VRChat A World for Every Mood

Every world here was made by users, built with the VRChat SDK, Unity and Udon, and the catalogue counts worlds in the hundreds of thousands, alongside millions of avatars. That scale means an evening can jump between card games, races, shooting, jumping challenges, brain-teasers, spooky games and party games. You dogfight in fighter jets, explore a haunted mansion, then wind down in a treehouse floating in a nebula.

Other stops include a planetarium, a fantasy forest, car meets and live music events. Some community-made worlds are beautiful and artistically impressive, with a dreamlike, surreal feel.

Self-expression runs playful and strange here, with room for forms such as an alien, a talking dog or a sentient shoe with glowing parts.

You can join on a flat screen, while headset owners get extra ways the platform puts VR to use. In VR, avatars move along with your own movement, with support for full-body tracking and finger tracking.

This is more a social platform than a game, and time here goes to talking with people and exploring worlds. Once you find your crowd, Groups make it easy to find the same people again on later visits, and private worlds are more enjoyable than public ones.

Meeting people takes some effort, which can be hard if you are shy or socially anxious.