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Sony PlayStation VR2 Horizon Call of the Mountain Bundle Review

The PlayStation VR2 Horizon Call of the Mountain Bundle pairs Sony’s second-generation VR headset with a digital voucher for its flagship launch title. It’s the easiest way to get into PSVR2, since it bundles the headset, two Sense controllers, and a full game for close to what the headset alone often costs separately. But this is also a product whose story has changed a lot since its February 2023 launch — the price has dropped substantially, PC support was added, and there have been real, well-documented concerns about how much Sony is still investing in it. We looked at hardware reviews from outlets like TechRadar, TechGearLab, TrustedReviews, and GamesRadar, plus more recent reporting on the headset’s software support, to give you the full picture.

Hardware: still genuinely excellent

On pure hardware, reviewers are in rare agreement: this is one of the best VR headsets available for any platform, let alone a console. TechRadar came away impressed by the picture quality, how easy the headset was to get set up, how comfortable it felt during play, and how responsive it was to head and hand movement, going so far as to say it raises the bar for what a console VR headset can be. TechGearLab’s testing team was similarly impressed with the tracking and image fidelity, and singled it out as the most comfortable headset they’d tested, with unusually good accommodation for people who wear glasses — no small thing for a device you strap to your face for hours.

The 4K HDR OLED panels, eye tracking (which enables foveated rendering to save GPU power), haptic feedback built into the headset itself, and the redesigned Sense controllers — which borrow the DualSense’s adaptive triggers and haptics — all represent a real generational leap over the original PSVR. GamesRadar’s reviewer rated the Sense controllers among the best VR controllers they’d used, crediting how naturally the DualSense-style haptic feedback translates into the games.

Tracking is inside-out — camera-based, built into the headset, with no external sensor boxes needed. TechGearLab noted it doesn’t quite match the precision of systems that rely on dedicated external sensors, but called it the strongest implementation among headsets using only built-in cameras.

Where the criticism is real

Not every review is a rubber stamp. TechRadar’s verdict flagged the headset as expensive, noted occasional ghosting in fast-moving images, and criticized the controllers’ battery life — legitimate complaints if you’re coming from a wireless standalone headset. TrustedReviews pointed to the more structural limitation: the headset needs a PS5 to work at all, unlike Meta’s standalone Quest line, and cautioned that with competitors improving quickly, Sony would need to keep investing heavily in its own game library to stay relevant.

That concern turned out to be well-founded. A widely reported story from mid-2024 claimed Sony was pulling back funding for VR games internally, with a source suggesting only a couple of first-party PSVR2 titles were still in active development at the time. Beat Saber — one of the platform’s most-played games — lost future content support, with multiplayer shut down entirely in early 2026. These aren’t rumors from random forums; they’re documented in gaming press coverage and matter to anyone weighing whether to buy in today.

The good news: the story hasn’t stayed static. Sony released a PC adapter in August 2024, letting the headset connect to a compatible Windows PC and reach SteamVR’s much larger game library — though some features, like eye tracking and HDR, don’t carry over to PC mode. More recent coverage from 2026 has been cautiously more upbeat, too: a permanent price cut down to $399 (from the original $549.99, with a temporary promotional price around $299–$349 at points) repositioned the headset as a real value option, especially after Meta raised Quest 3 pricing. Newer releases like remastered versions of Myst and Riven, plus Microsoft Flight Simulator, suggest Sony hasn’t fully walked away from the platform, even if new releases remain slower and the exclusive library stays smaller than what SteamVR offers.

The included game: Horizon Call of the Mountain

This particular bundle includes a digital voucher for Horizon Call of the Mountain, a launch showcase title built specifically to sell the hardware. It puts you in the boots of Ryas, a disgraced soldier exploring the Horizon world’s mountains and machine-infested wilds in full VR, with climbing mechanics and bow combat built around the Sense controllers’ haptics and adaptive triggers. It’s widely considered one of the best tech-showcase titles for what PSVR2 hardware can do — striking environments, satisfying archery, and genuinely vertigo-inducing height sequences — though it’s a linear, guided experience rather than an open-world Horizon game, so expect a curated ride rather than the scale of the mainline series.

Who this is actually for

If you already own a PS5 and want the best VR experience currently available on a console, this remains an easy recommendation at its current lower price point — especially bundled with a genuinely strong launch game instead of buying the headset and Horizon separately. Where you should pause: if you’re expecting a rapidly growing library on par with Quest or SteamVR-native headsets, or if you want a wireless, standalone device you can use away from a console, PSVR2 isn’t that product, and the software support story has been genuinely inconsistent since launch.

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