7 Best VR Escape Room Games on the Oculus Quest 2
VR Escape Rooms are a ton of fun, and a great extension of the VR Puzzle Game genre. If you really love escape rooms, escape games, or VR Puzzle and Adventure Games in general, but can’t make it to one of the physical escape rooms, then the 7 Best VR Escape Room Games will give your problem-solving skills a great test in a virtual environment. If you want a great VR escape room virtual reality experience then keep reading.
Oh, and if you don’t own a Meta Quest 2, don’t worry, all of these games are available on a wide range of VR headsets or VR Devices, such as on the Oculus Rift via PCVR. Some might even be around in some VR arcades.
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A Fisherman's Tale
In A Fisherman’s Tale you are a little wooden puppet of a fisherman who lives out every day in the same way, but one day the skies outside begin to storm, and you need to light the lighthouse you live inside to warn the lone fisherman out at sea. Along the way you meet all sorts of characters to help you on your journey like a hermit crab, and even a picture of your dad.
A Fisherman’s Tale doesn’t have the most complex puzzles, and like many games on this list all these puzzles revolve around doing what you need to do to escape the room you are in and advance to the next level. What it has more than any other game is a very fairy tale atmosphere, both in its puzzles and solutions and its tone and storytelling.
A Fisherman’s Tale is a touching and heartfelt tale with a lot of whimsy and magic to it. If you want an escape room VR game that feels like puzzling your way through a fairy tale, then A Fisherman’s Tale delivers a fun narrative and some interesting puzzles.
Red Matter and Red Matter 2
Red Matter and its sequel, Red Matter 2, take place in a fictional future where not only has humanity started to establish bases and outposts across the solar system, but also where the cold war never truly ended. In both games you take the role of an agent investigating what exactly each side in this conflict is up to, and what the plans for the mysterious “Red Matter” are.
These games play out like a series of Virtual Reality Escape Rooms. They also take full advantage of VR to recreate the stunningly beautiful and wondrous environments of outer space. Each new area you enter is essentially a small escape room of its own, with a new puzzle or mystery to solve to continue on as you uncover the mysteries of the Red Matter and the people involved in its discovery and use.
If you’re a fan of space travel and sci-fi, then you’ll love the gorgeous visuals and setting of a slightly more advanced humanity that has taken to outer space. Even the more mundane and industrial settings are so gorgeous and well made that they practically look like real life. This makes the Red Matter games some of the most immersive experiences.
The puzzles are great and the game is also one of the most beautiful to look at on the Quest 2. If you love a good mystery, or just a fun outer space setting with an interesting story and a series of great escape rooms, then try these games.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
One room to escape from, and inside one person, you, and a bomb. Defuse the bomb before it explodes so you can escape. The thing is, you have no idea how to defuse the bomb, but your partner who isn’t wearing a VR headset does. They have the manual, and their job as the expert is to talk you through how to defuse the bomb before it goes off. This is Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.
This game is very literally a virtual reality escape room. You need to complete the puzzles on the bomb and defuse it to escape, and it is a very welcome addition to the Quest 2 VR Escape Room catalog because it is inherently a cooperative game.
A lot of the escape room and puzzle games on the Quest 2 are singleplayer experiences, so Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes gives you a great way to enjoy a fun escape room with a friend, even if they don’t own an Oculus Quest 2. If you want a multiplayer game that is also an escape room you won’t find a better option on the Quest 2.
The Room VR: A Dark Matter
In The Room VR: A Dark Matter you are a detective trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing Egyptologist. When you start to dig further and further into the work that your quarry did you are drawn further and further into arcane and otherworldly secrets.
The Room VR: A Dark Matter is another very good looking virtual reality puzzle game with a wide variety of locations ranging from victorian academies to ancient tombs buried beneath the sands that looks like the inside of some lost pyramid. The detailed and immersive environments are not the only draw of this game. The puzzles you solve range from simple machines of the early 20th century, to mysterious curios and magical contraptions.
If you love a victorian style mystery full of ancient curses, magical artifacts, and the mysteries of ancient cultures, then this game might be for you. There are a couple of puzzles that you might have to look at a guide or walkthrough for, but they are generally very manageable and intuitive.
The only real downside to The Room VR: A Dark Matter is that you can only use teleport movement and snap turning, which by now are very outdated for VR, but serviceable.
I Expect You To Die 1 and 2
In I Expect You to Die and its sequel I Expect You To Die 2, you are a secret agent who must undertake a variety of missions, and most likely die in a funny and interesting way in the process. More than any virtual reality escape game, the need to escape is never more obvious and important than in I Expect You to Die.
Each mission is a single short escape room scenario, where you must achieve your goal (i.e. Stealing a high tech car and driving it out of the back of a moving cargo plane) while also avoiding all of the hilarious hazards of each puzzle piece in your way (i.e. A retinal scan laser and a bomb made of sticks of dynamite).
If you want a more goofy and also fast paced VR Escape Room, then I Expect You To Die 1 and 2 both deliver. It’s got tongue in cheek humor and a wide array of interesting and silly puzzles to solve. The fun comes from figuring out exactly what you need to do to avoid the silly traps and complete the mission alive.
A Rogue Escape
Want a mixture of supply management and survival elements with your escape room VR experience? Then A Rogue Escape might be for you. In this game you are alone on a dangerous planet while trapped inside of a giant mech that is not only the room you must escape from, but your greatest tool in navigating the dangers around you.
In A Rogue Escape you are restricted to the few control and maintenance rooms inside of your mech, and you must learn how to control this machine and keep it running as you explore the planet around you. Unlike a lot of these escape room games, it’s actually possible to lose in A Rogue Escape.
There are plenty of ways to lose with different endings, like your mech running out of fuel or overheating. If this happens you retain some of your progress, like supplies you might have collected, but have to start all over again. This makes A Rogue Escape a more replayable escape room VR game than most, with a lot of different ways to complete your goals or lose.
The biggest fun in this game comes from learning how your mech works and how to pilot it on the fly. Very little is explained, and you need to figure out how to do very basic operations with the computer screens and physical buttons, switches, and dials in each room.
If you want a less conventional escape room experience with some more traditional roguelike and video game elements thrown in, then A Rogue Escape will offer you one of the most unique vr experiences that is part escape room puzzle and part survival game.
Myst
Want to experience the classic game Myst in VR? Well it’s available on the Meta Quest 2! In this game you are an explorer on the strange island of Myst. The island is a place full of secrets and mystical intrigue, where everything is not quite as it seems. Puzzle your way through a series of rooms to continue your adventure through the island and discover the secrets of Myst.
The original Myst was released in 1993 and became a classic for puzzle and digital escape room lovers. It is one of the most revered puzzle titles of all time. VR adds the element of using your actual hands to manipulate objects in this classic experience. The puzzles are strange and not quite rooted in the logic of the world we all know.
As you uncover the story of the island and of your role on it Myst presents a series of not only interesting rooms full of puzzles for you to solve, but a mystery of betrayal and consequence. The puzzles are excellent, though maybe not as easy to solve as some of the other games on this list.
If you love VR Escape Rooms and mystery in general, Myst is a classic for a reason, and is faithfully recreated in this Quest 2 port. The only downside is that some of the visuals aren’t as impressive as in other games on this list, with some textures being very bland and not too fun to look at. Though the puzzle elements themselves are finely detailed enough so that you’ll have no trouble reading notes or understanding what the various contraptions on the island are meant to be.
There you have it, the 7 Best Escape Room VR Games on the Oculus Quest 2. There’s something here for all fans of escape room games in this list of virtual reality escape room games.
