Got a Samsung Gear VR? Hungry for new games and experiences? We’re rounding up recent Oculus Store releases for fans of the mobile VR platform. A bumper roundup this week: highlights include Cube-inspired puzzler Neverout, comedy VR film experience BUTT’s: The VR Experience and take a walk in space with Escape Velocity.
Content for Samsung’s Gear VR platform is moving from a trickle to a steady flow in the wake of the recent retail consumer release. So, we thought Gear VR owners would appreciate a round-up of new content to be found on the Oculus Store on a regular basis.
Here’s our latest instalment for releases up to 28th January 2016.
BUTTS: The VR Experience (video)
“BUTTS: The VR Experience” is an animated short about love, trust and learning what it’s like to be free. Full of brightness and color, this experience will make you laugh and cry, and will return you to a place of childlike bliss.
- Developer: Tyler Hurd
- Price: Free
Escape Velocity (game)
It’s the year 2038 and you’re sent on a routine mission to the ISS, but things don’t go as planned. Use your astronaut training to conduct a spacewalk and complete the mission.
- Developer: Setapp
- Price: $2.99
Neverout (game)
Neverout is a brand new style of puzzle game. Taking place in a small, claustrophobic room, you must find your out. But beware, the rooms are not what they appear to be!
- Developer: Setapp
- Price: $7.99
See Also: Review: ‘Neverout’ a VR Puzzler Inspired by Cult Movie ‘Cube’
Nomades +/- 5 Meters Interactive VR (video)
Join BUNNI as he takes you on an interactive exploration of seascapes and explains the effects of pollution on the world’s oceans, from coral reefs to shark-invested waters to ice-covered seas.
- Developer: NomadesTV
- Price: Free
Last Week’s Releases (w/c Jan 21, 2016)
I Am You (video)
Experience an intimate story like never before – through the eyes of the character. Follow a young couple who discovers a new crowdfunded app that lets them live inside each other’s bodies.
- Developer: Cinehackers
- Price: $2.99
Dead End Alley (game)
Pull the starter-cord on your chainsaw and let the carnage begin! This is Dead End Alley and no one gets out of alive.
- Developer: Cry Havoc Games
- Price: $1.99
BASKHEAD (game)
Play basketball like you’ve never played before! This time you aren’t the player, or even the ball – you’re the hoop! Balls will be flying at your head. Your goal is to catch them all, in rhythm and with skill.
with skill!
- Developer: VRLINES
- Price: $3.99
Pulsar Arena (game)
Pulsar Arena is a rhythm-based shooter controlled entirely by head tracking that takes aspects of tug-of-war and hot potato and wraps them up in a musical adventure in space.
- Developer: Justin Moravetz
- Price: $2.99