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New VR Game Releases For April 2020

Every month we aim to round up each and every VR game release for you in one single place — this is April’s list for 2020. Check the bolded entries for ones we feel are particularly worth your time.

Well, it’s been a while since we did these lists! No real excuse other than I kept forgetting and other stuff got in the way. Aiming to stick with it more this time like before!

And don’t forget to watch VRecap every Friday to stay on top of the top news stories, top new releases, and our weekly VR game giveaway.

If you’re a VR game developer planning to release a game soon that isn’t on this month’s list or will be released soon in the future — let us know! You can get in touch with me directly by emailing david@uploadvr.com or hit all of the editorial team by emailing tips@uploadvr.com. Please contact us about your upcoming releases so that we can know what you’re working on and include you in release lists!

Unless otherwise stated, all PC VR releases are the Steam versions.

Rift, Vive, Index, and Windows VR Game Releases For April 2020

2MD: VR Football Evolution ($12.99) – April 1st – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows MR (Read Our Review Of The Quest Version)
A Giant Problem ($9.99) – April 1st – Rift, Vive, Index
GRIP: Combat Racing ($29.99) – April 1st – Rift, Vive, Index
Dead Ground Arcade (Free) – April 1st – Rift, Vive, Windows MR
Reiko’s Fragments Oculus Home Version ($9.99) – April 2nd – Rift, also on Steam (Read Our Impressions)
Mission Ring Impossible ($4.99) – April 2nd – Rift, Vive
Soundart ($19.99) – April 2nd – Rift, Vive, Windows MR
Zombie World Coronavirus Apocalypse VR ($14.99) – April 3rd – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows MR
Basketball Madness ($4.99) – April 3rd – Rift, Vive, Index
Iron Blood VR ($19.99) – April 4th – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows MR
Hobo Living VR ($9.99) – April 4th – Vive, Index
VERz ($12.99) – April 5th – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows MR
No Man’s Sky: Exo Mech Update (Free If You Own The Game) – April 7th – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows VR
Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories ($59.99) – April 7th – Rift, Vive, Index
Boiling Steel: Preface (Free) – April 7th – Oculus Home
Virtual Viking (Free) – April 8th – Rift, Vive
Ironlights ($19.99) – April 8th – Rift, Vive, Index (Read Our Full Review)
HoopLord ($6.99) – April 9th – Rift, Vive, Index
Virus Popper (Free) – April 9th – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows MR
Boom Boomerang ($12.99) – April 10th – Rift, Vive
VR Mini Bowling 2 ($12.99) – April 10th – Rift, Vive, Index
Box: Boxing ($0.99) – April 11th – Rift, Vive, Index
DragonRide VR ($19.99) – April 12th – Rift
Lies Beneath ($29.99) – April 14th – Rift (Read Our Review Of The Quest Version)
Cryptic Rooms ($7.99) – April 14th – Rift, Vive, Index
Straight on 8 ($10.99) – April 14th – Vive, Index
Virtual Battlegrounds ($19.99) – April 15th – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows MR
Heavens Tournament ($7.99) – April 16th – Rift, Vive, Index
Food Girls – Bubbles’ Drink Stand VR ($13.99) – April 17th – Rift, Vive, Index
Waves of Death VR ($19.99) – April 17th – Rift, Vive, Index
Smashing Healthy ($19.99) – April 18th – Rift, Vive, Index
Tabletop Playground Beta (Free) – April 19th – Rift, Vive, Index
Cast VR ($14.99) – April 20th – Rift, Vive
Baby Shark VR Dancing ($9.99) – April 20th – Rift, Vive, Windows MR
Swords of Gurrah ($19.99) – April 21st – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows MR
Survival Denied ($11.99) – April 21st – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows MR
A Walk in the Woods ($1.99) – April 21st – Rift, Vive, Index
HookShot VR ($6.99) – April 22nd – Vive
Xenociders ($24.99) – April 22nd – Rift, Vive
SoundSelf: A Technodelic ($29.99) – April 22nd – Rift, Vive, Index
Food Factory VR ($9.99) – April 22nd – Rift, Vive, Index
Crawling of the Dead ($24.99) – April 23rd – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows MR
Henchman for Hire (Free) – April 23rd – Rift, Vive, Index
Slinger VR ($14.99) – April 23rd – Rift, Vive, Index
BoxVR – Essentials Pack DLC ($9.99 | Requires Base Game) – April 23rd – Rift, Vive, Index
Pixel Ripped 1995 ($19.99) – April 23rd – Rift, Vive, Index (Read Our Review)
Lost Circus VR – The Prologue ($4.99) – April 23rd – Rift, Vive, Index
SpellPunk VR ($19.99) – April 24th – Rift, Vive
Wacky Golf Land ($14.99) – April 24th – Rift, Vive, Windows MR
Arcsaber VR ($4.99) – April 24th – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows MR
VainPlanet ($4.99) – April 25th – Rift
Galactic Protection Squad: Episode 1 ($9.99) – April 27th – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows MR
Joe’s Fists ($6.99) – April 27th – Rift, Vive, Index
Mission: In Boxes ($14.99) – April 227th – Rift, Vive
Teleporter: World of Gamers Alpha ($TBD) – April 2020 – Rift, Vive, Index, Windows MR
Panther VR Early Access ($TBD) – April 2020 – Rift, Vvie, Index, Windows MR

 

Oculus Quest And Go VR Game Releases For April 2020
(Read Here For How To Use SideQuest)

Snake in a Box ($3.00) – April 1st – Quest via SideQuest
Guns’n’Stories: Bulletproof ($9.99) – April 2nd – Quest
Virtual Coaster Hand Tracking (Free) – April 3rd – Quest via SideQuest
Pinata Party (Free) – April 4th – Quest via SideQuest
Turbokites (Free) – April 6th – Quest via SideQuest
Beat The Coronavirus (Free) – April 6th – Quest via SideQuest
Dino Encounters Hand Tracking Demo (Free) – April 7th – Quest via SideQuest
Ironlights ($19.99) – April 8th – Quest (Read Our Full Review)
Audioshield ($19.99) – April 16th – Quest (Read Our Full Review)
The Key (Free) – April 16th – Quest (Read Our Impressions)
Pixel Ripped 1995 ($19.99) – April 23rd Quest – (Read Our Review)
Supernatural (Free Trial, $20/mo After) – April 23rd – (Read Our Impressions)

PSVR Game Releases For April 2020

Megalth VR Complete Edition ($24.99) – April 2nd – (Read Our Impressions)
Headmaster: The Lost Lessons ($7.99) – April 3rd – (Read Our Original Game Review)
Form ($14.99) – April 7th (Read Our Review)
Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories ($59.99) – April 7th
No Man’s Sky: Exo Mech Update (Free If You Own The Game) – April 7th
A Room Where Art Conceals ($9.49) – April 8th
Sharknado VR: Eye of the Storm ($8.99) – April 8th (Read Our Brief Preview)
Spuds Unearthed ($9.99) – April 23rd
Down The Rabbit Hole – April 2020 (Read Our Quest/PC VR Version Review Here)

As a point of emphasis: reach out to david@uploadvr.com or tips@uploadvr.com to let us know about your upcoming VR game releases!

Editor’s Note: This list will be continuously updated.

Last Updated: 4/28/2020

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Gravity-Defying Racer Grip Gets Free, Vomit-Inducing VR Support

Years of study and research into comfortable VR development has greatly reduced the issue of nausea in VR for many people. But Grip: Combat Racing has no time for your pathetic stomach.

As part April Fool’s day joke, part actual real free update, developer Caged Element just added headset support into its racer. Grip is described as a hardcore combat racer, inspired by the likes of Wipeout and Motorstorm. You hurtle around courses at high speeds, sticking to tracks that corkscrew around mountains and offer more loops than a Sonic game.

Check it out in the rather, uh, disgusting trailer below. Fair warning; even this will make you feel a little queasy.

Suffice to say this will be an intense VR experience. But Grip also joins a list of full-on VR racers like Wipeout: The Omega Collection that, all jokes aside, will genuinely give a lot of players exactly what they’re asking for. There’s both single and multiplayer modes to play in. We haven’t played it for ourselves yet, but there should be enough to keep you busy.

Grip’s free update is available on Steam with support for pretty much every PC VR headset out there. The game costs $29.99, though you can get some bundles with more cars, too. However, you’ll be playing with either a gamepad or keyboard and mouse, not your usual VR motion controllers.

As for a possible PSVR version? Publisher Wired Productions doesn’t say no, but no news yet. Fingers crossed!

Will you be picking up Grip to test out the VR mode? Let us know in the comments below!

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GRIP: Combat Racing is Getting a VR Upgrade

Titles like Radial-G: Proteus demonstrate how really fast racing videogames can work in virtual reality (VR) when built correctly. Today, developer Caged Element Inc. and publisher Wired Productions have announced that they’re bringing their popular PC title GRIP: Combat Racing into the VR sphere today.

Grip: Combat Racing

Designed as a hardcore combat racer inspired by the likes of Rollcage, Wipeout and Motorstorm, GRIP: Combat Racing hit Steam back in 2018. Started as a passion project between a dedicated fan and one of the original Rollcage developers, they combined forces to reignite the thrill of high octane combat racing. Now after months of development GRIP: Combat Racing VR has arrived offering SteamVR players gravity-defying wheeled or airborne vehicles to race with. These are all armed to the teeth with an assortment of weapons to hinder opponents, from missiles to rail guns, as well as powerups like shields and turbos.

Offering a wide variety of tracks (29 in total) across various hostile-looking planets – and into deep space – these will have players scaling walls and ceilings whilst being able to perform tricks and stunts on these challenging, twisting tracks. GRIP: Combat Racing VR features both single-player and online multiplayer modes with team-based racing as well as deathmatch arena modes. Players can also customize their vehicles by unlocking paint jobs, decals, tires and rims. Additionally, there’s also the option to build a personalised tournament, allowing racers to line the grid with up to 10 players and compete online with full matchmaking and lobby support.

Wondering how well GRIP: Combat Racing translates into VR? Check out the first gameplay video below ahead of VRFocus’ upcoming review. Videogames like DiRT Rally 2 have successfully made the transition over but that’s a completely different racing style to GRIP: Combat Racing which features far more dynamic, rollercoaster environments.

Grip: Combat Racing

Virtual reality support is free for all current GRIP: Combat Racing owners today, compatible with all the normal SteamVR headsets; Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Valve Index. For those that don’t own the videogame, it retails for £24.99 GBP over on Steam. As further details for GRIP: Combat Racing VR are released, VRFocus will keep you updated.