Somehow VR games were a highlight of my week | Kaser Focus

It’s been an interesting week — heck, it’s been an interesting month. We’re wrapping up the busiest time of the year in the games industry, when the major companies have all come out with, if not their entire slate of upcoming games, then at least their games for the rest of the year. Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and everyone else at Summer Game Fest has had their big show. However, there was apparently one more group of games that had something to show us: The VR crowd. As such, we got the UploadVR Summer Showcase this week, and it was one of my favorite parts of the week.

The games on offer were fairly diverse — we got Pencil!, a mixed-reality app that teaches users how to draw; By Grit Alone, a horror FPS set on a derelict spaceship; and Hide the Corpse, a 70s-aesthetic game in which you must … well, hide a corpse. My favorites were probably Maestro, a rhythm game where you’re conducting an orchestra and Cold VR, an inverse Superhot where time moves when you stand still. Usually I’m fairly bearish about VR’s prospect’s generally (and the rumors that Sony’s interest in PSVR2 is dwindling don’t help). But it’s hard not to feel cheerful when the people who make VR games have created such ambitious and varied trailers.