![]() ![]() The seemingly most popular feature of Rec Room right now is an impressive paintball game players use one or both of the Vive’s controllers to shoot paint at players on the other team in a fast-paced game of Capture the Flag.įor the record, I was abysmal at paintball CTF. It really feels like “Yes, I am playing ping-pong and I just scored a point” - something other video games, going all the way back to Atari’s Pong in 1972, just couldn’t accomplish.Īnother highly rated Steam game is Rec Room, a free “virtual reality social club” that lets you create an avatar, talk to other players and play games with them. But delicately angling this fake ping-pong paddle to connect with the fake ball and knocking it just out of your fake opponent’s reach sends all the right, real chemicals to your brain. Steam / Ping Pong Waves VRĪs with all things VR-related, it’s difficult to convey this to someone who has never tried a fancy VR system. Currently, you can only play against a computer, but the developer is working on online multiplayer to let two Vive owners play against each other. In my favorite, Ping Pong Waves VR, you use one of the Vive’s handheld controllers to pick up a ball and the other to swing a paddle. Three of the 50 best-reviewed Vive games right now are VR adaptations of ping-pong. But the more I plumb the depths of Vive software, most of which can be found on the PC gaming store Steam, the more I’m finding fun in games and apps that just do one thing well: Mimic the real world. And I rarely if ever play arcade games any more.Īnd yet, I’ve also done all of those things in the past couple days.Īs an early adopter of a high-end virtual reality device called the HTC Vive, I’ve tried plenty of weird, video game-y software that lets you battle your music library or wield a lightsaber or shoot lasers at flying robots. ![]() To see this content please enable targeting cookies.I don’t make time to play ping-pong with friends. Tabletop Simulator has smashed player records over the past month or so, going from a usual monthly peak of around 4000-5000 concurrent players to a mighty 36,793 in the past 30 days. Our Alice Bee flagged Tabletop Simulator as one of the good games to play while social distancing (or would that be a good game to play good games to play while social distancing?) and it certainly seems popular. This sale will run until 6pm on Tuesday (that's 10am Pacific). But I'm no tableface myself - what say you, reader dear?Ī single copy of Tabletop Simulator will run you £7.49/€9.99/$9.99 on Steam in the sale, while a pack of four comes for £22.49/€27.49/$29.99 - that's one copy free. I've seen a fair few pals turn to TTS over the past few weeks, though Board Game Arena seems popular too. It's not the best option for roleplaying games but it's pretty deece for a whole lot of the rest. What I'm saying is: Tabletop Simulator is a whole lot of tabletop games in one. Some cardboard creators put their own games into Tabletop Simulator for free as well, such as with the Frosthaven demo module created to help promote the Gloomhaven spin-off's ongoing Kickstarter campaign. Modder Superior's look from December should get you started with everything from the Portal board game to a surprisingly good ten-pin bowling game.Ī number of cardboard games have official Tabletop Simulator releases as paid DLC too, including Scythe, Cosmic Encounter, Superfight, Warfighter, and Zombicide. It uses the Steam Workshop so it's pretty easy to browse and nab games. For most people, yeah, that mostly means you can download games other people have already made. The big draw is that people can create all sorts of other games in it, all sorts of combinations of boards, token, dice, figurines, scenery pieces, and assets you create. ![]() Tabletop Simulator comes with the fairly standard contents of a nan's game cupboard already set up: Chess, Solitaire, Go, Backgammon, Dominoes, jigsaw puzzles, and such. You can play a load of preset old favourites, design your own games, try to copy a favourite game using the creation tools, or just freely download games other people have made/copied. And lo, the toolkit to virtually simulate all sorts of tabletop games with pals or by yourself is half-price on Steam right now. With board game nights going online, one tool you might find helpful to keep rolling bones, flipping dominoes, tapping tokens, dealing cards, and fighting over who gets to be the Scottie dog is Tabletop Simulator. ![]()
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