Six best Meta Quest 3 (and Quest 2)

Games for 2024

7/8/2024,

The best Meta Quest 3 games send you to virtual worlds from the comfort of your living room

1. Onward

More in line with Rainbow Six: Siege than Call of Duty, Onward’s no-response 5v5 competitive gameplay requires strategic planning and extensive communication between teammates for a successful operation. Your hit count is limited and reloading requires you to physically chamber rounds for an eerily realistic military experience. Without being held back by wires, Onward shines on the Quest 2 more than on any other VR headset.

This sense of freedom gained from cutting the cord allows you to dive into cover and crouch in Onward’s dozen official maps without worry. To keep the game from feeling stale, there are legions of community-made maps. Each setting is chock full of detail and offers plenty of places to take cover during intense firefights. Under fire, your vision narrows to simulate combat stress. While this is quite immersive, interacting with all of your equipment is truly next level.

Each of the more than 40 guns in Onward requires their clips to be emptied and rounds to be chambered for reloading. This means it’ll take you time to load and chamber clips into sidearms or each bullet into weapons like shotguns and revolvers. Your stock equipment regardless of loadout includes a health injection syringe on your waist, radio on your left shoulder and tablet on your back. These tools help you revive downed teammates and contact distant teammates too far away to use proximity chat.

2. Until You Fall

Mix the challenging combat of Dark Souls with a rogue-like, and you’ll get Until You Fall. With a satisfying gameplay loop, neon aesthetic and a banging synth-wave soundtrack this is the VR game we had no idea we needed. Equipped with dual-wielding weapons (sword, mace or knife) you’ll strike dodge and counter enemies to best them in battle.

Sadly a majority of your time will be spent falling in battle. Each time you die provides you with new insight and upgrades. Ranging from maximum health to damage buffs, these upgrades can turn the tides of battle in your favour. Akin to playing one last round in the Civilization series, each successful run makes it difficult to put the game down.

Difficult boss fights will undoubtedly drive you mad. Coming better prepared to a fight with improved gear and prevailing, however, is pure ecstasy. If you love the sweet torture of Soulsborne games, you’ll be playing Until You Fall.

3. Resident Evil 4 VR

A highlight in the zombie-centric series, Resident Evil 4 is not just one of the best games you can play on the Meta Quest 2; in fact, it’s arguably the best reason to buy a Meta Quest 2.

While it won’t blow you away on the visuals front, simply playing the game in virtual reality offers a degree of immersion that’s difficult to get anywhere else. With motion controls and tracking, Resident Evil 4 VR offers a fresher way to play the game and works surprisingly well for a game that’s been adapted to fit VR rather than built for it. So if you want a fresh way to play Resident Evil 4, look no further than its Oculus Quest 2 version.

4. Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)

If you have a Quest 2 Link cable for your Quest 2, then 2020’s iteration of Microsoft Flight Simulator is a game to try out in virtual reality.

Not only has it been praised for its high levels of realism, but it’s also a gorgeous game with a very large range of aircraft to pilot across the globe. Add in VR support and an already immersive game gets even deeper. Our deputy editor Mike Prospero did exactly this and concluded that the experience “is like playing a whole new game.” So this is very much a game you’ll want to play on the Quest 2.

5. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Even though it’s now past its 10th anniversary, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is still very much a game you should try in virtual reality. You’ll need to connect the Meta Quest 2 to a gaming PC or laptop, albeit not a hugely powerful one given the game’s age. And it’s not superbly optimized for cutting-edge VR use. However, Skyrim VR lets you step into a virtual country with a fantasy and Nordic flavour.

While Skyrim is available on all manner of platforms, VR is arguably one of the newer and more interesting ways to experience the stellar open-world game. It also mixes up the playstyle of the game, with ‘realistic’ controls letting you slash away at drugs and dragons by actually swinging your arm. And even with dated graphics by 2021 standards, there are still moments where Skyrim’s art style and lighting present you with some beautiful vistas; perfect escapism from the rigours of real life. There is also mod support through the Steam Workshop, which adds yet another arrow into Skyrim’s brimming quiver.

6. Under Cover

The premise of this game is simple imagine a Time Crisis in VR… Pretty cool, right? Under Cover takes all the best bits of the traditional cover shooter, adds a pretty cell-shaded look, and adds a buddy-cop storyline for you to follow through and take down the evil megacorp.

Of course, as is the case with any Time Crisis, the story does not matter here at all. What matters is the over-the-top action, which this has in spades including bullet time and environmental destruction. Plus, you can even shoot away online in a two-player co-op.

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