This not-quite-a-sequel to last year’s Alliance Peacefighter requires and rewards patience.
Alliance Peacefighter, an X-Wing and Wing Commander inspired story-driven space sim, just arrived in mid 2025, so it was surprising to see another game in the universe pop up so soon. Developer Urban Logic Games clarified that Battle for the Frontier is more of a side story, a “standalone adventure” set in the same universe.
The Facts
What is it?: A story-driven space simulation. Platforms: PC VR Release Date: February 12, 2026 (demo) Developer/Publisher: Urban Logic Games Price: free (demo)
The Alliance universe games are hybrid titles, playable on flatscreen and in VR. I played this demo both ways and while the VR version requires a steeper learning curve, it is absolutely the more rewarding way to play. Battle for the Frontier supports full motion controls, so having spent hundreds of hours dogfighting in games like No Man’s Sky, Star Wars Squadrons, and the Warplanes series, I mostly felt right at home. Using the flight stick, throttle, and two sensors on the dash to adjust power between speed, shields, and weapons all felt very natural.
Alliance Tales: Battle For the Frontier Screenshots captured by UploadVR
Battle for the Frontier’s controls are very sensitive out of the gate and the slightest twitch on your flight stick will send you spiraling. It took quite some time to fine tune the settings and train myself to make more subtle movements. This requires a lot of patience and trial and error. Thankfully, if killed in battle, the game has the option to respawn in the same place and continue the battle. There are also multiple difficulty settings, options to adjust how well your friendly AIs perform in combat, and even an invincible mode for anyone who wants to experience the story without dying at all.
PC Specs Used
My PC uses a Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and an RTX 5070 Ti GPU.
The gameplay was conducted using a Meta Quest 3 via the Virtual Desktop on the High preset with the in-game graphics turned to the highest setting.
You can find the minimum and recommended specs on the Steam page to learn more.
Visually, this is not a feast for the eyes. It looks okay, but nothing mind-blowing. Up close, the ships (and nothing in the game, really) do not have a great amount of detail, but something has gone terribly wrong if you’re spending a great deal of time right up on a ship to begin with. There are no stop and stare in awe moments here, disappointing for a space sim, but everything looks clean in the headset with no notable performance issues to speak of.
Comfort
Alliance Tales: Battle for the Frontier is a space combat simulation and is not recommended for newer VR users due to the intense movement associated with flight. There are several options to make the game less intense, including motion vignettes and camera shake toggles.
Without spoiling the story, the demo is very straightforward. There’s the introductory conversation to explain the mission, then dogfight, conversation, repeat twice more, and done. It all ends on a cliffhanger that I think would have landed better had I played the original game, but the point of a good demo is to either garner a wishlist or an outright purchase. In that respect, mission accomplished. I wishlisted both Alliance games after finishing this demo. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough to have earned that.
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Combat in Alliance Tales: Battle for the Frontier captured by UploadVR
Alliance Battle for the Frontier can be wishlisted now on Steam and the demo is available for free. The original Alliance Peacefighter is out now on Steam for $23.99 and also has a free demo available.
Wondering what VR games to look forward to in March 2026? Read on.
March is chock full of existing games finding homes on new platforms, games we first got a look at during the first Steam Next Fest in 2026, and the VR return of one of the most popular sci-fi franchises ever.
These dates were sourced from a combination of developer posts, store listings, and press releases and are subject to change. We will update this article if and when any dates are changed.
Iron Guard Salvation – March 5 (PS VR2)
Iron Guard Salvation is the sci-fi RTS tower defense sequel to 2021’s Iron Guard. Salvation continues the story from the first game of humanity’s struggle against a sentient planet and its relentless waves of terraforming robots. Iron Guard Salvation is already available on Quest and PC and this month PlayStation VR2 players can join the battle.
Rhythm games have always been a popular genre for VR, so much so that the concept has extended into other genres with shooters like Metal Hellsinger VR and the classic Pistol Whip and combat titles like Rager (see below). Peak Rhythm, releasing on Meta Quest in Early Access, combines rhythm based movement with climbing. Players power a giant platform up vertical structures by grabbing handholds in time to music.
Speaking of rhythm gameplay crossing into other genres, rhythm-combat game Rager slices its way onto PS VR2 after previous stops on Meta Quest and PC VR. This port will come with all of the additional content added to the other two platforms post release and will run at a native ninety frames per second with head haptics and eye tracked dynamic foveated rendering.
Continuing with rhythm games, DrumBeats VR follows Rager on the move to PS VR2. Similar to Smash Drums, players take control of a full virtual drum set, rocking out to an eclectic soundtrack. DrumBeats is also available on Quest and PC VR.
After a lengthy Early Access period packed with added content, features, and quality of life updates, survival thriller Bootstrap Island moves to a full 1.0 release. The 1.0 update will include the conclusion of the survivor’s campaign, the introduction of a bartering system with a tribe native to the island, and a new boss encounter. Bootstrap Island has also been announced for PS VR2, but no release date is available at this time.
Parkour Labs, an ’80s and ’90s vaporwave-inspired parkour game, jumps from Steam to PS VR2 and Quest in mid March. This one is a hybrid title, with VR support on PS5 being listed as optional, no indication of VR support for its initial PC release, and it will also launch on Nintendo Switch and XBox Series.
Perikoto is a short horror experience spent trekking through a snow covered landscape to discover the mysteries of a lighthouse, all with a hidden creature lurking in the nearby woods.
Skyleap is a non-stop parkour action game from Xocus, most recently known for ExoCars. It is available now for PS VR2 and expands to PC VR and Quest this month.
Orbital Overdrive was recently featured in the first 2026 Steam Next Fest. This roguelite twin stick arena shooter has players rotating around a planet defeating waves of enemies to get weapon upgrades and carve out a space on the leaderboards.
Wacky slice-of-life simulators have exploded in popularity in the last few years. Playway and Driment Studio hope to continue that trend putting players in the role of a prison guard navigating the day to day rigors of a life spent in the company of incarcerated criminals. This was originally announced as coming to all VR platforms back in 2023.
Another from the recent Steam Next Fest, GunX focuses on gun assembly with head to head PVP, shooting ranges, and of course, zombies. GunX originally released for Meta Quest headsets in May 2025.
Maid of Sker VR was originally scheduled for release in November 2025 until developer Wales Interactive announced a delay to March. This survival horror based on Welsh folklore is a VR port of the 2020 flatscreen equivalent.
VMX utilizes gesture-based movements to pull off tricks on motocross bikes, scooters, and mountain bikes in a multiplayer skatepark. Players will also be able to customize their vehicle and purchase clothing for their avatars from an in-game shop. It will start in Early Access on PC VR on March 26, with the Quest port to come later.
March closes out by boldly going where no VR Star Trek title has gone before: into the realm of horror. Another game that was originally scheduled for 2025, Played With Fire’s Trekkian survival horror title comes to PC VR and Quest at the end of the month.
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The Amusement, a VR narrative adventure game, is launching on Quest and PC VR in April.
ARTE France and German VR studio Curvature Games have confirmed that their VR narrative adventure, The Amusement, will be launched on April 16.
The game puts players in the shoes of Samantha Burkhart, a young woman who returns to her late father’s derelict amusement park to solve puzzles, resurrect the park’s broken rides, and work through the riddle of her family’s troubled past.
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We recently previewed a demo of The Amusement, which released as part of Steam Next Fest, and found it to be a captivating experience with just one simple flaw: its omission of smooth locomotion detracts from an otherwise wonderful puzzle game.
Still, our writer concluded, “If you enjoy story-based puzzle games and have been waiting for a new one after last year’s stellar Ghost Town, this is one to watch.”
The Amusement is coming to Meta Quest and Steam on April 16.
The third course in Walkabout Mini Golf’s Passport series takes a trip back to the golden age of filmmaking.
The thirty-ninth course for Walkabout Mini Golf has been confirmed to be Passport: Hollywood. This is the third Passport entry, following trips to Venice and Tokyo. This new DLC is scheduled for March 12 for $4.99.
Prior to VR development, the team at Mighty Coconut spent ten years working animation and VFX for Hollywood features and series. Many of its current team members have film backgrounds, so Passport Hollywood doubles as a love letter to the company’s cinematic roots.
March 12 is also three days before the annual Academy Awards, so the timing for this course lines up with an increased attention on the filmmaking industry.
Passport Hollywood is the first DLC for Walkabout under its new pricing structure, which was announced as part of a restructuring within Mighty Coconut following a twenty five percent staff layoff. There will also be a reduction in DLC courses in 2026, going from seven to six and development of the iOS version will be sunset sometime in the near future.
We will have full coverage of the Passport Hollywood course when it releases next week.
Walkabout Mini Golf is available on Steam, PSVR2, Quest, Pico, and Apple App Store. The game is also available as part of Meta’s Horizon+ subscription service.
Meta has finally brought VR’s favorite block-slashing rhythm game to its Horizon+ subscription service. If you were hoping to jump into Beat Saber’s (2019) massive swath of DLC content though, you’ll still need to toss out a few bucks.
The News
Horizon+ subscribers probably already know the score. Meta says in its terms and conditions that apps in the 100+ catalogue only include the base games themselves, and not free access to paid DLC, in-game currency, etc.
Normally priced at $30, the base comes with 62 free songs which arrived from its eight OST Music Pack drops, Extras, and Camellia Pack. Excluding the 26 purchasable Mixtape and Music Packs released over the years, Meta has brought a total of 239 paid songs to the game—effectively making the bulk of Beat Saber’s content paywalled.
Notably, Horizon+ members must keep paying the $8 per-month subscription price (or $60 annual) to retain access to games. Still, it’s not a bad deal—especially considering every new Quest 3 and Quest 3S purchase comes with a three-month trial.
Popular titles included in the 100+ catalogue include Ghosts of Tabor, Job Simulator, Red Matter, Cubism, Pistol Whip, Moss, Walkabout Mini Golf, Demeo Battles, and Asgard’s Wrath 2.
It also benefits from monthly game drops, with March including Arizona Sunshine Remake and The Pirate: Republic of Nassau. You can see the full list here.
My Take
Meta is essentially making Beat Saber free to all new users, many of whom probably would have bought the game anyway. Granted, that’s through a three-month trial, although it may be enough for users to personally figure out whether the calculus of Horizon+ shakes out in their favor.
It is slightly more insidious than that though. Once you buy a DLC pack for a Horizon+ game like Beat Saber, the sunk cost fallacy takes over. You need to either buy the game once the trial ends, start paying for Horizon+ indefinitely to keep the game and access to DLC, or part ways entirely—knowing you have DLC for a game you don’t actually own, (and will never get a refund for).
By putting its most popular first-party game in Horizon+ though, it says to me that not only is the game possibly nearing end-of-life (or at least end of any heavy-hitting DLC), but that Meta is attempting to make Horizon+ into its biggest revenue streams moving forward—because it’s certainly not funding games like it used to.
That said, Meta announced last month that Horizon+ had topped over one million active subscribers throughout the course of 2025. Nobody really knows how Meta defines “active,” or whether that includes users on the three-month trial, but the company doesn’t tend to reveal user numbers/sales volumes unless they reach significant milestones, making it a first any way you slice it.
Arizona Sunshine Remake and The Pirate: Republic of Nassau are the Horizon+ monthly games on Quest for March.
March 2026 brings several new games to the Horizon+ Monthly Games Catalog, including the zombie slaughter-fest Arizona Sunshine Remake, and the swashbuckling adventure The Pirate: Republic of Nassau.
Beat Saber, GOLF+, Spatial Ops, and The 7th Guest VR also make their way to the catalog. Previously redeemed games will remain in your library while subscribed to the service.
Here’s what you need to know about this March’s offerings.
Arizona Sunshine Remake
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Arizona Sunshine Remake is the definitive updated refresh of 2016’s Arizona Sunshine, an award-winning VR shooter that debuted even before standalone VR. Arizona Sunshine Remake brings updated high-res textures, co-op multiplayer, delightfully gruesome gore, and includes all of the original game’s DLC and updates in one package. Our review said it best. “It’s hard not to recommend grabbing Arizona Sunshine Remake.”
The Pirate: Republic of Nassau
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In The Pirate: Republic of Nassau, you’ll command pirate ships and experience the early 18th century life as a true sea captain. Beginning in Nassau, the heart of pirate culture, you’ll engage in naval battles, recruit legendary pirates, explore and expand Nassau, and build your privateering fleet. Our review called it “a worthwhile golden age of piracy fantasy.”
Horizon+ continues offering a Games Catalog of Quest titles that any subscriber can access. Meta can add new games to and remove games from the catalog at any time. Here is the current Horizon+ Games Catalog in the US:
Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs
Asgard’s Wrath 2
Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR
Beat Saber
Blacktop Hoops
Cubism
Deisim
Demeo
Demeo Battles
Dungeons of Eternity
Final Fury
Fruit Ninja 2
Ghosts of Tabor
GOLF+
Green Hell VR
Grimlord
Human Fall Flat VR
I Expect You To Die 3
iB Cricket
In Death: Unchained
Into Black
Into the Radius
Job Simulator
Kingspray Graffiti
Les Mills Bodycombat: Fitness Workouts
Maestro
Medieval Dynasty New Settlement
Moss
Onward
Pets & Stuff
Pistol Whip
Premium Bowling
Project Demigod
Puzzling Places
Racket Club
Real VR Fishing
Red Matter
Red Matter 2
Spatial Ops
Starship Home
Synth Riders
The 7th Guest VR
The Climb 2
The Light Brigade
The Thrill of the Fight
Thief Simulator VR: Greenview Street
Titans Clinic
Townsmen VR
Walkabout Mini Golf
War of the Worlds
Zero Caliber: Reloaded
Horizon+ Indie Catalog Games
Meta continues to add new games to the separate Indie Games Catalog, and you can see the entire list here.
Alvo
Apex Construct
Arcade Paradise VR
Battlenauts
Bocce Time!
Cactus Cowboy – Desert Warfare
Chess Club
Coffee Quest VR
Crumbling
Cybrix
Darksword: Battle Eternity
DIG VR
Disc Frenzy
Discovery 2
Elysium Trials
Espire 1: VR Operative
Final Overs – VR Cricket
Galaxy Kart
Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game
Gravity League: Galactic Football
Hide The Corpse
I Am Hamster – Simulator
Innkeeper VR
Ironlights
IRON GUARD
Killer Frequency
LAX VR
Laser Thief
Make It Stable – Kids & Family Fun!
Motion Soccer PRO
Mythic Realms
Noun Town Language Learning
Operation Serpens
Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye
Rogue Ascent VR
Rogue Piñatas: VRmageddon
RUNNER
Shooty Fruity
Slot Car VR
Space Elevator
Squingle
Stupid Cars
Sushi Ben
Tactica
Taiko Frenzy
The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets
The Pirate Queen with Lucy Liu
The Secret of Retropolis
The Wizards
Tiny Archers
Towers and Powers
ULTIMATE SWING GOLF by Clap Hanz
Underworld Overseer
Vibe Punch
We Are One
Windlands 2
Meta Horizon+ is a subscription service that gives players access to a monthly selection of games for $7.99 USD per month, or $59.99 USD a year. New users can give Meta Horizon+ a try for a month.
Raceclub is a made-for-VR love letter to formula racing that has you literally chasing ghosts in a promising, addictive work-in-progress.
I sat down with Raceclub, which just released on Meta Quest in Early Access, intending to only play about two hours. This is first impressions, not a full blown review, so I just need to get a feel for the game. Two dead extra batteries and a fully drained Quest 3 later, Raceclub had pulled off the VR trick of making me forget I was sitting in a chair awkwardly holding my controllers in mid air.
Raceclub main menu captured by UploadVR
The Facts
What is it?: A formula-style racing game Platforms: Meta Quest (played on Meta Quest 3) Release Date: February 26, 2026 (Early Access) Developer and Publisher: Mixer Lab Games Price: $ 12.99
Raceclub offers two types of vehicles: Formula V12 is a more traditional F1 style car and Formula Electric is inspired by Formula E with an electric engine. Past that, cars can be customized with multiple color options and decals and racing has multiple viewing angles. First person views included a traditional cockpit look, the ‘snorkel’ position just behind the driver, the nose of the car, and one seemingly on the track itself under the car. For those prone to motion sickness, there is a third person view behind the car.
There are two modes available to play. In the time attack mode, there are three ghost cars on the track: the car one space ahead on the global leaderboards, a replay of your personal best lap (after you complete one lap), and a replay of the best lap on the top of the leaderboard. I spent over two hours just in this mode, trying to shave milliseconds off my time to improve.
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The other mode is a 1v1 ‘duel’ vs an AI driver. If the AI’s lap time is beaten, a new, faster opponent appears on the next lap, consistently ramping the challenge up as your skills improve. A third, eight-car race mode against AI, is currently unavailable.
One important note is Raceclub does not have vehicle collisions, a (missing) feature that may put some players off. It was odd to phase right through a translucent car instead of crashing, but I quickly stopped caring. I just needed a new personal best.
Two views of the electric car in Raceclub captured by UploadVR
One feature I wrote off as immersion breaking when I first saw it, but then realized its purpose is the ‘line’ visualization. It is a visual marker that runs through the entire track of the perfect racing line to take. Trying to keep my car on that line was part of what kept me playing. Every time I messed up and got off that line, I ran another lap to try again. It is a simple, but remarkably effective mechanic.
This is still an Early Access game though, meaning there is room to grow. Half of the tracks are listed as coming soon along with the eight-car race mode. Visually, the game is decent. Admittedly, there is no time to stop and admire the surroundings when chasing ghosts, but while on straightaways I had a second or two to look around and everything looked fine, but nothing stood out. The most glaring feature missing though, is multiplayer.
Comfort
Raceclub is a high speed racing game with a high sensation of simulated speed. For newer VR users, the third person view, above and behind the car is highly recommended.
There have been a lot of racing games on Quest, from kart racers like Dash Dash World and Galaxy Kart to more serious titles like EXOcars, Downtown Club, and Grid Legends. I’ve played them all, but nothing has quite pulled me in like Raceclub did. Without the horsepower to run the likes of Gran Turismo 7, Assetto Corsa, or EA’s F1 series, this is already a top notch effort on Meta Quest with room to grow.
Raceclub is available now in Early Access on Meta Quest for $12.99.
