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Something for the Weekend: RPGs and Futuristic Racers on Sale on Steam

Let us guess, you need a brand new virtual reality (VR) experience to get you in the mood for the weekend, right? Of course you do! Below we’ve listed some of the very best VR videogame you’ll find on Steam, and they’re all discounted too! HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality users will find plenty to get excited about in the list below…

Vanishing Realms: Rite of Steel

Vanishing Realms - Rite of Steel screenshot

Compatability: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift

Got an urge to go cave spelunking in virtual reality? Well good news, Vanishing Realms: Rite of Steel might be exactly what you’re looking for. It’s still in early access, but with a nice discount and overwhelmingly positive reviews, there’s not much to lose out on here. Even we think it’s a fascinating experience.

At £8.99 down from £14.99 it’s a good time to jump into Vanishing Realms.

The Sniper VR

Sniper Rust VR screenshot 1

Compatability: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift

Go on a variety of missions and snipe your opponents from afar in The Sniper VR. Here you’ll have to keep a steady hand to aim your rifle and shoot down opponents from miles away. You’ll get 16 unique sniper missions, 6 rifles, 7 scopes and much more with The Sniper VR, and at this price it’s hard to argue with what it offers.

The Sniper VR is now £4.94, down from £10.99.

Redout

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Compatability: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift

Redout is a love letter to the futuristic racers of the past, and also a statement of intent for the future. Boasting some of the nicest, most impressive graphics of any racing game, combining that with blitzing speeds, great visuals and arcade-like controls and you have yourself a modern VR masterpiece.

With 50% off Redout is only £14.99, so get it now.

AirMech Command

AirMech: Command screenshot

Compatability: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift

Take control from above the ground in AirMech Command, where you’ll be looming over a holographic battlefield, moving around your infantry units and turning the tides of war. Play solo, with friends or against them in this action RTS.

AirMech Command has 60% off, making it only £6.00 right now.

Mervils: A VR Adventure

Mervils A VR Adventure screenshot

Compatability: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift

Take your crew on a VR adventure in Mervils, the RPG platformer built so you can experience all of the action in VR. Defeat Balazar the Evil and save the four Mervil worlds. This experience will last you between 6-8 hours and you’ll have loads of fun along the way.

Mervils: A VR Adventure is now only £7.49 on Steam.

MineSweeper VR

minesweeper vr

Compatability: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality

Okay, so yes, it’s Minesweeper but in VR. We’re not trying to trick you here, the use of 3D game board and flag you can place yourself make MineSweeper VR the most interesting and interactive version of the classic game yet.

On top of that, it’s only £1.95. Not bad!

The Town of Light

The Town of Light screenshot

Compatability: Oculus Rift

The Town of Light isn’t exactly a light hearted experience to get you through the January blues, instead it’s a much more somber experience that asks you to patiently understand the woes of living with mental health issues, and takes a different approach to the horror genre.

The Town of Light is now only £4.33 on Steam.

Starway Fleet

Starway Fleet

Compatability: HTC Vive

Take your ship to the outer reaches of our galaxy and shoot down your foes in Starway Fleet. Take part in missions either by yourself or with a few friends, and soon you’ll dominate the universe.

Starway Fleet is now only £5.03.

Warpaint

warpaint

Compatability: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift

Warpaint is a physics based board game where you use dwarves to strike fear into the hearts of your enemies. Fling catapults and siege enemy fortresses and you climb the online rankings.

Warpaint is now only £3.49.

TO THE TOP

to the top

Compatability: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality

TO THE TOP is essentially a VR obstacle course where you’ll have to fling yourself through 35 levels in order to get yoursefl TO THE TOP. The challenge doesn’t stop there though, as you compete online for the best times – there was a multiplayer update back in November, too!

TO THE TOP is 20% off on Steam, making it £15.19.

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Full-Length Platformer Mervils: A VR Adventure Coming to PS VR Feb. 21

Full-Length Platformer Mervils: A VR Adventure Coming to PS VR Feb. 21

Mervils: A VR Adventure is a charming little game. When we first previewed it on the HTC Vive, it reminded us of a slightly more open-ended, admittedly less polished, version of Lucky’s Tale [Review: 9/10]. At its core, Mervils is a platformer with adventure, action, and RPG elements sprinkled on top.

It’s already out for Vive and Rift, but now developer VitruviusVR has announced it’s coming to PlayStation VR as well on February 21st, 2017.

This is an indie game through and through. Mechanically it’s similar in concept to the excellent, but painfully short, Robot Rescue game from Sony’s free Playroom VR compilation, but you won’t get the same production values here. Many textures feel flat, character designs are a bit bland, and some of the controls are a little floaty. It’s far from perfect, but it’s a serviceable option for a genre that’s criminally underrepresented in the VR space right now.

After playing great entries like Lucky’s Tale and Robot Rescue, 3D platformers clearly have potential in the immersive space and it’s encouraging to see fledgling studios like this embracing the medium by adapting a beloved genre for VR headsets.

With over six hours of content spread across five unique worlds with several items to retrieve and upgrade over the course of the adventure, it should scratch a very specific itch for fans of old-school 3D platformer collectathon games. If you have fond memories of playing Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Jak & Daxter, Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet & Clank, and other similar adventures, then this should be right up your alley as long as you don’t go in expecting a AAA-quality masterpiece.

Mervils: A VR Adventure is currently slated for release on PS4 specifically for PlayStation VR through PSN on February 21st, 2017. VitruviusVR is aiming for a price point of $19.99 — the same as on Steam — but Sony has not yet confirmed that price as of the time of this publication.

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‘Mervils: A VR Adventure’ Leaves Early Access, Adds New Levels

‘Mervils: A VR Adventure’ Leaves Early Access, Adds New World

Back in early August, we went hands-on with Mervils while it was in Early Access and came away creativelyimpressed. A noted departure from the waves of zombie and robot shooters that have flooded VR, Mervils: A VR Adventure is a single-player third-person action platformer and the full version is now available on Steam. Drawing many comparisons to Lucky’s Tale, a game we called the “gold standard for third-person VR video games”, Mervils is a dense and fun experience created by a small team of only 2 full-time developers and 2 artists.

The limitations of a small team are noted in animations and the art when you get close, though the game can be quite pretty from afar. In fact, level designs often feel reminiscent of the Nintendo classic, Super Mario 64.

In the full retail version of the game, players have quite a bit of content to explore and even a few options on how to explore them. Though the focus is on the action and adventure, Mervils does sprinkle in RPG elements via upgrades to the main character’s armor and weapons and a lore that can be delved into via conversations with NPCs. You can traverse the colorful world via minecart, ice sleigh, or pirate ship and have “blink”, fixed, or custom options for camera movement. You’re also offered the choice of playing in a sitting/standing fixed position or with room-scale settings. Getting comfortable with those settings are essential considering there are puzzles tailored to the virtual reality perspective.

Namely, the full release adds the Arctic Isles and Paradise Cove — two brand new worlds. This means the full game now has 13 levels and approximately 6-8 hours of gameplay.

Mervils: A VR Adventure is available on Steam for $19.99 but is a few bucks cheaper at $15.99 on the Oculus Home Store. The expanded content is reflected in its increased launch price. It will also receive a free update for Oculus Touch compatibility on December 9th and currently supports Vive motion controllers, but we think it plays best seated with a standard gamepad.

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‘Mervils: A VR Adventure’ Leaves Early Access, Adds New Levels

‘Mervils: A VR Adventure’ Leaves Early Access, Adds New World

Back in early August, we went hands-on with Mervils while it was in Early Access and came away creativelyimpressed. A noted departure from the waves of zombie and robot shooters that have flooded VR, Mervils: A VR Adventure is a single-player third-person action platformer and the full version is now available on Steam. Drawing many comparisons to Lucky’s Tale, a game we called the “gold standard for third-person VR video games”, Mervils is a dense and fun experience created by a small team of only 2 full-time developers and 2 artists.

The limitations of a small team are noted in animations and the art when you get close, though the game can be quite pretty from afar. In fact, level designs often feel reminiscent of the Nintendo classic, Super Mario 64.

In the full retail version of the game, players have quite a bit of content to explore and even a few options on how to explore them. Though the focus is on the action and adventure, Mervils does sprinkle in RPG elements via upgrades to the main character’s armor and weapons and a lore that can be delved into via conversations with NPCs. You can traverse the colorful world via minecart, ice sleigh, or pirate ship and have “blink”, fixed, or custom options for camera movement. You’re also offered the choice of playing in a sitting/standing fixed position or with room-scale settings. Getting comfortable with those settings are essential considering there are puzzles tailored to the virtual reality perspective.

Namely, the full release adds the Arctic Isles and Paradise Cove — two brand new worlds. This means the full game now has 13 levels and approximately 6-8 hours of gameplay.

Mervils: A VR Adventure is available on Steam for $19.99 but is a few bucks cheaper at $15.99 on the Oculus Home Store. The expanded content is reflected in its increased launch price. It will also receive a free update for Oculus Touch compatibility on December 9th and currently supports Vive motion controllers, but we think it plays best seated with a standard gamepad.