Petting a Recently Tamed Wolf in Neolithic Dawn If you loved taming dinosaurs in Ark: Survival Evolved or befriending leviathans in Subnautica, there is a new VR survival game that scratches a very similar itch while doing something nobody else is doing. **Neolithic Dawn** drops you into North America around 10,000 BC and hands you a toolset for befriending wild animals that borrows equally from survival sandboxes and creature collector games. The Tame Orb: A Pokeball for the Ice Age The core...

VR survival has quietly become one of the fastest-growing genres in virtual reality, and 2026 is the year it broke through. A combination of Quest 3 hitting mainstream adoption, Early Access models maturing, and a generation of indie developers finishing multi-year projects has produced a lineup of survival games that genuinely compete with their flat-screen counterparts. Here is a look at the titles defining the genre this year and what each one does differently. Bootstrap Island Bootstrap...

Virtual reality survival games have grown in popularity by offering players immersive worlds to explore and conquer. One of the most exciting developments in this genre is the ability to climb virtually any surface, a feature that dramatically changes how players interact with the environment. Neolithic Dawn, a VR survival game available on Steam and Meta Quest, embraces this concept fully, allowing players to climb everything they see. This design choice was inspired by physics-based VR...