What are some VR games that are good with an audience?
What are some VR games where the person in the headset can cast to a TV and the people watching can still participate/have fun?
For example, at a get-together over the summer, my friends and I played a hot seat version of I Expect You to Die 2. The person in the headset played the single-player game themselves, but everyone in the audience was able to watch the cast on the TV and help that person by giving them recommendations to try different things and help them solve the puzzles (or just recommend ridiculous stuff to see if the game will allow it). Even though the game is single-player, it worked really well as a communal experience and was a ton of fun for the whole room.
Any other recommendations for games like this we can try?
Note: we've already played Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Target Hardware: Oculus Quest 1
Beat Saber or Unplugged for that old Guitar Hero era nostalgia? Could also play Star Trek Bridge Crew, Captain gets the headset, everyone else on Laptops.
Edit: Artemis may be better if VR is not a required factor, $40 for a DRM free version on the website that can be installed on everyone's machines. BC I think is everyone has to have a copy.
Seconding Beat Saber - pass the headset on after each song, everyone gets a turn pretty regularly and everyone in the audience gets to laugh at their friends flailing around. Bonus points if you've got some of the more crowd pleasing/well known songs downloaded so people can sing along as well!
[Edit] Shooty Fruity was pretty fun in a group as well, actually. Again, short rounds to keep tagging in new people, plus on-screen silliness to keep the spectators amused.
I liked Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. One person has the bomb, the others have the manual.
Edit: Should have read that note. Of course you've already played it!
Edit2: Maybe Phasmophobia?
IMO, one of the best things about VR is that almost every game/experience is still reasonably enjoyable to watch on the TV or monitor along with those playing them. But there are definitely some that stand out as being particularly enjoyable to simply watch. E.g.
theBlu is an absolutely breathtaking visual experience, with simple and intuitive mechanics, so it's usually the very first thing I demo to people who have never experienced VR before.
PaintLab, Google Tilt Brush, Google Earth VR, Realities, and Valve's The Lab (all free!) are also pretty easy to use, and fun to watch people play around with.
Fantastic Contraption is not free, and a bit more complicated than the above, but also fun watching to see what solutions people come up with. And you can't go wrong with Space Pirate Trainer, Thrill of the Fight - VR Boxing, Surgeon Simulator VR, or Job Simulator either, which are all fun group rotation games.
Blade and Sorcery if you'd like to broadcast your inner psycho to everyone around you. I swear that game brings out the inner caveman rage in us all