The Best Meta Quest Games You Can Play Right Now (2025)

Tips Before Playing

Before you tin really play, location are a fewer things you request to do. Here are immoderate tips for getting everything group up, because nan Quest interface is not ever nan easiest to navigate.

Set your boundary. The past point you want while playing is to tally into an entity successful your room while fundamentally blindfolded. Your Quest will guideline you done nan process of mounting up your boundary. Roomscale lets you tie a play abstraction to move freely, Stationary erstwhile you're opinionated still. But what if you move locations? Or want to play a crippled sitting down alternatively of opinionated up?

To alteration your boundary, property nan Oculus fastener connected your correct controller (it's nan 1 conscionable underneath nan joystick). This pulls up nan paper astatine nan bottommost of nan surface (you only person to do this if nan paper isn't already showing up). From there, if you hover complete nan clock, you tin take nan Quick Settings panel. Then take Guardian. If you prime Stationary, you conscionable person to deed corroborate and you're each set. If you prime Roomscale, it'll guideline you done drafting a caller Guardian boundary.

Your Quest whitethorn besides support room mapping, which uses nan exterior cameras to find walls and objects successful your abstraction and retrieve them for later. This makes moving betwixt rooms soft and effortless, arsenic good arsenic enabling precocious XR features successful immoderate games. You tin find nan accusation connected this characteristic successful nan “Environment Setup" tab of your settings.

Buy nan games. The Meta Quest Store is nan easiest measurement to bargain games for your headset, but location are 3 ways to do it. Regardless of which action you pick, you request to person a costs method connected record (credit card, debit card, aliases PayPal). The browser method is nan easiest measurement to participate these details.

1. Browser: Log successful to nan store. From there, you tin either type nan sanction of nan crippled into nan hunt barroom connected nan apical correct aliases click “Apps & Games” to browse. Once you've chosen a game, location is simply a bluish fastener connected nan correct of its info page that lists its price. Hit that and it'll punctual you to purchase.
2. App: Download nan Oculus app and log successful to your account. Click connected nan Store fastener connected nan bottommost near and, arsenic pinch nan browser steps, you tin either scroll done aliases hunt for a circumstantial title. Once you've clicked connected a game, nan app uses nan aforesaid fastener pinch a value strategy astatine nan bottommost of nan screen. Just click connected nan button, reappraisal nan costs details, and deed purchase.
3. Headset: With nan headset on, bring up nan bottommost paper again. The Store icon is nan orangish 1 pinch a small shopping bag. Click connected this, and you person nan action of browsing done games aliases search. Once you've picked a crippled and are looking astatine its info page, deed nan bluish fastener connected nan correct pinch nan value marker to purchase.

Note: If nan crippled is free, nan bluish fastener will opportunity “Get” alternatively than listing a price. And if you acquisition nan crippled via a browser aliases nan app, you will still request to download it connected your headset. See nan adjacent measurement for instructions.

Download and entree your games. Once you've purchased a game, you request to download it. If you purchased it done nan Store connected your headset, nan download should automatically start. Once it's done, nan fastener will alteration to “Play” truthful you tin jump correct in.

If you purchased nan crippled via nan browser aliases app, caput to nan Store connected your headset and hunt for nan game. The shop will database it arsenic “Purchased,” but erstwhile you click connected its info page nan bluish fastener will person changed from listing nan value to saying “Download.” Hit that and it will automatically show you nan download's advancement bar.

If your headset is plugged in, aliases connected a charging dock, and successful standby mode, you tin besides usage nan Oculus App to initiate a download connected nan device. I'll usage this to prime up a crippled connected my phone, and past person it fresh to spell erstwhile I put nan headset on.

To entree each of your games—both purchased and downloaded—bring up nan bottommost paper barroom by hitting nan Oculus fastener connected that correct controller. From there, click connected nan “Apps” fastener connected nan correct (the 1 pinch nan 9 dots). This will show you each of your purchases, and you tin select to spot conscionable nan ones that are installed aliases nan ones that aren't. Click connected nan game's icon and it should load correct up.

Recenter your screen. Occasionally, you'll find that your surface is nary longer centered nan measurement you want it. Maybe you took disconnected your headset to cheque your telephone aliases portion immoderate water, aliases possibly you're in-game and want to alteration your orientation. To quickly reset your view, clasp nan Meta fastener connected nan correct controller for a fewer seconds. You'll spot a mini dial appear, and erstwhile it fills in, nan position will reset to nan guidance you're presently looking.

Check your artillery life. When afloat charged, nan Quest's artillery usually lasts astir 2 hours. If you're not judge really overmuch juice your headset has left, deed nan Oculus fastener connected nan correct controller to bring up nan bottommost menu. On nan left, underneath nan clock, is simply a small artillery icon that gives you a unsmooth gauge of your charge. If you click connected it, it brings up nan Quick Settings screen. In nan apical near is nan nonstop percentage, arsenic good arsenic that of each of your controllers.

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