(Pocket-lint) – Looking for an excuse to buy an Oculus Quest 2? Or just wondering what games will be available to play? Then you’ve come to the right place. 

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There are numerous VR experiences coming in the next few months. Fantastic games to add to the collection of already awesome games available on the platform. So ready your wishlist, because we’re about to take you on an exciting journey of future content. 

Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife

• Game type: Horror
• Publisher: Fast Travel Games
• See the official site

Enjoy a bit more horror in your VR games? Then Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife may be the one for you. You play a wraith – suspended between death and the land of the living. While spending your time trying to find out the truth of how you died when exploring a mysterious mansion. Find out more about this one here. 

Sniper Elite VR

• Game type: Action/shooter
• Publisher: Rebellion
• See it on the Oculus Store

We’ve long been fans of the Sniper Elite games and when word came that there was going to be a new outing in VR we were curious how that would work and what it would look like. If the trailer is anything to go by, it’s going to be absolutely superb. Not only will you be sneaking about with silenced pistols but also sniping and dual-wielding too. Taking out Nazi enemies with supreme accuracy and satisfying trigger action too. 

Pistol Whip: 2089

• Game type: Action/shooter
• Publisher: Cloudhead games
• See the official site

Pistol Whip is already a solid favourite on the Oculus Quest and now there’s a new game coming with a really interesting vibe. Pistol Whip: 2089 is a rhythm-shooter with a gritty sci-fi action vibe and robots to battle. So it’s basically the fight against the Terminators, only in VR and with funky visuals. 

The Climb 2

• Game type: Sport/Exploration
• Publisher: Crytek
• See it on the Oculus Store

Another sequel to another awesome Quest game. The Climb 2 lets you climb (up mountains and such) great heights from the comfort of your home. Staggering views and surprisingly tricky adventure awaits. If you’ve ever wanted to go mountain climbing, but didn’t like the idea of plummeting to your death, then this is the one for you. 

Area Man Lives

• Game type: VR mystery
• Publisher: Numinous Games
• See the official site

Area Man Lives is a VR game with a very hands-on vibe. You’ll be poking and prodding the world in all manner of ways and interacting with it using your voice too. 

“AREA MAN LIVES is a quirky VR game that mixes a comic book world with an over-the-top radio drama. Using your own voice to talk to characters and your high-tech monkey gloves interact with the world, you begin to piece together what’s happening in this decidedly odd town on the Oregon coast. As you live inside a classic radio drama, talk to its invisible characters and interact with the environments the story paints in your mind, you’ll start to notice how your actions inside the station impact your listening audience.”

Hyper Dash

• Game type: Action shooter
• Publisher: Triangle Factory
• See it on the Oculus Store

Hyper Dash is a colourful, fast-paced, team-based shooter. This game is promising the ability to dash and sprint your way around the map and even to use a mini railway too. There are various game modes and the ability to play offline against bots or online with dedicated servers. 

Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual

• Game type: Action adventure
• Publisher: Happy Giant
• See the official game

Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual is a VR adventure game featuring the classic dog and cat duo. It’s being developed by Happy Giant and even features several developers that worked on the original Sam & Max: Hit the Road by LucasArts in 1992. 

“The upcoming VR action-adventure game features the bewilderingly durable comic book duo in either their fourth, seventh, or twentieth video game outing (depending on how you’re counting). After decades of rescuing bigfoots, playing games of high-stakes poker against B-List celebrities, and preserving reality from cosmic nogoodniks, the world-renowned dog and rabbity thing are on a recruitment drive to fatten up the ranks of the Freelance Police… and they’ve come to you for help! Dive head first into the funky world of virtual reality as Sam and Max push you through their mostly-relevant gauntlet of training courses designed to test your mettle and break your brain… and watch out for the hidden menace lurking in the training grounds that may spell doom for us all!”

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Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell

Ubisoft has already dabbled in a few VR games in recent times, with Star Trek Bridge Crew being another solid favourite of ours. Now the company is planning on bringing two of it’s biggest franchises to VR as well. Both Assassin’s Creed and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell are getting the VR treatment at some point soon. 

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Writing by Adrian Willings.