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, sorry, but the “Football” in this list means American Football. Unfortunately it’s very hard to make a VR Soccer Game with the current state of foot tracking on the Oculus Quest 3 and Oculus Quest 2.

So VR soccer games are hard to come by, but there are already some fantastic VR American Football games on the Quest platform. If you want to at least experience being a goalkeeper in VR Soccer then check out CleanSheet. It is the best VR Soccer goalkeeping game on the quest platform, and worth a look if you’re a big fan of soccer.

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.