Jet Island Fly at absurd speeds in VR

You can play the whole thing solo, but the game also runs online, so a friend can join you in the same open world. There is no mission board to negotiate: you drop in, and from there it is whatever you make it. Race each other down a mountainside, take turns swinging off a boss's back, or just try to keep up while one of you shows off a grapple line they clearly should not have attempted. Sessions are casual by nature: join a lobby, mess around at extreme speed, argue about who just flew into a wall. The movement is the toy, and it is more fun when someone is there to see it.

This is the heart of the game. Your hoverboard turns the ground beneath you frictionless, so every slope becomes a slide. Two wrist-mounted jets steer you and add speed, and grappling hooks let you swing from tall structures or haul yourself up the side of a giant monster. The three tools stack: slide down a hill, fire a jet, latch a hook, and suddenly you are flying. The physics were built specifically for VR, and the sense of momentum and altitude is the part screenshots cannot show. It takes about an hour to get your bearings, and after that the whole map opens up. Fair warning: it is intense, and if you are new to VR, work up to it in shorter sessions.

The open world is a massive floating island, surreal and dreamlike, with smaller islands drifting around it and even whole areas hidden underneath. There is little story and almost no hand-holding: you are dropped in, you find the bosses, you figure out the rest. Around twenty drones are scattered across the map, and defeating them raises your stats like speed and grapple length, which gives exploring a quiet purpose. Modifiers and secrets reward poking into corners, and you can do nearly everything in any order you like. The pace is entirely yours: hunt bosses in an afternoon, or spend an evening just flying around to your own music.