10 FREE VRCHAT WORLDS that put most VR Games to SHAME! 

Don't forget to RSVP to our TVRS Film Fest in VRChat! 🎥 discord.gg/phia?event=1071164746235121684 sorry for my absence- been dealing with depression the last couple months so it's been a struggle >_> hopefully back in full business; I've been working on my most extremely heartful video ever for the channel's 3 year anniversary on the 18th. Hope you'll turn on notifs for that one :') love ya guys, thanks for supporting no matter what!

I STILL haven't played number 1... I need to get on that but honestly horror games in VR give me real heart attacks.

One of my favorite parts about VRChat is the fact that everything is mostly homegrown/created by the people, for the people. Which means a more intimate community/dev relationship, and often times, a better gameplay experience. Another great video!

OMG I didn't think Pop Escape would be number 2!! I have a love-hate relationship with this map, so many late nights working on it, it was a struggle, but the pay off was worth it for sure. The amount of photos and feedback I have gotten from folks playing it was too much to include in the map! I could make a whole separate world just for the hall of fame and the walls would all be photos! I think it wasn't just me that saw the need for this sort of map. There hadn't been a more realistic escape room/puzzle map for the duration that I had worked on Pop Escape. I wanted to prove to myself that I could make a good map above the usual quality that was present during the SDK2 days. Not only that but I wanted to do it without buying any assets and using only models I found online for free. The Devouring came out and set the bar even higher. That's when scope creep set in and I added more rooms and a lobby and a small arcade, and I took all my IRL escape room experience to come up ideas and push it to the next level. When I finally hit the publish button, it was a load off my back and I could see everyone else was dying for that sort of experience. A lot of the story elements had been cooked up years earlier when writing screenplay ideas, but this map gave me a way to realize them. I mean I had no way of making a film or writing a novel that people would actually read. But a vrchat map? The perfect way to get a few of my ideas out there. I used a lot of theatrical scores to create a cinematic experience. I wanted it to be immersive and film like, with the right amount of puzzles to keep your brain engaged but wowed whenever a door opened, or a switched pulled, or some secret compartment revealed with wonderous music. It was incredibly fun to create that kind of experience. A lot of time and effort, but fun. It was not soon after that the map was nominated for Best Immersive World at Raindance. I had no 3D modelling or art experience, I wasn't a game programmer or making udon games/prefabs. Just some dude in a basement putting together an experience with SDK2. I'm so glad for SDK2 and how it easy it was to pick up as a non-programmer. It did what i needed it to do. I didn't need to bring any coding specialists or friends to do that part for me. I can't say the same now for udon stuff I work on (i avoid the coding or save it to the end cuz its hard unless you know how to code well or it becomes a mess very quickly with something more than simple switches.) This game provided someone like me, with very limited skills, a platform to create, and an audience to share my creations with. VRChat is very special in that way, the user base is always waiting and grasping for the next big thing, the next cool map to spend time with friends in, to create memories. My playtime in vrchat peaked around the Mr.Whiskers events, when Ready Player One came out, and puzzle maps/escape rooms felt surreal in vrchat, like we were in on some secret, some frontier of gaming and online friendships that no one new about. It was exciting. The thought was there, that my map would slide into the "Labs" abyss never to be seen, and never make it public. My friends and testers assured me it was one of the best maps they had seen, and I'm so glad you all enjoyed it. I'm glad I could create memories and fun times for all of you. And thank you Phia for the recommendation. Your content is entertaining and helps bring VR (which is still a gimmick to many) into the limelight, especially the sub cultures and phenomena that folks might not know about if they aren't heavily involved. If I could do the map over again there is definitely more skills in 3D modelling I would use to make a cleaner/sharper looking map. As for it being in SDK2, well its on its way out. I know it's possible to convert it to Udon, would need to update the Unity version (its still 2018, yikes) and then use Cyan's tools to convert it over to CyanTrigger, and then migrate it to VCC on top of that. Unfortunately, I don't have the motivation, patience, nor time to do all that. While I understand this is a map that would see continued use if converted to Udon, life and mental health have thrown other commitments my way, and I'd like to say Pop Escape is my goodbye to SDK2, to that bygone era of VRChat that will never return. I hope in some way it can inspire and motivate a new generation of VRChat players to create their own map, and bring their stories and ideas to life in this game for all of use to experience. 😊 -- POP✩STEP

Pop Escape blew my mind. Felt like a stand-alone game 10/10

Man, I wish more people played zombie tag. It’s always *dead* when I check.

She missed fate of the irribloss It’s such a fun group game to play with I think 5 or 6 friends where you are in a space ship with each person assigned to one or more spaces // or they can just be the one who goes around the ship fixing thing and making sure everything is all good // and the captain guides the crew through space stopping at shops, empty ships (that you can send people onto to look for things and items), beautiful space/galaxy scenery, bright colors, and the most important.. fighting other npc ships! There are aliens that can board your ship and try their best to kill you while you fight them off and do whatever you need to do at your separate station! And yes everybody has a station on a different side of the ship so they added radios to easily communicate! It’s a PC only world and works in vr and desktop but vr is highly recommended! Honestly if you have enough friends I would for sure recommend trying it atleast once! 9/10 game I love it

For competitive VR FPS, "Gun em Down" by Dinky definitely deserves to be on such a list. It's basically old school Call of Duty, for teams of 8 v 8, but in VRChat. It's incredibly well done, and quite addictive. It has a whole progression system with unlockable perks and weapons, and a save system to keep your progress.

The Devouring really is a pure classic and a deserved number 1!

Project Summer Flare was absolutely amazing, I'd put it way higher up this list but I'm glad it's on here in the first place because it's hella underrated. I have not seen any VRChat game that gets controls and UI done SO well, hell most _real_ VR games don't even get close! To climb up a ladder, you actually _climb_ up the ladder. Need to open a door? Don't press a button, pull a chain with your hands. Stuff like that. The UI, doesn't exist. It's all part of an in game HUD, or even straight up in game objects. Rather than using a backlog menu or something, you look back at your conversation using the (really awesome looking) tablet thingy. Instead having some kind of inventory or hip thing, you simply don't carry the objects, they teleport to you when you reach your hand towards them (and it makes sense in universe too) And it just looks, sounds, and feels amazing. This little VRChat world does everything right, and it rivals actual standalone games. Hey. Stop reading this, go play it already! It's best with 2-5 people or so, I wouldn't recommend going much higher but the world can hold up to 8 I think. Avoid playing desktop, but do it if you have to. It might be useful to have at least 1 person in VR tho. breakthesummer

Zombie tag is so underrated. Thanks for showcasing it!

We frequently host Karaoke nights as group hangouts, several outstanding worlds. Its always a blast for your group members!

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Project Summer Flare has got to be my all time favourite VRChat world. I randomly stumbled on it once, and thought it's just a hangout world, because I couldn't figure out the first secret. Upon managing to finish the secret after like 1 hour of actually trying hard (when I returned to it again), I was actually baffled by the mystery. It's one of the only worlds that I wish I could forget just to play them again. It made me feel like the main character in some anime :D

Being a VR dev, it's good to see some insight into what people actually like outside of arizona sunshine from the arcades. Though I can't handle horror games I might try and give these a go

Pop escape is the best escape room I've ever done, irl included. It's so fun haha

Being reminded that sdk2 was replaced years ago feels insane to me. Ive never stopped to think about it, but in my mind it still feels new.

pop was definitely great one. I haven't tried the devouring because it's just too long to do in one sitting. If they divide the map into several parts i think many more people would actually play it

I appreciate these world lists. There’s so many worlds to sift through, it’s helpful to know about some amazing ones.

Project Aincrad is my favorite for sure

WAIT, how is it that I only find out Tron is getting a new movie in THIS VIDEO???? LETS GO

Thanks for still recommending Devouring ^_^ (and also thanks for the shout out/mention for Magic Heist too, which I was also involved in).

I would add Magic freeze, Super vball, Steel 'n' gold, Potrait, Quick sketch and more.

Damn! There's so many good world choices for this list! 👍🏻 I've played most of these, but I still haven't tried out Treasure Heist... That map looks absolutely gorgeous! 😍✨ I'm really amazed to see how far the VRChat community has come with their worlds, it's a metaverse by itself. I think this is my favourite video from you yet, PHIA! 💙💙💙 WELL DONE! Oh! One world I'd also like to mention, one that was made by the same person doing the "Heist" series, Aquarius. It's like an underwater aquarium hotel with stunning visuals to gaze at. 🐠🦈 It's so beautiful, I visited it so many times and it gets more relaxing the longer you stay. I even showed some of my family members and they ADORED it! 😍

I was literally just looking up what games to play in vrchat. Thank you for posting ❤

i remember playing the devouring years ago, but i never got around to actually finishing it. highly enjoyed regardless and im happy to see it made it on the list. will definitely be checking out those others too

The Gumball Lounge is one of my favs and just recently got an expansive update!!!

missed your videos so much phia :)

I haven't dragged out my headset yet and I'm still being amazed by the amazing graphics and gameplay

Oh, wow, these look like a lot of fun! Thanks Phia!

Nice summ up of fun video's Phia , I have played Prison escape so much. its defently one that i would tell everyone to play atleast once in Vrc. Thanks for making this video. Alot of games in VRchat i didnt know about :D

Thanks for this! I've been looking for more games inside VR Chat.

THE LEVER WAS BEHIND THE BOOKSHELF!? I cant tell you how many hours ive played the devouring trying to find a way to open that door, whether it be running around the map looking in every room or bringing the gears that i found in the map to it. i never once thought to move one of the shelves. Oh. My. God.

To all who's going to play, highly recommend playing with friends. First time going into Obsession solo, I love it but afterward it a bit boring really quick when you start getting stuck with no one to help or talk to. The same applies to devouring. I ended up never liked playing these so called good horror games. Pretty sure it applies to all puzzle games listed here too. Remember VRChat doesn't have save feature so when you stopped playing you have to start over again. That could be the reason I hate playing long game here so much. But when there's someone to talk to it's great regardless of how bad the world is. The only game I ever finished in this list is Project Summer Flare. And I made a video on it. Played with complete strangers and it still fun. Again play with someone if you can.

15:25 this right here people, as someone from 2017 i am totally missing some of the old vrchat maps that you just can't play anymore, my personal top 1 spot back in the days would have been the map "mirror's curse" this was the first map that ever blew my mind with how creative vr horror maps could be in the future, try looking up a playthrough on youtube maybe you can find one that shows off all the different endings even! (also if you do watch a playthrough remember this map came out somewhere around january/february in 2018 and it was pretty much the "early" days of vrchat but it was still incredible)

I'm glad I've already played all of these!

Thanks this is defo needed. It's so hard to know where to go in VR chat it's almost criminal how much great content is probably going undeservedly unloved or possibly not even discovered. I sometimes wonder how best this could be fixed... not come up with anything yet. Maybe some sort of world where you sort of go into a lobby with a group and then all get sent to explore a world together. Dunno.

Pretty good list! All of these maps are great.

Both The Devouring and Project Summer Flare blew me away and are my favorite VRChat experiences to date. The Devouring a friend showed me, however Summer Flare was a map I just happened to stumble upon and complete on my own in the same night. PSF had my jaw dropped the whole time, and I highly recommend it to anyone to at least try it once if your PC can handle it.

2:53 Is that the Unturned Door Open Sound? :D

I'd suggest the 6g tower experience as well. Most of those games made by that same person are such a meme game adventure and pretty funny and weird.

I watched some videos on phantom sense in vr and got on the game. (On desktop) i went into a world that visualises music.(you put the music on and then it sinchs so.e bars a rotating light into it) In the world it was basically staring at one point. So this small cat comes close to me, I crouch and te cat reaches its arms up close to my face to touch it. The crazy part it that... I felt it. I don't know how I dont know why. I felt it's fluffy arms reaching up to my face and touching me it was very soft and comforting. I was taken aback, istarted breathing fast and then calmed down. Then, in the same world came an anime girl. (Slightly taller than my avatar) and headsets me (I heard that it's in vr culture so it's normal) I felt that too! It was like a surreal experience. Even after years of playing all kinds of games (done of them being like vrchat, for social interactions) I had never known that was possible. Is there any other explanation that I feel things on desktop other than that I was just immersed in the experience?

prison escape = banging without a doubt

Wow be sure to check these out thanks for telling us

These are some amazing choices. Prison Escape is fun but nothing beats The devouring. So i definitely agree with you.

I’m about to check out treasure heist rn just got the quest 2 today and just subscribed ❤❤❤

I need to try out all of these games 🙌

My brain immediately went to Treasure Heights with a VR treadmill. That would be awesome as hell.

Ancients of VRChat just did a Pop Escape speedrun challenge, and I got it down to under 18 minutes solo and 14:30 with a friend. Now I wish I would wipe it from my brain so that I could experience it for the first time again. It's such a great world.

I like to go to a random world and suggest people to play a game "truth or dare", we sit down in a circle and play the game, at the start of the game the circle is so small, but at the middle of the game the circle becomes bigger and bigger, the experience feels so real and interesting

Just played treasure heist with a buddy, was an amazing experience

Pool parlor is a great place too as well

Anyone remember the sao anime way of opening your menu. Yea thats basically a normal thing yiu can do in vrchat in certain worlds and its absolutely dope. The best 1 i have seen being the just b club 3 menu.... Cuz it spawns wherever your hand is and shows a mini you and gives you access to the people wanting to join along with a camera outside your door. And you can open your OTHER menu while still in your menu. Meaning you can have your camera, your social menu, AND your headset menu open all at once. I do this just so i can keep track of when my friends hope on so i can invite them, keep track of who is at my door, and keep track of the time and my battery

VR chat has so much to offer

my favorite vrchat game in my opinion is the spider lair its really fun and i enjoy it

I won't lie this is a great video, can't wait to check out the ones I haven't played from this list.

I’m glad I found your channel before buying a quest 3 your very helpful and I probably won’t waste as much money

I've been hanging out in VRC alot. The only game I've been really enjoying was the Draw N guess game. But I'll definitely be trying some of these out

i am just on desktop and i got to the game cuz of this channel and i am addicted :)

bro the Virtual Reality Show became my tv news haha. This is more interesting then other news you see on tv lol

As a suggestion, there is also "Remnant: Vale" which is a co-op action game based on the series RWBY. I don't know about and haven't seen any of the series but still enjoyed the game a ton without that knowledge.

My #1 favourite is Ghost!

Actually FlowersRite (obsession) is living in Canada! Random fact: they also have done music for Vket over the years and have some truly incredible creations, including avatars. All the music in obsession is composed by them, and they're also a pretty well known vocaloid producer and classical composer! (Also super great at cosplay, avatar creation...)

just did pop escape yesterday with a bunch of people and i was blown away how good it actually was, cant recommend it enough to everyone who wants to have a escape room experience in vr :D

I don't remember how long it took me and my 2 other friends to complete The Devouring- but it at least took us 3 hours or 3+ hours to finish but man, it is really fun and so worth it.

There's a lol kindred theme playing during video. A true main of this champion cannot not notice it

Oh, Summer Flare. I've been there. I thought it was just an aquarium in a beach town in Japan. I guess I failed the very first puzzle XD

I love the just dance map

number 9 was good! I actually have played that with friends. however we didn't understand the storyline too much but it was still a nice game

Ive been trying to tell people this for sooo long! VRchat has so many mini games! its great for parties! :D :D We have 5 quests and 2 vives 1 pimax in our household, Lan/vr nights go off! and vr chat is so easy to get everyone together and to just jump straight in. thank you for this video, perfect ammo for debbi vr downers :D

15:42 woaaaahhh whats that liquid mirror!?!? all those seem cool but you just showed an 11th world i want to see XD

never knew there was a battle discs map like this, and ngl i didnt know summer flare was an adventure map lol

definitely doing the Egyptian one, im a huge fan of Egyptian gods and lore

is that the desert temple from OoT in the vid? big props

You should make a list of best quest compatible maps also

Man I real wish I had a VR ready PC because these worlds look incredibly fun!

Thanks for recommending these games, I'll check them out! I've seen games in VR Chat but they seem unpolished or not very deep in gameplay, but this list has what I'm looking for.

I'm gonna play all of these and a suggestion from me is test pilots so fun all the flight sims in vrchat are

The Devouring basically the Mansion from Resident Evil 1 just with ghosts or whatever instead of zombies

Pretty cool list! I can recommend some worlds because I played them too. Especially "The Devouring". I finished it with a friend. It's pretty cool and intense especially towards the end. But what about Jump Scares in "Obsession". I didn't hear anything in the video about them in this world.

I feel like Jar has always been my favorite VRChat game maker. They make some of the most played games for both Quest and PC players.

I'd recommend Fate of the Irrbloss

I think you should include Fate of The Irrbloss Resonark Playland Escape (that's a horror) Zombie Infection - Neo Tokyo And maybe Gumball Lounge 3.0 though I dunno if it can be considered a game

Let me tell you it was a jumpscare seeing Insane's avatar and realizing that it was from one of the times I played through Summer Flare. First time I watched this video I didn't even notice lmao x'D VRChat is filled with so many amazing worlds and hidden gems to enjoy. I've still gotta play through the new Gumball 3.0 Map x.x||

i love it

It’s my friend Phia! I gotta jump in to VR Chat. As I watched I kept thinking: this one looks good, and this one, and this one…

one day i am going to try out VR chat. one day. =)

Why is Terrors of Nowhere not here?! That game is incredible

This will be helpful

i managed to somehow sequence break then softlock in the devouring

Man sometimes I *wish* i had a gaming pc or laptop just to experience these games.. cause on the quest side it has been a struggle to find good horror games or even games in general as your kinda use to the mechanics of most quest games if not all

Do recommend "Smile Room" too.

Im sad to not see color dash, as a simple game becomes something I never felt in a game before, its my fav of all time. Crazy how one lil secret turns the game on its head!

The last thing I expected to see was my favorite game battle disks r4. It's a great game yet nobody talks about it.

I really need to save up for PCVR after this list

the laser level in pop escape was brutal every time I went and did it with friends XD and I did the devouring and it was awesome. it was really well made. And the water level was infuriating lol if you do another one of these, you've gotta talk about Organism

Ooh nice

I played battle disks with no issue in desktop mode, just have to use the throw button

Can't believe these are in vrchat. What. I clearly have been missing a whole sea of content in my first few sessions lol

I need some combat game recommendations. That work on quest standalone