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VAIL

Meta Quest 2, SteamVR • 2024

Should you play it?

Download VAIL and experience the #1, highest-rated VR shooter, with precision-crafted gunplay, stunning visuals, unparalleled combat, and a constantly expanding world of modes, maps, and community

What works

  • Realistic and satisfying gunplay
  • Strong competitive and esports focus
  • Active and friendly community
  • Frequent developer updates and engagement
  • Crossplay support and smooth gameplay

Things to keep in mind

  • Small player base limits matchmaking
  • Limited maps and game modes
  • Some performance issues reported
  • Presence of toxic players and children
  • Lack of tutorial and mod support

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Breachers™

  • Black Squad

  • POLYGON

  • Insurgency: Sandstorm

  • Pixel Strike 3D

  • Arena Breakout: Infinite

More fantastical

Games that feels like VAIL but with more imaginative fiction

  • Guardians Frontline

  • Wild Warfare

  • Farlight 84

  • Cat Warfare

  • Rogue Company

  • Ghosts of Tabor

More story-driven

Games that feels like VAIL but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®

  • Command & Conquer Renegade™

  • Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm

  • America's Army: Proving Grounds

  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2

  • Blood Strike

More exploratory

Games that feels like VAIL but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

  • Arma Reforger

  • Bullets And More VR - BAM VR

  • Hurtworld

  • Pavlov

  • Day of Defeat

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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).

VAIL: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Story.

Last update: 03/08/2026