21 promising VR and MR games to look forward to in 2025

We've rounded up some of the most promising VR and MR titles coming to all major platforms in 2025.

The following list is a subjective selection.

It only includes new releases and nothing that has already been released on other VR platforms. DLC and updates are also excluded.

As it is early in the year, we expect many more titles to be added in the coming months.

The following games are listed in alphabetical order, regardless of release date.

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Aces of Thunder

Platforms: PC VR, Playstation VR 2

Release: 2025

Aces of Thunder is a flight simulation that focuses on aerial combat during World War II. The studio promises 15 maps spread over three locations: the Eastern Front, Western Europe and the Pacific.

The game will offer online modes such as team battles and individual duels, which should provide an intense dogfight experience.

Based on the realistic flight and damage models of War Thunder, Aces of Thunder offers a full cockpit view and full control of flight systems.

The initial release will include two dozen iconic World War II aircraft such as the P-51 Mustang and Spitfire, with more aircraft from other eras planned as future add-ons.

Stores: Playstation Store

All on Board!

Platforms: Meta Quest, PC VR

Release: February 27, 2025

All on Board aims to become the best VR board game simulator, enabling social tabletop gaming nights without all the setup.

The game will offer a wide range of board games from different genres. In addition to classics like Chess and Checkers, the studio behind the game has licensed The Hunger, Escape The Dark Castle, Rallyman GT, The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, Istanbul, and Terraforming Mars. More titles will be added via updates after launch.

There will be both cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes, as well as solo play.

Once you have created your avatar and selected your board game, you will find yourself at a virtual table with other players in a VR environment themed around the board game. Just like in real life, you roll dice, draw cards, place pieces on squares, and do everything else that makes up a board game.

To bring as many board game fans together as possible, All on Board offers cross-play between Meta Quest and SteamVR, and for Quest 3 users there is even an exclusive mixed reality mode where the virtual board can be projected onto your table.

Stores: Horizon Store, Steam

Arken Age

Platforms: PC VR, Playstation VR 2

Release: January 16, 2025

In Arken Age, you explore the Bio-Chasm, a terraformed realm created by a divine being, the Great Arborist, to mine an energy source called Arkenite. When contact with the creator is lost and the usurper Hyperion and his legion invade the Bio-Chasm, you join forces with the alien race Nara to repel the invaders and discover what happened to the Great Arborist.

The 15-hour single-player campaign lets you explore 25 areas and experience dynamic combat in gorgeous environments. Your full-body avatar allows you to move freely, jump, crawl, swim, and even climb using extendable pickaxes. The same tool can be used to mine Arkenite to replenish your melee and ranged weapons with fresh energy and ammunition.

Our preview of Arken Age points to an early surprise hit.

Stores: Steam, Playstation Store

Assetto Corsa EVO

Platforms: PC VR

Release: January 16, 2025 (Early Access)

The original Assetto Corsa already offered optional VR support and is considered one of the best VR racing games ever.

Developer Kunos Simulazioni describes the successor as follows:

"Like its predecessor, Assetto Corsa EVO will feature vehicles from different categories covering the history of the automobile. From road cars and classics to hypercars and racing cars, the greatest icons of the automotive and motorsport world are represented. Each car is recreated by a state-of-the-art system that simulates the mechanical, electronic and aerodynamic performance and combines it with the faithful reproduction of the racetracks created with laser scanning technology".

More information can be found in the following video.

Stores: Steam

Civilization VII - VR

Platforms: Meta Quest 3 and 3S

Release: Spring 2025

The VR and MR versions of the game are identical in content to the PC and console versions, but offer a different perspective on the game as well as unique VR and MR features.

Civilization VII - VR uses the classic top-down view and places you at the command table, a board-like construction that brings the world to life before your eyes. You can look up at the command table to plan your moves, or lean down to see the intricacies of your scouts, cities, armies, and wonders.

In virtual reality, you sit in an environment that mirrors the historical setting. When you switch to mixed reality, the command table adapts to your position in physical space.

Civilization VII - VR supports a single player mode as well as co-op and competitive multiplayer for up to four players simultaneously, with optional AI opponents. Your friends will appear at the command table as their chosen leaders.

Stores: Horizon Store

Elsewhere Electric

Platforms: Meta Quest, PC VR

Release: 2025

Elsewhere Electric is an innovative co-op game with an interesting twist: one person plays in the headset, the other on their smartphone.

You become a team that has been sent to bring an abandoned facility back online. The person wearing the VR headset enters the facility, while the other person transmits vital information via their smartphone.

Each person has their own perspective and tools. Only together can you master the game and escape alive from the facility where invisible creatures roam. You must solve environmental puzzles, decipher codes, acquire new abilities, and most importantly, communicate effectively.

There are currently no trailers or store links for Elsewhere Electric!

Dreams of Another

Platforms: Playstation VR 2

Release: 2025

In this exceptional exploration and third-person shooter, you create worlds instead of destroying them when you fire your gun.

Using state-of-the-art point-cloud technology, the game world appears as a surreal dreamscape made up of countless particles that react to your actions. As you shoot the particles with your gun, they transform and materialize into objects and creatures with which you can interact and communicate.

The story follows two traumatized characters - the "Man in Pajamas" and the "Wandering Soldier". While the focus is on these two characters, you will also be able to interact with sentient objects such as talking trees and doors, uncovering their thoughts, feelings, and secrets.

Stores: Playstation Store

Farming Simulator VR

Platforms: Meta Quest

Release: February 28, 2025

The first official VR version of the popular simulation game series offers a completely new virtual farming experience.

You take control of agricultural machines from well-known manufacturers such as Case IH, CLAAS, Fendt and John Deere. From the detailed driver's cab, you can cultivate fields, grow and harvest various crops such as corn, wheat, and soybeans.

In addition to field work, greenhouse farming is also possible. Here you can plant and hand-pick vegetables from tomatoes to strawberries.

Stores: Horizon Store

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Secret of the Mimic

Platforms: Playstation VR 2

Release: June 13, 2025

After Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 1 and 2, a third VR spin-off of the highly successful game series was announced for Playstation VR 2 in August 2024.

At the State of Play in February 2025, Steel Wool Games released a first gameplay trailer and the release date. Whether the game will come to other VR platforms than Playstation VR 2 is currently unconfirmed.

Stores: Playstation Store

Forefront

Platforms: Meta Quest, Pico, PC-VR

Release: Late 2025 (Early Access)

Forefront is the next big project from Triangle Factory, the studio behind the hit tactical shooter Breachers.

In the year 2035, a conflict rages over the rare resource Red Orpiment, which is supposed to provide inexhaustible clean energy. The energy company O.R.E. owns the extraction technology and is building a private military force to protect its mining areas. You can join either the O.R.E. mercenary force or the local armed forces fighting for control of the valuable mineral.

Triangle Factory promises massive online battles with up to 32 players, dynamically destructible environments on huge battlefields, a variety of vehicles on land, air and sea, as well as new weapon types, gadgets, and character classes.

Stores: Horizon Store, Steam

Ghost Town

Platforms: Meta Quest, PC VR, Playstation VR 2

Release: 2025

Ghost Town is the new VR game from Fireproof Games, the studio behind The Room VR: A Dark Matter.

In Ghost Town, you take on the role of Edith Penrose, a witch turned ghost hunter who runs a successful paranormal investigation agency.

Set in 1983, Edith roams London's eerie locales to track down and banish restless spirits. Her world is turned upside down when her brother disappears and a mysterious new lead promises clues to his whereabouts. Edith's journey begins with a visit to a remote Scottish island in the hope that a gifted psychic can provide some much-needed answers.

Using a combination of logic, mystical knowledge, and ancient magic, you must help Edith find her brother. The studio promises tactile puzzles, spells, and necromancy.

Stores: Horizon Store, Steam, Playstation Store

Gorn 2

Platforms: Meta Quest, PC-VR, Playstation VR 2

Release: 2025

In the sequel to the comical gladiator sim, you fight in five heavenly realms. There you will meet famous fallen fighters. According to Devolver Digital, you will "ascend to a celestial realm where the souls of all the gladiators you slaughtered in the first game reside - to kill them again".

The sequel promises everything GORN was and more. You get 35 unique and devastating weapons. Use them to battle the five sons of the god of the underworld in blood-soaked arenas. New enemies, traps and power-ups also await you.

Stores: Horizon Store, Playstation Store, Steam

Hitman World Of Assassination

Platforms: Playstation VR 2

Release: March 27, 2025

The VR conversion includes all levels of the trilogy and supports two-handed weaponry, roomscale gameplay, intuitive controls, and new VR interactions and mechanics.

Hitman World Of Assassination is the third attempt to bring the Hitman games to virtual reality, and after two flawed tries, hopefully this time it will be crowned with success.

Owners of the original PS5 game will be able to get the VR mode via a paid upgrade.

Stores: Playstation Store

Laser Dance

Platforms: Meta Quest 3 and 3S

Release: 2025

Laser Dance is one of the most anticipated mixed reality games.

You move between two buttons at opposite ends of the room, traversing a series of laser patterns just like in a spy movie. Whether you dodge, dance, or crawl across the floor is up to you. The lasers adapt to the size and layout of the room.

Laser Dance is an intuitive party game that needs no explanation, making it perfect for demonstrating the magic of Mixed Reality. Laser Dance is developed by Thomas Van Bouwel, the creator of Cubism.

Stores: Horizon Store

Prison Boss: Prohibition

Platforms: Meta Quest, PC VR, Playstation VR 2

Release: Spring 2025

In Prison Boss: Prohibition, you take on the role of a chicken building a criminal empire on the streets of "New Yolk City". You produce illegal goods and sell them to the city's inhabitants. Avoid the police and keep the corrupt mayor happy. Alcohol, cigarettes and erotic magazines are also on your production list.

A major new feature over its predecessor, Prison Boss, is the co-op mode. Now you can do shady business with a friend.

The gameplay promises a mix of business simulation and stealth elements. You have to plan your production cleverly and stay one step ahead of the police. Various upgrades for your shop and equipment will help you. The more successful you are, the more influence you gain in the city.

Stores: Horizon Store, Steam

Roboquest

Platforms: Meta Quest, PC-VR, Playstation VR 2

Release: Fall 2025

Flat2VR Studios' VR port transports you to a future where robots are part of everyday life. As a newly activated Guardian, you plunge into a fast-paced roguelike shooter experience where you feel every movement, every shot and every dodge up close. Battle hordes of robots and save the world, alone or in co-op with a Brobot at your side.

With procedurally generated levels, a wide variety of weapons and gadgets, and challenging enemies, no two runs are the same and the excitement never ends. Your Guardian can be optimized with powerful upgrades and customizations to perfectly complement your play style. From rapid-fire pistols to high-energy rifles, you have a huge arsenal at your disposal.

Stores: Horizon Store, Steam

Stay: Forever Home

Platforms: Meta Quest

Release: Early 2025

Stay: Forever Home is a mixed reality pet simulation where you take care of the fantasy creature Ember. She has an AI personality, is aware of her surroundings and reacts to your affection.

Stay: Forever Home is being developed by new mixed reality studio Windup Minds, founded by Oculus veterans who created classic demos and tutorials (Dreamdeck, Farlands, Toybox, Bogo, First Steps and First Contact).

Stores: Horizon Store

The Midnight Walk

Platforms: Playstation VR 2

Release: May 8, 2025

The Midnight Walk is an extraordinary dark fantasy adventure in which every element was first hand-modeled in clay, then animated using stop-motion technology and scanned in 3D.

You take on the role of a character named "The Burnt One" who befriends the lost lantern creature Potboy. Together, you will explore and illuminate a world full of wonders and horrors. You will have to outwit many monsters who are out to devour your little friend's flame. Along the way, you will experience five stories about fire and darkness, in which numerous strange characters appear.

The game can be played with or without a VR headset.

At the State of Play in February 2025, the studio announced the release date and a new gameplay trailer.

Stores: Steam, Playstation Store

The Smurfs - Flower Defense

Platforms: Meta Quest 3 and 3S

Release: May 2025

According to developer Kalank Games, The Smurfs - Flower Defense combines action, strategy, and storytelling. VR and MR technologies bring the Smurfs to life right in your living room. You must defend them by building defense towers and activating mechanisms in your environment. You also fight alongside the Smurfs by picking them up and dropping them in the right place at the right time.

During each level, you can switch between four established characters: Smurfette, Storm, Brainy and Jokey. You must use their powers skillfully to win. The goal is to free a total of 20 Smurfs and explore iconic locations in the Smurf world. You will face three bosses in spectacular battles: Gargamel, Azrael and the Howlibird.

There are currently no trailers or store links for The Smurfs - Flower Defense!

Wanderer: The Fragments Of Fate

Platforms: Meta Quest, PC VR, Pico, Playstation VR 2

Release: 2025

The Fragments of Fate is a complete remake of the 2022 VR game Wanderer.

Players continue the time travel of Asher Neumann and visit different historical moments to fix anomalies in the timeline.

The game features rich historical settings that allow interaction with famous personalities and significant events. It includes puzzles as well as action-oriented gameplay with stealth and platforming elements.

After several delays, the title will hopefully be released this year.

Stores: Horizon Store, Playstation Store, Steam

Wrath: Aeon of Ruin VR

Platforms: Meta Quest, PC VR, Playstation VR 2

Release: 2025

The VR conversion is based on the 2024 first-person shooter of the same name, which was developed using a modified Quake engine. The game combines the fast-paced gameplay of FPS classics like Doom, Hexen and Quake with role-playing elements.

Team Beef, which has already released a VR mod for the game, is responsible for the VR version. The game's publisher is Flat2VR Studios.

Stores: Steam

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