Sadly, most of our family and friends do not personal a VR headset. Fortunately, there are a lot of crossplay hybrid video games you’ll be able to get pleasure from with them.
One of many downsides to multiplayer VR gaming is the dearth of individuals to play with. That is made worse for those who (like me) have zero curiosity in public lobbies and can solely fireplace up a multiplayer recreation when you have a good friend or two out there to affix in.
Each VR title right here, listed in no specific order, has a flatscreen element, be it PC, cell, or console.
Notice: That is on no account a complete record. Be at liberty so as to add any further video games within the dialogue part beneath.
Acron
Acron is an eight-versus-one social gathering recreation the place the VR participant is a tree making an attempt to guard its golden acorns from a military of squirrels piloted by gamers on a cell app. That is an accessible recreation (no stick-based motion) the place the headset may be handed round permitting everybody to play because the tree. If you do not have eight buddies, the lacking squirrels may be crammed in with AI bots. The sport solely requires two people to play.
Acron: Assault of the Squirrels Overview: A Nutty Delight Of A VR Social gathering Recreation
Decision Video games may need cracked it right here. The Swedish studio’s again catalogue, overwhelming in quantity, is stuffed with cheery video games, all with a faint smack of commerce. Whether or not it’s freemium experiments or tie-ins with irritating animals, the studio (notably shaped by Sweet Crush developer Tommy Palm) has struggled
Maintain Speaking And No person Explodes
A pioneering VR social gathering recreation, Maintain Speaking first launched for Gear VR in 2015. The participant within the headset has a ticking time bomb in entrance of them with a number of panels that need to be defused. The individual(s) outdoors the headset frantically scans a doc linked on the sport’s web site, giving the VR participant directions on find out how to clear up every panel earlier than time runs out.
The sport escalates by including extra panels to the bomb and distractions within the room like sounds and flickering lights to disorient the VR participant. Along with Quest and PC VR, the sport is out there on PS VR1 and a number of gaming consoles.
Carly And The Reaperman
Carly and the Reaperman is a darkish comedy co-op platformer. The VR participant is the Reaperman, an enormous floating cranium that may transfer objects to help Carly, managed by one other participant through a free PC companion app. Communication is essential on this recreation, particularly in later ranges when platform destroying ghosts and time delicate lasers increase the problem.
Carly And The Reaperman Overview – VR’s Finest Asymmetrical Co-Op Overcomes Its Scrappy Aspect
Carly and the Reaperman’s successful central mechanic is bolstered by nice degree design and versatile choices, serving to you overlook its scrappier facet. Extra in our Carly and the Reaperman overview! Even when it initially launched in 2018, Carly and the Reaperman’s concepts weren’t particularly new. We’ve
Amongst Us 3D VR
Platforms: Steam, Quest, Pico, PS VR2
Previously a VR unique, Schell Video games’ port of the murderous recreation of deception was renamed Amongst Us 3D and launched on PC in 2025. The brand new model, which just lately launched a definitive version, helps crossplay throughout all of its platforms.
Amongst Us VR Overview: Deception & Detection In One other Dimension
Amongst Us VR is out there now on Steam and the Quest Retailer from Schell Video games. Is that this VR’s new social gathering recreation or will it grow to be a ghost ship? Learn our full overview beneath. Schell Video games is about as veteran a VR recreation studio as you could find. Its two
Elsewhere Electrical
Similar to Maintain Speaking and No person Explodes, Elsewhere Electrical is a co-op escape room puzzle recreation with one participant in VR navigating the room and the opposite on a cell app guiding them by means of. We reviewed the sport, saying it was difficult, however held again by an absence of correct tutorials and native in-game voice chat. The latter isn’t a difficulty for native multiplayer, however distant gamers might want to use a 3rd social gathering app like Discord.
Elsewhere Electrical Overview: A Difficult, Intriguing Escape Room
Elsewhere Electrical is a difficult, intriguing co-op escape room puzzler that’s out now for VR and cell.
VR Giants
VR Giants is an uneven co-op platformer akin to Carly and the Reaperman, albeit with a a lot brighter aesthetic and tone. Once more, the VR participant is the titular ‘big’ and the participant on PC is a tiny human navigating obstacles, gathering cash, and hitting checkpoints to succeed in the top of the extent. Not like Carly, the PC participant can use the large as a platform and mode of transportation. To keep away from cheesing ranges by merely selecting up the human and waltzing to the top, the large is tethered in place.
Panoptic
Platforms: Steam
Image taking part in conceal ‘n search in VR, however you might be (as soon as once more) an enormous chasing a diminutive determine, the PC participant counterpart. A sequel was introduced on the Spring 2026 VR Video games Showcase that expands to 4 tiny PC gamers.
Panoptic Overview: Artistic Concepts Highlight Asymmetrical Multiplayer
Panoptic has been floating round in numerous pre-release varieties for a short while now, but it surely’s undoubtedly an ideal recreation for a pandemic. It’s a two-player recreation the place one wears the headset in an effort to vaporize the opposite, who’s traversing the panorama on their laptop. Panoptic
Demeo (sequence)
Demeo is a sequence of tabletop role-playing video games for as much as 4 gamers. The unique Demeo contains a solid of seven authentic characters in archetypal tabletop position taking part in recreation courses (paladin, ranger, rogue, and so on.) adventuring by means of 5 three-level books that comprise a full story marketing campaign. Demeo Battles is a 1×1 or 2×2 PVP model that includes the identical heroes and creatures from the unique recreation. Demeo x Dungeons and Dragons: Battlemarked returns to the co-op gameplay of the unique recreation, including formally licensed components from Dungeons and Dragons into the Demeo gameplay system.
Demeo is out there on Quest, Steam, Pico, PS VR2, Android XR, and Apple App Retailer.
Demeo Battles is out there on Quest, Steam, Pico, and PS VR2.
Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked is out there on Steam, PS VR2, and Quest.
Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked Overview
Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked is a principally pure crossover and a becoming evolution for the VR tabletop RPG.
Phasmophobia
The affectionately nicknamed ‘Phasmo,’ a co-op ghost searching horror recreation, launched with crossplay VR assist in 2020. PlayStation VR2 followers joined the hunt in 2024 with a hybrid PS5/PS VR2 launch.
Phasmophobia remains to be in Early Entry, however receives common updates.
Phasmophobia Overview-In-Progress: Frighten Your Senses
After 4 years on Steam Early Entry, VR horror hit Phasmophobia nonetheless delivers hours of co-op thrills and it’s out tomorrow on PS VR2.
Social VR Functions
Sadly, now we have to omit Rec Room from this entry since it will likely be shutting down this June. Social VR platforms VRChat and Resonite have flatscreen and VR assist on Steam, so you’ll be able to go world hopping with your folks out and in of your headset.
Resonite is simply out there on Steam. VRChat is out there on Steam, Pico, and Quest.
Notice: some worlds in VRChat usually are not appropriate with standalone headsets and cellphones, so make sure you examine forward in case you are with buddies on a number of platforms.
Tetris Impact: Linked
Platforms: Quest, Steam, PS VR2
Tetris has been round for over forty years and shouldn’t want an introduction. Tetris Impact began as a PlayStation 4 unique with PS VR1 assist in 2018. The ‘Linked’ enlargement added crossplay multiplayer for all platforms in 2021 when it launched on Steam.
Tetris Impact Oculus Quest Overview: Reaching Transcendence In Standalone VR
I’m a life-long fan of the long-lasting line-making recreation Tetris and I used to be excited to see it come to VR with the discharge of Tetris Impact in 2018 on PlayStation 4. I’ll admit, nonetheless, its transfer into VR didn’t actually settle proper with me. That’s, till
No Man’s Sky
Good day Video games’ area epic added a VR mode in August 2019 for Steam and the unique PlayStation VR with full crossplay supported, permitting VR and flatscreen gamers to discover planets and the galaxy collectively.
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