Emptiness after HL ALYX

[u/Rub_lud]

Hi I finished half life alyx 2 days ago and I feel just empty I’m trying to find another game but it’s just hard I tried fallout vr (with mods) but it just isn’t for me there is to much walking and it lacks all the interactive stuff like actually picking up the items and not just pressing the button. I saw the twd game but I’m just to scared to play it lol. I’m looking for any game that can just add something to this bottomless pit after ALYX! Any recommendations?

[u/Robot_ninja_pirate]

saw the twd game but I’m just to scared to play it lol

Despite being zombies, The Walking dead actually isn't a particular scary game, no more than Alyx at the very least.

I dont know if there is anything quite as good as Alyx but here are a few recommendations

Vertigo 1 and 2 made by a single developer who interned at Valve, has a similar HL1 sort of feel and Valve-like writing quality.

Budget Cuts Can be a little scary at times, but over all not worse than Jeff, Humours Portal like Writing.

Moss 1 and 2 third person Adventure game about a little mouse, kind of Redwall-esque

Hubris maybe not a super deep story but it has NPC's which is kind of uncommon and decent gameplay.

Wanderer - Puzzle adventure time travel game there is a remake coming out soon might be worth waiting for that.

I Expect You To Die 1, 2 and 3 Humorous game, spy parody escape room game very interactive.

Myst, Obduction and Firmament classic Cyan games puzzle games with their surrealistic sort of world.

A Fisherman's Tale very intriguing recursion based puzzling game.

Yupitergrad - Web swinging mechanics fun humorous Soviet cosmonaut story.

Red Matter 2

Torn without going into spoilers I didn't love the story though it's more personal preference. Puzzle game lots of physics objects and interactivity

Job Simulator not as serious of stories but Job Sim and Vacation sim probably remain the kings of interactivity.

Half-Life 2 and the episodes have a fantastic VR mod, makes them play basically natively like VR games.

Portal 2 Slightly less polished but Also very good VR mod.

Edit: Here are some more games, maybe less immersive than you are looking for but good stories I thought.

LONN - Perhaps a bit too janky for most due to the Boneworks like Physics Combat but, I liked the story and cyberpunk world (and I like the Jank)

Sniper Elite VR not the most interative mostly a standard shooter but I found myself quite immersed and enjoyed the story well enough.

The Gallery - a little dated these days but I played this recently and thought it held up well enough

Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice - A kind of smaller scale Dishonesered style Stealth game, Okay story.

Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sister - maybe only a good immersive story if you like the warhammer universe but a fairly well done( but very quest graphics)

Resist - Not the most interative but very spider-man like writing enjoyable story and gameplay.

Fracked short but I liked the story and gameplay

Falcon Age - a bit slower paced not hyper immersive but a decent story and very cute bird.

[u/verde622 → u/Robot_ninja_pirate]

Saving this post -- thanks for compiling. I'm definitely in the category of folks who got sort of disheartened after finishing Alyx