3 FANTASTIC VR Soccer Games And VR Football Games

I’ve talked about a lot of fantastic VR sports games here on Reality Remake. From VR American Football games, to VR tennis games, to even a fantastic VR Pickleball game.

Now let’s finally get around to talking about fantastic Virtual Reality games that let you play the most popular sport in the world, Soccer (or football if you prefer).

There’s finally some fantastic VR Soccer Games and VR Football Games to talk about, so let’s crack right into it and talk about the best ones you can try right now.

VRFS - VR Football Soccer Simulator

The VRFS - VR Football Soccer Simulator Logo.

You might be thinking that the number one thing which makes VR Soccer hard to pull off is that VR devices don’t have very good foot tracking (unless you have some very specific extra hardware).

Well VRFS tackles this problem by making a VR Football game that turns your hands into your feet! Your height is calibrated so that if you leave your arms hanging at your sides the feet extending from your hands will reach the ground. After all why would you need hands in a game that is played entirely with your feet anyway?

Unless you’re a goalie of course, but you can switch to being a goalie as well in VRFS, and that turns your hands back into hands.

You can be a player or a goalie in VRFS.

VRFS - VR Football Soccer Simulator really does its best to be a Virtual Reality Soccer simulator. Though when you’re used to playing real soccer it is awfully strange to go from kicking the ball with your feet to kicking the ball with your arms.

Still, the tutorial does a great job of getting you familiar with the concept, and the practice field gives you a lot of different ways to practice playing soccer with your arms instead of your feet.

This VR Soccer Game also features some AI bots that you can play against, though at the time of writing this they’re not much to speak of. The real magic of VRFS is in the multiplayer.

Kicking the ball with your arms instead of your feet takes some getting used to in any of these VR Football Games.

That’s where this game really shines. You can freely join any of the Multiplayer lobbies out there and just hop into a pickup game of soccer. Some are more rules light, and some more rules heavy.

Getting the hang of kicking the ball properly and also managing your stamina, which determines whether you can run more quickly or not for a short period of time, isn’t simple, and VRFS is a solid VR Football experience. It’s easy to pick up and yet hard to master, with a lot of other opponents to play against others online.

There are other Soccer VR games that work just like VRFS, such as Premier League Player and Soccer VR. These games also replace your hands with feet and have you play Football in VR that way. I’d still recommend VRFS over those games though since VRFS is free and is just as high quality as those other games, though Premier League Player does have a bit more polish and the official backing of a soccer league.

VRFS excels in giving you a great multiplayer Soccer VR Game.

Premier League Player also has a mode which recreates some fantastic plays that really happened in Football games of the Premier League, which is a very impressive feature. Though unfortunately the Multiplayer is not as good as it is in VRFS. Still, if you want a paid option with a bit more polish then give Premier League Player a look.

CleanSheet Soccer

The CleanSheet Logo.

CleanSheet is a little more of a limited Soccer VR game. Instead of trying to abstract VR Football by simulating your feet it just keeps your feet removed entirely as most Virtual Reality games do.

So what does that mean? It means that CleanSheet is entirely about being a goalie.

That being said that doesn’t make CleanSheet a limited or boring game. It is the best goalie simulator in existence out there, and you can have it running in your VR headset whenever you like.

Blocking a shot in CleanSheet. This is a fantastic VR Goalie Game.

There’s the typical ball machine randomly shooting ball towards your goal that you might expect, but also so much more than that. There are special challenges, and the AI can run plays to try and get past your defense of your goal. You can even recreate famous shots from real life Football games!

There are also various competitive multiplayer modes, like one where you and an opponent launch balls at each other’s goals and attempt to block them. Though you launch the balls with a cannon instead of your feet. Still, it seems like very a very fun idea. Though unfortunately it’s kind of hard to find an opponent.

CleanSheet is a fantastic VR Goalie trainer and another fun VR exercise game that makes for a fantastic warm up to a more intense workout session. It truly tests your reflexes.

Though I will say that it is much easier (and safer) to defend your goal space if you have a larger playspace to physically move around in. Not to mention physically diving for a ball while wearing a VR headset is NOT a good idea.

While other Football VR Games do offer goal keeping in addition to other positions, none do goal keeping as well as CleanSheet. Though unlike other games on this list, it is not free.

Motion Soccer

The Motion Soccer Logo.

You might be reading this list of VR Soccer Games and be wondering “Why doesn’t somebody just make a FIFA VR game?”

Well if that’s what you want to see then luckily for you you’ll find a Virtual Reality Football Experience that is somewhat similar to FIFA in Motion Soccer.

At the time of writing this game was recently released on the Meta store and Steam as well. There is a free version that you can try without paying a cent on either platform.

There are three different ways to play Motion Soccer that you can mix and match. This is what makes this a VR FIFA game.

What separates Motion Soccer from other VR Football games is that instead of purely controlling a single player as in VRFS, you can freely swap between players on your team.

This is what makes this a sort of FIFA VR Game despite not being officially affiliated with any football league. You’re not just playing as an individual player, you’re playing as the whole team and you can switch between players whenever you like.

So there’s no holding a spot and hoping you get the ball. You can always be the one with the ball. Just look at the player you want to control and press the grip button.

There’s even a third person view mode that lets you view the entire field and control your players from a god’s eye view just like in FIFA.

Passes, kicks, slide tackles, Motion Soccer lets you do it all using your controller joysticks and buttons.

That’s one of three different methods for controlling your players that you get in Motion Soccer. You can also swap your hands with feet just like in other Football VR Games mentioned here, and there’s a goalie mode as well that has you using your hands to block shots.

If you don’t like the idea of using your hands as feet to play VR Soccer though, then you will be excited to hear that Motion Soccer also has a mode that uses just your joysticks to control where your player goes and dribbles the ball, and you shoot just by pointing at where you want the ball to go and pressing trigger.

So if you want to get a fantastic first person VR Soccer experience without having to learn how to dribble and shoot with your arms then Motion Soccer has you covered. All of the intense first person Football experience, but none of the awkward controls. It plays like a first person VR FIFA with the option to get close to the ball or zoom out for a more tactical experience.

You can command your players on the field from the top down just like in FIFA… but in Virtual Reality.

Though at the time of writing Motion Soccer does have a bit of an unpolished feel to it, and I encountered a few bugs while playing it. None of these bugs broke the game entirely though. While there is a free version of the game that lets you do the tutorials, trainings, and 3v3 matches, to play the Singleplayer campaign you’ll have to pay for the pro version.

Well that’s all the fantastic VR Football and VR Soccer games that I’ve got for you. However you decide to get on the pitch in Virtual Reality, enjoy!

The 3 Best VR Football Games On the Oculus Quest 3 and 2

VR Football Games, like so many VR Sports games, are a fantastic way to enjoy one of your favorite sports in virtual reality.

For those who might be coming here looking for VR games about soccer, then check out the article about VR Soccer Games. This article is about VR American Football games.

Anyway on to American Football. Now you can run plays and throw epic touchdown passes in the comfort of your living room. No need to get dirty and muddy, no need to go outside and find a game when it’s cold or rainy outside.

Whether Football is in season or out of season you can always enjoy this sport in the comfort of your own home with these 3 great Virtual Reality Football Games on your Meta Quest device.

NFL Pro Era 2

The NFL Pro Era 2 Logo

NFL Pro Era and its sequel NFL Pro ERA II are the best looking and most thoroughly polished VR Football Games out there.

You really feel like you’re playing in an actual NFL game each time you play, surrounded by your teammates and trying to avoid opposing players. The sights and sounds of an actual stadium are all there and look about as good as they can as a standalone quest game.

Throwing a Touchdown in NFL Pro Era

In NFL Pro Era you can pick your favorite Football team and play through entire seasons of Football with them.

You can customize your character, collect achievement trophies, and most importantly play a lot of games of Football against both AI opponents, and now with NFL Pro Era 2 you can also play Football games against other players in Multiplayer.

The one biggest downside of the NFL Pro Era VR Football Games is that the only position you can play is Quarterback. So a lot of the possibilities that you have in flatscreen games like Madden just aren’t there.

Getting rid of the ball before being sacked in NFL Pro Era

This will be a trend in the Virtual Reality Football Games here, but it’s such a shame that in such a polished VR Football Experience most of what you’ll be doing is throwing the ball or handing it off for running plays.

While all of that is great fun, and NFL Pro Era definitely does well in simulating being a quarterback, a lot of the game is up to your semi random AI teammates in Special Teams or playing defense.

In NFL Pro Era you’ll be doing a lot of standing on the sidelines while your team doesn’t have possession of the ball and is on defense.

You’ll watch a lot of kickoffs in this game

If you want to know more about NFL Pro Era then check out our review of the game for more information on it.

If you do decide to get into NFL Pro Era then definitely skip the first game and just buy the sequel, NFL Pro ERA II.

The sequel has some enhanced Singleplayer features, and most importantly adds the ability to play games against others in Multiplayer, which the original was severely lacking. Otherwise the two games are very similar.

Gym Class VR - Football

The Gym Class Logo. It doesn’t show any Footballs, but it’s got footballs

You might be familiar with Gym Class as one of the best VR Basketball Games on the Oculus Quest 2.

Well now it’s also one of the Best VR Football Games as well. That’s right, Gym Class VR recently added, at the time of writing, a Football mode to their game.

Just like in these other Football VR Games you can go to a Football field in Virtual Reality and throw the virtual Football around.

Throwing the ball in Gym Class

Unfortunately at the time of writing that’s about where the Gym Class Football experience ends. It’s a little undercooked and experimental at the moment, and doesn’t really do much of anything any of these other games don’t do.

All you can really do is throw passes with other players, and playing an actual game of Football even with a full lobby is hard to put together, though it’s possible if you have a whole lobby of friends willing to do so.

The throwing physics aren’t great, and you can’t really tackle an opponent outside of slapping the ball out of their hands. It clearly needs more work to be a truly great VR Football Game.

Gym Class is a very social VR Football Game

So now you might be wondering why Gym Class is even on this list. Well that’s because Gym Class has come a long way in VR Basketball over time, and it’s likely to come a long way in VR Football.

I have no doubt that the Gym Class developers will be adding new features and making their Virtual Reality Football experience better over time. So even if it’s not great now you can still easily find a big lobby of other players, often much easier than in other multiplayer games like NFL Pro Era 2.

So if you want to throw the pigskin around with a stranger or get some friends together, keep an eye on Gym Class’s Football mode. We’re not exactly spoiled for choice when it comes to VR Football games, and Gym Class has shown that it can grow and become vastly better over time.

With some more updates, Gym Class’s Football mode might become the go to VR Multiplayer Football experience. Oh, and it’s free!

2MD: VR Football Unleashed ALL STAR

The 2MD: VR Football Unleashed ALL STAR Logo

Now when you first look at 2MD: VR Football Unleashed ALL STAR for the first time you might not be very impressed because of how the game looks.

You can see it in the logo. The players are blocky and not very realistic looking, but that’s part of the intended charm of 2MD.

While other VR Football Games are going for a more realistic look and gameplay like the Madden series of flatscreen games, 2MD is a more arcadey, fast paced, and goofy experience.

It’s not trying to play like a real game of Football, and plays more like the old NFL Blitz game on the N64, or the more modern Wild Card Football.

Making a pass while the ball is on fire

So sure 2MD isn’t much to look at, and most notably doesn’t feature a multiplayer mode, but in so many ways it offers more customizability, game modes, and things to do than any other VR Football Game on this list. (Side Note: There is a local multiplayer option in the PSVR version where a non VR player can play as the defending team on the TV, but according to the developer not many used this game mode.)

Most importantly of all, 2MD: VR Football Unleashed ALL STAR lets you do more than just throw, pass the ball, and occasionally run the ball.

It also lets you kick field goals, and most importantly of all lets you receive and run the ball after you throw it. This is simply an amazing addition to the VR Football scene, and while it’s fairly difficult it is absolutely awesome once you get the hang of it.

Receiving and trying to run the ball in 2MD: VR Football Unleashed ALL STAR

When you throw the ball as the Quarterback and it gets near it’s landing zone the game will switch your perspective to the closest receiver.

Then you try and catch the ball and run it as far as you can, spinning around and stiff arming opposing team members as you go.

You can also keep the receiver as a bot if you don’t want to do this, but being able to receive and run the Football yourself is absolutely fantastic and gives you many more options and control over how well you do in the game.

You can even make your own plays in this game

Of course you’ll also see that 2MD, as its art style suggests, is pretty goofy and arcadey. The gameplay is fast paced and gets you right back into throwing the ball as quickly as possible.

Even in exhibition games there’s no waiting and watching the opposing team play. You’re quickly told if they scored or not and get back into the game.

The players all move extremely fast and tumble into and over each other hilariously. The only annoying part about this is that it can be kind of hard to see over your linemen in front of you when you’re trying to throw the ball, and whenever you back up they immediately back up with you. So you can’t get a lot of space.

It would be nice if the defensive line was a little shorter, or a little further away

Still, 2MD lets you draw plays however you want to, giving you even more options. Despite how unrealistically the gameplay itself can seem this is really the most in depth Virtual Reality Football simulator for the Oculus Quest 2 and 3 out there right now.

Nothing else comes close in your options for strategy and execution, and if you don’t mind the cartoony look or rapid pace of gameplay then 2MD is a fantastic VR Football Game for huge Football fans and casual enjoyers alike.

As mentioned, the only downside is that it has no multiplayer, though there are a massive variety of Singleplayer teams to play against and game modes to try.

Well that’s all for the Best VR Football Games out there. Whichever you pick from this list, have fun out on the field. VR Football is a ton of fun, and hopefully after reading this list you find the game that lets you enjoy it too.