Not ready to plonk down your first $100 on Quest games? Thankfully there’s an impressive number of free games, experiences, apps, and social VR platforms to keep you playing before you’re paying.
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Free Quest Games
Yeeps: Hide and Seek
As a Yeep, your belly is full of stuffing used to craft anything from pillows for building to bombs for destruction. Pull items from your vast imagination and toss them into the world. The game’s intuitive block-based building makes it easy to express your creativity at any skill level.
Gorilla Tag
Like your primitive ancestors, Gorilla Tag will have you lumbering around a tree-lined arena using its unique ‘grab-the-world’ locomotion style that lets you amble around like a great ape. Chase the other apes and infect them or climb for your life as the infected chase you. Pure and simple. Make sure you’re far from TVs, furniture, babies, and pets because you will punch something in the mad dash for sweet, low-poly freedom.
Animal Company
Riffing off Gorilla Tag’s locomotion scheme, Animal Company brings a heap of fun in multiplayer adventures that replicates the game loop of Lethal Company. Amble through a host of weird environments and collect loot and bring it back to base for profit, but beware: monsters and traps await, so employ stealth, strategy, and cooperation to avoid or overcome them. With friends, of course.
Orion Drift
Created by Gorilla Tag studio Another Axiom, Orion Drift is more of a budding social platform than a singular game—of course repurposing the studio’s clever locomotion scheme for fast-paced action. Recreating a lot of the fun of now-defunct sports app Echo VR, Orion Drift puts you inside a space station with up to 75 players where you can play the Rocket League-inspired ‘Drift Ball’, and a host of other fun activities too, like parkour challenges, sword combat, and golf. You’ll find plenty of chill zones too for kicking back and socializing.
Population: One
Population: One is basically VR’s most successful battle royale, letting you climb, fly, shoot, and team-up with whoever dares. The free-to-play game does feature microtransactions, but only for cosmetics, which is nice. It’s more than just a battle royale though: you can play in the sandbox for custom maps and rules, team deathmatch with customizable loadouts, a 12v12 war mode, and more.
VAIL
Vail is a multiplayer shooter that’s pretty full-featured for being basically free. Granted, a number of maps and features are behind pay walls, although its free-to-play ‘Citadel’ area offers up four maps to let you take on others in high-intensity 5v5 battles, letting you hone your skills with weapons and modifier pickups before going for any of its paid DLC.
Gym Class – Basketball
Gym Class – Basketball is the solution if you’re looking to shoot some hoops and dunk like you probably can’t on a physical court. Online multiplayer lets you go head-to-head for a pretty convincing game of b-ball thanks to the game’s physics-based and full-body kinematics.
VRFS – Football (Soccer) Simulator
VRFS is to football (soccer) what Gym Class is to basketball: a fully physics-driven competitive multiplayer game that lets you do everything from training to hosting your own matches. You won’t need to tie a controller to your feet though, as you use your hands to mimic kicks and execute tricks.
Hyper Dash
Hyper Dash is a multiplayer shooter that basically fills in where Echo Combat never could (never mind that Echo Combat was never on Quest, and is now entirely defunct on Oculus PC). Letting you quick dash, sprint, and rail grind around, Hyper Dash manages to serve up an impressive number of modes, including Payload, Domination, Control Point, (Team) Deathmatch, Capture The Flag, and Elimination. You can also take on both Quest and SteamVR users thanks to the inclusion of cross-play.
Devil’s Roulette
Russian Roulette doesn’t sound all that fun on its own, but there’s a twist to the shoot game. Instead of simply taking turns ganking other players (up to four), you can apply modifiers to do things like dodge incoming bullets, repair your health, or stun your opponent with a taser to keep them at bay—making it more like a deadly game of rock paper, scissors.
Cards & Tankards
Cards & Tankards is a pretty addictive social collectible card game, letting you collect and battle friends with over 180 cards. With cross-play against SteamVR headsets (also free on PC), you may consider hosting your regular game night playing more than a few rounds in the game’s characteristic medieval fantasy tavern.
Poker Stars – Vegas Infinite
No real cash gambling here, but PokerStars’ Vegas Infinite not only let you go all-in on games of Texas Hold’em, but now a full casino’s worth of table games a machines that are sure to light up the dopamine starved pleasure centers of your brain. It’s all free play, so you won’t be risking real cash unless you buy in-game chips, which cannot be turned back into real money: it’s only to keep your bankroll flush for free play.
Gods of Gravity
Gods of Gravity is an arcade-style RTS game where you compete in an epic showdown of between celestial gods (2-8 players). Scoop up ships and fling them to capture a nearby planet, or open wormholes to teleport them across the solar system. Hold planets and moons to boost your production. Mine asteroids for the powerful resources within. And if you dare, capture the sun for the ultimate buff. Then send a massive fleet to conquer your enemy’s home planet. Last god standing wins.
Social VR Platforms
Rec Room
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. Fair warning: there’s a ton of kids.
VRChat
If you’ve been anywhere near the Internet in the last few 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.
Horizon Worlds
Horizon Worlds has changed a lot since launch. It now includes more tools, user-generated content, and some more compelling first-party games which has rounded out things to make it more competitive with Rec Room and VRChat. You may want to check in just to see the state of Meta’s first-party VR social platform. Whatever the case, the price of ‘free’ is hard to argue with.
