Release date
August 24, 2023
Publisher
Digital Emergence Ltd
Control Tower VR puts you in the role of an air traffic controller in full 3-dimensional space. Draw flight paths to guide aircraft safely to their runways while avoiding other aircraft and obstacles in the environment.
Five types of aircraft must be managed: commercial airliners, private planes, gliders, helicopters, and zeppelins. Each behaves differently, for example, gliders cannot climb unless they are inside an updraft.
The game features two modes: Play Now and Career.
Play Now offers open-ended gameplay where you land as many aircraft as possible while the difficulty gradually increases.
Career mode is also open-ended but challenges you to reach target scores to earn medals and unlock new maps. It introduces special scenarios such as UFOs attacking your planes or aircraft that must fly past points of interest before landing.
Both modes feature five different maps, each presenting its own unique challenges.
January 25, 2025
Control Tower VR was a passion project I developed solo on the original Oculus Quest in my free time. Back then, getting approved for the official store was a much bigger challenge, so the game first launched on SideQuestVR. Through that platform, I built a small but amazing community of fans who…
January 26, 2025
I used to play this similar game on my phone to pass the time, and it's a refreshing taste to be immersed in VR. The game introduces some new mechanics (at least for me) with the glyders that can only descend until you catch a column of hot air, the big and slow Zeppelin, as well as having to redirect some planes off the map instead of landing them. Having a carrer mode also add to the game to keep you playing and discover the next maps.
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July 9, 2025
This is a really great game, let's get that said first. As other reviewers mentioned, the 'land the planes without hitting each other' concept has been on mobile for a while, but this bringing it into VR really makes it awesome. Unlike the phones this is a 3D environment, giving you (what seems) like a lot more room to work in. The game maps are ~6x6 feet (guessing here), but while it's no marathon, there's a huge difference between this and your average Chair Game. There is also good variety, with prop, small, jet and unpowered planes in addition to Zeppelins and you may get visited by UFOs. The game is both relaxing and crazy at the same time. Definitely a must play!
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December 23, 2023
Highly recommend this game; I've sunk hours into it!
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March 27, 2025
I normally write five star reviews but I'm sorry the game is way too hard. I thought this game was going to be nice and relaxing but no the game is just stressful! even on its easiest mode there's way too many planes at once and they end up just crashing into each other! And the game just got boring way too quickly because it's just way too hard!
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January 29, 2025
I went into this skeptical, Dev saying it was a 5 star game ,, I spent over an hour playing and it caught me off guard , I loved it ,
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