[STEAM] Our Favorite Quest, PC VR, PS VR2 & Apple Vision Pro Games Of 2025

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2025 is nearly over, and this year's seen us explore many new locations across VR and mixed reality. Today, we're highlighting some of our favorites.

Like last year, we're splitting the UploadVR editorial team's top picks for 2025's best titles across three articles. This first one looks toward the best games across four platforms: Apple Vision Pro, PC VR, PlayStation VR2, and Meta Quest. We're also discussing our top immersive entertainment experiences beyond gaming, too.

The next article will focus on mixed reality apps and games, alongside a focus on this year's best uses of hand tracking. Because only fully released games normally count, tomorrow will also include our early access categories.

Finally, our last article features our biggest awards for 2025. In line with last year, this includes the Best VR Game Of The Year across any platform, Best VR Hardware, Best Developer, Best Multiplayer, Best Virtual Place, and Most Anticipated VR Game for 2026.

So, let's begin with the first round for our best of 2025 awards.

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Best Exploratory Experience

2025's been another eye-opener in how filmmakers use immersive tech to deliver compelling narratives. On Apple Vision Pro in particular, Apple Immersive Video saw projects like the

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Some experiences touch upon heavier themes:

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used VRChat to cover a life-saving friendship,

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examined Singapore's history, while

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encourages introspection. Other notable projects include

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This year's award goes to

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, a free-roaming VR experience based on a Taiwanese short story. While you can't influence what happens, most scenes are fully explorable as you witness the narrative unfold. It feels like walking into a movie, going that extra immersive mile while backing that up with a compelling narrative.

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Favorite New Apple Vision Pro Game

Apple developers only started supporting tracked controllers near the end of 2025 as games like

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started supporting the input method. Big name title Glassbreakers made its way to Apple Vision Pro in 2025, alongside the winner of Apple's own selection for best of the year, puzzler

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Gears & Goo from Resolution Games is our winner for Best New Apple Vision Pro Game. Resolution's developers adapted tower defense to Apple's gaze and pinch interface with a challenging multi-hour campaign, and we'd love to see

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in the future.

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Favorite New Quest Game

Even without a new Quest headset launch, this year certainly hasn't lacked for games across Meta's standalone ecosystem.

Many of 2025's best Quest games left it late. Alongside big names like

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, these last few months also saw

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arrive. Still,

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ensured the rest of the year had its fill too.

There can only be one winner, and

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is 2025's Quest Game of the Year. Fireproof Games delivered what we considered to be an “utterly engrossing supernatural VR adventure” with strong gameplay design and some of the best visuals we've seen yet on Quest 3.

It's a highly worthy follow-up to Fireproof's previous hit,

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, and we'd dearly love to see more of this world in the future.

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Favorite New PC VR Game

All eyes might be on Valve with next year's

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launch, but 2025's still seen some great PC VR releases. Leading a handful of exclusives were

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They were joined by multiplatform hits like Of Lies and Rain,

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, Demeo x D&D, Arken Age, Reach, Thief VR, Ghost Town, and

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. That's before mentioning slightly older games coming to PC VR like

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For 2025,

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is our PC VR Game of the Year. Flat2VR Studios' exhilarating conversion of RyseUp Studios' 2023 FPS roguelite feels like it was natively designed for the platform, and we called it “an instant classic” in our review.

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Favorite New PlayStation VR2 Game

It's another year when PlayStation VR2 relied on third party publishers -

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aside - and the hits continued coming. 2025 provided a strong library like

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, Of Lies and Rain, Demeo x D&D, Reach, Lumines Arise,

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, and Roboquest VR. We're also not forgetting

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, which has gradually improved with updates.

For 2025,

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is our PlayStation VR2 Game of the Year. VitruviusVR delivered a strong sci-fi action-adventure with tactile VR-first gameplay design. While it's also a solid PC VR and Quest 3 game, Arken Age benefits from Sony's headset with strong haptic feedback and PS5 Pro enhancements. Our app

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