With the Steam Summer Sale over as of Thursday morning, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and HTC Vive Pro owners have hopefully found plenty of deals on the virtual reality (VR) games they’ve been waiting to play.
Now, Steam has released its Best of 2018 (So Far) (opens in new tab) lists, breaking down the top sellers, best new releases, most played, and top-selling VR games, to help you figure out what to put on your Wish Lists for the next big sale.
VR headset owners probably won’t be surprised by many of the names on the Top VR games list, which splits games into sales tiers of Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze.
Many of them fall on our lists for best HTC Vive games, best Oculus Rift games and best VR games overall.
Plus, while the big summer sale may be over, but many of the games still have individual discounts, mostly around 25-50% off, to take advantage of.
Valve doesn’t list out specific sales figures and randomizes the order of titles, so we’re listing all of the top-selling VR games alphabetically, with links to the Steam pages so you can save, follow or buy the titles your peers like the most.
Platinum
- Arizona Sunshine (opens in new tab) (2016)
- Beat Saber (opens in new tab) (2018)
- Budget Cuts (opens in new tab) (2018)
- Fallout 4 VR (opens in new tab) (2017)
- GORN (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (opens in new tab) (2016)
- Job Simulator (opens in new tab) (2016)
- Onward (opens in new tab) (2016)
- OrbusVR (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Pavlov (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Superhot VR (opens in new tab) (2017)
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR (opens in new tab) (2018)
Gold
- Audioshield (opens in new tab) (2016)
- I Expect You to Die (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Raw Data (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Rick and Morty Virtual Rick-ality (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Sairento VR (opens in new tab) (2018)
- Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Space Pirate Trainer (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Sprint Vector (opens in new tab) (2018)
- Stand Out: VR Battle Royale (opens in new tab) (2017)
- The Talos Principle VR (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Tilt Brush (opens in new tab) (2016)
- Virtual Desktop (opens in new tab) (2016)
Silver
- BoxVR (opens in new tab) (2017)
- DOOM VFR (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Dead Effect 2 VR (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Duck Season (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Fruit Ninja (opens in new tab) (2016)
- In Death (opens in new tab) (2018)
- Knockout League (opens in new tab) (2018)
- L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Moss (opens in new tab) (2018)
- OVRdrop (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Richie’s Plank Experience (opens in new tab) (2017)
- Star Trek: Bridge Crew (opens in new tab) (2017)
- The Gallery: Episode 1 (opens in new tab)
- The Mage’s Tale (opens in new tab) (2018)
- VTOL VR (opens in new tab) (2017)
Check Valve’s link (opens in new tab) for the longer list of Bronze-selling VR titles.
One thing to note is that many of these titles came out in 2016 and 2017. Does this mean that 2018 VR titles aren’t attracting as much interest, or simply that older games are hitting better Steam numbers because of steeper discounts? We’ll have to wait and see how these figures compare to the end-of-2018 list.
Vive owners should also check out the Vive Summer Sale 2018, which ends July 8, and includes the option to get a free copy of Moss VR with a Viveport subscription.
Via Road to VR (opens in new tab)
- You can now see exactly how much you’ve spent on Steam sales
- Here are the best up-to-date deals on Oculus Rift