Come October, Sony's PlayStation VR will hit the shops for the princely sum of $399/£349/€399. That's far cheaper than the likes of the Oculus and the Vive, even when you take into account the price of PlayStation Camera (£39, $44), and Move Controllers (£24, $28 each) that aren't included. But while the hardware is attractive, what matters most is what games you can play on it—and Sony's got some honest-to-goodness proper games in the launch lineup.

While over 50 games are promised for the two months between launch and December of this year—CCP's Eve Valkyrie is pencilled in for launch day—Sony's tapped its in-house studios to make sure five of them are ready for when players get the PSVR home. While Sony hasn't confirmed it, I suspect that the first—PlayStation VR Worlds—will get bundled in with the headset at some point. PlayStation VR Worlds is a collection of five mini-games developed by Sony's London Studio—the same studio behind the likes of Eyepet, SingStar, and Wonderbook—many of which have been used to demo the PSVR at its various public outings.

The first of the minigames is The London Heist, a homage to the classic PlayStation 2 game The Getaway, and uses dual PS Move Controllers, or a DualShock 4 controller to simulate a robbery, complete with a suitably explosive car chase escape. Into The Deep sees players take on the role of a deep sea diver who (in what sounds like my own personal nightmare) encounters marine life small and large. VR Luge is, as it sounds, a game about rolling down a hill like a nutter atop a luge. Danger Ball sees players using their heads to strike and spin the ball, while Scavenger's Odyssey is a sci-fi adventure where players take on the role of an alien treasure hunter.

Supermassive Games is making two games for PSVR. The first, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is the previously announced Until Dawn spin-off that's appears to be on an or-rails shooter. The second is a wee bit more interesting. Tumble VR is a remake of the PSMove game Tumble, which places players inside a block-filled world to solve puzzles that involve balancing blocks on top of other blocks. It allows a second player not using PSVR to join in, too, thanks to the new PlayStation VR Social Screen feature.

Sony's Japan Studio's The Playroom VR takes multiplayer one step further by having one player use PSVR, and the other four mess with objects in the game. The cutesy robot from the original Playroom makes a return, along with the slick cartoon-like visuals. That said, like PlayStation VR Worlds, this one appears to be a bunch of minigames as well, making it ripe for free inclusion with the PSVR.

Arguably the most feature-rich game of the launch lineup is Rigs, from Guerrilla Cambridge. It's a multiplayer game that puts players inside a giant mech suit, and has them try to blow each other up with a range of high-tech weaponry. There's a sports angle, too, a sort of basketball-like game that pits teams of three against each other in a race to score points by flinging themselves into a goal at the center of each map.

What do you think about the launch lineup? Is it more enticing than what the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive has to offer? Let us know in the comments below.