Single Player Shooters
Note: Great single player shooters tend to be on the expensive side, so we’re offering a few more titles for you to consider beyond the ~$100 target.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – $40
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is one of the best games on Quest, bar none. Tossing the user head-first into a post-apocalyptic New Orleans, you navigate rival gangs, take out walkers with gun or blade, and run at full speed hoping to get back to base before the sun goes down and you’re mobbed to death by the undead. It’s not open world, but you’ll probably forget that considering how large and detailed bespoke levels are. You could also grab the sequel ‘Retribution’ for $40, but the original hits so much cleaner.
‘TWD: Saints & Sinners’ on Quest
Arizona Sunshine 2 – $40
Arizona Sunshine 2 has cross-play co-op with PSVR 2 and SteamVR, but it’s a great single player game full of zombie-slaying madness. Even if you’re going solo, your canine pal Buddy will help you take down the shambolic baddies and even solve a few environmental puzzles along the way. Kill a stupid amount of zombies in this 5+ hour campaign. We’re soooo close to the Arizona Sunshine Remake launching before updating this piece, which takes all the shellac from the sequel, undoubtedly putting in at a close second to recommending number two.
Fracked – $20
Your new life as an action hero awaits in Fracked. If you’re looking for “pew-pew-pew, ouch, holy shit I’m amazing,” this game’s campaign is short, but worth the immersive blast into your own action movie that lasts around three-ish hours to play from start to finish.
Into the Radius – $30
While we’re still waiting for Into to Radius 2 to get on its feet on Steam, the original Into the Radius is still hit stupid hard two years after its release on Quest. Set in the a blighted, Stalker-inspired zone cut off from the outside world, you battle entities with realistic weapons that you’ll need to clean and maintain. Scrounge, fight, dodge dangerous anomalies, and complete missions on your way to the Radius center to uncover the mystery and promptly get out of dodge.
Resident Evil 4 VR – $40
You might have played it before on flatscreen, but Resident Evil 4 VR for Quest is so good even if you’re not specifically looking for a blast from the past. Fair warning: there’s a bunch of cutscenes that play out like movies in a black void, but it’s still pretty amazing to step into the polished and patently decrepit world of Resident Evil and take on the mantle of un Forastero as you upgrade guns and scramble for health potions at every turn.
SUPERHOT VR – $25
It’s old. They should’ve made another by now. Or like a ton more. Still, it’s hard not to recommend the 2016 hit Superhot VR, which works just like the PC version: every time you move, time moves forward. Stand still, and the world stops. You’d think it would be easy to win against the evil red crystal dudes that run at you, but each movement is death sentence waiting to happen if you’re not careful. Catch guns, shoot, punch, die, repeat until you feel like Neo from The Matrix or John Wick from … John Wick. You’re bound to feel like some version of Keanu Reeves in Superhot VR.