Oculus Confirms Games Line Up at Launch

A lineup of thirty games has been revealed to be coming to the Oculus Rift as it launches towards the end of March 2016.

Oculus has published on its site a list of 30 games that are releasing on or around March 28, 2016, along with the Facebook-owned virtual reality gear.

The games to be released on the Oculus Rift include a wide range of titles, from big name franchises like Project CARS, Rock Band VR and Elite Dangerous, as well as a number of lesser-known and new IPs.

In addition to the release details, Oculus has also provided a three-stage method of clarifying the comfort intensity of the virtual reality experiences found within the games. These are ‘comfortable’, ‘moderate’ and ‘intense’. Presumably, these refer to the depth of the VR experience and amount the games withdraw players from the real world.

Eurogamer reported that ‘intense’ games—like Project CARS and EVE Valkyrie—are mostly first person or have fast moving third person camerawork. ‘Moderate’ games — like The Climb — have slower moving camera angles, whereas ‘comfortable’ games have fixed camera setups, like Pinball FX2 VR and Chronos.

Despite the undoubtedly high cost of developing games on the brand new Oculus technology, many of the revealed games have reasonably low price tags. Polygon calculated that the thirty games’ mean average price comes to a cost of $21.65, ranging from $4.99 (Adventure Time: Magic Man’s Head Games) to $59.99 (for Elite Dangerous and EVE Valkyrie). Polygon also noted that some of the games are free to play.

Alongside the thirty games set to be released with the Oculus headset on 28th March 2016, an additional eleven games have been announced for release at a later date. Crytek’s The Climb is due in April, with four more games also on the way for a spring release and an additional six games with unconfirmed release dates.

	Title	Developer	Retail Price
1.	Adrift	Three One Zero	$19.99
2.	Adventure Time: Magic Man's Head Games	Turbo Button	$4.99
3.	AirMech: Command	Carbon Games	$39.99
4.	Albino Lullaby	Ape Law	$9.99
5.	Audio Arena	Skydome Studios	$9.99
6.	Project CARS	Slightly Mad Studios	$49.99
7.	Chronos	Gunfire Games	$49.99
8.	Darknet	E McNeil	$9.99
9.	Dead Secret	Robot Invader	$14.99
10.	Defense Grid 2 Enhanced VR Edition	Hidden Path Entertainment	$29.99
11.	Dreadhalls	White Door Games	$9.99
12.	Elite Dangerous: Deluxe Edition	Frontier Developments	$59.99
13.	Esper 2	Coatsink	$9.99
14.	EVE Valkyrie Founder's Pack	CCP Games	$59.99
15.	Fly to KUMA	Gunfire Games	$14.99
16.	EVE Gunjack	CCP Games	$9.99
17.	Herobound SC	Gunfire Games	$9.99
18.	Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes	Steel Crate Games	$14.99
19.	Lucky's Tale	Playful	n/a
20.	Omega Agent	Fireproof Games	$14.99
21.	Radial G	Tammeka Games	$24.99
22.	Rooms	HandMade Games	$14.99
23.	Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe VR	Agharta Studio	$9.99
24.	Smashing the Battle	One-Man Studios	$19.99
25.	The Vanishing of Ethan Carter	The Austronauts	n/a
26.	Vektron Revenge	Ludovic Texier	$9.99
27.	VR Tennis Online	COLOPL	$24.99
28.	Pinball FX2 VR	Zen Studios	$14.99
29.	BlazeRush	Targem Games	n/a
30.	Windlands	Psytec Games Ltd	$19.99

A teaser trailer detailing the upcoming games can be viewed here on Oculus’ official Youtube channel.

Related Topics: Oculus Rift

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