VTOL VR similar games & best alternatives

VTOL VR

SteamVR • 2017

Should you play it?

VTOL VR is a near-futuristic combat flight game built for Virtual Reality. Pilot advanced multi-role jets, using your hands to flip switches, press buttons, and manipulate the virtual flight controls.

What works

  • Highly immersive vr cockpit interaction
  • Balanced realism and accessibility
  • Strong modding community and mission editor
  • Engaging multiplayer and cooperative gameplay
  • Excellent value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited official aircraft variety
  • Steep learning curve for weapon systems
  • Basic graphics and environment detail
  • Sparse in-game tutorials
  • Some minor bugs and clunky mission editor

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Nuclear Option

  • Guns of Icarus Alliance

  • Vox Machinae

  • Elite Dangerous

  • Echo Point Nova

  • IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946

Less intimate

Games that feels like VTOL VR but with less focus on close relationships

  • Air Missions: HIND

  • Sky Rogue

  • STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Alliance™

  • Warplanes: WW1 Fighters

  • Evochron Legacy SE

  • BattleGroupVR

More dominating

Games that feels like VTOL VR but with more domination over others

  • X4: Foundations

  • Forefront

  • Deep Space Battle Simulator

  • Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders

  • Space Engineers

  • Heliborne Collection

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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).

VTOL VR: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Cooperation. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Domination.

Last update: 05/08/2026