Top 10 VR Games on Steam, May 2020
Greetings VR Fam!
We've scoured the Steam public sales figures for May to bring you the top selling VR games this month. The #1 spot is no surprise, but I am surprised at how long #2 has held out. Let's take a look.
Space Pirate Trainer #10
- Steam Rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (2,206 reviews)
- Multiplayer: Single-Player Only
- Supported Controls: Motion Controllers
- Play Area: Seated / Standing / Room-Scale
- Supported Devices: Index / Vive / Rift / WMR
“Remember those awesome classic arcade cabinets? Imagine if those were immersive... Space Pirate Trainer puts you in one of those; fighting off relentless waves of droids with all the weapons and gadgets you would ever need as a space pirate. You better dodge some of those incoming lasers though, since just using your shields won't get you in the top rankings. Pick up your blasters, put on your sneakers, and dance your way into the Space Pirate Trainer hall of fame.”
Gorn #9
- Steam Rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (5,058 reviews)
- Multiplayer: Single-Player Only
- Supported Controls: Motion Controllers
- Play Area: Room-Scale
- Supported Devices: Index / Vive / Rift / WMR
“GORN is a ludicrously violent VR gladiator simulator, made by Free Lives, the developers of Broforce and Genital Jousting. Featuring a unique, fully physics driven combat engine, GORN combatants will be able to creatively execute their most violent gladiatorial fantasies in virtual reality. Savagely strike down an infinite supply of poorly-animated opponents with all manner of weapons – from swords, maces, and bows to nunchuks, throwing knives, massive two-handed warhammers or even your blood-soaked bare hands. The only limits to the carnage are your imagination and decency, in the most brutal and savage VR face-smashing game ever produced by man.”
Blade and Sorcery #8
- Steam Rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (7,805 reviews)
- Multiplayer: Single-Player Only
- Supported Controls: Motion Controllers
- Play Area: Standing / Room-Scale
- Supported Devices: Index / Vive / Rift / WMR
“The era of the VR weightless, wiggle-sword combat is over. Blade & Sorcery is a medieval fantasy sandbox like no other, focusing on melee, ranged and magic combat that fully utilizes a unique and realistic physics driven interaction and combat system.”
Jet Island #7
- Steam Rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (808 reviews)
- Multiplayer: Single-Player / Online Co-op / Online PvP
- Supported Controls: Motion Controllers
- Play Area: Seated / Standing / Room-Scale
- Supported Devices: Index / Vive / Rift / WMR
“Jet Island is massive open world and you have an arsenal of tools that will allow you to travel through this world at extreme speeds! When standing on your hoverboard, the ground below you becomes frictionless. Perfect for sliding up and down the mountainous terrain. To control the direction of your movement and gain even more speed, you have two wrist mounted jet thrusters. You also have grappling hooks to swing from tall structures and climb up the side of giant monsters. The combination of these tools provide a freedom of movement unlike any other. There are no limits to what you can do. It's the closest feeling to learning how to fly.”
Space Engine #6
- Steam Rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (2,757 reviews)
- Multiplayer: Single-Player Only
- Supported Controls: Motion Controllers / Gamepad / Mouse
- Play Area: Seated / Standing / Room-Scale
- Supported Devices: Index / Vive / Rift / WMR
“SpaceEngine is a 1:1 scale science-based Universe simulator, featuring billions upon billions of galaxies, nebulae, stars, and planets, all shown at their full real-world scale. Explore Earth and our neighboring worlds in the Solar System, orbit a black hole in a galaxy billions of light-years away, or visit anything in between seamlessly, with no transitions.”
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades #5
- Steam Rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (6,265 reviews)
- Multiplayer: Single-Player Only
- Supported Controls: Motion Controllers
- Play Area: Room-Scale
- Supported Devices: Index / Vive / Rift / WMR
“Do you like hotdogs? How about horseshoes? Hand grenades? (everyone likes hand grenades) Anyway, we've got all that, and guns. So if you like cooking, lawn games, and ordnance, this is the VR sandbox game for you.”
IronWolf VR #4
- Steam Rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (539 reviews)
- Multiplayer: Single-Player / Splitscreen Co-op / Splitscreen PvP / Online
- Supported Controls: Motion Controllers
- Play Area: Standing / Room-Scale
- Supported Devices: Index / Vive / Rift / WMR
“IronWolf VR is a roomscale submarine game playable either as singleplayer or online co-op. Unleash torpedoes on enemy ships, shoot down fighters and bombers using anti-aircraft guns, and attempt to survive depth charges dropped by deadly destroyers. Built from the ground up for VR, each part of the submarine has been crafted for the best possible VR experience.”
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted #3
- Steam Rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (2,177 reviews)
- Multiplayer: Single-Player Only
- Supported Controls: Motion Controllers
- Play Area: Seated / Standing
- Supported Devices: Index / Vive / Rift / WMR
“Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of classic and original mini-games set in the Five Nights universe. Survive terrifying encounters with your favorite killer animatronics in a collection of new and classic FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S™ experiences. “Where fantasy and fun come to life!”
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes #2
- Steam Rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (6,175 reviews)
- Multiplayer: Splitscreen Co-op / Splitscreen PvP
- Supported Controls: Motion Controllers / Gamepad
- Play Area: Seated / Standing
- Supported Devices: Index / Vive / Rift / WMR
“You’re alone in a room with a bomb. Your friends, the “Experts”, have the manual needed to defuse it. But there’s a catch: the Experts can’t see the bomb, so everyone will need to talk it out – fast!”
Half-Life Alyx #1
- Steam Rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (24,080 reviews)
- Multiplayer: Single-Player Only
- Supported Controls: Motion Controllers Required
- Play Area: Seated / Standing / Room-Scale
- Supported Devices: Index / Vive / Rift / WMR
“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.”
That's it for our list of top VR games for May. Were you surprised by "Half-Life: Alyx" being #1, or how abut "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" still selling strong in the #2 spot? Anything you want to see here that we didn't include? Sound off in the comments below.
