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Lists of killer apps and games by user ratings - for the Rift hmds and Quest 1 - 3 with Link

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UPDATED JULY 2025

Note that due to the malfunctioning Meta phone app, you cannot find all games using the phone app. Also the PCVR Store shown in the Meta PC App may no longer include all games, but using a normal PC, this link should work:

https://www.meta.com/experiences/pcvr/

If you cannot find a game in the Store, try searching for it in the Store or using an Internet browser. Searching on the internet, to avoid Quest standalone versions, just add the word "Rift".

To get an overview, here're lists of the highest rated games and apps for the Oculus Rift hmds and for Quest 1 & 2 with (Air)Link. If you're new to PC-VR, maybe these lists can be of inspiration - and maybe even old-timers can find stuff they've overlooked...

To be included at least 40 users must have rated a game or an app, and the average user rating must be at least 4.5 stars out of 5 (= 90 % or better) - based on user ratings in the Oculus Rift Store (Steam games or apps are not included). Maybe we could call these lists for grade "A" games and apps - or simply current Rift killer games and apps 😉

And why the need for 40 user ratings? In the Oculus Rift Store there are many games and apps receiving high ratings, but to provide sound statistics it's not enough with just 3 user ratings - or 10 - or even 20. I've chosen 40 because it's close to the minimum number of individuals I'd want in a group, if I was trying to get some robust statistics after collecting answers to a questionnaire (for a medical trial and similar investigations). I've provided the current number of user ratings for each game or app, so if some readers only trust average ratings based on 100, 500 or even 1,000 user ratings, the lists will accommodate for such preferences.

Note that these lists are not influenced by my preferences - I'm just the guy counting user ratings and associated average ratings o:)
Also note that new awesome games or apps may not yet be on the lists due to an insufficient number of user ratings.

Highest rated Rift games:

98% average rating
The Room VR: A Dark Matter (369 ratings)
Altdeus: Beyond Chronos (68 ratings)

96% average rating
Beat Saber (13040 ratings)
Moss (852 ratings)
Golf+ (1067 ratings)
Walkabout Mini Golf (239 ratings)
Red Matter 2 (70 ratings)
I Expect You to Die 2 (45 ratings)
Merry Snowballs (44 ratings) - removed from the Store and Steam (Feb 2020)

94% average rating
Robo Recall (11352 ratings)
Lone Echo (5283 ratings)
I Expect You to Die (1273 ratings)
Brass Tactics (764 ratings)
Trover Saves the Universe (303 ratings)
Until You Fall (198 ratings)
Racket: Nx (103 ratings)
Airtone (99 ratings) - removed from the Store (maybe Jan 2021), still available on Steam

92% average rating
Blaze Rush (780 ratings)
Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted (778 ratings)
Space Pirate Trainer (726 ratings)
Vox Machinae (390 ratings)
Vacation Simulator (383 ratings)
Final Assault (273 ratings) - removed from the Store in 2024, still available on Steam
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (233 ratings)
The Invisible Hours (228 ratings) - removed from the Store in 2025, still available on Steam
Bending the Light (174 ratings)
Virtual Virtual Reality (114 ratings)
Synth Riders (115 ratings) - removed from the Store in 2024, still available on Steam
Hyper Dash (99 ratings)
The Under Presents (58 ratings)
Crisis VRigade (55 ratings)
Mini Motor Racing X (49 ratings)
Down the Rabbit Hole (49 ratings)

90% average rating
Vader Immortal (5609 ratings)
Blade & Sorcery (4189 ratings)
Superhot VR (3690 ratings)
Asgard's Wrath (3585 ratings)
Elite Dangerous (2566 ratings)
Stormland (1946 ratings)
Boneworks (1526 ratings)
Job Simulator (1489 ratings)
Eleven: Table Tennis VR (813 ratings)
In Death (726 ratings)
The Thrill of the Fight (620 ratings)
Brass Tactics: Arena (481 ratings)
Windlands (388 ratings)
Audica (368 ratings) - removed from the Store in 2023, still available on Steam
Racket Fury (346 ratings) - removed from the Store in 2025, still available on Steam
Witchblood (265 ratings)
A Fisherman's Tale (224 ratings)
Raccoon Lagoon (217 ratings)
Form (206 ratings)
Thumper (196 ratings)
Into the Radius (193 ratings)
Journey of the Gods (134 ratings)
Shadow Point (117 ratings)
Catan VR (95 ratings)
The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone (79 ratings)
Jet Islands (78 ratings)
Iron Wolf (74 ratings)
Shooty Fruity (65 ratings)
Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin (45 ratings)
Audio Trip (44 ratings)

Highest rated Rift apps:

98% average rating

Art Plunge (79 ratings)

96% average rating

Wolves in the Walls (1147 ratings) - removed from the Store in 2024, not available on Steam
Oculus First Contact (1249 ratings)

94% average rating

Crow: The Legend (891 ratings) - removed from the Store in 2025, not available on Steam
Show It 2 Me (203 ratings)
Electronauts (104 ratings)
Sky VR: Hold the World (83 ratings) - removed from the Store in 2025, not available on Steam
Get Lost in Nature with Luke (70 ratings)

92% average rating

Aircar (2455 ratings)
1943 Berlin Blitz (1032 ratings)
Allumette (870 ratings)
Dear Angelica (882 ratings)
Fantasynth One (568 ratings)
Dance Central (350 ratings) - removed from the Store in 2024, not available on Steam
Sensor Bounds (223 ratings) - removed from the Store in 2022, not available on Steam
Apollo 11 VR HD (209 ratings)
Wonderful You (155 ratings) - removed from the Store in 2024, not available on Steam
The Bond (133 ratings) - removed from the Store in 2024, still available on Steam for free
Beach Body Bros (117 ratings)
Spice & Wolf VR (57) ratings)
Jig Space (47 ratings)
Breath Tech (45 ratings)

90% average rating

Google Earth VR (8776 ratings)
Henry (1178 ratings)
Wrench: Engine Building Demo (330 ratings)
Sharecare VR (300 ratings) - removed and replaced by a new and updated app
Tilt Brush (268 ratings)
Arden's Wake (44 ratings)
Chroma Lab (42 ratings) - to find this game, search for "Chroma Lab Rift" on the internet

BTW, to make these lists I selected the Oculus Store category containing all games and apps, organized the items according to user ratings (highest ratings first) and then - one by one - checked the number of ratings and the average score.

Finally we could also check which game or app (with an average user rating of at least 90 %) has the most votes in total - and the winner in each category is:

Rift game with the most ratings

Rift app with the most ratings

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RuneSR2Author

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I just added The Thrill of the Fight to the gaming list - that game just got 41 ratings and a 90 % average rating.

https://youtu.be/LyJvGCavoVg

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Anonymous

Hey there, nice work making these lists!
Maybe it would be better to use a ratio between the rating and the number of ratings to sort it out? 'Cause a 90% by 1000 people is way more trustworthy than 98% by 70 ^^'.

EDIT : Never mind, I had 5 minutes so I actually did it myself xD! So, for those interested, here is the same list, sorted out with a ratio Ranking/Number of ratings. I actually multiplied those values with each other for each game (and divided by 100 only for a better visibility) :

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LuluViBritannia said:

Hey there, nice work making these lists!
Maybe it would be better to use a ratio between the rating and the number of ratings to sort it out? 'Cause a 90% by 1000 people is way more trustworthy than 98% by 70 ^^'.

EDIT : Never mind, I had 5 minutes so I actually did it myself xD! So, for those interested, here is the same list, sorted out with a ratio Ranking/Number of ratings. I actually multiplied those values with each other for each game (and divided by 100 only for a better visibility) :

Thanks - also for your interesting post. I agree that it's a problem that the number of ratings isn't reflected in the average rating, but it's not an easy problem to solve, also because some apps/games are new (=few ratings) and some are old (=many ratings). Your list basically reflects only the number of ratings (with no regard to the average rating) - and because Robo Recall is a free (bundled) game it may have gotten many more ratings than priced games. But of course the number of ratings may separate the more popular games from the less popular ones - but again there's the time perspective; Moss hasn't been out long compared to Robo Recall or Chronos.

Maybe it could be interesting to compare "average ratings per month" by taking the "number of ratings" for each game/app and divide that number by the "number of months since the launch date". That may give an idea of the popularity (average ratings per month), and suddenly Moss may no longer be far behind older games... But I don't think I have enough sparetime to perform such calculations ;-)

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RuneSR2Author

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In case some haven't noticed, Chronos is on sale just for today ("daily deal"):

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/app/929508627125435/

For those who only trust an average rating of 90+ % if it's based on at least 1,000 user ratings, Chronos is the 6th best Rift game ;)

https://youtu.be/vNPfkoAhaLI

https://youtu.be/H8twzdNMOek

Personally I don't think the game has aged at all, and it reminds me of a mix of Another World, Zelda and Dark Souls. It's one of the Rift's launch titles from March 2016, but back then few had the medium or high-end video cards that many own today. This means that you can use Oculus Tray Tool to enable high levels of super-sampling making Chronos look better than ever. In Chronos I'm using super-sampling 2.0 and it looks awesome - mostly I get 90 fps, but occasionally fps may drop to 45, but it's no problem. I'd be surprised if GTX 1060 owners can't enable super-sampling 1.5 in this game. Recently the game has been patched to support Touch controllers.

And of course this isn't a game worth a rating of 90 % - it's at least 95 % in my book: no Rift user should be without this amazing game/experience!

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

RuneSR2Author

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I just added Pixel Ripped 1989 to the list - it has gotten 40 ratings and an average rating of 90 % - here are some trailers:

https://youtu.be/lU14X0pwRt4

https://youtu.be/BtJcLH_tHh0

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Anonymous

but it's not an easy problem to solve, also because some apps/games are new (=few ratings) and some are old (=many ratings).

That's actually right, haven't even thought of that ^^'. So we should rather use an average number of ratings per month, and also include the price as a factor to give a more accurate list. I'm not sure how to properly implement the latter, but I'll update my list to include the former.

Your list basically reflects only the number of ratings (with no regard to the average rating)

It actually just looks like it, but both these parameters have the same weight in the calculation ^^. Case in point : Beat Saber is in front of E:D thanks to its average rating. A huge gap in ratings do have weight with this method ; the thing is, there aren't much of a gap between ratings xD.

EDIT : Ok, I remade the list including the number of months since each game's launch. As of today (late August 2018), here is the list with a ratio (Average Rating) * (Nb of ratings per month) :

And, looking at that, it didn't actually solve the problem since now it mainly considers the number of rating per month xD. It did change the list, but it still has the same flaw (the gap in ratings is still more important).
The interesting point is : the Top 5 is still the same (although not in the same order). I guess we can call these "VR killer-apps" without doubt.

Without doing the math, I would say including the price as a factor still wouldn't change the Top 5 (but Lone Echo and E:D would earn a few places while Robo Recall would probably wind up 5th).
Now I could try this, but it wouldn't feel very accurate for me, for one reason : regular sales. I didn't pay any of my VR games at full price, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one buying during sales xD.
My point is, adding the price to the list may not be that accurate because we don't know the actual price each people put in their games.

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I gave in, obeyed the list and bough some *table tennis* :blush: And it actually was - amazing <3 My short review of Racket Fury: Table Tennis VR, which I wrote today in the Oculus Store:

"Feels like the real thing!

Awesome game, note that I don't care for multiplayer and only tested singleplayer. Graphics are nice and works in 90 fps using super sampling 2.0 on a GTX 1080 (forced by Oculus Tray tool) - but 90 fps only works when selecting the two other scenes/environments than the default one (GTX 1080 Ti and RTX 2080 owners may not experience this problem ;-) Especially the scene with the large planets taxes the video card the least. I paid just 7.5 bucks for this game - it simply feels like getting table tennis at home - but I can play against cool and different robots! The game quickly gets challenging, there's great fun for both beginners and advanced players. Physics effects are awesome - it feels like real gravity on the ball. Note that I used 360 degrees tracking, it may be important in this game. I experienced no problems hitting the ball, tracking was simply excellent - sound effects weren't too loud but perfect. For the price this game is a steal, you won't find better table tennis on the Rift for less than 10 bucks - if at all. Don't miss out on trying this gem: in the rare case that you don't like it, you can always get a refund."

Lately the game has gotten some neutral or bad reviews due to multiplayer problems, but the game costs less than 10 bucks and I don't agree that the game deserves lower ratings because multiplayer isn't working perfectly (or at all). The game's awesome singleplayer content - in my opinion - warrants a 5 stars rating. BTW, I deactivated the visual effects on the ball since these felt distracting - and it also helped gain a little more performance.

https://youtu.be/tB1YXqHM5nE

The game looks and performs much better than indicated in the (boring) trailer.

Hmmm, maybe I should jump in and buy Eleven: Table Tennis VR too, but I also need to decapitate some dudes in Gorn - so little time, so many games :)

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

RuneSR2Author

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And then it happened - the number 6 game on the mighty Oculus gaming list just went on sale - guess I'm bound to become a fan of VR table tennis :D

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/app/989106554552337/

The game is rated 94% by 335 ratings in the Oculus Store - and on Steam it's maybe even better, a solid 10/10 by 992 ratings.

https://youtu.be/kjH2mmuj-Lw

I just bought the game o:)

Many more awesome games are on sale - it ends in just two days:

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/section/450371282118096/

PS. Also just bought this one - 90 % with 45 ratings:

https://youtu.be/Tp8gepLiRKQ

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RuneSR2Author

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Eleven Table Tennis is awesome - but it's very close to Racket Fury, and I must admit I like playing against robots better. Performance is similar - 2 out of 5 environments work perfectly a 90 fps ss 2.0 in Eleven Table Tennis on my oc'ed 1080, for strange reasons 3 environments pushes me down to 45 fps - or worse (even though not much is going on). I'm not sure that Eleven Table Tennis is better optimized than Racket Fury. I'm a very casual table tennis player - I'm thinking about refunding Eleven and keeping Racket Fury.

Heart of the Emberstone is great, but controls could be much improved, it's strange that some devs don't support normal free Touch locomotion (it's HMD directed, when set to Touch joystick the controls work in a weird way - but I'm used to HMD-directed movement in Doom VFR). Then again, the slightly awkward controls do make the game special ;-) Feels a lot like Obduction being alone in an alien world, but I've only played the game for 30 minutes. Textures are awesome, works nicely using ss 2.0, but mostly in 45 fps, which isn't a problem in this game.

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RuneSR2Author

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Virtual Virtual Reality just made the cut too - and achieved a 90 % average rating based on 42 ratings:

https://youtu.be/u7Jz_sVYejs

It's just $15:

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1554270381357502/

And Gorn is getting close, but still no cigar - 88 % based on 42 ratings ;)

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