Sony’s jump into virtual reality with the PlayStation VR has proved more successful than many of us anticipated, including Sony. Here are a few of our top picks for the PSVR.

A fantastic game in its own right, Resident Evil 7 has (hopefully) paved the way for longer, more intense VR experiences, akin to the AAA games we’re used to playing on PS4 and Xbox One. The early 2017 title brought the series back to its heart-pounding horror roots, choosing to focus on ambiance and atmospheric tension over the action-heavy combat in recent entries. That creepy turn translates well to VR, as the spooky Baker household comes to life when played inside PSVR. Capcom optimized the controls for PSVR to mitigate excessive head turning and nausea, which makes it possible to play for extended periods.

Resident Evil 7 is not for the faint of heart. It’s one of the most frightening games of this generation, and it’s at its scariest in PSVR. If you like getting spooked out, again and again, look no more. Resident Evil 7 on PSVR demonstrates that traditional console games can make the jump to VR while retaining their integrity and quality.

At its best, a VR game can feel like the most intense thrill ride you’ve ever been on, and Until Dawn: Rush of Blood understands this. The horror-shooter sends you onto a terrifying rollercoaster filled with monsters, and you must make quick use of your pistols, shotguns, and other weapons in order to survive.

The game includes multiple pathways, so you can continue to replay it as you work your way up the leaderboards, and around the Halloween season, it’s the perfect game to show to friends who aren’t familiar with PlayStation VR. Just don’t play it too close to bedtime.

PSVR was not the best place to go for first-person shooters at launch, Impulse Gear’s Farpoint has made it our go-to headset for the genre. En route to study a mystery near Jupiter, an explosion sends you and your team barreling toward a scorched desert planet filled with hostile aliens. Separated from your crew members, you must fight your way through waves of enemies in hopes of reuniting with your friends and escaping from the planet in one piece.

While Farpoint makes a strong case for first-person shooters in VR, the PSVR Aim controller, a gun-shaped VR peripheral that you can buy bundled with the game, might be worth the investment for Farpoint alone. With the Aim, the game’s fast, frantic, and responsive combat makes you feel as if you are really in the thick of things on this alien world. While the story is underwhelming and the environments are repetitive and somewhat bland, the action itself makes Farpoint a must-play PSVR experience.

Tetris Effect improbably makes the classic puzzle game feel new again. From the studio behind the Rez and the Lumines series’, Tetris Effect injects the studio’s alluring music and environmental effects to make a hypnotizing new take on what is arguably the greatest video game of all time. Blocks change gradients and morph into entirely new colors and compositions as the synthesized soundtrack alters with each move you make.

All around the board, calming backgrounds shift as you play. Tetris Effect essentially turns you into a composer of your own rhythm-puzzle game. Once you get in a groove, it’s hard to put the controller down. In PSVR, the experience is enhanced to make Tetris feel startling alive. You’ve played this game many times before, but you’ve never played it in such an enchanting format.

PlayStation VR went well over a year without a true killer app, but whimsical adventure Moss might just be that game. Framed as a children’s fairy tale — complete with a single narrator performing the voices of each character, as a parent would while reading to their child — Quill the mouse runs along and overcomes obstacles, you as the reader must also interact with the environment, yourself.

Plus, Moss makes great use of the PSVR’s control scheme while also using traditional gamepad control. It’s one of the first PSVR games to truly understand the potential of virtual reality technology, relying on more subtle motions and less of the motion-sickness-inducing jerky movements seen in other games.

Serving as a sort of expansion to an already innovative title, Superhot VR tasks players with devising strategies to eliminate rooms full hostile enemies with pistols, shotguns, knives, bottles — whatever you can get your hands on. In the original, time stopped every time you stopped, causing enemies to remain stagnant as you calculated your next move. In VR, the stop-time mechanic is employed with the use of the PlayStation Move controllers which act as your hands. The VR version remains a fast-paced first-person shooter with an emphasis on strategy, but in VR, Superhot‘s inherent tension ramps up. Will you try and go for the kill with your next movement, or come up with a less direct approach? The choice is yours.

Navigating Superhot‘s confined rooms, sifting past and dismembering enemies has never been as satisfying as it is in VR. While the gameplay loop can get a bit frustrating due to the PSVR’s limited camera tracking capabilities, Superhot VR nonetheless provides a unique experience for PSVR owners. For that, it earns a spot on our list.

When PlayStation VR Worlds launched alongside the headset a few years ago, one of its most promising inclusions was London Heist, a first-person shooter game inspired by Guy Ritchie films. Blood & Truth expands on the concept in a big way, delivering blockbuster-worthy action and espionage, complete with a budget we rarely see in VR.

Blood & Truth is not a proof-of-concept technical demo, but a full-fledged action shooter that can only work in virtual reality. Filled with twists and set-piece moments in between all of the gunplay, it’s one of the strongest games on the entire platform, and it’s certainly worth the price of admission.

Sure, Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham trilogy and Batman: Arkham Origins made you feel like Batman, but what if you could actually become Batman? Batman: Arkham VR switches the action to first-person view as you thwart the efforts of Gotham’s most nefarious criminals, solving puzzles along the way and taking out enemies with a variety of famous gadgets.

Though much shorter than Rocksteady’s other titles, the opportunity to step into the Dark Knight’s suit and dawn his cowl is worth the price of admission, and it even expands on some characters’ stories from the other Arkham games.

With the exception of the excellent Rigs: Mechanized Combat League, there aren’t very many competitive multiplayer shooters on PlayStation VR. First Contact Entertainment Firewall Zero Hour not only fills this void but does it with brilliant tactical gameplay that fans of Rainbow Six Siege will instantly love.

With multiple playable characters and customizable weapons, you can outfit yourself with the exact gear you want to take into battle, and everyone in your squad must play a role in order to succeed. With the excellent PlayStation VR Aim Controller in your hands, you feel even closer to the action.

We’ve several AAA first-person games enable virtual reality support, but Doom VFR breaks the mold. Rather than simply remaking 2016’s Doom for PlayStation VR, developer Id created an entirely new game set a short time after the UAC Martian facility was overrun by demons.

As a recently deceased human who has had their consciousness transferred into an artificial brain matrix, it’s up to you to foil the demons’ plans and restore security to the facility. Like with the 2016 game, there are plenty of different ways to blow demons to smithereens, and a teleportation system lets you zip around the battlefield and lay down the pain in a hurry.

The Persistence combines two genres that we rarely see together: horror and rogue-likes. The eponymous spaceship is on a mission to colonize a planet far from Earth, but it goes off course and enters a black hole. Everyone on board dies, but as a science fiction game, you have the opportunity to regain life by getting the ship back to Earth. The main problem is the ship is now crawling with mutants that block your path to the ship’s controls.

The Persistence plays like a stealth game in that you have to sneak your way past ruthless enemies. If you get caught, you’re probably gonna die (again). What makes The Persistence so great besides its chilling atmosphere and brutal enemy design is that each time you boot it up, a new ship layout is born. The ship’s floors and rooms are randomly generated, meaning that no matter how many times you play it, there is room for new frights.

Remember the little robots that populate The Playroom, the pre-loaded game that comes with every PS4? Astro Bot Rescue Mission takes those little guys on a grand platforming adventure across five worlds and more than 50 levels. Astro Bot does for PSVR what Super Mario 64 did for Nintendo 64.

As a third person platformer, Astro Bot excels in a similar way as Moss before it, but its level design and a unique smattering of gadgets bring it to a level we haven’t experienced before on PSVR. Astro Bot does a stellar job of making you feel as if you are in the game, despite the perceived limitations of a third person vantage point in VR.

It’s a wholesome, endlessly fun platformer that will more than likely go down as one of the all-time 3D platformer greats. An argument can be made that Astro Bot is the first game on PSVR worthy to be referred to as a system seller.

Six years later and we’re still talking about Skyrim. The 2011 Bethesda RPG captivated gamers with its expansive open world, but its allure came from its choose-your-adventure mentality. After a series of ports that have made it impossible for Skyrim to fade into the past, the fantasy experience entered the proposed future of gaming — virtual reality. For a game as wide in scope as Skyrim, its voyage onto PSVR is extremely impressive.

The visuals line up more closely to the original Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Skyrim, but it’s hard to consider that too much of a knock given, the infancy of the medium. The game can be played with the PlayStation Move controllers, adding more immersive combat. While the default movement system effectively utilizes short-range teleportation to remove the threat of motion sickness, the free movement actually works surprisingly well — better than other first-person perspective games on the platform. Skyrim hasn’t quite overstayed its welcome just yet, and returning to Tamriel in VR is a delight, sure to intrigue longtime fans and newcomers alike.

Making a play for VR’s first eSport, RIGS is a fast-paced arena sport where two teams of three players piloting giant mechs fight to accrue the most points in five-minute matches. There are three different types of play, awarding points for kills, carrying a ball through the opposing team’s goal, or charging up your mech with takedowns and then leaping through a central ring, respectively.

With multiple online and offline gameplay modes, in addition to solo skill trials and unlockable customization options for your rig and pilot, RIGS is one of the most fully realized games available in VR currently, where most releases still feel like tech demos. Most importantly, it’s a lot of fun, and if it attracts a critical mass of regular players into a sustainable community, it has the potential to be an early pillar of the medium.