The full color passthrough cameras on the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S lets you play mixed reality games so your virtual world can appear in your real world. It just takes VR to the next level!
However, some games are better at this than others. So, here’s a list of some of the best mixed reality games that you should play on the Meta Quest 3 or 3S.
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Starship Home
Turn your living room into a spaceship with Starhome home! Roam the stars, rescue alien plants, and place them anywhere in your room! Want a daffodil from Mars on your coffee table? Done!
There’s a few glitches every now and again with objects not staying where they should be all the time, but overall there’s a cartoonish charm to Starship Home that makes it enjoyable for all ages, and it’s a great starter for showing off the potential of what mixed reality allows.
Home Invasion
Home invasion basically converts your home into the last bastion of hope against the zombie on-slaught. Zombies literally flood into your lounge as you fight them off with a gun, bat, or even your hands!
It’s great fun as you constantly spin round trying to see whether the next on-slaught of zombies are going to come in through a door, a window, or even the wall! It is a bit buggy though. I’ve had windows disappear behind a table, or zombies appear out of nowhere, but these are all bugs that are getting fixed with each update. Still, it’s a great way to show off mixed reality to others, and at only $10 it’s not exactly breaking the bank.
Demeo Battles
Demeo Battles takes the table-top game of Demeo and turns it into a fast paced PvP game. If you’ve ever played Dungeons & Dragons, then you’ll pretty much know what you’re getting with Demeo Battles.
You can either play 1 on 1, or team up with a buddy and take on another team in a 2 v 2 battle. And with the board space shrinking over time in a fortnite-esque fashion, each game rarely lasts more than 20 minutes. There’s plenty of characters to choose from when assembling your team, and it’s just a fun game to play without the hours of commitment that playing the original Demeo required.
Track Craft
Micro Machines comes to VR with Track Craft! A mixed reality racing game that turns your living space into a racetrack, where you get to build and race your own custom tracks that blend the virtual world with your real one.
There are over 100 pre-built tracks and community-shared tracks to choose from. And with mixed reality support you can even build your own racetrack. So if you want to have cars racing across your dining table, over your couch, or up a wall, that’s not a problem! You can play on your own, but the most fun is had by playing with others. Either in the same room as you, or remotely online. You do need a big play area to get the most out of this game but hey, it’s Micro Machines, in VR! What’s not to love?
Miracle Pool
If you’ve ever wanted a pool table in your room but didn’t have the space…then Miracle Pool is here to save the day as it uses mixed reality to put a full size pool table in the middle of your room! You can change the height of the table, the color of the table and balls, and even how your cue looks too.
You can play solo but it is the most fun when playing against others online. You can enable guide lines that make it easier to pot balls, or turn it off and show others what a pro you are. I’ve played this game since it was in ‘Early Access’, and it’s definitely one worth playing.
Cubism
If puzzles are more your thing then Cubism is the way to go. This has you solving shape problems of varying difficulty as you try to fit a number of different sized shapes together into a single shape.
Whilst the first few are easy to complete it does get progressively more difficult the more you do. They’ve also added a mixed reality mode so you can literally sit in your lounge with your puzzle floating right in front of you. It’s wonderfully simple and simply wonderful.
Infinite Inside
Infinite Inside is a VR puzzle game that blends both the virtual and real world as you search a maze for lost puzzle pieces, and with support for room-scale movement and hand tracking, you’ll also find parts of the game appearing in your room through mixed reality.
It’s a game that is made more immersive by its virtual environments, ambient sounds, and backing track that all adds to the mystery and wonder of the game. It is a relatively short game, only lasting a few hours, but it’s not overly expensive either and is a good example of a game that blends the virtual, and the real world, together.
Shattered
Shattered is a mixed reality escape room game that transforms your room into a series of immersive, puzzle-filled challenges where you interact with virtual objects to find clues to escape!
You’ll progress as you find more cluesin each adjacent room. It’s certainly not for the faint of heart though with a dark and forboding feel to the graphics, and the sound just makes it seem more ominous. At one point you even need to do an autopsy on an errie looking cadavre. This is a game that truly shows what a mixed reality experience can be, and what other game studios should take note of.
Espire 2: Stealth Operatives
Espire 2 was originally released back in 2022 and is a stealth-action game that sees you take on the role of an Espire agent infiltrating enemy compounds and completing covert missions.
Whilst you can play solo, or team up with a mate for co-op gameplay in various VR stealth missions, it’s the mixed reality mode that takes the game to another level as it moves your stealth missions into your own home! You’ll find yourself sneaking up to an enemy soldier in your kitchen to take them out, one way or the other. It’s the closest you’ll get to playing Metal Gear Solid, in VR.
Spatial Ops
Spatial Ops turned your home into the battefield in this mixed reality first person shooter! With both single and multiplayer modes there’s certainly enough here to keep your trigger finger happy.
In the solo campaign, portals appear in your living space through which you shoot down enemies as they pop up. You then progress through to the next stage in a very Time Crisis-like manner.
Whilst the single player mode is good, it’s the multiplayer mode that really is the most fun. This game turns any space into a virtual battle arena, and the bigger the better. Up to eight players can play together in various game modes such as Team Deathmatch, Domination, and Free-for-All. You do need a large play area to get the most out of it, but it really is so much fun when you do. It’s basically laser tag in your house!
What’s your best game out of this list, or have I missed a game out that you think should have been on this list? Let me know in the comments.
