Insomniac's Stormland is its fourth VR title.

Stormland hands-on: Giving you the freedom to soar through the skies in VR

In Stormland, you are an android gardener who traveled to an exotic alien planet to help settle it. But when you get there, you find that the malevolent organization called the Tempest followed you. It killed the settlers and broke your body. Decades later, you reboot. Now you must go through a settlement in the clouds and save the remnants from the Tempest, who have inhabited a settlement in the sky, a place dubbed the Stormland.

This fourth VR game from Insomniac Studios — whose recent Marvel’s Spider-Man is a smash success for the PlayStation 4 — is an interesting sci-fi story that immerses you thanks to the Oculus Rift and Touch. I saw it at an Oculus preview event last week, and it certainly seemed like a bigger commitment from Insomniac and Oculus in a big VR title.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.