Latest update: November 21, 2022
In our 2022 Holiday Gift Guide, we recommended the Oculus Quest 2… but why should you consider it?
Here is a selection of games that we expect escape room players to enjoy on the Quest 2.
Plus, the Quest 2 is the best value it’s ever been, so now might be your moment to indulge. Afterall, that’s what the holidays are for.
$350 (Meta)
Market Standouts
- I Expect You To Die & its sequel – Seated secret-agent escape games (review)
- A Fisherman’s Tale – Reality-bending escape game
- The Last Clockwinder – Automation machine puzzler
- The Room VR: A Dark Matter – Obviously (review)
Puzzle Centric
- Shadow Point – Perspective puzzles with light and shadow
- A Rogue Escape – In the spirit of Nauticrawl (figure out a complicated machine with zero instruction)
Interlocking Puzzles
- Tetris Effect – Tetris synthesized to music and mesmerizing visuals
- Cubism – Interlocking block puzzles
- Puzzling Places – 3D jigsaw puzzles based off 3D scans of landmarks
- Shores of Loci – Like Puzzling Places but with a story in a fantasy world
Set & Scenery Driven
- Red Matter & Red Matter 2 – Immersive stories with light puzzling (and light action in sequel)
- Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok – Like a Zelda dungeon come to life
Newbie Friendly
- The Curious Tale of Stolen Pets – Mostly search mechanics
- Ghost Giant – Diorama puzzle game with emotional story
- Down the Rabbit Hole – Charming diorama puzzles in Wonderland
Something Different
- Superhot – A FPS but reflex mechanics are replaced with… er… body-spatial-puzzling? Hard to explain. Just try it.
- Gadgeteer – Accomplish challenges by building Rube Goldberg machines
- Moss & Moss Book 2 – Narrative puzzle platformers
- Time Stall – Think Angry Birds + bullet time in mini escape rooms