VR Games Showcase: Summer 2025
The VR Games Showcase has returned for its summer edition, having streamed live on YouTube and TikTok Live August 12. Covering upcoming releases for Meta Quest, Playstation VR2, and PC VR systems, the summer showcase serves to both inform gamers and build hype around the next wave of immersive gaming experiences.
Upcoming Titles
The most exciting announcements at any gaming showcase will always be the new titles. Since we’re dealing with virtual reality gaming, some “new” games are in fact VR upgrades from 2D titles. Here is a look at the new games announced and VR updates highlighted at the latest VR Games Showcase.
Tracked: Shoot to Survive
An action-survival shooter with bringing gamers mountaineering, bear chases, helicopter rides, and jungle canyon rope bridge crossings from developers Incuvo (Green Hell VR) and People Can Fly, Tracked: Shoot to Survive comes to Meta Quest 3 and 3s in fall 2025.
Street Gods
A myth-fueled VR action roguelite from Soul Assembly in which you wield the mystical Norse hammer Mjolnir in a dystopian New York City invaded by nine Norse realms. Street Gods is coming to Meta Quest 3 and 3s in Winter 2025
Stellar Cafe
A unique VR experience using no controllers or menus, only voice commands and conversations, Stellar Cafe comes from AstroBeam and features AI-powered robot NPCs. Stelar Cafe is due to launch for Meta Quest in fall 2025.
Vex Mage
An electrifying first-person boomer shooter from Nervous Systems and Fast Travel Games that incorporates classic combat, powerful elemental runes, and extensive multiplayer modes. Vex Mage will hit Meta Quest and SteamVR sometime in 2025.
Lushfoil Photography Sim VR
A tranquil exploration and observation experience from Matt Newell and Annapurna Interactive, Lushfoil Photography Sim (already available in non-VR) lets you visit diverse locations around the world and use your photography skills to capture breathtaking shots. An update that pulls the experience into virtual reality, Lushfoil Photography Sim VR is on its way to SteamVR in 2025.
Forefront
Triangle Factory’s multiplayer “all-out” war launched its Open Alpha Test on the showcase day for 24 hours. Another Open Alpha is set for August 15th to 17th, giving combat fiends a chance to try Forefront for themselves before its eventual launch.
Glassbreakers: Champions Of Moss
A real-time strategy battler from Polyarc, Glassbreakers: Champions Of Moss was confirmed for release Quest and PC in time for the holiday season 2025 on.
Reach
From nDreams Elevation, Reach showed an extended gameplay demo loaded with cinematic reality-crossing action-adventure thrills, which will hit “all major current and forthcoming headsets” later this year.
The Great Unflattening
Flat2VR, which takes non-VR games and brings them into an immersive 3D environment, made several announcements as part of the summer showcase. Trombone Champ, the highly lauded viral sensation from HolyWow, will enter VR via Trombone Champ: Unflattened while 90’s first-person shooter classic, Postal 2, will be unflattened as Postal 2 VR.
Another major announcement detailed a new development initiative. Flat2VR Spark intends to empower mod creators to develop fully licensed VR adaptations of existing games. The studio claims to be receiving more VR adaptation requests from developers than it can currently handle. Flat2VR will handle licensing quality assurance, certification, and technical and platform requirements while day-to-day production will be handled by small groups of expert modders.
The initial wave of Flat2VR Spark projects includes I Am Your Beast VR, The Signal: Stranded on Sirenis, SPRAWL, Stop Dead, and FlatOut 4: Total Insanity.
XR Indies & Friends
Prior to the main showcase, the work of independent developers was the focus of XR Indies & Friends, which offered news of many upcoming VR games.
Coming to (or already on) Meta Quest, cozy VR sandbox Little Planet from VRWOOD, sandbox god simulation How to God from ThoughtFish, and Color-a-Cube by AlterEyes (a Gorn collaboration) add indie goodies to VR’s most popular platform.
My Monsters by Ludact, Whispers of the Void from ByOwls, Insane Prey’s Rager, Deep Matrix’s Dixotomia, and Detective VR from Studio Chipo y Juan, are all exciting new indies that are hitting both Quest and PC VR platforms in the later months of 2025.
From upstart indies to major new game titles to continuing to keep beloved franchises alive by bringing them into VR, the VR Games Showcase once again proved just how vibrant and productive the world of VR gaming is.