Games Like BONEWORKS

Do you like hot dogs? How about horseshoes? Hand grenades? (everyone likes hand grenades) Anyway, we've got all that, and guns. SO MANY GUNS. So if you like ordnance, meat, and far too many groan-worthy puns, this is the VR sandbox game for you.

Why similar: VR 33.5%, Physics 15.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, Shooter 9.9%, FPS 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its exceptionally detailed firearm handling and huge physics sandbox make it ideal for players who enjoy BONEWORKS' tactile experimentation.

BONELAB is an experimental physics action game. Explore a mysterious lab filled with weapons, enemies, challenges and secrets. Escape your reality, or wreak havoc. No wrong answers.

Why similar: VR 35.3%, Physics 15.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Shooter 8.6%, Violent 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Built as BONEWORKS' direct successor, it expands the same full-body physics, object manipulation, weapon handling, and experimental sandbox design.

Blade & Sorcery is a built-for-VR medieval fantasy with full physics driven melee, ranged and magic combat. Become a powerful warrior, ranger or sorcerer and devastate your enemies.

Why similar: VR 53%, Sandbox 11.6%, Physics 11.1%, Violent 6.6%, Gore 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers similarly freeform, body-based physics interactions, but channels them into weighty melee combat and moddable fantasy sandbox scenarios.

HARD BULLET is a physics-based action game, where enemies flood the neon-lit city bringing destruction to its streets. Use slow-motion, a huge arsenal, and brutal combat to survive and unlock new weapons. Prepare for the next RIDE by mastering your skills in Sandbox and Arena modes.

Why similar: VR 35%, Physics 14.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Shooter 8.7%, Violent 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a heavily physics-driven VR combat sandbox where you can grab, throw, disarm, and improvise with nearly everything in the environment.

UNDERGROUND MECH FIGHTS! Wrap yourself in 5 tons of metal & go smashing through a dark scene of full-on metal-on-metal violence!

Why similar: VR 39.4%, Physics 18.3%, Sandbox 15.4%, Violent 9.4%, First-Person 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its physical cockpit controls, destructible arenas, and momentum-based mech brawling capture BONEWORKS' love of embodied, chaotic VR action.

The golden age of violent flash games now in your VR headset. Fully physics based combat with melee and firearms featuring copious amounts of blood, gore and destruction.

Why similar: VR 40.4%, Physics 19.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Shooter 10.4%, Gore 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its stark architecture, physical gunplay, climbing, and physics-driven combat make it feel particularly adjacent to BONEWORKS' aesthetic and mechanics.

VR horror-slasher with physically correct combat system and dynamic battles across arenas in the dark fantasy world.

Why similar: VR 48.5%, Sandbox 9%, Gore 8.3%, Physics 7.7%, Violent 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes convincing weapon weight, reactive enemies, environmental interaction, and grisly physics-based melee encounters.

Boneless is an experimental Virtual Reality physics sandbox game built to test the limits of what's possible in VR. The game features unique maps, unique weapons, such as guns and swords and multiple enemies.

Why similar: VR 37.6%, Physics 19%, Sandbox 15.9%, FPS 9.4%, Shooter 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a close match for BONEWORKS' physics-heavy VR gunplay, offering a sandbox of interactive weapons and combat encounters.

Battle Talent is a challenging physics-based rogue-lite sword-fighting game, and now includes multiplayer mode, team up with friends to defeat enemies! You can create your own fighting style in a mega seamless procedural dungeon. With over 80 enemy variants, 100 weapons, and 60 perks.

Why similar: VR 45.4%, Sandbox 16.1%, Physics 15.9%, Gore 8%, Realistic 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-focused fantasy combat game with full-body melee, magic, climbing, enemies that react to impacts, and extensive sandbox potential.

Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.

Why similar: VR 43.3%, Shooter 11.3%, FPS 9.7%, Great Soundtrack 8.8%, First-Person 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more polished and scripted than BONEWORKS, it offers one of VR's strongest campaigns for tactile object interaction, shooting, puzzles, and environmental immersion.

Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.

Why similar: VR 55.6%, FPS 11.1%, Shooter 9.6%, Horror 6.2%, Realistic 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It trades sandbox comedy for tense survival, but its manual gun handling, scavenging, physical inventory, and uncanny spaces strongly reward immersive play.

Vertigo 2 is a single-player VR adventure. Explore the depths of the vast Quantum Reactor as you descend to finish your journey home.

Why similar: VR 43.8%, Shooter 12.5%, FPS 9.7%, First-Person 7.7%, Violent 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A bizarre, energetic VR campaign full of inventive weapons, strange worlds, physics interactions, and the same experimental sci-fi spirit.

An immersive story-driven shooter incorporating the cutting edge of VR gameplay, Vertigo Remastered is a complete overhaul and occasional reimagining of the 2016 original.

Why similar: VR 55.6%, Violent 12%, Gore 9.1%, Action 7.7%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its surreal science-fiction setting, VR-first gunplay, puzzles, and humorous experimental tone make it a natural BONEWORKS follow-up.

Legendary tales is a VR Action roleplaying game with up to 4 player co-op. Collect items, enhance your abilities and fight your way through an ever changing dungeon to make your own Legendary Tales.

Why similar: VR 74.2%, Gore 11.3%, Action 6.5%, Adventure 4.4%, Simulation 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: This VR action RPG uses highly physical weapons, shields, bows, inventory handling, and dungeon combat for a more adventure-oriented take on embodied interaction.

Into the Radius 2 is an immersive VR survival shooter, set in a realm of surreal landscapes and deadly entities known as Pechorsk Anomaly. Arm yourself with realistic weapons and venture deeper into the mysteries within. Featuring co‑op for up to four players.

Why similar: VR 45.1%, Shooter 12.5%, FPS 11.3%, Realistic 11.2%, First-Person 7%

Why You'll Like It: It builds on the first game's tactile survival-shooter systems with deeper cooperative exploration and hands-on equipment management.

Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU. Fight the undead, scavenge through the flooded ruins of New Orleans, and face gut-wrenching choices for you and the other survivors. Live The Walking Dead.

Why similar: VR 46.6%, Shooter 11.1%, Violent 9.4%, Gore 7.7%, Horror 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its physical melee, manual reloading, scavenging, crafting, and reactive zombie encounters create satisfying hands-on VR survival action.

Zero Caliber is the ultimate VR FPS: single player/Co-op campaign, PvP and mod support with 40+ realistic firearms & melee weapons, 100+ unlockable skins, 50+ attachments, realistic physics, progression & more! Immerse yourself in the action, customize your gear and unleash your inner hero!

Why similar: VR 41.1%, Shooter 11.5%, FPS 10.2%, Violent 7.8%, First-Person 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A more conventional military campaign, but one with satisfying manual weapon operation, attachments, reloads, and cooperative VR firefights.

"Boiling Steel" - is a sci-fi story-based FPS VR shooter. You are one of many who set off in search of a better life in the distant bastion of scientific progress. Immerse yourself in the thick of events and witness the inexplicable global cataclysm.

Why similar: VR 25.6%, Great Soundtrack 8.6%, Shooter 8.3%, Physics 7.3%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This single-player VR shooter combines tactical gunplay, physical reloading, upgrades, and hectic arena combat in a focused campaign structure.

COMPOUND is a randomized rogue-lite, free-roaming shooter for VR veterans. Duck and dodge around enemy fire in a tough-as-nails retro FPS with multiple locomotion options. Download the demo below!

Why similar: VR 58.5%, Shooter 13.2%, FPS 10.5%, First-Person 7%, Action 7%

Why You'll Like It: A fast, replayable roguelite shooter with excellent manual weapon handling and satisfying physical interactions beneath its retro visual style.

STRIDE is a high-octane parkour adventure in virtual reality. Fight for your life as you hurtle through the rooftops of a futuristic metropolis. Step into the shoes of a master freerunner as you vault, swing, and shoot your way through this action-packed adventure. Multiplayer now available!

Why similar: VR 46.5%, Shooter 10.5%, Parkour 8.8%, FPS 8.1%, First-Person 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its parkour movement, climbing, shooting, and rooftop traversal suit players who enjoy BONEWORKS' freer, more physical approach to navigating levels.

Steal everything. Even the people. The Break-In lets you take whatever you want, from TVs to fridges to toilets. And all in 1-4 player co-op, VR and non VR. Select your getaway vehicle, anything from a bicycle to a stolen police van, and load up with gear like hammers and rocket boosters, and steal.

Why similar: VR 52.9%, Physics 18.4%, Simulation 7%, First-Person 6.6%, Horror 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op burglary sandbox revolves around grabbing, stacking, carrying, throwing, and creatively exploiting physical objects and environments.

Master your new earthbending powers and become the greatest martial artist the world has ever seen! Master the moves, craft your combos, and take to the arena to engage in one of the most intense and exciting 1-on-1 VR fighting games out there!

Why similar: VR 69.2%, Physics 15.7%, First-Person 6.8%, Action 6.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Instead of guns, it makes hand gestures and body positioning central to physics-based earthbending duels, offering a uniquely embodied combat system.

Pavlov is a multiplayer shooter in VR with heavy focus on community features. Realistic reloading features and fast paced combat as part of the core experience. Play the #1 most popular VR shooter on PC today.

Why similar: VR 58.4%, Shooter 10.7%, FPS 7.5%, Violent 5.3%, Gore 4.5%

A true, full-length open-world game for VR has arrived from Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim VR reimagines the complete epic fantasy masterpiece with an unparalleled sense of scale, depth, and immersion. Skyrim VR also includes all official add-ons.

Why similar: VR 65.6%, Great Soundtrack 13.8%, First-Person 7.8%, Adventure 5.2%, Action 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Though less physics-driven out of the box, its enormous first-person fantasy world, physical VR presence, and mod potential make it a strong long-form adventure alternative.

A dystopian future. An authoritarian regime. A tale of violence, intrigue, and hope. Swing from towering skyscrapers and battle deadly enemies as you fight to free your city from the evil that consumes it. With a kinetic swinging system, intense gunplay, and an immersive story campaign.

Why similar: VR 45.6%, Shooter 17.1%, FPS 13.6%, First-Person 8%, Action 7%

Why You'll Like It: This story-driven VR shooter combines grappling, climbing, rail movement, and gunplay into a kinetic first-person action adventure.

Hubris is a VR action-adventure game set in a unique and colourful Sci-Fi universe, with immersive movement options, including swimming, climbing, and jumping. Players will have to gather resources, craft food and upgrade their weapons to fight off alien wildlife, droids, and humanoid enemies.

Why similar: VR 49.6%, Shooter 12.8%, FPS 8.7%, Realistic 7.8%, First-Person 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic sci-fi VR adventure featuring climbing, swimming, shooting, crafting, and environmental traversal across striking alien locations.

Guardians Frontline is a sci-fi VR shooter that makes you a soldier and a commander. Fight off enemies and build bases in a single-player and co-op campaign, plus PvP game modes with full cross-play support.

Why similar: VR 49.2%, Physics 14.3%, FPS 12.3%, Shooter 11.5%, Sci-fi 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This combines hands-on VR shooting with real-time base building, squad commands, and large-scale sci-fi battles that encourage creative tactics.

GORN is a ludicrously violent VR gladiator simulator, made by Free Lives, the developers of Broforce and Genital Jousting.

Why similar: VR 63.4%, Violent 12.7%, Gore 8.9%, Action 5.9%, First-Person 3.8%

Lose track of what’s real. Commit yourself, body and mind. Confront the evocative, elegantly brutal world of SUPERHOT VR. Enemies pouring into the room from all sides, dozens of bullets coursing through the air... Wait. Something seems different in here...

Why similar: VR 50.1%, Shooter 13.1%, FPS 10.1%, Puzzle 7.5%, First-Person 6.8%

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 75.6%, Sandbox 6.3%, First-Person 4.2%, Action 2.6%, Shooter 2.1%

Slash the beats, get moving, and experience the world's most popular VR rhythm game!* Duck, dodge, and flow through 300+ handcrafted songs from artists like Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, and Metallica. Play solo, compete online, or pass the headset at your next party. Jump in with 60+ songs included!

Why similar: VR 85%, First-Person 7.1%, Action 4.2%, Singleplayer 2.2%, Indie 1.6%

You are Wendigo. A hard-hearted contract killer tasked with annihilating a fanatical cult. With your trusted arsenal at the ready, experience what has been called "The most violent game in VR". EARLY ACCESS includes RAID, ARENA and SANDBOX modes with a story campaign and much more on the way.

Why similar: VR 37%, Gore 15.3%, Violent 13.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Realistic 6.7%

In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.

Why similar: VR 53.2%, Physics 10.3%, Sandbox 7.1%, Horror 6.6%, Simulation 6.3%

DOOM® VFR brings the fast-paced, brutal gameplay fans of the series love to virtual reality. Play as a cybernetic survivor who is activated by the UAC to fight the demon invasion, maintain order, and prevent catastrophic failure at the Mars facility.

Why similar: VR 52.4%, FPS 8.7%, Violent 8.3%, Shooter 7.7%, Gore 7.4%

Hotel R’n’R, the gonzo VR rockstar simulator! Sell your soul to The Devil, smash up hotels and become Infamous. Pressure from hotel staff and your own limp wrists are against you, but with over 40 weapons, and a World Tour ahead of you, it’s time to get creative.

Why similar: VR 38.3%, Great Soundtrack 16.6%, Physics 15.4%, Simulation 6.5%, Gore 6%

Contractors is a team-based competitive multiplayer shooter game for virtual reality devices. Experience the next level virtual warfare with hardcore controls, lethal weapons, customizable load-outs, and intense firefights. BECOME AN OPERATOR.

Why similar: VR 59.9%, Violent 9.8%, FPS 9.2%, Shooter 7.2%, Action 4.5%

Run, jump, and climb using only your hands. Play tag or infection with people online. Run away from the infected players, or outmaneuver the survivors to catch them. Embrace your inner ape.

Why similar: VR 54.3%, Parkour 16%, Physics 10.7%, First-Person 7.8%, Horror 5.2%

Enter: the ultimate action hero. Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards. Includes mod support!

Why similar: VR 55.9%, Shooter 16.1%, FPS 11.9%, First-Person 7.8%, Action 5.9%

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is a frantic arcade action FPS, featuring singleplay and co-op campaign, various multiplayer modes, all presented in glorious VR and with different locomotion movements.

Why similar: VR 65.6%, Violent 13.4%, Gore 10.5%, Action 8%, Indie 2.5%

Step into VR kitchen and become supreme Chef. Master realistic cooking with lifelike physics, 100+ recipes, 140+ ingredients and natural VR controls — or embrace chaos with fires, explosions, and sandbox freedom.

Why similar: VR 54.9%, Physics 15.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Simulation 7.6%, Realistic 6.2%

Budget Cuts is a VR stealth game where you dexterously zip, sneak or rambo your way forward through thrilling, oil-splatter filled combat!

Why similar: VR 71%, Action 8.8%, Adventure 6.9%, Horror 3.8%, Indie 2.8%

Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality smashes together the absolute VR chaos of the award-winning Job Simulator with the ridiculous, all-out, take-no-prisoners comedy of Rick and Morty.

Why similar: VR 62.5%, Simulation 7.2%, Violent 6.8%, Adventure 5.8%, Sandbox 4.1%

Experience the high fidelity virtual reality of your own hands like never before.

Why similar: VR 75.1%, Adventure 10.1%, First-Person 7.2%, Funny 3.7%, Sci-fi 2.2%

Combining survival horror and static wave shooting, Propagation VR will get your adrenaline pumping as you try to survive a zombie apocalypse. Armed only with your guns and your fists, fight off terrifying zombies and other multi-species mutants. Will you get out alive?

Why similar: VR 59.8%, Violent 7.3%, FPS 6.7%, Gore 6.2%, Horror 6.1%

Waltz of the Wizard sends you on journey of mischief, mayhem and mild sarcasm in a fantastical realm full of spells, secrets and some pretty strange characters.

Why similar: VR 43.4%, Sandbox 16.3%, Physics 13.1%, Simulation 6.2%, Horror 5.8%

Space Pirate Trainer is the official trainer for wannabe space pirates in VR. Pick up your blasters, put on your sneakers, and dance your way into the Space Pirate Trainer hall of fame.

Why similar: VR 70.5%, Great Soundtrack 10.8%, Shooter 6.4%, Action 4.8%, First-Person 3.7%

Onward is the most immersive tactical VR shooter. Join your squad for a wide variety of competitive PvP, co-op PvE, and solo game modes, including intense multiplayer battles or 4-player co-op missions. Realistic weaponry and combat mechanics will push your survival and combat skills to their limit

Why similar: VR 43.4%, Shooter 12.5%, Realistic 10%, FPS 9.9%, Violent 8.2%

Arizona Sunshine® Remake elevates the original, award-winning game, completely rebuilt with GORE-geous VR graphics and next-gen VR combat and weapons. Face the undead alone or with up to three fellow survivors in a post-apocalyptic southwestern America overrun by zombies.

Why similar: VR 40.9%, Shooter 12.7%, Physics 11.4%, FPS 10.7%, Realistic 8.2%

Fantasy and synthwave collide in this physically active VR sword fighting game. Grow stronger as you battle through an awesome neon environment and strike down magic-infused monstrosities in this hack-and-slash roguelite. Fight. Fall. Rise Again.

Why similar: VR 67.6%, Great Soundtrack 10.1%, First-Person 9.5%, Action 5.7%, Adventure 2.8%

Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.

Why similar: VR 49.2%, Shooter 9.4%, FPS 7.8%, Action 6.9%, Gore 6.3%

Google Earth VR lets you explore the world from totally new perspectives in virtual reality. Stroll the streets of Tokyo, soar over the Grand Canyon, or walk around the Eiffel Tower.

Why similar: VR 87.8%, Simulation 5.8%, Realistic 3.1%, Adventure 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Disassembly and destruction physics sandbox simulator. Detailed models of objects and vehicles and their internal parts. Disassemble objects successfully to unlock new tools and weapons to use in sandbox mode. Fight evil mannequins with everything you got in physical combat!

Why similar: VR 35.8%, Physics 15.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Shooter 8.4%, Realistic 8.3%

Fallout 4, the legendary post-apocalyptic adventure from Bethesda Game Studios and winner of more than 200 ‘Best Of’ awards, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year, comes in its entirety to VR.

Why similar: VR 58.7%, Shooter 10%, Great Soundtrack 6.7%, FPS 6.1%, Violent 5.4%

VTOL VR is a near-futuristic combat flight game built for Virtual Reality. Pilot advanced multi-role jets, using your hands to flip switches, press buttons, and manipulate the virtual flight controls.

Why similar: VR 51.5%, Physics 15.3%, Realistic 9.5%, Sandbox 8.5%, Simulation 5.5%

Enter an extraordinarily convincing sci-fi world in this story-driven VR puzzle adventure. Explore off-world facilities, operate tactile tools, solve environmental puzzles, and unravel a reality-bending Cold War mystery.

Why similar: VR 50%, Physics 22.8%, Puzzle 9%, Adventure 5%, Sci-fi 4.4%

A first person grappling hook exploration game.Soar through the ruins of a fallen world and discover the secrets of the ancients. Designed with full Virtual Reality support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, also works great in Non VR.

Why similar: VR 55%, Great Soundtrack 21.6%, Parkour 8.3%, First-Person 6.8%, Adventure 4.9%

Contagion VR: Outbreak will immerse you into the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Relive stories of the survivors in the Single Player campaign, take your time in Free Roam, or check out the Firing Range!

Why similar: VR 48.4%, Gore 6.9%, Violent 6.9%, Shooter 5.5%, FPS 5.4%

Serious Sam is back! And this time it's REAL!

Why similar: VR 58.3%, Gore 11%, Violent 8.9%, Shooter 7.5%, Action 6.2%

It's time to say hello to your old pal, Fred. Arizona Sunshine® 2, the next-gen sequel to the fan-favorite VR apocalypse, packs even more gore-geous zombie action! And what's better than braving the end of the f*cking world alone? Surviving it with your new best friend--Buddy.

Why similar: VR 40.9%, Physics 11.8%, Shooter 11.4%, FPS 9.3%, Realistic 9.3%

From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.

Why similar: VR 44.1%, Shooter 10.8%, FPS 9.9%, Realistic 8%, Gore 7.9%