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Top 20 PlayStation VR Games | May 16, 2019

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A community-voted countdown of the best headset games hits a snag before it even airs.

Without Parole, the YouTube channel built entirely around Sony’s headset, dropped its latest “Top 20 PlayStation VR Games” countdown on May 16, 2019, and this time the process almost got tripped up before the video went live. The channel’s rankings come from polling its own PSVR community rather than a single editor’s picks, and this round exposed a tallying mix-up between two very different titles before Without Parole set the record straight on camera. What survived the correction is a list heavy on the genre’s proven headliners — rhythm-slashing, platforming, and sci-fi gunplay all near the top.

• Without Parole publicly addressed a voting error that had tangled the results for Bandai Namco’s Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown and Codemasters’ Dirt Rally during the tallying process.
• Beat Saber, Astro Bot Rescue Mission, and Farpoint anchor the top of the May 16, 2019 rankings as the channel’s most-cited must-plays.
• The full top 20 spans horror (Resident Evil VII, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood), open-world RPG (Skyrim VR), and puzzle design (Moss, Statik, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes).

The Ace Combat 7 vs. Dirt Rally Mix-Up

Countdown videos built on audience voting live and die on their tallying, and Without Parole didn’t try to bury the mistake once it surfaced. The channel flagged, on camera, that Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown and Dirt Rally had gotten crossed during the counting process — two titles that don’t even share a genre, one a jet-combat campaign and the other a stage-rally sim, which made the error stand out rather than blend in. Rather than quietly patch the final list, Without Parole called it out directly to the audience that voted in the first place.

Ace Combat 7 and Dirt Rally — a fighter jet and a rally car, tangled up in the same tally until Without Parole caught it.

Beat Saber, Astro Bot, and Farpoint Lead the Pack

No surprise at the top: Beat Saber’s light-saber-and-block rhythm gameplay remains the go-to answer whenever anyone asks what to demo first on a headset, and it tops this list again. Astro Bot Rescue Mission follows, the platformer built specifically to show off room-scale movement and depth as you guide the little robot through stages designed to make players duck, lean, and turn around. Farpoint rounds out the podium, the sci-fi shooter that made its name pairing with Sony’s Aim controller for a rifle-shaped peripheral that turns the headset into something closer to a lightgun booth than a couch experience — a design choice that put it in the same conversation as other VR flight and combat sims chasing that same physical-feedback loop.

The Rest of the Field

Past the top three, the list widens into every genre the platform has built a following in. Job Simulator and Fruit Ninja VR represent the pick-up-and-play comedy end of the library, while Superhot VR’s frozen-time gunfights and Batman: Arkham VR’s detective puzzling sit closer to the tentpole-experience end. Resident Evil VII and Until Dawn: Rush of Blood cover horror, Skyrim VR carries the open-world weight, and Moss — along with its Twilight Garden DLC — plus Statik, Tethered, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, and REZ Infinite fill out the puzzle and rhythm categories. Eve: Valkyrie, Creed: Rise to Glory, Headmaster, and Rush VR close the countdown, covering space combat, boxing, forehead soccer, and motorcycle racing respectively.

A Library Still Filling Out

By mid-May 2019, Sony’s headset was several years into its life cycle and still adding titles at a steady clip, which is exactly why channels like Without Parole keep re-running these rankings instead of publishing one list and calling it done. Sony had also been signaling a broader commitment to its PlayStation ecosystem around this stretch, including reassurances that a majority of PS4 games would carry forward as the platform evolved — the kind of long-view software support that keeps a peripheral library like PSVR’s worth revisiting every few months. Titles pushing hard on physical controller integration, the way flight and vehicle sims built for VR tend to, kept giving these community polls fresh candidates to argue over.

Ace Combat 7 didn’t crack the corrected top 20 in this edition, but the fact that it got tangled up with Dirt Rally in the vote at all says something about how close the ballot ran outside the top ten. Without Parole runs these polls again every time the library shifts enough to justify it, so the next re-count is really just a matter of which new release pulls votes away from Rush VR and Headmaster at the bottom of the list.