The PS VR has been out for a while now and there are so many virtual reality gems to play. Sony boasted that the PS VR would come with 50 games at launch, and they weren't far off. That's quite the advantage PS VR has over the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive and we've already got plenty we'd really recommend.

To save you wasting any of your hard-earned dosh, we've played through as many of the PS VR games as we could get our face into and have outlined the ones that we think are the best right now.

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1. Playroom VR

Price: FREE

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What's better than a free PS VR game? A free PS VR game that can be enjoyed by the whole household, that's what.

Like The Playroom before it, Playroom VR is a collection of mini-games that feature the little robot minions that apparently live inside your Dualshock 4 making it all work. But the difference here is that you can play in the VR headset, but anyone else in your home can jump in with a DualShock 4 sitting next to you if they want.

Whether you're playing Cat and Mouse, having adventures in the Ghost House or Robot Rescue missions or exploring the Wild West, there's plenty of content here to keep you beaming and your VR onlookers entertained.

5 5

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2. Rez: Infinite

Price: £24.99

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This is the way Rez is meant to be played. Not only does the creator say this is his dream come true, but it's also evident from the way you drift through each lovely moment with the colours exploding and pulsating around your head.

If you're not familiar with Rez: Infinite it's what they're calling the ultimate form of Rez, where you control a digital woman who flies through computer systems analysing and destroying anything that tries to stop her. You can play so all you have to do is move your head to target foes and hold down X to chain together targeted attacks.

It's simple enough, but when you combine the hypnotic trance music, mutating colours and geometric shapes, and the whole thing being in VR, it's a very powerful experience.

In fact, the only bad thing we have to say about it is that when you die – which consists of you reverting to a ball-like state and then disappearing altogether – you have to go back to the very start of the area. And with each area being quite a lengthy affair, it can be very frustrating when you've got the boss down to 1cm of health and it catches you off guard.

5 5

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3. SUPERHOT VR

Price: £19.99

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Originally an indie release for PC, SUPERHOT's premise is simple: a first-person shooter where time only moves when you do. Remaining motionless allows you to take your time and plan where to throw the next bottle or fire the next spray of bullets. It's simple, wonderfully stylised, and a sublime blend of tactics and trigger twitching.

The concept translates perfectly to VR; in fact we enjoyed it a lot more. No other virtual reality game makes us feel quite so graceful when dispatching hordes of enemies.

Don't miss out, SUPERHOT is a virtual reality experience like no other, and a fine addition to your growing PSVR collection.

4.5 5

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4. Batman Arkham VR

Price: £20.99

Now, don't try to deny it, everyone's had that dream where they could "be the Bat". Can't you just see yourself donning the cowl and kicking some bad guy butt? Well, with Batman Arkham VR, all your dreams just came true.

Arriving in time for the October PS VR release date, this is the game that puts you behind the cowl and fully immerses you in the Dark Knight's universe.

You'll be able to put on the Batsuit and then solve a new Gotham City mystery as Batman himself, as he works to protect his closest allies.

Read our full Batman Arkham VR review

4.5 5

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5. Until Dawn: Rush of Blood

Price: £13.99

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As you might have guessed from the title, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is a VR spin-off of the PS4 exclusive Until Dawn. This time around you're on a rollercoaster in a horrible haunted house, where things will do their best to play on your darkest fears.

It's basically an arcade-style shooter but with some of the familiar aspects from Blackwood Pines. And it's effectively terrifying.

Read our full Until Dawn: Rush of Blood review

4 5

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6. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

Price: £29.99

VR is the perfect addition to games that go bang in the night. Resident Evil 7 scared us witless, and the entire bloody, pant-spoiling escapade is playable in VR.

Experience the fore-feeding of enrails and chases by demented (and indestructible) members of the Baker family up close and personal to ensure plenty of work for your therapist in the coming years.

Not only is Biohazard a PSVR gem, but a superb game in its own right which we gave top marks in our review.

5.0 5

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7. Star Trek: Bridge Crew

Price: £33.99

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In Star Trek: Bridge Crew, you and your friends are the crew of a brand new Starship known as the USS Aegis. You take on the roles of Captain, Helm, Tactical and Engineer as you explore a largely uncharted sector of space called The Trench as you look for a new Vulcan homeland.

You need to work as a team to keep the ship safe against the Klingons and other dangers as you explore. It can be hilarious, stressful and utterly addictive - especially if you're a huge Star Trek fan.

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8. Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration

Price: £29

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If you buy the newly released Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration bundle, you'll nab yourself the brand new Blood Ties story DLC that sees Lara fighting for ownership of Croft Manor itself with her rather mean and greedy uncle.

Although you can play through this little side-story in the traditional third-person view, Square Enix has also introduced a very special VR mode for the PlayStation VR, which lets you explore Croft Manor in an attempt to find proof that it belongs rightfully to Lara. She is a Croft after all.

There are puzzles to solve, documents and relics to discover, family mysteries to tie up and even a mystery to uncover. But more importantly, it's also stunning to play and works incredibly well in VR.

And if you've got any nostalgia for the Tomb Raider series whatsoever, you will - like us - feel very emotional at the DLC's closing scene. Dear god, someone bring us some tissues, we're getting tears on the VR headset.

For goodness sake, grab yourself the Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration right now.

5 5

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9. Farpoint

Price £55.55

This brand new VR-exclusive space adventure sees you land on a hostile alien planet, with a mission to pick up the scientists that have been studying an anomaly near Jupiter.

But said anomaly just happens to transport you and the scientists to an unknown alien world.

Farpoint actually introduces a brand new PS4 peripheral called the PS VR Aim, which is a virtual reality gun that makes you feel even more immersed in the game. Read our full review here.

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10. Thumper

Price: £15.99

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Described as a "rhythm violence game", Thumper is one of the best PS VR games we've tested so far. It's simple, yet addictive and really takes advantage of the unique position playing in VR gives you.

You play as a little metallic bug that zooms along a narrow rail that morphs and moves according to the music and the area you're currently tackling. You control the little bug using the DualShock 4 and follow behind the bug via the PS VR.

It all starts out easy enough, you hit X in time with lit-up pads on the track as they fall beneath the beetle. Then the game starts adding in corners, where you'll have to hit them with the bug's tail by pushing the left analogue stick in the opposite direction and holding down X.

The gameplay becomes more and more varied as you move through the lengthy layers, from obstacles to jump, bosses to defeat and evil, evil fast sections that will shatter your beetle quick sharp if you're not totally on the beat.

It's a fantastically addictive title that just totally works in VR and can be played in short bursts or totally lose you for hours.

5 5

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11. EVE Valkyrie

Price: £33.80

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Are the old ones the best? This space dog-fighter was originally an Oculus Rift exclusive at launch back in March, and we first played it on PS VR (then Project Morpheus) more than two years ago. So is it still interesting? Come on, it's basically playable Star Wars, of COURSE it's interesting – especially if this is your first go on virtual reality.

Eve: Valkyrie is a premium show-off piece for your new headset, letting you and your pals make like Luke and Han, sticking you in a 360-degree spinning cockpit and you gunning down all and sundry with your super targeting stare. And it being around for a bit means it's been tweaked to run pretty smoothly on PS VR, too.

It's dead easy to pick up, from traversing and standard fire to missile lock and looping strategies, less strategic and more satisfyingly arcadey than Elite: Dangerous. But as such, while Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff is on narration duties for single-player, the not-very-deep campaign means this is made to be tackled in multiplayer.

You can join rather exciting 8v8 battles here and cross-platform pairing, to boot, so Rift and PS VR players can share the same game space (we'll have to report back after this is patched in). A word of warning, though: Oculus rated this "Intense" for a reason. We'd work your way through some basic VR experiences first before throwing yourself into Eve, or you may just lose your lunch.

4 5

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12. Job Simulator

Price: £23.99

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Originally launched on the HTC Vive, the excellently quirky Job Simulator has now arrived on PS VR.

For the newbies though, this is a collection of four job interpretations that have been invented by robots who are working from a few inaccurate documents. As such, when you go to simulate said jobs - mechanic, shop assistant, chef and office worker – they're not quite as you'd expect and you end up with some absolutely hilarious results.

No matter what role takes your fancy, each one is extensively interactive and there's tonnes of fun to be had.

Just make sure you've got a pair of PlayStation Move controllers to play it with.

5 5

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13. RIGS: Mechanized Combat League

Price: £25.94

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If Titanfall had been made by EA Sports rather than the guys who did Call of Duty, RIGS could have been the outcome. Instead it's down to Killzone and Horizon: Zero Dawn developer Guerrilla Games to mesh mechs, motorsports and NBA Jam together into something completely different.

It's a blast, too, once you've got through the rather interminable, hand-holdy tutorial, opening up a classic racer-like campaign of competitive upgrades, but most importantly three-on-three multiplayer madness.

Like Eve, this is a lot more fun in multiplayer than it is on your own, so will likely depend on how many mates you have that are also jumping in on VR, and again, like Eve, this isn't one for those who are just dipping their toe in – it's quite disorientating for virtual-reality virgins. But once you've found your bearings, this is as exciting as it gets.

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14. Tethered

Price: £18.99

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If someone told you that you could play God in VR, you'd wanna try it out right? Well, get your mitts and your face on Tethered because it's one of the best PS VR games we've played.

You act as a powerful "Spirit Guardian" charged with restoring life and balance across a variety of islands, with the adorable Peeps helping you out on ground level. You'll need to harvest resources, build and grow the little village and protect your Peeps from horrible monsters through the night.

It's all about balancing your resources and making sure all your Peeps are used to the greatest of their abilities, all the while watching the weather and making sure the monsters that go bump in the night don't get you. Tethered is the perfect example of how a game like Black and White from back in the day can have a revival on VR.

There are 13 islands in total, offering you plenty of gameplay content and cute Peeps action for your money.

5 5

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15. Battlezone

Price: £30.85

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You're not spoilt for cockpit simulators on VR, the horizon line and static view of vehicles making them the anti-nausea option of the people. But Battlezone, a reboot of the classic tank-on-tank '80s skirmish from Sniper Elite developer Rebellion, rises above most in that it's chosen to shirk realism for a look that's like being in Tron. And that's exactly what a VR game should look like.

You slide around the battleground and aiming at the infiltrating robot aliens as if you were playing a dual-stick shooter, with head movements simply corresponding to you looking around (no aiming with your head here). This helps with immersion and sees off sickness well, while the rogue-like four-player co-op shows just how cracking being collaborative in VR can be. It's something else.

Unlike, say, RIGS, though, which has great co-op but fairly so-so single-player, Battlezone has a great campaign, too, which sees you taking territory one conveniently short-paced portion at a time. All in all, one of the most impressive launch titles. It's in the zone, etc.

4 5

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16. Wayward Sky

Price: £15.49

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Whether you were a Sierra or Lucasarts point-and-click adventure fan back in the day, Wayward Sky will be jangling some memory bells for you.

This is a VR "look-and-click adventure" where you play as Bess, a young adventurer who's crashed on a strange floating fortress with her father. However, not only have they crashed thanks to a very random bolt of lightning, daddio has also been kidnapped by a giant robot.

It's up to Bess to make her way through the fortress, solving puzzles, reassembling wind chimes and meeting the various robots that call this strange place home.

In the quest to rescue her father, Bess realises that there's a story to this flying home and its inhabitants, and you'll fall a little bit in love with the bots that pootle around and the cheeky chat they'll give you.

Wayward Sky is an adventure that's full of personality and bursting with character, even if the puzzles aren't the trickiest in gaming history. It's a great little game that anyone with a PS VR headset would enjoy.

4.5 5

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17. Here They Lie

Price: £14

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If you're looking for a horror game to play on the PS VR that won't exactly boo scare you to death, but more slowly twist your brain's conception of the world and the things within it, then Here They Lie should be on your "must buy list".

Developer Tangentlemen is very much pushing it as a VR horror, but in reality you'll end up feeling tense and regularly tilting your head like a confused puppy.

It's a very cleverly paced game, with aspects of stealth as you work out ways to move around the environments to avoid the gaze of the various strange creatures with the glowing eyes.

But later on you'll discover the debauched city with its animal-headed beings and it'll make you think about society and the game's strong commentary on it.

It's all controlled with a DualShock 4 too, which lets you move around but also wave a torch into the city's darkest areas.

Here They Lie is a rather interesting, thought-provoking and innovative VR experience that anyone looking for something akin to Limbo or Inside should try straight away.

4.5 5

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18. Tumble VR

Price: £7.99

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If you're dismissing Tumble VR as some kind of children's block building game, then don't. It's actually a very sophisticated puzzler that will keep you serene and relaxed at first, before seriously testing your brain matter – and your patience.

There are various modes. Sometimes you'll be ask to "build 'em high", stacking up as many blocks as you can without the tower tumbling, but elsewhere there are challenges where you just have to use all the blocks and make sure they all fit on a podium.

It's best played with a single Move controller, as it acts as a crude hand in the game, allowing you to more easily interact with the various shapes you encounter on your journey.

Tumble VR is an excellent VR game and building blocks just become one of our favourite things again for the first time since Kindergarden.

4.5 5

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19. Pixel Gear

Price: £8.99 or £7.19 with PS Plus

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Imagine if someone crossed an arcade shooter with waves of enemies with Minecraft. Well, that's kind of what Pixel Gear is. It's almost like you're back in your local arcade, wielding a light gun and moving through scenes again, but this time you're inside the game.

There are plenty of variety in the monsters, whether you're aiming at flaming bats, stumbling zombies, ghosts (avoid the angels) or armoured knights whose helmets must be knocked off first. It's easy enough at first too, as you nail headshot after headshot and feel like a boss.

But as things get trickier, you'll need to work with different guns and power-ups, making sure that every shot counts. It's a great little game, we just wish there was a little more of it.

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20. Super Stardust VR

Price: £14

Super Stardust VR is bringing back some classic PlayStation gaming but this time in VR. If you've missed out on Super Stardust before, you're probably familiar with Resogun, which was one of the PS4's launch titles.

There are two different types of gameplay available. You can either opt for the arcade mode, which gives you an overview of the planet, your little ship and incoming enemies or asteroids, or there's the special new VR mode that puts you in the seat of the ship itself.

Although the VR experience is great, the pace and strange control scheme can make you feel the teensiest bit nauseous.

It's much better to play Super Stardust VR in the arcade mode, because it's incredibly immersive - especially when your ship is blown to sparks strangely enough. Plus, its incredibly addictive, high-score chasing gameplay will have you locked in VR for hours.

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21. Windlands

Price: £18.99

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If you're looking for a game on PlayStation VR that will simultaneously make you feel like a superhero but also really chilled, then it's Windlands. At its basic premise it's an exploration game with graphics that almost belong in The Witness. But it's also an exploration game where you can only move by swinging on a grappling hook a la Nathan Drake, or Tarzan, or Spider-Man himself.

As you soar from point to point, taking in the sights, you'll feel a sense of inner calm as the virtual wind whizzes past your virtual ears, but also a little vertigo. You are swinging through a strange floating city after all and there's not a lot but open sky below you.

It's an impressive feat to make each movement and action feel so real in VR, especially when it's so movement-focused like this.

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22. Hustle Kings VR

Price: £11.99

Hustle Kings isn't doing innovative things with VR, but it's bringing pool to a brand new medium. You can either play with a single Move controller or with the standard DualShock 4 controls, but the latter actually gives you better precision.

The Move controls are missing a little of the VR pep, in that you can't actually get into the game with your entire body and both hands for aiming the shots or even taking scope of your surroundings.

However, it's a great pool sim and there's nothing better than getting your head - literally - into the game.

4 5

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23. VR Worlds

Price: £23.89

VR Worlds is Sony's attempt to provide PS VR users with a package of shorter games that give a good flavour of what the headset can do.

For your £30, you get five games all made by Sony's London Studio: The London Heist, Scavengers Odyssey, VR Luge, Danger Ball and Ocean Descent. But it's a bit of an odd bag, because you've got a sports game, another that's little more than a tech demo, a diving experience, a space story and a mini interactive gangster movie that drops F-bombs as often as Willy Wonka gives out sweets.

However, there's definitely some good stuff in here – especially for highlighting the wide range of content you can get with the PS VR.

The London Heist is our particular favourite. It puts you at the centre of a story set in London of three gangsters trying to steal a diamond. It's in your face and fast paced, and very much best played with a pair of Move controllers. Otherwise you'll only have one hand, and who can light a cigar like that?

Our second pick would be Scavengers Odyssey, which puts you inside a bug-like exoskeleton as you go hunting for an artefact in space. The problem is that something has destroyed all the space ships and something has started talking to you across the cosmos. What the heck is going on is up to you to find out, space pilgrim. And it's an awesome story.

Then you've got Danger Ball, an excellent 3D version of Pong, where your head acts as the bat. It's extremely addictive, as you'll be tasked with facing a range of enemies that use various tactics in an attempt to get the ball past you. But you've got some tricks of your own, including a pretty impressive spin ball if you hit it just right.

Ocean Descent is a much more passive experience than the rest, with three diving options to take you into the deep blue for a look at the life it holds. It's a pretty terrifying and tense experience, but you can balance it out with the much more relaxed options including a rather stunning look at some glowing jellyfish.

VR Luge is by far the weakest experience. We saw it demoed as a mere tech demo around years ago, but somehow it's made it onto the disc. You are on a luge hurtling down a hill and you use your head to steer. However, crashing into anything simply sees you clip through it, so there's very little sense of danger or speed.

However, VR Luge aside, VR Worlds is a great PS VR investment.

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24. The Assembly

Price: £19.99

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Told from the perspective of two different people, The Assembly is a story about a secret, underground research facility and what goes on there.

Firstly, you've got Cal Pearson, a scientist who's been at The Assembly a while, but is starting to discover horrible secrets about his workplace and his colleagues.

But then there's Madeleine Stone, who's been kidnapped and brought to this place with a potential job in the pipeline. In order to get the job - and she's not even sure she wants it at all - she's got to face several trials that will question her morality and sanity.

Depending on what you do in The Assembly as both characters, you'll be faced with making tough decisions, where actions can save lives or lead to catastrophe.

It's a cleverly told story with multiple endings and a control system that totally works in VR, making the entire experience feel totally immersive. But watch out, those trials are tricky.

4.5 5

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25. Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin

Price £31.47

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After over 10 years, Double Fine is making not one, but two new Psychonauts games. There's a brand new sequel that's coming in 2018, but there's also this VR-exclusive title called Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin.

It follows on from the end of the original Psychonauts when Raz was asked to become a fully-fledged Psychonaut, but when he tries to go home, he discovers the head of the Psychonauts has been kidnapped. The team fly off to rescue him and that's exactly where Rhombus of Ruin begins.

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26. Kitchen [demo]

Price: FREE

To end as we started, here's another freebie. It's not often that we'd put a demo in a list of "best games", but Kitchen is a bit of an anomaly. Much like PT hinted towards the Silent Hills that was never made, Kitchen is a rough draft for what would very much become Resident Evil VII.

Short, sharp and genuinely terrifying, it was originally shown to the public without monitors so that you couldn't prepare yourself. Have fun!

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