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PlayStation VR Worlds
Action 13 October 2016
A set of five varied games developed by Sony Computer Entertainment, created specifically for the PlayStation VR hardware and serving first and foremost to demonstrate the headgear's capabilities.
Home is Where One Starts...
Adventure 13 May 2015
A short first-person exploration game designed for VR headsets. The title of the game, Home is Where One Starts… comes from the poem Four Quartets by Thomas S. Eliot. The game is a sort of poetic visual story with such themes as childhood, memories, and hope. Interestingly, this is a work of basically one man, who only used the help of his closest family. Home is Where One Starts… tells a story of a teenage girl who leaves her home for school early in the morning, but misses her bus.
ZED
Adventure 04 June 2019
A first-person exploration adventure game developed by Eagre Games led by Chuck Carter, the co-creator of the cult Myst series. The player assumes the role of a Dreamer whose task is to piece together the most important memories and pass them on to his granddaughter before his imminent death.
Blackwood Crossing
Adventure 17 February 2017
An adventure game developed by PaperSeven. The plot was written by Oliver Reid-Smith (the creator of the script for the well-received The Room), and it focuses on the relations of orphaned siblings: Scarlett and her younger brother, Finn. When the girl enters adolescence, their relations worsen. While traveling on a train, the protagonists meet a mysterious creature that lets them look at their past from a different perspective.
Lantern
Adventure 15 November 2016
An unusual exploration game developed by Italian studio Storm in a Teacup. The plot of the game focuses on an Asian princess whose tears caused the world around her to lose its colors and start dying. The player assumes the role of a small lantern and is tasked with returning the life and colors to the realm by making everyone remember about the power of love. There are four areas to visit, each with different architecture and environment.
Seasons of Heaven
Adventure canceled
An action-adventure game developed by independent studio Any Arts Production for Nintendo Switch. Seasons of Heaven is based on a novel written by Nico Augusto. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world and focuses on a group of survivors who are trying to stay alive in a dangerous environment. The player controls two characters: Yannem, a boy with Asperger’s syndrome, and Ani, his faithful dog companion.
Leaving Lyndow
Adventure 08 February 2017
An exploration adventure game by indie team Eastshade Studios. Leaving Lyndow is set in the universe of the Easthade game. The protagonist is a girl named Clara, who spends the last day on her family island before embarking on a long sea journey. The gameplay in Leaving Lyndow focuses on exploring the surroundings, interacting with the objects you find, and talking to NPCSs — this is how you learn of Clara's past. There are also various minigames, which help you uncover the plot step by step.
InnerSpace
Adventure 16 January 2018
An unique exploration-oriented game by indie studio PolyKnight Games. The gameplay in InnerSpace focuses on traversing a world surrounded by water, where the laws of physics are reversed, and the locals live in cities built on the remnants of earlier civilizations. You play as a cartographer searching for artifacts and discovering previously unknown places to learn the history of this universe.
Scanner Sombre
Adventure 26 April 2017
An adventure game with horror features, focused around exploration and with unusual visuals. The work of Introversion Software’s team delivered a title set in a system of underground caves and corridors, wrapped in utter darkness. With no flashlights or torches of any kind, we can only navigate using laser-scanning system LIDAR, which displays our surroundings as three-dimensional shapes formed by sparkling points.
All the Delicate Duplicates
Adventure 17 February 2017
An experimental adventure game with exploration elements created by two independent developers: Mez Breeze and Andy Campbell. The main protagonist of All the Delicate Duplicates is John - a computer scientist and a single father of Charlotte, who accompanies him on his adventure. One day, the man receives some mysterious items - journals and sketches - as an inheritance from an enigmatic relative of his - Mo.
Wilson's Heart
Adventure 25 April 2017
A psychological VR thriller developed by Twisted Pixel Games. The players are taken to 1940s, assuming control of a World War I veteran who suddenly wakes up in an abandoned part of the somber facility in which he has been placed while awaiting a heart surgery. He quickly discovers that the surgery was completed, replacing his heart with an artificial device of an unknown origin.
Aporia: Beyond The Valley
Adventure 19 July 2017
Aporia: Beyond The Valley is a first-person exploration adventure game developed by the Dutch studio Investigate North. The game takes place in a mysterious Ez'rat Qin valley that once was the home of a great civilization. Now, only ruins remain there. Our hero wakes up after hundreds of years of slumber, suffering from amnesia. His task is to find out the truth about himself and his old world's past. We observe the game from a first-person perspective.
The Fidelio Incident
Adventure 23 May 2017
An adventure game featuring elements of the so-called walking simulators and developed by the independent studio Act 3 Games. The protagonist - Stanley, is a man whose past is unclear to the player. The plane he had been using to travel with his wife crashed on a frozen island near the coast of Iceland. The two survived the crash, but end up separated. The protagonist's goal is to reach his wife who is trapped in the wreck that is located on top of a mountain.
Maize
Adventure 01 December 2016
A light-hearted adventure game, inspired by Monty Python’s surreal sense if humour, and the weirdest cases from the X-Files TV series. Maize was developed by Finish Line Games – an independent studio, which debuted in 2014 with Cel Damage HD. The action of the game takes place on an abandoned American farm, which is located above an underground research facility. The player assumes the role of a corncob that gained self-conciousness and human feelings as a result of a crazy experiment.
Peregrin
Adventure 08 August 2017
Created by independent studio Domino Digital Limited, Peregrin is an exploration adventure game with action game elements. The inspiration for Peregrin creators came from the Hebrew beliefs as well as a number of science fiction and fantasy stories. The game’s plot is set after the cataclysm that concluded the war between humans and gods. The surviving remnants have split into large and small tribes.
Ode
Adventure 27 November 2017
Ode is an experimental third-person perspective platform game. The player assumes control of Joy – a light-threading star which explores fantasy worlds and meets various beings, plants and lifeforms that emit their unique sounds and visual effects.
In the Valley of Gods
Adventure canceled
In the Valley of Gods is an adventure game, in which the players assume the role of a female adventure seeker who joins her forces with her old female partner. Together they explore the ruins hidden deep in the Egyptian deserts. During the game, the players mostly explore and discover the story. The title also features decisions that impact the plot.
Jupiter & Mars
Adventure 23 April 2019
Jupiter & Mars is an underwater exploration game for PlayStation VR, developed by indie studio Tigertron. The game is set in the near future and you play as a Dolphin named Jupiter, traversing the ocean that has been devastated by the actions of man.
The Station
Adventure 20 February 2018
An exploration-focused adventure game with FPP view, developed by The Station studio – an experienced team consisting of people who worked on titles like Crash Bandicoot, League of Legends, Destiny and the Prototype series. Its story has been set in a distant future and focuses on the activities of Axiom corporation, which finds the first alien civilization after years of searching.
CAT Interstellar
Adventure 26 May 2017
CAT Interstellar is a science fiction adventure/exploration game developed by the indie studio Ionized Games. The game takes place in a distant future where mankind tries to terraform Mars. We control a DOG V4 drone that oversees the process. As we play and progress through the game, we discover more secrets of the Red Planet. The action is presented from a third-person point of view.
Fractured Minds
Adventure 14 November 2019
An adventure game about anxiety and mental illness. In Fractured Minds, players have to face the problems faced by people suffering from various mental disorders on a daily basis.
Eastshade
Adventure 13 February 2019
Eastshade is an adventure exploration game, in which, apart from visiting locations and absorbing the plot, you can also craft items and paint pictures of the locations you visit, which is an important aspect of the gameplay.
The Bradwell Conspiracy
Adventure 05 October 2019
Set in the near future, a first-person adventure game in which we try to solve the mystery of the explosion that destroyed the Stonehenge Museum, and the eponymous conspiracy associated with Bradwell Electronics corporation.
Peace Island
Adventure TBA (early access since July 2024)
Peace Island is a charming exploratory game showing the adventures of a gang of nine cats that are trying to solve the mystery of disappearing people from the title island. The production was developed by independent developer Erich Blumrich.