Echo VR: resurrected legend

A technical and mental masterpiece for coop-multiplayer challenges between real people around the world. High entry threshold but mind-blowing fun for those few, who learn to play

Strong sides:

An absolute masterpiece that was way ahead of its time.
Technically perfect realized physics, graphics, look and feel
Best zero-gravity and full-body motion implementation ever made in VR
Great tutorial and practice
Social and coop-compilation, including voice chat, team play and competition vibes.
Absolutely free, additional totally different game mode offered as DLC (Echo Combat)
Infinite replayability, possibility to play in multiplayer mode or single-player practice versus bots
Possibility to regard the game as an eSport (with physical and mental activity)

Weak sides:

High entry threshold , easy to learn controls but needs some time of practice to learn playing effeciently
Lack of players in Echo Combat DLC extension, so you might wait for a game for dozens of minutes
UPD'23/24: you need some additional manipulations with the game to connect to third-party servers to play (because Meta officially shut down the game in 2023)

Summary and conclusion:

This is a real gem of multiplayer VR esport competition games. It will blow your mind with 0g feeling and game mechanics, technical perfection and immersion. Even after Meta's official game shut down it lives with the community servers and still have huge audience! To play it today you have to follow the manual on Echo VR Lounge discord or check out our KB for step-by-step guide. It will be hard to learn playing it, but if you do, you'll find other dimension of VR gaming. In our opinion, this is a game that was ahead of its time and if you want something extraordinary, you have patience configure it and learn playing, you you definitely have to try it!

(Check out some in-game footage fragments and official trailer below)

Our rating:

5+/5

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Rating: 5+ from 5 - real masterpeace!

Game is available on:

Rift Store Quest Store
Tested on:
i7, GTX 1060 6GB, 16GB RAM, Rift CV1

Game performance:
This game is exclusively available only o Oculus Store for Oculus devices, but might be launched on third-party headsets using Revive (see the knowledge base).