Thursday, 6 August, 2026 UTC
Summary
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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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.
- Developer: Trass Games
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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.
- Developer: Another Axiom
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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.
- Developer: Wooster Games
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UG
You might think UG is just another Gorilla Tag-style knuckle dragging social VR game, and you’d exactly right in that assumption. Still, UG has proven to be extremely popular, as it lets you explore a dinosaur-filled world, fight, catch, raise and ride your own dino-beasties. And all of it with your friends (and a lot of kids) by your side.
- Developer: ContinuumXR
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Orion Drift
Created by Gorilla Tag studio Another Axiom, Orion Drift is more of a 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.
- Developer: Another Axiom
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Population: One
Population: One is still kicking as VR’s most successful battle royale title, 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.
- Developer: BigBox VR
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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.
- Developer: AEXLAB
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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.
- Developer: IRL Studios
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MotoX
Yeah, MotoX may be a little herky-jerky and the graphics feel a little bit stuck in the PS2 era, but it’s also a full-fledged motocross sim that lets you race around muddy arenas and do massive jumps with your friends. It used to cost $20, but now it’s free-to-play.
- Developer: Enver Studio
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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.
- Developer: Divergent Realities
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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.
- Developer: LuckyVR Inc
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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.
- Developer: Trass Games
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DOWNSHOT
It’s not Garry’s Mod or Boneworks, but it’s pretty dang close, as this anything-goes physics sandbox offers mod support so you and your friends can truly do anything. Its physics playground boasts 200+ items, weapons, and vehicles in addition to endless mod maps.
- Developer: CMVR Game Studios
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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.
- Developer: VRChat
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Hyper Dash
Hyper Dash is a shutting down its multiplayer servers in November 2026, which means the shooter is soon going to be a single player-only game, which is a real shame. In the meantime, it’s still worth jumping in so you can quick dash, sprint, and rail grind across an impressive number of modes, including Payload, Domination, Control Point, (Team) Deathmatch, Capture The Flag, and Elimination. At least until servers go dark, you can also take on both Quest and SteamVR users thanks to the inclusion of cross-play.
- Developer: Triangle Factory
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Wooorld
Ever wanted to use Google Earth in VR? The free tier of Wooorld (that’s three ‘o’s) lets you do just that, as you explore our little blue marble in company of others. There’s a (mostly) 3D map and Google Street View, all of which you use as great focal points as you chat with people around the world. There’s a premium tier that unlocks games similar to Geoguessr.
- Developer: Wooorld Inc
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Bigscreen
Bigscreen is the mother of all VR video apps. It’s social too, although it doesn’t have to be. Configure your avatar and pop into virtual movie theaters to watch your own content, stream your own stuff for others to see, and watch other people’s content all while having a friendly chat. You can also rent movies, show up for bespoke movie nights, and watch all the free live TV you can shake a stick at, courtesy of a partnership with Pluto TV.
- Developer: Bigscreen VR
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Airport Security Guard
Airport Security Guard is one of those rare multiplayer games that also has a good single player mode, giving you even more quality time with your canine patrol partner as you sniff out passengers trying to smuggle in prohibited items. You can also smash people and light them on fire, which seems somewhat excessive for TSA gate agent, but I guess that’s just the price of keeping the country safe.
- Developer: etermax XR Studio
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LIMINAL: Relax. Unwind. Engage. Explore.
Looking to unwind? Liminal is mostly about reducing anxiety, meditating, and breathing yourself into a better mental state across a variety of environments. I say mostly, because there are also a number of casual games and interactive content to play through too, offering a really good mix of active and passive enjoyment. It’s just about the chillest VR experience.
- Developer: Liminal VR
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Anne Frank House VR
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
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Mission: ISS
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
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Home After War
Home After War is a room-scale, interactive experience that takes you to Fallujah, Iraq. 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
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Gravity Sketch
Design models, ideate products, create anything in VR with Gravity Sketch. It has the ability to import images, video, and 3D files (.jpg, .png, .mp4, .obj) and output snapshots and 3D objects (.png, .obj, .iges). Even when it was a paid app, it was a powerful and surprisingly intuitive creation suite. Now that it’s exactly $0 with no hidden gotchas, it’s even better.
- Developer: Gravity Sketch
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Open Brush
Google abandoned Tilt Brush, but made it open source, letting third-party devs build off the entrancing 3D painting and sculpting app. That’s where Open Brush comes in, not only offering up the ability to choose from 48 different brush types, but collaborate on your creations in multiplayer.
- Developer: Icosa Gallery
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BeamXR Live – Stream to Socials
Meta hasn’t exactly made it easy to stream games to social platforms, which is where BeamXR Live comes in, letting you stream your gameplay directly from Quest to Twitch or YouTube with one tap. When you’re broadcasting, you’ll also be able to see your live chat in-headset, and personalize your stream with images, text, and more.
- Developer: BeamXR
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We’re not officially counting these, although you might also want to grab some of these essential free apps:
- YouTube
- Steam Link
- Discord
- Spotify
- DeoVR – VR Video Player
- Xbox
Update (August 6th 2026): Our latest update shuffles some new titles, and got rid of either defunct or abandoned games.
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