future purchases.

Plus, all versions of the game support cross-play and progression syncing. Your progression will sync between the VR and PC edition, and you’ll be able to team up with friends regardless of whether they’re playing flatscreen or in VR.

Players will receive the PC edition of the game on the same platform that they own the VR edition on, or vice versa. Those who own the VR version of Demeo on SteamVR will receive a free version of the PC copy in their Steam library at launch. Those who own Demeo on the Oculus Store for Rift or on Quest will receive their free copy of the PC version via the Oculus Rift app on Windows.

While there’s cross-play support across all platforms, progression will only sync across the same platform — Quest progression will sync to the PC version on the Rift app, for example, but won’t sync to the PC version on Steam if you bought a separate copy there, and vice versa.

Demeo was one of our favorite games from last year — you can read why in our full review here.

Demeo: PC Edition launches April 7 via Steam Early Access and is available to wishlist now.

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Hands-On: Demeo’s Heroes’ Hangout Turns Your Local Gaming Store Into A Social VR Hub

Social VR, I’ve learned, is all about context.

Last week, for example, I had an underwhelming experience inside Horizon Venues’ Foo Fighters ‘concert’, in which a flat-screen performance sank into the background whilst virtual avatars ran around talking over the show and generally getting in the way. I wondered why anyone would be attracted to this sort of event whilst the technology remained so far behind the real thing.

Demeo’s Heroes’ Hangout, meanwhile, is a different story.

Demeo’s New Social Hub Revealed

As with the social space for Resolution Games’ Blaston (or Echo VR’s own spaces), Heroes’ Hangout is a modest exploration of what spatial gaming lobbies can be. Up to 12 players can join rooms either private or public to meet with friends or other players. From there, they can pick up the rule book to one of Demeo’s existing three campaigns, place it on a table and three others can come and join in.

It’s a simple and effective idea, enhanced by its set dressing. Just as the core game emulates a heated game night with friends in an 80’s basement, Heroes’ Hangout feels like a visit to your local gaming store, where you can browse comic books and play minigames. These are fun little distractions, like target practice with a plastic bow and arrow, and a more robust arcade game played inside a cabinet. Hauntlet, as it’s knowingly called, is a simple top-down shooter that you control using the Touch sticks and buttons, serving up an amusing time-waster as you wait for others to join you.

None of this is especially groundbreaking, then, but it is a really beneficial addition to an already great game that will make it easier for anyone searching for new teammates to get into matches. You can, perhaps, envision a time in which a hub like this would let you jump between any of Resolution Games’ offerings but, as it stands, this is a great place to start building on a more focused and genuinely useful form of social VR.

Heroes’ Hangout arrives for the PC VR and Quest versions of Demeo as a free update on February 24.

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Demeo’s New Social Hangout Spot Teased In Video

A new video from Resolution Games gives us our first glimpse at Demeo’s upcoming social hangout hub.

The video, which reflects on the developer’s 2021 and looks ahead to 2022, rounds up all the releases the developer has announced for this year. Alongside updates for Blaston and the launch of Ultimechs, we also get two very quick glimpses of Heroes’ Hangout, the social hub for Demeo.

You can see it just after the 0:55 mark below.

Demeo Heroes’ Hangout Teased

Heroes’ Hangout sounds similar to the social hub Resolution added for Blaston – it’ll be a place for players to meet and head into games together, with some other activities thrown in too. You can spot an arcade cabinet for a game called The Hauntlet, for example, which seems to offer 2D, top-down action.

The video also gives us another look at Demeo’s flatscreen version, which is set to launch in April, and teases two new adventures to come later in the year.

There’s plenty to come for our 2021 Game of the Year, then. We loved Demeo for its compelling social VR mechanics, which simulated the board game experience inside headsets. We’re also hoping to see Resolution bring the game to more headsets in 2022, though the studio is yet to announce plans for platforms like PSVR 2 and beyond.

Are you looking forward to Demeo’s social hub? Let us know in the comments below!

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The 10 Best VR Games Of 2021

You’ve seen our platform-specific lists, but now it’s time for the ultimate showdown. This is our Best VR Games 2021 list.

VR’s software line-up for the past year was interesting to say the least. The industry is still yet to attract bigger players and, as a result, bigger budgets and it definitely showed. But, with only a handful of full, AAA titles scheduled for the year, smaller, truly VR-focused developers were given the space to shine. The result is a truly varied and dynamic list.

If you want platform-specific lists, make sure to check out:

Remember that you can find these titles on Steam, the Oculus Store and the PlayStation Store.

Best VR Games 2021

10. Gorilla Tag

You cannot deny the impact Gorilla Tag has had on 2021. John Carmack himself put it best – there are more people playing this strange, unique exploration of multiplayer VR than there are some AAA efforts. Gorilla Tag caught everyone’s attention thanks to its active gameplay that essentially gave us a new way to play a real-world sport. It’s a rare example of something that can only be done in this medium, and a must-see experience.

9. After The Fall

2021 felt like just the start of the journey for After The Fall. What we got was a really enjoyable set of five levels to blast through with friends, taking down zombies across a frozen LA. It’s a great replication of the Left 4 Dead experience in VR and its cross-play support is truly groundbreaking. But, going forward, we need more. More levels, weapons, enemy types and rewards. If 2022 can deliver all of this, After The Fall will become a must-buy.

8. Lone Echo 2

Three years on from the first game’s release, Lone Echo 2 didn’t move the bar forward as much as we had hoped for VR gaming, but it certainly still measured up to the first game’s unmatched immersion and presentation. This is a hugely atmospheric adventure with a smart story and the same winning traversal mechanics that we’ve been enjoying for years in Echo VR. We definitely hope Lone Echo 2 isn’t the last we’ve seen of this series.

7. Hitman 3

Hitman makes perfect sense for VR. Each of the series’ many levels is a sprawling, open sandbox of consequences in which your every movement can set off a different chain of reactions. The VR implementation into Hitman 3 VR is a good realization of this, if somewhat held back by the limited tracking and platform performance. But you still won’t find a bigger, richer experience to throw yourself into in 2021. Bring on that PC VR release.

6. I Expect You To Die 2

It feels great to say that I Expect You To Die 2 is great. The original was one of the most thoughtful and overall best examples of how VR can change gaming when it released in 2016. Five years on, Schell Games followed up with a sequel that felt true to the first game’s core design philosophies, delivering more thoughtful puzzles and brilliantly interactive moments. I Expect You To Die 2 is a great showcase of VR gameplay.

5. Song in the Smoke

If you file down the categories, there’s a lot of ways in which Song in the Smoke is the best VR experience of the year. It’s the best single-player, VR-exclusive game that offers a familiar gaming setup with plenty of immersive elements. You’ll lose hours surviving in this harsh wilderness, crafting items and fending off beasts of different shapes and sizes. But even with the expert delivery of its gameplay mechanics, the game still has a beating heart connected to the ancient world it depicts. A real gem.

4. A Township Tale (Quest release)

While there’s still a ways to go for A Township Tale, the Quest release of this online town builder marked a hugely important milestone worthy of recognition here. You won’t find a VR game with more depth and mystery that somehow still balances a complex open world defined by realistic physics. The drip-feed progression and rewarding co-op really cement an experience worth investing in. We can’t wait to see what’s next for this one.

3. Resident Evil 4

Remember when we all said you couldn’t really port existing games to VR? Yeah, that didn’t really hold up, did it? Resident Evil 4 is an incredibly thoughtful transition to Quest that, whilst certainly a different experience, doesn’t sacrifice the original’s core thrills. In fact, a first-person perspective and realistic aiming help to enhance some areas of Leon’s adventure, making this an absolutely wonderful way to revisit an all-time classic.

2. Unplugged (Quest)

Unplugged doesn’t work perfectly. VR’s hand tracking technology still has a ways to go and it shows. But, for now, it works well enough to deliver a consistently fun experience that really shows you just how unique VR can be. This is a Guitar Hero game you won’t be throwing away a few months later, delivering an empowering, enriching experience without the need for plastic peripherals. Just make sure to grab the Quest version as the PC version’s Valve Index controller tracking doesn’t quite compare.

1. Demeo

Surprised? No, probably not. We’ve been waxing on about Demeo for the better part of a year now. We’re in love with the way it took a real-world concept — gathering around the table for game night — and brought it to VR in a way that not only replicated the in-person experience but also enhanced it. Demeo is a perfect multiplayer VR experience baked into a really, really fun strategy game, and our pick for the best VR game of 2021.

And that’s our list of the best VR games 2021! Agree with our picks? Think we missed anything? Let us know in the comments below!