5 Best Free VR Shooting Games For Oculus Quest 2 and 3
So you’re a big fan of virtual reality shooting games, and you’ve got a nice Oculus Quest 2 or 3 to enjoy playing them on. The problem is you don’t have or don’t want to spend a lot of money to enjoy a fun VR shooter.
Well, don’t worry because there are some fantastic free VR shooting games for you to try on your Oculus Quest 2 or 3. Here are the best ones I’ve found.
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Aim XR - Free Virtual Reality Shooting Games
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Aim XR is a fast paced free VR multiplayer shooter with lobbies of 5 versus 5 players (generally).
Aim XR plays sort of like Pavlov VR or even Contractors, but it’s completely free! All of the weapons are based on real ones, and it’s in a modern setting, the usual army dudes versus army dudes. There is a huge array of weapons to choose from and several game modes, like Deathmatch, my favorite, which has you spawning, fighting the enemy team, dying, and then spawning again to do it all over again with a random weapon each time.
While Aim XR doesn’t have the smoothest weapon controls or the tightest movement system, it is a really solid free multiplayer shooter for virtual reality. If you want a free Counter-Strike VR sort of experience but don’t want to pay any money for it then give Aim XR a try.
Despite having a little jankiness it’s definitely a fun free VR shooting game.
POPULATION: ONE - A Battle Royale Free VR Shooting Game
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POPULATION: ONE is the original Virtual Reality battle royale game, and now it is also completely free!
It plays sort of like a free Fortnite VR, where you can team up with up to two other people to take on each match and be the last team standing. As with any battle royale game you spawn in and jump onto the map, except in POPULATION: ONE you jump out of or land in a landing pod instead of a plane or battle bus.
Anyway, once you land you’ve got to scavenge the map to find weapons, equipment, and healing items. There is a zone around the map as well, like in any battle royale, and it closes in and restricts where you can go. You’ll take constant damage if you’re outside of the zone.
This zone keeps closing until the whole map is covered by it, and so you’ll have to fight other teams and take them out to be the last team standing. There’s even building, kind of like in Fortnite, but building takes a lot longer in POPULATION: ONE. So luckily a lot of the fighting isn’t just a contest of who can build a big tower the fastest.
Overall this has got to be the most polished of all the free virtual reality shooting games out there, and if you really want a free VR battle royale to play there is no alternative to POPULATION: ONE, which isn’t a bad thing because it is a fantastic VR game.
Hyper Dash - Free VR Shooting Games
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If you want a free VR shooter that is more focused on movement and gives you a lot of options to quickly zip around the map while blasting at other players, give Hyper Dash a look.
While the movement system takes a little learning and getting used to, Hyper Dash has a great tutorial that will teach you how to use it, and each map has a ton of rails to grind on, platforms to hop around on, and new weapons and powerups to use.
Hyper Dash is a ton of fun if you want a free VR shooting game that is fast and gives you a lot of options to quickly travel around the arena. The main game mode is a sort of capture the flag where you need to fight with the other team over a ball and bring that ball to your team’s goal.
It’s a ton of fun to zoom around the map in this free VR shooting game, and most importantly it’s absolutely free to play. If you want a VR shooter that lets you fly around and go really fast while shooting then give Hyper Dash a try.
X8 - Free Virtual Reality Shooting Games
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X8 is a free VR Hero Shooter that focuses on a Valorant “Demolition” gamemode where one team attacks and tries to plant a siphon at one of two sites on the map, while the other team tries to prevent the other team from planting it or defuse it when it is planted.
X8 is different from other free VR shooting games because, unlike other free Virtual Reality shooting games, it has heroes for you to choose between during each match. Each hero has a different selection of powers to use during the match that can drastically affect how the game progresses, though each hero shares a pool of weapons and armor that can be purchased at the start of each round.
So X8 plays like Valorant. The only downside in this comparison is that a lot of the characters don’t feel as unique as those in Valorant, but there are still plenty of interesting options to choose from.
Still, X8 is a solid free VR shooter, and for the low low price of no dollars, it’s worth a look.
SHOOTOUT - Free Virtual Reality Shooting Games
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SHOOTOUT is yet another free multiplayer VR shooter, and unfortunately the last one on this list of the best free virtual reality shooting games.
Still, I’m ending this list with a real bang here, because SHOOTOUT is very unique. Not in how it moves, or how the shooting feels, but in the weapons that you use in the game.
You see in SHOOTOUT, instead of just using the same weapons over and over like in any other virtual reality shooter, you build your weapons out of parts. For instance, you take an assault rifle part and attach it to your arm. Boom it’s an assault rifle. However, next you find a fire weapon part, so you attach that to your arm behind the barrel of the assault rifle. Now your assault rifle arm shoots flaming bullets.
That’s just the start of the many different weapon types and combinations available in SHOOTOUT. Every firefight with another player is extremely unique because both of you could have any in a huge series of weapon combinations, so the game constantly feels very fresh.
You can move pretty fast, and there are some movement related weapons like the hook, which is basically a grappling hook you can use to climb or swing around the map.
So if you want to mix and match and see what sort of amazing weapon you can create, try SHOOTOUT, it is a very enjoyable free VR shooter.
Anyway, that’s it for this list of the best free VR shooting games on the Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest 3. No matter which you pick, enjoy yourself out there in virtual reality.
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