Concerning that this has to be said here considering its plastered on the steam store page, but yes you need VR to play this game.

It may not be obvious at first, but the more height you're adding while you're running the slower you're moving across the ground and away from lava monkes. You want to keep your body as low to the ground as you can without touching it for maximum horizontal speed.

Tree climbing is an incredibly useful tactic in Gorilla Tag as not many unskilled monkes know how to do it. In this image you see the basic movements for how to climb them (green circle is your hand), trees are wider at the base so you'll have to adjust accordingly. If you combine this movement with pulling towards you, you can climb almost anything that has a protrusion in the game, such as certain walls, gems and the big tree stump.

Wall running is one of if not the most useful skill you can grasp in Gorilla Tag, it can get you out of nearly every situation if you use it right. Most of the time when monkes start out trying to wall run they will either accidentally push themselves further away and fall to the ground, or they will start slipping and slide down. Combating this wildly depends of the steepness of the surface and will take a lot of trial and error to get better. If you look at the image on the right you will see a black circle with arrows, the black circle is your hand, if you move your hand in the black arrows direction you push yourself directly up, closer to the orange arrow you will go up and towards the wall pushing you higher, going too far can result in slipping and falling while going in the opposite direction will push you away from the wall and you will fall.

Wall climbing is another very useful skill, it can be used in many different places for swift escapes. You can see the rough movements in the image on the right, you don't want to swing at the wall you want to wait until your hand hits it and then push yourself to the other side. Wall climbing is probably the most difficult skill to learn and really just requires a lot of practice.

There is a second faster way to run which is a lot harder, but it can be very useful to outrun other monkes in dire situations. An interesting mechanic in this game is that if your hand is touching something, as long as you don't let go you can actually move as fast as you can move your hand in real life whereas when you push and let go there is a defined maximum speed you can be capped at. So if you move your hands in a roly poly method with one on top of the other going in circles really fast, your hands are touching the ground more often allowing you to overcome the regular speed limit.

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