Spring 2026 VR Showcase: All Game Announcements
▼ Summary
– The VR Games Showcase announced major new titles including Payday: Aces High and Compass, both scheduled for 2026.
– It provided specific release dates for several games, such as Wrath: Aeon of Ruin VR on April 9, 2026, and FlatOut 4: VR on April 23, 2026.
– The event featured surprise launches, including Exoshock entering Early Access immediately.
– Multiple games received new trailers or updates, including Spymaster, The Lightkeepers, and a major update for Forefront launching April 23.
– The showcase also highlighted upcoming titles from the pre-show and montage segments, like Beat the Beats and Puzzling Places.
The fifth annual VR Games Showcase has concluded, delivering a packed slate of announcements for the coming year. This year’s event featured major reveals, including the announcement of Payday: Aces High and Compass, alongside concrete release dates for highly anticipated titles like Wrath: Aeon of Ruin VR and FlatOut 4: VR. The showcase also provided fresh looks at projects such as Spymaster and The Lightkeepers, offering a comprehensive view of the virtual reality gaming landscape for 2026.
For those who missed the broadcast, here is a complete rundown of every announcement from the main show, pre-show, and montage segments.
Leading the main show announcements was Payday: Aces High, a new co-op heist game from Fast Travel Games. Slated for a 2026 release on Meta Quest 3 and PC VR, the title promises bold planning and explosive action for up to four players. Following that, the team behind Prison Boss VR, Trebuchet, unveiled Compass. This open-world piloting adventure, set for a Spring 2026 launch, tasks players with navigating hazardous floating landscapes in a unique vessel.
Several titles received definitive launch windows. The physics-driven dungeon crawler One More Delve is set to arrive on April 27, while the chaotic FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR port enters Early Access on April 23. Fans of classic FPS action can mark April 9 on their calendars for Wrath: Aeon of Ruin VR, a brutal Quake-engine experience reimagined for virtual reality.
Other significant main show updates included a surprise Early Access launch for the cooperative sci-fi shooter Exoshock and a full 1.0 release date of April 23 for the large-scale VR shooter Forefront. Narrative adventure The Amusement, which utilizes an innovative redirected-walking movement system, is scheduled for April. Additionally, The Boys: Trigger Warning, an immersive experience set in the world of the popular series, is launching on March 26 for Meta Quest 3.
The showcase montage highlighted several other upcoming releases. The rhythm-boxing hybrid Beat the Beats arrives on April 2, and the serene 3D jigsaw game Puzzling Places launches on Steam on April 9. A major DLC expansion, Legendary Tales: Dawn of History, surprise-launched on March 24 for PC VR and PSVR 2.
The pre-show segment kicked off with the launch of Bloxer, a fitness-focused block-matching game, on March 24. It also featured a new trailer for Shop & Stuff, a quirky supermarket simulator that launched on Quest earlier this month. The cooperative VR action title A Long Survive is coming to PSVR 2 and SteamVR on March 31, while the hunting simulator Virtual Hunter is slated for May 27.
Further pre-show reveals included the cozy open-world cooking game Isle of Food, arriving April 22, and the free-to-play spatial arcade title Squingle Arcade. The horror-puzzle adventure CONFINED: Leaving OKB-134 and the roguelike shooter Plasmaborne, which launched in full on March 24, were also featured. Finally, viewers got a first full trailer for Crêpe Master!, a magical-girl style beat-’em-up launching May 7.
(Source: Road to VR)
