This not-quite-a-sequel to final 12 months’s Alliance Peacefighter requires and rewards endurance.
Alliance Peacefighter, an X-Wing and Wing Commander impressed story-driven house sim, simply arrived in mid 2025, so it was shocking to see one other sport within the universe pop up so quickly. Developer City Logic Video games clarified that Battle for the Frontier is extra of a facet story, a “standalone journey” set in the identical universe.
What’s it?: A narrative-driven house simulation.
Platforms: PC VR
Launch Date: February 12, 2026 (demo)
Developer/Writer: City Logic Video games
Value: free (demo)
The Alliance universe video games are hybrid titles, playable on flatscreen and in VR. I performed this demo each methods and whereas the VR model requires a steeper studying curve, it’s completely the extra rewarding solution to play. Battle for the Frontier helps full movement controls, so having spent a whole bunch of hours dogfighting in video games like No Man’s Sky and the Warplanes sequence, I largely felt proper at house. Utilizing the flight stick, throttle, and two sensors on the sprint to regulate energy between velocity, shields, and weapons all felt very pure.
Alliance Tales: Battle For the Frontier Screenshots captured by UploadVR
Battle for the Frontier’s controls are very delicate out of the gate and the slightest twitch in your flight stick will ship you spiraling. It took fairly a while to wonderful tune the settings and practice myself to make extra refined actions. This requires lots of endurance and trial and error. Fortunately, if killed in battle, the sport has the choice to respawn in the identical place and proceed the battle. There are additionally a number of issue settings, choices to regulate how properly your pleasant AIs carry out in fight, and even an invincible mode for anybody who desires to expertise the story with out dying in any respect.
My PC makes use of a Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and an RTX 5070 Ti GPU.
The gameplay was carried out utilizing a Meta Quest 3 by way of the Digital Desktop on the Excessive preset with the in-game graphics turned to the very best setting.
You could find the minimal and really helpful specs on the Steam web page to be taught extra.
Visually, this isn’t a feast for the eyes. It seems okay, however nothing mind-blowing. Up shut, the ships (and nothing within the sport, actually) do not need a large amount of element, however one thing has gone terribly flawed in the event you’re spending quite a lot of time proper up on a ship to start with. There aren’t any cease and stare in awe moments right here, disappointing for an area sim, however the whole lot seems clear within the headset with no notable efficiency points to talk of.
Alliance Tales: Battle for the Frontier is an area fight simulation and isn’t really helpful for newer VR customers because of the intense motion related to flight. There are a number of choices to make the sport much less intense, together with movement vignettes and digicam shake toggles.
With out spoiling the story, the demo may be very easy. There’s the introductory dialog to clarify the mission, then dogfight, dialog, repeat twice extra, and achieved. All of it ends on a cliffhanger that I feel would have landed higher had I performed the unique sport, however the level of an excellent demo is to both garner a wishlist or an outright buy. In that respect, mission completed. I wishlisted each Alliance video games after ending this demo. It is not good, nevertheless it’s adequate to have earned that.
Fight in Alliance Tales: Battle for the Frontier captured by UploadVR
Alliance Battle for the Frontier might be wishlisted now on Steam and the demo is obtainable free of charge. The unique Alliance Peacefighter is out now on Steam for $23.99 and in addition has a free demo out there.
Replace 3/3/26: This text initially erroneously listed Star Wars Squadrons as being one other sport with VR movement controls and has been edited to repair that mistake.
