Can you recommend any PCVR games that can be played lying down? Preferably something slower that runs on Linux.

So far I’ve tried:

  • Overload: Works, but I get motion sickness.
  • Hellblade: Works but for some reason it’s too boring for me at the moment, dunno why.
  • Arkham VR: A PITA to get working with shitty controls and it’s almost impossible to play lying on your back.
  • Star Wars Squadrons: Works well, will keep playing.
  • The 7th Guest VR: Doesn’t work on Linux.
  • Alien Isolation: Doesn’t work on Linux.

I’m currently installing Alyx but that will probably be too much for my little Deck and on top of that demand too much interactivity.

I really wish The 7th Guest worked. That could have been exactly the kind of calm experience I wanted to play.

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
    7·
    5 months ago

    Elite Dangerous. Technically any seating experience VR should work somewhat well.

    Alien Isolation: Doesn’t work on Linux.

    It has a platinum rating on ProtonDB and is Steam Deck verified. I can’t imagine the Deck itself being powerful enough for VR though?

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Ooh, yes, forgot about Elite! Thanks!

      Alien Isolation itself runs fantastic on Linux. It’s Linux native and also runs great on Proton. But the VR version comes from a mod called MotherVR. Trouble is that this mod works by overwriting a DirectX dll. The same dll that Proton needs to overwrite so that Direct3D calls are translated to Vulcan for Linux. And the mod owner vanished about 4 years ago or so, shortly after they announced they wanted to open source the mod. So unless someone wants to replicate their whole work we can’t figure out how to make it work in Proton or natively on Linux.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    Subnautica might work as you use a regular controller.

    Sublevel Zero as well, but it probably has the same issue as Overload.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, it works good enough for the games listed above. I get a slight stutter every few minutes or so. But for now it’s been playable. But I doubt that it will be enough to run Alyx comfortably.

      I’m using ALVR and a Quest 1 headset. Its lower resolution should definitely help. I tried halving the resolution for Squadrons to see if it could get rid of the stutters, but it didn’t help with those and instead made the game too ugly.

      One caveat, I’m running OpenSUSE instead of SteamOS. That might give me slightly better performance, at least that’s my subjective impression. Games run definitely better on Plasma Wayland than X11. And last time I experimented on SteamOS with VR I couldn’t get it to work in gaming mode. And 2GB of zram definitely helped with City Skylines, but the impact on VR-games should be negligible.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      The Deck is just a (slow) Linux PC, why wouldn’t it work?

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Because it’s slow and VR is very resource demanding. It has to render everything twice and to mitigate motion sickness, the standard FPS to hit is 75-90.

        From NoneYa’s comment, it sounds like it “works” but it’s not gonna be very enjoyable.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    I would only play games that don’t require walking around like Job Simulator. While I have gotten used to it sitting or standing, trying to walk around while laying down using the new lay down mode on my Quest hella makes me sick. I mostly just use lay down mode when watching videos.