What Is Viveport Infinity 

Infinity is currently the only place to play VR games (and try out other types of virtual reality experience too) on a paid subscription basis. The Service gives access to a range of the best virtual reality content, allowing any member to download and play games without any additional subscription costs for as long as you subscribe. Pay either a monthly or annual fee for access to a games library that’s updated nearly every week with new content.

Headsets 

Viveport works with most major VR headsets including HTC Vive/ Vive Cosmos/ Pro / Pro Eye/ Focus , Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality, and the Valve Index.

Games Library 

Types of games in the library cover every genre you can think of, including those covering covering horror, adventure, space, RPG, racing, puzzles, sports, skill games and games for girls.

Among these, specific games include Tilt Brush, Witching Tower, Angry Birds VR, and many, many more.

New Games – Nov 2020

Gnomes and Goblins

Gnomes & Goblins is a game that sits in the fantasy adventure genre, where you’ll visit a forest in a magical world and save goblins from their enemy. 

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Rags to Dishes

In this cooking game you’re the royal family’s chef. Cook through the levels to keep everyone in the kingdom happy. 

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Ven VR Adventure

Work with Ven in this single player platform game, save Ven’s planet from an invader. 

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Monster Reapers

Another single player platform – you’ll need to find ancient treasures that give you different abilities, and use them to hunt down monsters that have invaded the land. During the adventure, you’ll encounter  haunted locations filled with bats and ghouls. 

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Survival Denied

With a selection of weapons on hand, you’ll navigate this game to shoot up the zombies and survive the onslaught with added power ups.

Best Game Titles

 Choosing the best of anything always relies on a number of factors, and that certainly applies to individual games too. The best for excitement? The best for a feeling of reality? The best adventure? etc etc

Some of the best games on the platform include Containment Initiative,  Vox Machinae, and Crisis VRigade. 

Crisis VRigade (versions 1 and 2) 

Combining an old style arcade shooter with the immersive nature of VR, in this game you’ll be shooting reams of baddies with time against you. Unlock guns and powerups during the adventure.

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Containment Initiative

There are plenty of zombie games, but this one offers a high quality zombie shooting adventure in slow motion.  

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Vox Machinae

This flight based fighting game against other pilots is one of the best looking VR games. 

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We’ll take a look at some more another time, but for now there’s probably no better place to go than the site that’s dedicated to virtual reality – UploadVR – for a deeper list of some of the best titles.

Subscription Options

There are 2 levels of subscription:

UK

Infinity Monthly        £12.99/month UK      Unlimited Access/Hundreds of VR Experiences/Exclusive Offers and
Discounts.

Infinity Annual     £8.99.month     Annual Plan but paid monthly with same benefits as above.

 USA

The Infinity Annual plan can be found for just under $100 per year in the US.

Free Trial

Both standard subscription plans come with a 14 day free trial. During this time you’ll be able to select, download, and experience all titles and experiences.

You do need to enter payment details at the point of initial registration but won’t actually be charges until the 14 days are up. You can cancel with no charge at any point in those first 14 days.

Video Guides

As always, Youtube is the place to go and there are plenty of virtual reality game subscription videos in the list available. 

This one below is a good place to start and takes you through some of the better games you can find on the platform. 

Positives

The benefits of virtual reality gaming – whether on subscription or not – are obviously seen to best advantage in the immersive nature of the games. If done well, they really do add an extra dimension to games.

The positives in Viveport Infinity specifically centre around reasonably priced subscription options which offer arguably some of the best value of any subscription services, alongside a fairly impressive games library. It’s not called Infinity for nothing, with the intent in the name being an infinitesimal choice of gaming. The reality is if you took the top fifteen or so titles on the platform, these alone would make it worth the annual fee.

Aside from all this, a membership also gives you 10% off content once per month at checkout, exclusive offers and 2x discounts on weekend deals.

Of course, Infinity have no competition except for the places you can buy VR games. But they’ve clearly gone all out to create a desirable product.

Negatives 

Some subscribers who also have experience with the Steam or Oculus games offers find that the Infinity library is not as extensive when compared, even though what it does have is still a great range of games (and other VR apps). You might say that none of these are premium titles though, with the likelihood you’ll noticel that once running through the top titles you’ll get the feeling that many of the remainder are cheap games.

There is a possibility that if you take up a year long plan, and then either play through the only games you find appealing or just plain don’t end up liking the VR gaming experience, then you’ll have wasted some money.

Resources – More Info

There’s a bunch of useful info on this campaign page on the Infinity site   , and a whole lot more on the site forum. The official Facebook page is here, with Twitter here if that’s your preference. All of these are good for extra info, support, and finding out about new game releases or upcoming special offers.

Aside from these official Infinity pages there are of course a number of discussions on Reddit around virtual reality game subscriptions in general. 

Summary

All in all a reasonably good subscription service if you want to try out VR gaming. No doubt Viveport will look at some point to improving the line-up of titles and try to get some more premium type gaming experiences on the menu, but for now Viveport Infinity – although the only place to go or subscription-based virtual reality gaming – is probably going to offer enough interest to warrant spending your cash each month. In the end, that’ll be down to you and whether you enjoy the whole experience around VR or find you prefer your gaming ‘traditional-style’.