VTOL VR is a near-future combat flight simulator developed and published entirely by Boundless Dynamics LLC, a single-developer studio. It was first released on Steam in August 2017 and has been continuously developed since, accumulating 98% positive reviews from over 21,000 players — one of the highest approval ratings of any VR game on Steam. The game is VR-only: there is no flatscreen mode. It is built around a single foundational concept that sets it apart from every other flight simulator: you interact with every cockpit control using your actual VR controller hands.

Rather than mapping the dozens of switches, buttons, and dials in a military cockpit to keyboard shortcuts or HOTAS buttons, VTOL VR places your virtual hands directly in the cockpit. You reach out and physically press MFD buttons on the bezel, flip switches on overhead panels, grip and move the throttle, push the stick. The aircraft in VTOL are fictional near-future designs that draw from real systems, described by the developer as "near-realistic." UploadVR called it "a VR-native DCS lite" — accessible enough to be playable without a flight peripherals setup, deep enough to satisfy serious simulator players.