Not ready to invest your first $100 in Quest games? Luckily, there are an impressive number of free games, experiences, apps, and social VR platforms that will keep you playing before you pay.
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Free Mission Games
Yes: Hide and Seek
As a Yeep, your belly is filled with stuffing used to make everything from pillows for construction to bombs for destruction. Pull elements from your vast imagination and launch them into the world. The game's intuitive block-based structure makes it easy to express your creativity at all skill levels.
Maestro: Master Class
Get on the podium and become a real conductor. Maestro: Master Class. Play hands-free or grab a chopstick and master the real hand movements of leading an orchestra through an extraordinary conducting masterclass that culminates in an epic symphonic concert in a packed opera house. Good luck, Maestro!
Gorilla Label
Like your primitive ancestors, Gorilla Label It will have you lumbering around a tree-lined arena, using its unique 'world-grabbing' movement style that allows you to wander around like a large ape. Chase other monkeys and infect them or climb for your life as the infected chases you. Pure and simple. Make sure you're away from TVs, furniture, babies, and pets because you'll be punching something in a mad dash for sweet, low-poly freedom.
Noclip VR
Capitalizing on the success of the cult-like status of 'The Backrooms' Internet lore, Noclip VR It allows you and online players to explore frontier areas, solve puzzles, and escape what lurks within. You need to wave your arms to move and always be within earshot of your friends, otherwise they won't hear you scream. The gameplay is a bit simplistic, making it more like something imported from a social platform like VR Chat or Recreation Room, Although it's definitely calling Gorilla Label vibraphone.
Population: One
Population: One It's basically VR's most successful battle royale game; It allows you to climb, fly, shoot and team up with anyone who dares. There are microtransactions in the free-to-play game, but that's nice just for cosmetics. But it's much more than a battle royale game: You can play in the sandbox for custom maps and rules, play team deathmatch with customizable loadouts, a 12v12 battle mode, and more.
Gun Raiders
Gun Raiders It offers a healthy dose of multiplayer shooter action with multiple game modes that let you jetpack through the air, climb from wall to wall, and take out your opponents. There are the same microtransactions you see in bigger games, but they're all avatar skin-related stuff, so there's no pay-to-win here.
- Developer: Gun Raiders Entertainment Inc.
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Gym Class – Basketball
Gym Class – Basketball This is the solution if you want to shoot some baskets and dunk, which you probably can't do on a physical court. Online multiplayer allows you to go head-to-head for a very convincing ballgame thanks to the game's physics-based and full-body kinematics.
blaston
This room-scale shooter is now free to play, allowing you to battle friends, family, and enemies in head-to-head 1v1 duels. Upgrade your equipment and dive into the action as you scramble to find weapons and rain down hellfire on your enemies. Matrix This innovative bullet hell escape meets futuristic dueling gameplay.
Hyper Dash
Hyper Dash It's basically a multiplayer shooter that fills in wherever you are. Echo War I could never (never mind that) Echo War it was never on the Quest and is now completely deprecated on the Oculus PC). Allows you to run fast, sprint and move on rails, Hyper Dash Payload manages to offer an impressive number of modes such as Domination, Control Point, (Team) Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Elimination. Thanks to the inclusion of cross-play, you can also challenge both Quest and SteamVR users.
Ultimechs
Ultimechs should sound pretty familiar: basically Rocket League, But instead of driving around in cars, you're given rocket-powered fists to knock balls into the goal. Online multiplayer features both 1v1 and 2v2 matches and offers tons of opportunities to earn cosmetic equipment that will allow you to transform your battle machine into something unique. There are also now two paid battle passes that offer tons of cosmetics to set you apart from your opponents.
MADNESS (early access)
Fans of arena shooters, get ready to battle it out in these lucky game modes that include all your favorite modes plus a few new ones like Red Light, Green Light, and Glitter Pig. Now in early access, the stylish, neon-filled, free-to-play squad shooter has serious style.
Cards and Mugs
Cards and Mugs is a highly addictive, social collectible card game that allows you to gather and battle your friends with over 180 cards. With cross-play against SteamVR headsets (also free on PC), you might consider arranging your regular gaming night by playing more than a few rounds of the game's characteristic medieval fantasy tavern.
Vegas Infinite
No real money gambling here, but PokerStars' Vegas Infinite Not only do they let you go all-in on games of Texas Hold'em, but there's now a full casino's worth of table games and machines that are sure to light up your brain's dopamine-starved pleasure centers. It's a completely free game, meaning you don't risk real money unless you buy in-game chips that can't be converted back into real money: this is just to keep your bankroll ready for the free game.
Bait!
Since the Fishin' Buddies update, this classic VR game has taken on a whole new life as a multiplayer VR fishing game that lets you sit back and have a cold drink with the kids while the grown-ups have fun. Additional social areas also allow you to sit back and engage in casual mini-games in between your fishing adventures.
Gods of Gravity
Gods of Gravity is an arcade-style RTS game where you compete in an epic showdown between celestial gods (2-8 players). Assemble ships and launch them to capture a nearby planet, or open wormholes to beam them across the solar system. Grab planets and moons to increase your production. Mine asteroids for powerful resources within you. And if you dare, catch the sun for ultimate passion. Then send a massive fleet to conquer your enemy's home planet. The last god standing wins.
Social VR Platforms
Recreation Room
Without a doubt one of the most fun and comprehensive VR games on the market… and it's free. Of course, you can pay real money for in-game coins to buy flashy outfits for your avatar, but that's entirely up to you. Numerous mini-games await you, both first-party creations such as the hugely popular cooperative Quests (which can be games in their own right), as well as user-created items that will leave your pocketbook gathering dust. This is social VR, so meet people and have fun for zero dollars. Fair warning: there is a ton from children.
VR Chat
If you've been anywhere near the Internet in the last few years, you've probably already heard of it. VR Chatuser-generated social VR space filled with…well…everything you can imagine, including pro gaming again Among Us Mario Kart, and even a version Defeat Saber. Create your own avatar or download millions of user-created avatars so you can role-play SpongeBob and Kirito. Sword Art Onlineor any of the millions of anime girl avatars you'll see out there.
Horizon Worlds
Horizon Worlds A lot has changed since its launch. It now includes more tools, user-generated content, and more engaging first-party games that round out some of the things that will make it more competitive. Recreation Room And VR Chat. You might want to check in just to see the status of Meta's first-party VR social platform. Whatever the case, it's hard to argue the cost of 'free'.