Oculus Quest: 10 Best Multiplayer Games

The Oculus Quest 2 boasts an impressive, ever-growing library of great games in every genre. As the list of available titles grows though, it can be challenging to find the ones worth players’ time and money. This is especially true with multiplayer games, as even the best experiences are rendered useless with low player counts and empty lobbies.

However, with its growing user base, the Oculus platform has a number of great competitive and cooperative multiplayer games in a wide array of genres with ample content and available lobbies.

10 Eleven Table Tennis

Eleven Table Tennis doesn’t have a terribly large amount of content, but what’s there is extremely polished and well done. While there are a few mini-games like cup toss to spend time with, the focus is classic table tennis, and it’s the most realistic simulation available to play on any system.

It’s possible to play matches against AI opponents, but Eleven Table Tennis is at its best when playing online against real people. While there is a skill ranking system, matches generally play out casually and without extra fluff, and most people are friendly and willing to chat while they play.

9 Contractors

First-person shooters are a natural fit for VR, and Contractors is as close as anything on the Oculus Quest 2 gets to a classic Call of Duty experience. The game may not look quite as good as many other shooters on the market, but the gameplay is great, walking the line nicely between realistic military sim and arcade shooter.

It may take some players time to get their stomachs used to the free directional movement, but it’s incredibly satisfying to manually reload guns, move to peek over and around cover, and verbally coordinate with teammates in competitive or cooperative multiplayer matches.

8 Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is one of the more unique multiplayer experiences available on any gaming system, requiring two players to cooperate while playing on different types of devices.

The goal is to defuse the given bomb, but each player only has some of the required information. The player in VR can see and interact with the bomb, but the instructions are viewed by a second party with access to either a web-based or PDF manual. The puzzles start out fairly simple, but, as they grow more complicated, quick and clear communication is required to defuse the bomb before time runs out.

7 PokerStars VR

There are a few different poker games available on the Oculus Quest 2, but none are as streamlined, easy to use, or well put together as PokerStars VR.

While players still won’t be able to read their opponent’s facial expressions, the automatically-enabled voice chat, customizable avatars, and interactive table element means that playing with either friends or random players is at least a little closer to a traditional poker experience than other virtual interpretations. Losing real money isn’t an issue either, as the game works off artificial scarcity. A spinning wheel grants players currency to use, though more can be purchased for cash if players choose.

6 Arizona Sunshine

Arizona Sunshine has been around for a few years, but it’s still one of the most content-rich and immersive zombie shooters available in VR. The game features two main ways to play in both a story-driven campaign mode and a wave-based survival mode.

While these can both be tackled solo, they’re also fully enabled for cooperative multiplayer, which brings many more tactical options to the table. Be forewarned though, that while it may not be as visually impressive as the best traditional horror games, dealing with charging zombies up close can be an intense experience.

5 Population: ONE

With battle royale games like Fortnite making incredible amounts of money, it’s surprising that it took so long for the Oculus store to get a good one. It was worth the wait, though, as Population: ONE is an incredibly satisfying battle royale experience that includes every genre staple that fans have come to expect from games like Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone. 

In Population: ONE, players are dropped into a huge arena map and must find weapons and resources to survive until they’re the last player standing. Shooting and movement feels good, and requiring bodily movement to dodge, aim, climb, and glide adds a satisfying skill ceiling to the experience.

4 Echo VR

In Echo VR, players jump into the bodies of futuristic humanoid robots competing in a game with a simple objective: take the disc in the middle of the room and get it into the opponent’s goal. Not all is as simple as it first appears, though, as the game takes place in a wide-open no-gravity sphere.

The game makes great use of VR, requiring players to maintain constant spatial awareness and use their arms to both combat opponents and propel themselves through the zero-g play area. Best of all, the game is free in the Oculus Store, meaning everyone can play a few matches to test it out.

3 Walkabout Mini Golf

Walkabout Mini Golf doesn’t try to do anything except present an exaggerated version of the classic real-life game, but its charming courses, simple controls, and colorful visual aesthetic makes it one of the most relaxing multiplayer games available on the Oculus Quest 2.

It’s possible to join groups of random players to run through the course with, but the game comes to life when played with known friends. While the gameplay is fun and it’s easy to get competitive, it’s also perfectly able to casually blend into the background and support friendly conversation.

2 Onward

Players looking for a more realistic, less arcade-y multiplayer experience will find much to love in Onward. In this military sim shooter, teams of five fight across modern maps and take advantage of realistic equipment to find victory in the game’s multiple competitive modes.

Weapons take finesse to fire and reload, and cooperation with teammates to scout enemies and lay down cover fire is necessary. Immersive touches like a shoulder-mounted walkie-talkie that must be used to communicate with friendlies and a back-mounted tablet that hosts a map do a great job pulling players into the game.

1 Demeo

Demeo is a classic dungeon crawler, and a lot of the game, from the character classes to the typical fantasy enemies, pays homage to classic Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. Yet, bringing it into VR in such an interactive way makes the experience feel fresh.

The game plays out on an interactive board in the middle of an 80s-themed basement, and players can move, grow, and shrink the play space to engage with what’s happening. The card-based ability system is fun, the animations are beautifully done, and teamwork is an absolute requirement for success.

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