- #1 A Writer And His Daughter
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: Dimfrost Studio
Windows
VR story exploration game. A young girl discovers a magical fairy tale world and has to decide which world she wants to stay in. Part one of a trilogy.
Why similar: VR 53.4%, Adventure 26.6%, Indie 20%
- #2 DMD Mars Mission
96% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: FockaGames
Windows
The Martian mining facility FK16 has been invaded by insects and mutated creatures and now the system reports that all human workers have been killed. It's up to you and your assistant Isabel to save the situation.
Why similar: VR 59%, Adventure 23.4%, Indie 17.6%
- #3 Directionless
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 67 reviews2016
Dev: Zach Tsiakalis-Brown
Windows
Directionless is an experimental Virtual Reality horror game. It tries out a variety of ways of using Virtual Reality to unnerve and disorient the player, with carefully crafted audio working with an interactive environment to pull you into a nightmarish world where you can't trust anything.
Why similar: VR 72.8%, Indie 27.2%
- #4 Argos - The most difficult VR game in the world
94% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: PixelsDesign VR Dev
Windows · Mac
Argos VR, The most difficult VR game in the world. Don't play this game unless you have at least a 150 quotient.
Why similar: VR 48.2%, Adventure 24.2%, Indie 17.6%, Puzzle 10%
- #5 Proton Pulse
94% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2016
Dev: Justin MoravetzPub: ZeroTransform
Windows
Get ready for Classic Arcade Brick-Breaking Action from a whole new perspective in Virtual Reality!The entity known as M.O.A.I. has attacked, and the fate of the world is in your hands! You have been chosen to compete in the most diabolical game of atomic paddleball ever to grace the 3rd dimension.
Why similar: VR 77.3%, Indie 22.7%
- #6 画境(Picturesque) VR
93% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2016
Dev: Beijing Omnicity Technology Co., Ltd.
Windows
Enter the world of "Picturesque", and experience an imaginative and heartfelt adventure game with puzzle-solving features, based on HTC Vive. Get ready to witness a world filled with natural beauty and reminiscent scenes, embarks on a larger than life journey, and re-collect the lost memories.
Why similar: VR 46.6%, Adventure 23.2%, Indie 16.6%, Puzzle 13.5%
- #7 Hoop Route
92% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Neither One Games
Windows
A VR game where you use motion controllers to guide a hoop along wire pathways. Maneuver the hoop to the end of each course while avoiding obstacles along the way. Use steady hands and precise timing to avoid letting the hoop touch any surfaces.
Why similar: VR 72.8%, Indie 27.2%
- #8 Exit Condition One HD
85% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Exit Conditions
Windows
Exit Condition One is a SciFi Puzzle Adventure with Escape Room bones.
Why similar: VR 56.8%, Adventure 16.2%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Puzzle 11.8%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #9 Danger Room
91% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2016
Dev: Wong Kang-An
Windows
Survive the holographic barrage of turrets in the Danger Room on the HTC Vive. Slow time, dodge lasers, suck bullets and fire them back at enemies!
Why similar: VR 81.1%, Indie 18.9%
- #10 Block Wave VR
91% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: RLTY CHK
Windows
Compete for the high score in this fast paced, addictive virtual reality block puzzler designed for the HTC Vive! Inspired by 1980’s Synthwave with an original score, Block Wave will keep you immersed for hours.
Why similar: VR 75.3%, Indie 14.2%, Puzzle 10.6%
- #11 The Cavern
90% matchMixed50% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: Space Paw Studios
Windows
The Cavern is a puzzle-adventure game designed exclusively for room-scale VR. Solve puzzles, piece together stories and venture deeper into the darkness in search of one of the greatest lost treasures of our time.
Why similar: VR 48.2%, Adventure 22.5%, Indie 15.9%, Puzzle 10.9%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #12 Viking Escape
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2016
Dev: Viktor Pekar
Windows
Viking Escape is a short Escape-the-Room VR Game for the HTC Vive. You're trapped in an ancient viking tomb. Only the wise and patient warrior will be able to escape.
Why similar: VR 54.5%, Adventure 26%, Indie 19.5%
- #13 Ancient VR coaster
89% matchMixed54% of 24 reviews2016
Dev: Crovax Studios
Windows
Ancient VR Coaster will take you on your very own private roller-coaster, an unique experience!
Why similar: VR 68.9%, Adventure 18.1%, Indie 13%
- #14 IKAROS
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 44 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Mori
Windows
A virtual reality game project using "redirected walking technology" that can enhance immersive adventure experience.
Why similar: VR 59.4%, Adventure 17.3%, Indie 13%, Puzzle 10.3%
- #15 Tesseract - First Chapter
77% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Fractal Mind Studios
Windows
Journey into the world of Tesseract, a mind-bending VR puzzle adventure through a labyrinth of mysterious realms. Navigate perplexing shifts in gravity, travel through portals bridging dimensions, and activate ancient mechanisms that transform the environment around you.
Why similar: VR 44.8%, Adventure 17.3%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Puzzle 11.7%, First-Person 6.8%
- #16 Escape Artist: The Trial
88% matchMixed42% of 26 reviews2016
Dev: Morrow Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Escape Artist: The Trial enables you to find your inner escape artist! Combining the best parts of a real life room escape experience into Virtual Reality, Escape Artist: The Trial goes even further: break things to make things!
Why similar: VR 53.5%, Adventure 18.2%, Indie 13.6%, Puzzle 12%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #17 Mech Skeleton
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Heavy Kick Games
Windows
Mech Skeleton is an HTC Vive game mixing intense first person shooter action with hide and seek stealth.
Why similar: VR 66.9%, Indie 17.9%, Sci-fi 15.2%
- #18 Temple of Aluxes
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 47 reviews2017
Dev: Silver Machine Studios
Windows
Have you ever wanted to explore a lost temple? This is your chance. Find the treasures and escape the Temple of Aluxes by solving various puzzles and challenges.
Why similar: VR 58.6%, Adventure 17.7%, Indie 13.3%, Puzzle 10.4%
- #19 Orb Labs, Inc.
84% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2018
Dev: Next Friday Interactive
Windows
In this room-scale VR action-puzzle stealth game, infiltrate a mysterious company's secret underground lab protected by deadly laser systems. Throw "orbs" to move, hide, defend, attack and survive!
Why similar: VR 49%, Adventure 23.7%, Indie 17.8%, Puzzle 9.5%
- #20 Pyramid VR
84% matchMixed50% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: Christopher MeyerPub: Notso Entertaining Productions
Windows
Classic text based adventure brought to VR life!
Why similar: VR 49.4%, Adventure 28.9%, Indie 21.7%
- #21 FORM
82% matchVery Positive91% of 979 reviews2017
Dev: Charm Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Enter a surreal adventure where puzzles are built from dreams and memories. Solve the mystery behind an ancient artifact. Advance through a world that transforms around you. Transcend this existence.
Why similar: VR 44%, Adventure 20.8%, Indie 14.7%, Puzzle 6.6%, Sci-fi 4.9%
- #22 Heart of the Emberstone: Coliseum
82% matchVery Positive85% of 79 reviews2017
Dev: Cloudhead Games Ltd.
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Coliseum gives you a telekinetic playground to wield a mystical power, solve puzzles, and meet "The Beast,” in a slice of fantasy from the VR world of The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone.
Why similar: VR 65.4%, Adventure 19.8%, Indie 14.8%
- #23 All Alone: VR
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 109 reviews2017
Dev: 8bitPub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 41.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The main goal in All Alone is to find the way out of such forgotten town.
Why similar: VR 65.5%, Adventure 19.4%, Indie 13.5%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #24 Aperture Hand Lab
79% matchVery Positive86% of 1,585 reviews2019
Dev: Cloudhead Games Ltd.Pub: Valve
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 10%
Experience the high fidelity virtual reality of your own hands like never before.
Why similar: VR 64.1%, Adventure 20.5%, First-Person 8.8%, Sci-fi 4.9%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #25 Profundum
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 28 reviews2019
Dev: Burning DaisiesPub: mindhelix.pl
Windows
Profundum is a virtual reality adventure game set in a steampunk world, in which you are challenged to solve puzzles and discover secrets lurking in a mysterious underground complex.
Why similar: VR 62.7%, Adventure 21.3%, Indie 16%
- #26 Abode 2
78% matchVery Positive81% of 154 reviews2019
Dev: Overflow
Windows
Explore and investigate every corner and detail of this highly interactive apartment to unveil all its secrets and restore power to the city. An "escape the room" puzzle game.
Why similar: VR 37.6%, Adventure 29.9%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Puzzle 11.4%, Atmospheric 8.2%
- #27 Wake Up
81% matchVery Positive81% of 98 reviews2016
Dev: Black Cell OG
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Experience a shattered and surreal dream filled with fascinating riddles, where your only guide is an elusive butterfly. Can you make the journey and wake up?
Why similar: VR 59.3%, Adventure 17.1%, Indie 15.1%, Puzzle 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #28 No Ordinary Elevator
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silver Machine Studios
Windows
How much could possibly go wrong when entering an elevator? Step in a see if you can find your way back out again.
Why similar: VR 54.5%, Adventure 26%, Indie 19.5%
- #29 Firebird - La Peri
80% matchVery Positive80% of 213 reviews2016
Dev: InnerspaceVR
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Enter a realm of enchantment with "FIREBIRD - La Péri", and play the role of Iskender, a prince seeking the "flower of immortality". You will appear on the stage, visit the ethereal world of La Péri, and witness a magical and poetic encounter as one of the characters...
Why similar: VR 61%, Adventure 22.7%, Indie 16.3%
- #30 Project Chimeira
68% match8 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Game Lab Graz
Windows
We will save humanity by our knowledge. We need to just immerse in this environment.
Why similar: VR 49.1%, Adventure 21.6%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Puzzle 13.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #31 These Lands
78% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: Astro Chimp
Windows
Follow the clues, solve the puzzles and reveal the secrets These Lands possess. Grab, throw and shoot your way through this mysterious VR puzzle adventure. Will you find your way through These Lands?
Why similar: VR 38.4%, Adventure 21.4%, Indie 15.6%, Puzzle 15%, First-Person 7.8%
- #32 SVRVIVE: The Deus Helix
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 94 reviews2016
Dev: Antler Interactive
Windows
A challenging mystery adventure game, ranked as one of the best HTC Vive games of 2017 (PC Advisor). With every mission comes entirely new worlds and puzzles. The story takes you through one of the longest VR games to date.
Why similar: VR 54%, Adventure 27%, Indie 19%
- #33 The Talos Principle VR
75% matchVery Positive84% of 849 reviews2017
Dev: Croteam VRPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 29%
The Talos Principle VR is a virtual reality version of Croteam's critically acclaimed first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction.
Why similar: VR 65.6%, Adventure 14.9%, Puzzle 13.1%, Indie 6.4%
- #34 Hello Cruel World
62% matchMostly Positive75% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Akupara Games
Windows
You are an urban explorer and you just hit the motherload. Hidden under the carcass of an abandoned restaurant, a deadly, decrepit laboratory teems with secrets around every corner. Solve puzzles, avoid danger, and uncover the VR mystery of the asylum-- and the voice in your earpiece.
Why similar: VR 52.2%, Adventure 17.7%, Puzzle 11.5%, First-Person 10.7%, Atmospheric 6.4%
- #35 XING: The Land Beyond
75% matchVery Positive90% of 325 reviews2017
Dev: White Lotus Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You died. Welcome to XING: The Land Beyond, an atmospheric first-person puzzle adventure for desktops and virtual reality. Enjoy your peaceful escape from the chaotic world of the living, and travel the lands of the dead.
Why similar: VR 58%, Adventure 14.7%, Indie 10.4%, Puzzle 8.7%, Atmospheric 6.3%
- #36 Dwingle : B.O.T
76% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: XXII GROUP
Windows
In this narrative puzzle game, interact with your environment behind closed doors, along with Botanic (Bot) the robot. Build a connection and evolve with him, interact and play with your surroundings...
Why similar: VR 56.4%, Adventure 24.4%, Indie 19.2%
- #37 Dimensional
76% matchVery Positive81% of 52 reviews2016
Dev: Brett JacksonPub: Head Start Design
Windows
A first-person, narrative-driven puzzle game. Dimensional throws you into dangerous chambers to save an alien race. This is not a passive experience. You'll have to feel and act as though you're really there - standing, moving around, manipulating objects and reacting to dangers.
Why similar: VR 70%, Adventure 18.1%, Indie 11.9%
- #38 The Tower
74% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: Headroom.one
Windows
The Tower is an exciting virtual reality experience that takes you on an exciting trip over a magic land. As you get moved forward on a conveyor, avoid countless traps and obstacles by cowering, leaning or jumping.
Why similar: VR 54.5%, Adventure 26%, Indie 19.5%
- #39 Lost Route
77% matchNegative14% of 28 reviews2016
Dev: Imbanova Entertainment Inc.Pub: Imbanova Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Lost Route is a driving thriller video game made for room scale VR.
Why similar: VR 58.4%, Adventure 24.3%, Indie 17.4%
- #40 Robo Boop
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: Booper Inc
Windows
Roboboop is a VR game for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Boop the floating boxes with your high-tech wands to set the right colour and send them flying away into the sky. Relax, take your time and listen to some music, or set a timer and try to beat the clock.
Why similar: VR 67%, Indie 17.9%, Puzzle 15.1%
- #41 CloserLook VR: Oldways
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: eMedia Interactive
Windows
CloserLook VR: Oldways is a story-driven VR adventure set in modern-day West Africa. Trapped in a university building, explore secret locations, solve puzzles, and uncover a gripping narrative of exploitation, corruption, and betrayal.
Why similar: VR 63.3%, Puzzle 13.3%, Adventure 13.1%, Indie 7.1%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #42 Space Panic: Room Escape (VR)
73% matchMixed50% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: Janky GamesPub: Project Whitecard Studios Inc.
Windows
Space Panic VR (Room Escape) is a VR Escape Room unlike any other you've seen before. Set in the future aboard a space station, the game will challenge players to solve multiple complex puzzles in order to escape.
Why similar: VR 40.7%, Adventure 22.7%, Indie 16.5%, Sci-fi 11%, Puzzle 9.1%
- #43 Rangi
71% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: FunsoftPub: Digigo
Windows
Solve complex puzzles, explore hidden temples, escape deadly platforms and revel in the joy of flight as you restore the Musiki's stolen rhythms!
Why similar: VR 75.7%, Adventure 13.9%, Indie 10.4%
- #44 Sanctuary VR (Also contains non-VR version)
73% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2016
Dev: Newgrange GamePub: Newgrange Games
Windows
"Sanctuary VR" is a first-person puzzle solving and exploration game designed for Oculus Rift, it has a strong narrative that is fully voice acted. The game is a seated VR experience played with a controller.
Why similar: VR 53.9%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 19.2%
- #45 Mind OVR Matter
72% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Joe Chatfield
Windows
Ever wanted to stop bullets with your mind? Levitate? Inspired by popular sci-fi movies, Mind OVR Matter gives you the power to control objects with your mind.
Why similar: VR 71.3%, Indie 16.9%, Sci-fi 11.8%
- #46 Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin
69% matchVery Positive87% of 627 reviews2018
Dev: Double Fine Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin is an all-new Virtual Reality adventure that takes players back into the mysterious and paranormal world of the Psychonauts for the first time in over ten years!
Why similar: VR 76.6%, Adventure 23.4%
- #47 Unknown Fate
71% matchMixed68% of 69 reviews2018
Dev: Marslit GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Unknown Fate is an enigmatic story-driven action adventure set in a surreal world full of mind-twisting puzzles and bizarre creatures
Why similar: VR 55.8%, Adventure 25.3%, Indie 19%
- #48 Marble Land
70% matchVery Positive87% of 95 reviews2017
Dev: Devious Technologies
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Marble Land is a physics-based VR puzzle game in which the objective is to guide a marble into a designated target area by using various contraptions scattered across the level.
Why similar: VR 47.2%, Indie 21.4%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Puzzle 15.2%
- #49 Comets Wake
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 37 reviews2017
Dev: Rocket Tiger Studios
Windows
Come join the adventure of Comets Wake. Explore vast archipelagos of floating islands with infinite variety. Find waterfalls, lava lakes, towers, ruins, giant mushrooms, and more! Choose from a huge array of weapons from guns to swords, or even a mage staff.
Why similar: VR 69.7%, Adventure 17.3%, Indie 13%
- #50 The Lab
67% matchVery Positive95% of 6,594 reviews2016
Dev: Valve
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Why similar: VR 81.6%, First-Person 6.4%, Adventure 3.9%, Sci-fi 3.6%, Puzzle 1.8%
- #51 VR Amazing Files: Horror Hospital
72% matchMixed42% of 31 reviews2017
Dev: weyha.com
Windows
Your task is to investigate an abandoned hospital and find the missing research notes. The note may help us find the No. 0 patient, who is the key person of making serum. Good luck,investigator !
Why similar: VR 71.1%, Adventure 16.9%, Indie 12.1%
- #52 Kubz VR
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 24 reviews2016
Dev: bibimbapstudio
Windows
Kubz brings one of the most famous puzzle game of all time to the Virtual Reality world! Play with an HTC Vive in a 3d rooms with very realistic Tetrominos falling from the sky. Your goal is the plug them in the grid as fast as you can or everything around you will be destroyed.
Why similar: VR 76.2%, Indie 23.8%
- #53 Internal Light VR
69% matchPositive84% of 31 reviews2018
Dev: Hot Dogs Studio
Windows
"Internal Light VR" is a first-person puzzle solving action game designed for Oculus Rift and HTC VIVE. The game is a standing VR experience played with motion controllers. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light... Explore the environment,solve puzzles and run through challenges to find the exit
Why similar: VR 69.7%, Adventure 17.3%, Indie 13%
- #54 Save Snegurochka!
68% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: TIPA Games Berlin
Windows
Snegurochka was captured by grimly snowmen. Go through exciting adventures and face challenges some tricky snowmen tought up. A lovely and smart friend will be on your side! Come into the phantastic VR world and save Snegurochka!
Why similar: VR 69.6%, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 13%
- #55 Fightttris VR
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: TECHHOME
Windows
Be fast, be smart, have fun. Fresh breath in classic puzzle. Battle with your friend or random opponent. Your aim is to be faster and smarter, to grab blocks and build lines, to find and activate bonuses. The slowest always lose.
Why similar: VR 62.4%, Indie 23.5%, Puzzle 14%
- #56 Star Rage VR
68% matchPositive88% of 32 reviews2017
Dev: Metaverse Studio
Windows
Star Rage VR is a FPS game that fights alien in outer space,it included a thrilling story with a great plot, exploring and many other diverse form of gameplay. You and your friends have to fight numerous aliens and reclaim the skies.
Why similar: VR 69.4%, Adventure 17.5%, Indie 13.1%
- #57 Puzzle Cross
70% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2016
Dev: Ayy Caramba Games
Windows
Puzzle Cross is a Virtual Reality Nonogram Puzzles game.
Why similar: VR 53%, Adventure 20%, Indie 15.5%, Puzzle 11.4%
- #58 Google Spotlight Stories: Pearl
65% matchVery Positive96% of 379 reviews2017
Dev: Google Inc.
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Pearl VR follows a girl and her dad as they crisscross the country chasing their dreams. It’s a story about the gifts we hand down and their power to carry love. And finding grace in the unlikeliest of places. EMMY AWARD in INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING. OSCAR NOMINEE BEST ANIMATED SHORT.
Why similar: VR 72.6%, Adventure 27.4%
- #59 Google Spotlight Stories: Piggy
66% matchVery Positive90% of 50 reviews2018
Dev: Google Inc.
Windows
A jogging pig meets a delicious cake. Will he give in to temptation? Not while you’re watching! Google Spotlight Stories presents Piggy VR, a new level of interaction between character and audience. Directed by Jan Pinkava & Mark Oftedal. Produced with Evil Eye Pictures.
Why similar: VR 73.2%, Adventure 26.8%