Why Phantom: Covert Ops is one of the most immersive VR games of 2020

I’ll confess, I wasn’t sure nDreams was capable of pulling off its ambitions for Phantom: Covert Ops.

For years the U.K.-based VR developer, one of the first brave/crazy enough to dedicate itself exclusively to the platform, seemed to zig-zag from near miss to significantly wider miss. The Assembly was a good-natured story-driven adventure that felt old before its time, and Shooty Fruity provided likable produce-murder entertainment for as long as that sounds like it would last. The less said about Danger Goat, the better. Nearly a decade on from its first VR experiments, it feels like the studio hasn’t built the reputation it sought so long ago.