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'Winter Wonderland' Sale Offers Christmas Savings For Oculus Go & Rift Games

'Winter Wonderland' Sale Offers Christmas Savings For Oculus Go & Rift Games

Facebook’s Oculus has launched its ‘Winter Wonderland’ sale across Rift, Go, and Gear VR, with reduced prices on dozens of VR games on the Oculus Store.

As well as the individual game sales, Facebook is also offering a ‘Chill Games Pack’ for each platform. The Rift pack contains 4 games, 2 experiences, and 1 app. The Go/GearVR pack contains 4 games and 2 experiences.

The Oculus Store team seem to have picked games that work great as demos – perfect for the holiday season where your loved ones could be trying out VR for the first time.

Best Rift Deals

Arizona Sunshine

This full fledged Rift zombie shooter game is 50% off, making it just $19.99.

When we reviewed the game we gave it 8.5/10, concluding:

Arizona Sunshine combines the narrative power of a fully-featured 4+ hour campaign mode, with the intensity of a wave-based horde mode, and then adds multiplayer to both experiences. The protagonist’s witty humor make it worth recommending on his charming personality alone, with enough depth and variety to keep people coming back for several hours. By doing so many things so well, Arizona Sunshine quickly rose to the top of the pack as the best overall zombie shooter we’ve seen yet in VR.

Even today we think it’s the best zombie shooter in VR, despite the lack of melee weapons.

ARKTIKA.1

This “AAA quality” singleplayer story shooter from the makers of Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light is rumored to be one of the largest budget VR games to date. While the presentation and polish are excellent, the gameplay is more of a mixed story.

When we reviewed the game we gave it 7/10, concluding by saying:

Arktika.1 is caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, it’s an extremely polished shooter with a longer-than-average campaign (for VR) and a structure closer to more traditional entries into the genre rather than the many wave-based alternatives available on headsets. On the other, its repetitive missions, unbalanced weapons and upgrade system and limited locomotion eventually took their toll, resulting in initially exciting levels with diminishing returns. The search for VR’s shooter king continues.

The game is 40% off, making it just $17.99

Best Go/Gear VR Deal: Thumper

This spectacular psychedelic game was received incredibly warmly on PSVR. The Oculus Go port has become one of the headset’s flagship games, getting a direct recommendation from Oculus CTO John Carmack himself.

When we reviewed it on PlayStation we gave it 9/10, concluding:

Thumper is a one-of-a-kind gaming experience. It is at first immediately familiar as an entry in the now classic rhythm game genre, but enhances virtually every aspect of the experience through brightly pulsing visuals, intense music, and nothing short of violent, visceral rhythm-based gameplay. While you can play Thumper entirely outside of VR, the experience truly shines and envelops you the most once you place a VR headset on your face. This one is not to be missed.

It’s 50% off in the Winter Wonderland sale, bringing the price to just $4.99.

Rift Chill Games Pack

Rift’s ‘Chill Games Pack’ contains:

Space Pirate Trainer [7.5/10] – Space Pirate trainer is an 80’s arcade game brought to life in VR. Incredibly simple to learn, but hard to master. Perfect for VR demos and parties.

Apollo 11 VR HD – A remaster of the original from 2016, this experience takes you on the first manned mission to the Moon.

Fruit Ninja VR – A VR port of the swiping smartphone game, this game provides addictive accessible fun.

Tilt Brush – This VR painting app from Google lets you draw in 3D space, resulting in some incredible works.

Ocean Rift – Travel deep underwater to visit dolphins, sharks, turtles, orcas, sea snakes, rays, whales, manatees, sea lions, and more. Great for demoing VR.

Ultrawings [6/10] – One of the fist truly made-for-VR flying games, Ultrawings is a sim-lite that feels like a VR version of Nintendo’s Pilotwings. In this sim you use your Touch controllers as hands to directly interact with the virtual stick and cockpit of an ultralight.

RUSH – An exhilarating experience letting you virtually dive off mountains in a wingsuit. Not for the faint of heart!

The pack is priced at $49.99, saving $50 (45%) over buying the apps not on sale.

Oculus Go Chill Games Pack

The Go / Gear VR ‘Chill Games Pack’ contains:

Catan VR – The classic board game available in VR, with cross-platform multiplayer. Now you can play Catan with anyone anywhere.

Ocean Rift – Travel deep underwater to visit dolphins, sharks, turtles, orcas, sea snakes, rays, whales, manatees, sea lions, and more. Great for demoing VR.

Apollo 11 VR Mobile – A lower detail mobile port of the original from 2016, this experience takes you on the first manned mission to the Moon.

Racket Fury: Table Tennis – A sci fi take on the popular game, Racket Fury feels a little awkward with Go’s limited controller, but is fun regardless.

Land’s End – With a breathtaking oceanside setting, it stands as a constant reminder of just how amazing VR can look on the Go.

Daedalus – An exploration game in which you explore a fantastical world using slow locomotion. Platforms bleed into the world and strange objects are around every corner.

The pack is priced at $19.99, saving $25 (55%) over buying the apps not on sale.

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