Not ready to plonk down your first $100 on Quest 2 games? Thankfully there’s a good amount of free games, experiences, social VR platforms, and apps to keep you playing before you’re paying.
Note: We didn’t include demos for paid games in the list, but you should definitely also check out these too for a quick taste of the full thing, such as Journey of the Gods, Creed: Rise to Glory, Beat Saber, Superhot VR, and Space Pirate Trainer.
SideQuest, Quest’s unofficial app library, is a great resource for free and paid content too. App Lab DB is also a great resource for finding free stuff and demos, courtesy of Facebook’s unmoderated App Lab distribution scheme.
Free Games
Echo VR
- Description: Zero-g sports aren’t possible unless you’re stationed on the ISS, and even then you probably shouldn’t muck about. In this fast-paced game of ultimate frisbee-meets-hockey-meets-whatever, you’ll launch at speed to the goal, evade the opposing team and chuck your Tron-style frisbee-thing for the win. Remember: you can smash your opponent in the face, just please make sure it’s not a TV, pet, or loved one IRL.
- Developer: Ready at Dawn
- Store link
Rec Room
- Description: Without a doubt one of the most fun, and most expansive VR titles out there… and it’s free. Sure, you can pay real cash for in-game tokens to buy spiffy clothes for your avatar, but that’s really up to you. Gads of mini-games await you in both first-party creations such as the ever so popular co-op Quests—that could be games in their own right—to user-created stuff that will keep your pocket book gathering dust. It’s social VR, so meet people and have a ball for zero dollarydoos.
- Developer: Rec Room
- Store link
VRChat
- Description: If you’ve been anywhere near the Internet in the last three years, it’s likely you’ve already heard about VRChat, the user-generated social VR space filled with… well… everything you can imagine, re-pro games included like Among Us, Mario Kart, and even a version of Beat Saber. Fashion your own avatar or download the millions of user-generated avatars out there so you can embody SpongeBob, Kirito from Sword Art Online, or any one of the million anime girl avatars that you’re bound to see there.
- Developer: VRChat
- Store link
Puzzling Places Beta
- Description: Puzzling Places is a paid app coming to basically all VR platforms, but you can still play the more limited beta for free via App Lab. It’s a 3D puzzle game using photogrammetry to recreate magnificent places from the physical world, and break them up into varying degrees of difficult-to-reassemble puzzles.
- Developer: Realities.io
- Store link
Elixir
- Description: Would-be wizards, this is your time to shine. Explore a magical laboratory and take on the job of apprentice wizard. The lab is full of gadgets and magical stuff to mess around with; as one of the games that natively supports Quest’s hand tracking, you can put your controllers down and get experimenting with this little slice of the dark arts.
- Developer: Magnopus / Facebook Reality Labs
- Store link
PokerStars VR
- Description: Pokerstars, but in VR and without real cash. Okay, that last part isn’t exactly true because you can buy in-game chips for more fun (non-transferable). If you’re good at Texas Hold’em, you may not need to buy any at all by working up from your starting chips. Just make sure you’re not giving off any tells, because in VR they can see you bluff almost as good as in real life. Also black jack and slots if you’re into it.
- Developer: Lucky VR
- Store link
The Under Presents
- Description: Ok, so it’s not a game in the traditional sense, but The Under Presents is a true tour de force when it comes to immersion, exploration, and downright weirdness that you can only experience in VR. This mind-bending adventure is an optional social experience that’s almost too big to describe, but suffice it to say you can easily get lost uncovering the game’s mysteries and puzzle-like room configurations. It also includes over 30 minutes of single player mysteries to discover for free.
- Developer: Tender Claws
- Store link
Bait!
- Description: In between frenetic social VR games and high-flying matches in Echo VR, Bait! offers up some relaxing fishing holes for you to trawl. Catch rare fish, buy new equipment and fish the day away across five different lakes filled with different swimming vertebrates. It’s chill with a little bit of momentary excitement, just like fishing should be. BYOB.
- Developer: Resolution Games
- Store link
Bogo
- Description: Free alien pet, anyone? In Bogo you nurture your own little alien buddy, feed him, scratch his little belly, and experience the wonders of room-scale VR. It’s short and sweet, just like your new pal Bogo.
- Developer: Oculus
- Store link
Free Interactive Experiences
Anne Frank House VR
- Description: This interactive experience takes you into the secret annex where Anne Frank lived for two years in hiding from the Nazi regime. The experience lets you explore the entire annex where eight people hid, and experience what it must have been like for Frank up until the group was discovered and shipped off to concentration camps in August 1944.
- Developer: Force Field
- Store link
First Contact
- Description: A preinstalled app worth your time, First Contact is more of a comprehensive look at what makes VR great, and comes with a bunch of really lovely scenery, Easter eggs, and plenty to explore as you learn your virtual left hand from you right. This one is all about the magical ‘p’ word: presence.
- Developer: Fun Bits Interactive / Oculus
- Store link
Mission: ISS
- Description: Get your space boots and Tang ready, because you’re about to take a trip into orbit to learn about life board the International Space Station. You’ll float around in the station’s microgravity environment and experience how to dock a space capsule, take a spacewalk, and let real NASA astronauts guide you on the ISS through informative videos and images. Look out over the pale blue dot and marvel at humankind’s most awesome achievements.
- Developer: Magnopus / Oculus
- Store link
Home After War
- Description: Home After War is a room-scale, interactive experience that takes you to Fallujah, a city that was, until recently, under Islamic State (IS) control. Even though the conflict has ended, there’s a looming fear of returning refugees: booby trapped homes and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the neighborhoods. Awe-inspiring. Human. Disturbing.
- Developer: NowHere Media
- Store link
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