Free to playZenith: Nexus An anime VR world with friends
Fight, explore and hang out in a colorful VR RPG with quick co-op runs and a full MMO to lose yourself in.
Is Zenith: Nexus worth it?
Zenith: Nexus is worth it if…
- you want an MMO you can actually step into, sword and spells in hand
- you like quick co-op sessions you can jump into with friends
- you enjoy grinding for gear and levels, and want it to be physical
- you have a VR headset and a taste for bright, anime-style worlds
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Better with a party
This is a game built around being online with other people. In Infinite Realms you party up for quick, session-based runs: slash through mobs with magic and blade, then race across parkour challenges together. Between runs you meet up in the city, upgrade your gear, or just shoot hoops while you wait for the next one.
The Last City, the MMO side, goes further: tackle perilous dungeons as a team, compete in PvP, or wander the anime world with friends and see where you end up. Daily and weekly content rotations keep sessions fresh, so there is usually something new to drag your group into. The social side is real too: populated servers, people cooking and chatting in town, a world boss that takes a crowd. Come for the fights, stay for the company.
Cooking, the VR way
Cooking here is not a menu you click through. You summon a cooking station anywhere, even in the middle of a battle, and actually make the food: boil milk, chop mushrooms, fry and flip them in a pan. How well you cook affects how good the item is, and leveling cooking and gathering means doing these tasks by hand.
It sounds like a gimmick until you are frantically flipping a fritter while your party is losing a fight, then handing out smoothies that turn it around. It is one of the parts people single out as a highlight, and the buffs you cook up matter for dungeons, raids and world events. You will accidentally cast a spell while cooking at least once. That is a gesture problem, and you will get used to it.
Combat you swing, not click
Combat is physical. You play a Blade Master or an Essence Mage, and attacks come out through gestures: you swing, you cast, you move. Each class splits into DPS, Support and Tank subclasses that you can hot-swap in game, so one character covers whatever your group is missing.
Godstones add bonus effects you can level and tune, from extra crits to lower mana costs, which gives builds some personality beyond the skill tree. Getting the rhythm right takes practice, and once it clicks, keeping yourself healed or dealing damage at speed is genuinely fun. Add flying and gliding, arms out, soaring through rings on flight routes, and getting around is half the pleasure.
What should you know before starting?
Can you play it solo?
Mostly, yes. Quests, exploration, cooking and most combat work fine alone, and you can run group content solo if you are confident. Only a few things, like the world boss and late-game events, really want a crowd. That said, the game is at its best with other people: populated servers mean there is usually someone around, and everything from dungeons to parkour runs is more fun with friends.
Do you need VR experience to get started?
It helps to be patient with yourself early on. Gesture-based combat, cooking and movement all take some getting used to, and the tutorial does not explain everything, so expect a short awkward phase before things click. Once the gestures become muscle memory, the physical side of the game is what makes it stand out from MMOs played with a mouse.
Is there anything to do besides fighting?
Plenty. Cooking and gathering food are hands-on mini-games in their own right, with buffs that matter in dungeons and world events. You can craft and upgrade gear, chase parkour challenges, glide through flight routes, or just spend an evening in the city shooting hoops and chatting. The world rewards wandering as much as it rewards winning.
