Richie's Plank Experience similar games & best alternatives

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Richie's Plank Experience

PlayStation VR2, PlayStation VR, SteamVR, Oculus Quest • 2017

Should you play it?

You're on a plank, 80 stories high. Knees shaky, palms sweaty. You have a choice. Do you walk or do you freeze? Richie's Plank is the only VR experience that lets you clone any real-world plank into the virtual world for 2X the immersion.

What works

  • Highly immersive vr experience
  • Effective demo for vr newcomers
  • Unique flying and firefighting modes
  • Strong sensory stimulation with props
  • Active developer engagement

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited long-term replay value
  • Relatively short and simple gameplay
  • Some graphical and control bugs
  • Price considered high by some
  • Potential motion sickness in flying modes

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • NaissanceE

  • Fugl

  • DREAM LOGIC

  • Snake Pass

  • Lakehopper

  • MEANDERS

More story-driven

Games that feels like Richie's Plank Experience but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Virtual Virtual Reality

  • G String

  • ENA: Dream BBQ

  • The Cubicle.

  • Gravity Bone

  • The Norwood Suite

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Richie's Plank Experience but with less of a community feel

  • Mirror's Edge™

  • Manifold Garden

  • POOLS

  • BAIONLENJA

  • BOOMEROAD

  • Exo One

Less expressive

Games that feels like Richie's Plank Experience but with less self-expression and customization

  • FREEDIVER: Triton Down

  • Aircar

  • We Went Back

  • Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1

  • Windlands

  • Superflight

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Richie's Plank Experience: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Progression.

Last update: 03/08/2026