The 5 Best Cross-Play Multiplayer Games for Rift, Vive and PSVR

The 5 Best Cross-Play Multiplayer Games for Rift, Vive and PSVR
Single-player missions perhaps intriguing experiences on their own in VR, but when the campaign’s done too the AI foes have been killed, you need to know that when you sooner or later hit that ‘multiplayer’ tuner that the developers have lead the greatest product of players achievable to help ensure a vigorous wired playerbase. Here we take up games that will let you play together—be it on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and here and there PlayStation VR too.

Arizona Sunshine is a first-person zombie shooter that lets you play through a heart-pumping campaign in two-player co-op, or up to 4 players in ‘horde mode’. For an insanely fun game though, cross-play is awfully fickle to sort at first. Multiplayer is easiest when you’re dealing with the Steam version of the game, as VOIP isn’t available between different versions including the Rift-only version obtained from the Oculus Store. You can however link up with your buddy by using a third party VOIP app like Mumble or Team Speak failing that. Unfortunately the PSVR version is a lonely island, and doesn’t offer cross-play with Rift or Vive.Social apps are a fun way to talk and interact with people in VR, but if you don’t have something fun to do while you’re actually there, the novelty ultimately wears off. Anti Gravity’s Rec Room is a great way to experience simple games like paintball or dodge ball, not to mention their ‘Quests’ which let you battle with medieval weaponry against monsters through a cartoony Middle Ages redressing of a high school—all while you have a chat with people from all over the world, or just your best buddies. Did we mention it was free. Yeah, we can’t believe it either.

You don’t must be a Trekkie (or Trekker) to see why sedentary at the link of a star ship, consistently enthralling down unfavorable aliens is a honestly intriguing way to lose an integrated afternoon/evening. With its 4-player multiplayer, you can suffer the game’s half-dozen movement missions, or alternatively adventure an vast estimate of procedurally-generated missions in the class of separate Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PSVR-owners. Created by Ubisoft’s Red Storm Entertainment, Star Trek: Bridge Crew [9/10] yield it as long as to say you’ve been station no man’s gone previously. Get next the society is still buzzing.

CCP Games’ arcade-style dogfighter Eve Valkyrie (2016) isn’t decelerate down all ramification of distance sims like Elite Dangerous (2014), and focuses over dropping you candidly into the twisty-turny time battles you popularized blindness best seller streak like Star Wars. CCP is regularly updating ever therefore its bureaucrat release on HTC Vive in 2016, and has genuinely reinforce in the pace from there on with the enhancement of Carrier Assault, Wormholes, and a today planet-based updated chosen Ground Rush.


Although technically approving plan leader, either/or a HOTAS or gamepad is a more easy warrant Valkyrie, and proves afterlife one of the easiest games to launch for vigorous, but harsh dogfighting sessions. We suffer also detail there‘s quite of a trouble when it comes to forming cross-platform divisions: you can’t. Many society amiss conclusion it was achievable when CCP said in their info plate on squadrons that “a aviator will have the benefit to persuade suitable four friends forthcoming an amount of [the squadron]. The free troop members will be populated from a players Oculus Home, PlayStation Network and Steam friends list.” What CCP failed to recount frequent is unprofitable to add a individual from a strange friends list. If you own an Rift or Vive howbeit, and invest on Steam, you’re virtuous troop-wise.
Healthy Playerbases, Cross-compatibility Issues

Besides EVE: Valkyrie and Star Trek: Bridge Crew, there are only two other cross-play multiplayer titles that currently work on all three major headsets, and they’re from Ubisoft; Werewolves Within and Eagle Flight. Speaking from anecdotal evidence, both Werewolves and Eagle Flight have had difficulties maintaining consistent player numbers. This doesn’t mean they aren’t fun in their own right, but they’ve been sorely neglected by Ubisoft as Werewolves Within’s latest update was in January 2017 and Eagle Flight’s last update was before it was even released. No additional content, maps, re-balancing, or responses to player feedback have been made; it’s no wonder people got tired and moved on to greener digital pastures.

Conversely, Vive and Rift however are somewhat conjoined twins in all of this VR business. With an HTC Vive and ReVive at your disposal, hypothetically speaking all Oculus Rift multiplayer titles are defacto cross-play capable. And since most, if not all, SteamVR titles allow for Oculus Touch emulation, Rift owners only need a third tracking sensor to replicate the Vive’s impressive tracking volume and make use of room-scale games originally designed for the Vive. So cross-play between Rift and Vive is basically a non-issue if you put your money and mind to the problem. With Echo Arena on the horizon, ReVive and native Rift users are poised to dethrone the lowest ranking.


With new players though comes the possibility of a rediscovery of older games that have sat on the shelf for months, so there’s no telling what multiplayer games will take off when prices drop like the recent Oculus Rift + Touch sale and freshly evangelized VR nuts rush into old favorites.