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Have you ever played Climbey? It's extremely basic graphically but the climbing mechanics are second to none IMHO. And it has "coop climbing" which feels amazing. (As in, you can use e.g. the other player's hands as handholds)
If you have a dedicated group, The Forest is amazing in coop. It's a pretty large exploration-heavy game though so it needs some dedication. You can also play it in coop with some VR and some traditional players (we did that).
Other games that are "VR ports" but actually really well done, and which feature "cross-medium" coop are the Serious Sam games, and Payday 2. Huge amount of content in those, and the VR versions are surprisingly well done IMHO (e.g. compared to the Bethesda ports).
Bridge crew is fun of course, and amazing if you can get a full crew complement of Star Trek nerds with VR together (which we did!), but it's pretty short and the random missions don't have sufficient variety to increase replayability much. Still worth experiencing though.
Arizona Sushine is built from the ground up for VR and has full campaign coop. It's a pretty basic Zombie shooter in terms of mechanics, but pretty much the only game of its kind with full coop right now.
There are several smaller indie games with coop which can be very fun, as long as you adjust your expectations to their budget: Climbey has very unique traversal mechanics and tons of high quality user-created content. And Trickster VR is a co-op action dungeon crawler with procedurally generated levels
Finally, Raw Data seems to be a bit divisive, but I don't fully understand why. Personally, I think it's easily in the running for the single best skill-based action game in VR, and it has full co-op support. It's level-based, and most of the levels are wave-based, but in terms of pure VR action gameplay the variety (all 4 characters play very differently) and deep mechanics are still unmatched as far as I am concerned.
I feel qualified to answer that question since I've played many of them
If you have a dedicated group, The Forest is amazing in coop. It's a pretty large exploration-heavy game though so it needs some dedication. You can also play it in coop with some VR and some traditional players (we did that).
Other games that are "VR ports" but actually really well done, and which feature "cross-medium" coop are the Serious Sam games, and Payday 2. Huge amount of content in those, and the VR versions are surprisingly well done IMHO (e.g. compared to the Bethesda ports).
Bridge crew is fun of course, and amazing if you can get a full crew complement of Star Trek nerds with VR together (which we did!), but it's pretty short and the random missions don't have sufficient variety to increase replayability much. Still worth experiencing though.
Arizona Sushine is built from the ground up for VR and has full campaign coop. It's a pretty basic Zombie shooter in terms of mechanics, but pretty much the only game of its kind with full coop right now.
There are several smaller indie games with coop which can be very fun, as long as you adjust your expectations to their budget: Climbey has very unique traversal mechanics and tons of high quality user-created content. And Trickster VR is a co-op action dungeon crawler with procedurally generated levels
Finally, Raw Data seems to be a bit divisive, but I don't fully understand why. Personally, I think it's easily in the running for the single best skill-based action game in VR, and it has full co-op support. It's level-based, and most of the levels are wave-based, but in terms of pure VR action gameplay the variety (all 4 characters play very differently) and deep mechanics are still unmatched as far as I am concerned.
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