5 Games For Your VR-Ready Gaming PC That Will Give You a Workout

Virtual reality (VR) technology has brought in a new generation of gaming to the market. It provides gamers with an immersive, first-person experience that we could not have imagined at the start of the 21st century. While it’s great to have the best headsets, you’ll also need a powerful VR-ready gaming PC to experience its true potential.

Nowadays VR gaming supports all of the traditional gaming genres – shooters, horrors, sports, puzzles and so on. However, the added benefit of this form of gaming is the opportunity to become more active from the comfort of your own home. So let’s have a look at just some of the most fun VR fitness games that will have you working up a sweat!

Supernatural

Available on: Oculus Quest

Heralded as one of Time Magazine’s best inventions of 2020, Supernatural’s selling point is that you can exercise anywhere you like on Earth without leaving the house. You’re able to take your workout to the top of the snowiest mountains or to the serene beauty of a quiet lake.

It provides you with in-game coaches and, with an array of different exercises, it truly keeps you motivated. You can even keep your routine in time with music from the world’s most popular artists like Lizzo, Kendrick Lamar, Panic! At The Disco and so many more. Each VR controller acts as a stick as you slice and batter objects that come your way. Supernatural keeps a record of your scores so you can track your progress and even compete against your friends.

BoxVR

Available on: PlayStation, Oculus Quest, Microsoft Windows

Developed by virtual fitness studio FitXR, BoxVR is a boxing-inspired experience that truly gives you a workout. Leading instructors from the UK and US offer users of all fitness levels a number of different, highly intensive routines. Whether you’re looking to build your strength or lose weight, BoxVR will have a class tailored to you.

You can upload your own music to the game so you can listen to whatever songs keep you going. You can also track your progress and measure each workout against the goals you set yourself. BoxVR will have the right session for you, whether it’s a short warm up you’re looking for, or an hour-long endurance workout.

Beat Saber

Available on: PlayStation, Oculus Quest, Microsoft Windows

Beat Saber is one of the most popular VR fitness games on the market. It’s won its fair share of accolades including VR Game of the Year at the SXSW Gaming Awards. The game has five unique difficulty levels ranging from Easy to Expert+.

In this game, your two controllers serve as, as the name would suggest, sabers. The player’s aim is to slice blocks that come their way to the beat of the in-game music. Each block sliced gives the player a score that is added to their end total. With music being one of the game’s biggest selling points, players can purchase extra songs from artists of a range of genres, from Linkin Park to BTS.

Beat Saber also has a multiplayer feature that supports up to five people. You can battle your way through a level together and see who comes out on top with the highest score.

Pistol Whip

Available on: PlayStation, Oculus Quest, Microsoft Windows

Pistol Whip is an intense first-person shooter experience that will have your arms and legs aching no time. Work your way through a series of challenges dodging bullets coming your way as you counter and shoot back at your enemies. It’s an extremely easy game to get the hang of and within no time you find yourself almost choreographing your own action experience.

The high-octane background music acts as a way of keeping you pumped up and in the zone. The more you go on, the more you’re going to break a sweat, but you’ll find the need to continue playing as it’s just that much fun. The in-game leaderboards mean that you can measure just how well you are doing against the rest of the players.

Knockout League

Available on: PlayStation, Oculus Quest, Microsoft Windows

Knockout League offers up a different take to the boxing-inspired fitness genre with a more arcade feel. The gameplay has you dodging punches and throwing a range of hits back against your opponent.

Beginners to the scene start off with a series of training exercises. You can then go head to head against the in-game competitors with a variety of different fighting styles. Do you have what it takes to become the champion of the Knockout League?

Summary

Are you ready to jump off the sofa and give yourself a workout? Check out some of these games! The list could go on and on, there tonnes of VR games out there that are ready for your gaming PC. VR technology continues to become more impressive and ever more immersive, so it’s going to be very interesting to see what lengths it goes in the future to get people fit.

Author Bio:

Oliver Griffiths has a passion for film, video games and technology. He can be found at Tillison Consulting running a number of clients’ digital marketing campaigns across all sectors and platforms.