Bigscreen Beta similar games & best alternatives

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Bigscreen Beta

2016

Should you play it?

Bigscreen lets you use your PC desktop in VR. Watch movies with friends in a virtual movie theater. Play your favorite PC video games on a huge screen. Hangout in social VR chat rooms. Participate in weekly 3D Movie Nights, VR LAN parties, live rocket launch events, and more!

What works

  • Free to use
  • Excellent social and shared viewing experience
  • Cross-platform vr support
  • Customizable environments and avatars
  • Active developer support and frequent updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited room size (max 4-12 people)
  • Lack of desktop audio sharing initially (improved later)
  • Some technical bugs and occasional crashes
  • No deep avatar movement or free roaming
  • Public rooms sometimes have disruptive users

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • On-Together: Virtual Co-Working

  • Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)

  • Oasis VR

  • Occupy White Walls

  • VRChat

  • Virtual Cottage 2

More progression-driven

Games that feels like Bigscreen Beta but with more progression and upgrades

  • Garden Paws

  • Tower Unite

  • Ale & Tale Tavern: First Pints

  • Wobbly Life

  • House Flipper 2

  • GOCCO OF WAR

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Bigscreen Beta. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Bigscreen Beta. These titles are not in What to play next.

Bigscreen Beta: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Fellowship. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story.

Last update: 21/08/2026