🎮 Top 3 VR Game Releases to Watch in 2025
By VR Related
While much of the tech world continues chasing headlines with speculative futures, the VR space in 2025 is marked by grounded innovation and meaningful creative risks. The most anticipated titles this year aren’t defined by gimmicks or exaggerated promises—they’re backed by respected studios, solid gameplay concepts, and strong artistic direction.
Here are three upcoming VR titles that merit your attention—not because they’re loud, but because they’re likely to matter.
1. The Midnight Walk
Platform: PlayStation VR2, PC VR
Release: May 2025 (confirmed)
Published by Fast Travel Games and developed by MoonHood, The Midnight Walk is an atmospheric, chapter-based VR narrative that leans into themes of isolation, wonder, and quiet dread. Described by its developers as “cozy horror,” the game invites players to guide a creature named Potboy up a mountain, all while embodying a figure known only as “The Burnt One.”
The claymation-inspired art style is an intentional deviation from photorealism, resulting in an experience that feels intimate, stylised, and purposefully strange. This isn’t about jump scares or adrenaline-fuelled sequences—it’s about tone, tension, and emotional texture.
Why it matters:
- A rare example of “emotive design” in VR horror
- Visual language that feels fresh and self-assured
- Backed by a proven publisher in Fast Travel Games
2. Ghost Town
Platform: PC VR, PlayStation VR2
Release: Expected 2025
Ghost Town is the next project from Fireproof Games, the award-winning studio behind The Room VR: A Dark Matter. Set on a remote Scottish island, it presents a layered puzzle experience wrapped in supernatural mystery.
Fireproof’s previous VR outing set a high bar for tactility and puzzle design, and Ghost Town appears to follow in that lineage—focusing on slow-burn storytelling, detailed physical interactions, and a palpable sense of place. For fans of cerebral, self-paced games that make full use of the medium’s spatial strengths, this one is worth tracking.
Why it matters:
- Fireproof Games’ track record in the puzzle genre
- Emphasis on interactivity over spectacle
- Narrative-driven design aimed at solo players
3. Dreams of Another
Platform: PlayStation VR2
Release: 2025 (date TBA)
Announced during a recent PlayStation State of Play, Dreams of Another is the latest entry in the long-running PixelJunk series. Developed by Q-Games and directed by visual artist and musician Baiyon, the game uses point cloud rendering to construct surreal dreamscapes that evolve in real time.
This is a title rooted in aesthetics, but not at the expense of substance. Q-Games has a reputation for experimenting at the intersection of art and interactivity, and Dreams of Another appears to continue that tradition—favouring spatial design, music synchronisation, and emotional pacing over conventional mechanics.
Why it matters:
- Point cloud visuals present a genuine innovation
- Potentially one of PSVR2’s most art-forward titles
- Part of a respected indie lineage with experimental DNA
Final Word
Not every upcoming VR release deserves your time or attention—but these three do. Each reflects a different strength of the medium: storytelling, interactivity, and sensory design. Crucially, they also reflect a shift in VR development: away from shallow novelty, and towards mature, meaningful experiences.
We’ll continue covering these titles as they launch—and separating the signal from the noise, so you don’t have to.
