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CNET has been testing and playing with games and apps in VR since the original Oculus Rift, and our perspective and expertise is aimed at helping gaming and VR veterans understand what’s new. But we’re also geared to newcomers: as parents of kids who also play VR sometimes, we think about family picks, too. Note that you can additionally access top PC VR games like  or  on Quest headsets, but you’ll need to connect to a gaming PC, either wirelessly or with a USB cable. These picks below are only apps that can be downloaded directly onto the headset.

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It comes free with Quest 3 purchases, but anyone else should snap up this epic, beautiful and massive game for their own collection. The Egyptian-themed game, full of gods and beasts, has a mix of puzzles and combat and a lot of secrets to discover. While its price is high, there’s a ton to do, with cinematic worlds and puzzles and a roguelike mode that randomly generates battles in case you somehow finish the dozens-of-hours main story. The graphics aren’t quite as good as the PC-only first game in the series, but few Quest 2 or Quest 3 games have looked better.

The number of fitness experiences in the Quest is multiplying, and the Quest is a pretty fantastic way to get a home workout if you don’t mind something on your face and have enough free space. Supernatural, a subscription-based fitness app, is like Beat Saber with holographic real coaches and heart-rate tracker pairing. It’s also full of so much great music and challenges that it can become an amazing way to really stay in shape. Dance-type workouts, boxing and meditation are included. It’s worth the subscription ($10 a month, or $100 a year) if you treat it like a home gym.

What The Golf? is one of my family’s absolute favorite indie games. Its spiritual sequel has arrived for VR with What The Bat?, and it’s the type of whimsical, random fun I wish VR had more of. It’s about living life with baseball bats for hands, and everything else is best left as a surprise to discover. Expect lots of rapid-fire, clever-weird puzzle challenges — the average quick experience here is much shorter than the typical hole in What The Golf?

Moss was one of my very favorite VR games and has been a classic on Quest for a while. There’s a sequel now, and its graphics look even better on Quest 2 headsets. The gameplay, which involves moving a sword-bearing mouse hero named Quill on a quest to save her world, is mostly the same: Move through massive miniature worlds and solve puzzles. It’s a great sit-down-and-play experience and fun to share with family.

A bunch of wild VR instruments you’ve never seen before, recording tools and the ability to multitask: Virtuoso isn’t just a toy, it’s a music platform in VR. It’s soothing and fun to play on the fly, but digging deeper is surprisingly rewarding, too. Setting up drums, a weird VR xylophone and a Theremin-like music cube side-by-side to jam with is really cool.

I had no idea how a VR jigsaw puzzle would feel or whether I’d care to play one. While I don’t love this game’s limited number of puzzles or its strange interface, its 3D environments that you can piece together (with up to hundreds of pieces per puzzle) are weirdly hypnotic. Also, passthrough camera modes let you float the pieces in mixed reality while you see the rest of your home.

Playing the classic Resident Evil 4 in VR feels like a whole new game. The ability to use your hands, holster weapons and actually walk into creepy settings is transformative. Other than 2D cutscenes, this feels like a native VR game. Resident Evil 4 is a Quest 2 exclusive, so original Quest owners can’t play it, but this is an excellent game to show off how good stand-alone VR has become.

Read our Resident Evil 4 review.

My overall favorite VR game just might be mini-golf. Walkabout’s multiple golf courses are brilliantly designed, with extra-hard challenge modes and hidden golf balls to collect. The game’s golf physics are perfect. The multiplayer modes are great for having friends join in online. Several increasingly good courses keep arriving as DLC, from one based on Jim Henson’s Labyrinth to a series of Jules Verne courses. Every time a new course comes out, I get excited. Seriously, you have no idea how good VR mini-golf is. And the Meow Wolf course is absolutely wonderful.

Demeo is a miraculous four-player online RPG that captures the feel of collaborative play but in VR. The 3D map, the characters and your hovering hands holding cards that can be played in-game combine to feel like a session of D&D that’s animated into reality. Games are randomized a bit each time to keep the excitement going indefinitely, and free updates have added lots of extra adventures.

Read our Demeo hands-on.

You have no idea how surprisingly intense VR rock climbing can be until you’ve tried The Climb 2. This sequel to a classic VR game (also on Quest) uses your hands to reach up and grab ledges, ropes and ziplines. It sounds easy, and yet discovering ledges, holding the right grip and keeping focus can be a real challenge. It’s also absolutely beautiful.

Read our The Climb 2 first take.

Cyan Worlds’ new version of Myst is the same game you’ve probably played a million times, but the environments here are really beautiful to move through. Consider this a puzzle game that doubles as a meditative escape. Read our Myst VR hands-on.

I missed my chance to go to Disney and see Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, but ILMxLab’s Batuu-themed game is the next best thing. It’s not exactly a tour of Black Spire Outpost, but the incredible character acting, world design and intense blaster battles are an impressive feat. It’s over too soon, but this Quest game still costs less than most Disney souvenirs. The $10 expansion pack is worth getting to complete the storyline. (Also check out Vader Immortal, ILMxLab’s previous lightsaber-wielding adventure involving Darth Vader.)

Read our Galaxy’s Edge hands-on and interview.

It’s expensive, and the file size can get up to 8GB on the Quest 2, but this is console-quality VR shrunken down into a portable headset. Saints & Sinners was already an acclaimed PC VR game, and the transition to the Quest keeps its polish and RPG-like feel. It’s freaky, but it’s also deep. There’s a lot more going on than simple shooting, and the sequel (Chapter 2: Retribution) is just as good.

A lot of Quest games are expensive, but a surprising number are free. Rec Room is a social hub that’s also a doorway to tons of social games, with a seemingly limitless set of possibilities. Sometimes it feels a bit like Wii Sports or VR Roblox. There are mini-adventures, paintball games and more. I just want there to be improved parental-control features (there seem to be a lot of parents letting kids into the Rec Room lately).

Read our Rec Room hands-on, pre-Quest.

Bullet time, grab the gun, wait — the faster you move, the faster everything else moves. Get it now? Superhot was one of the first games that hit the Quest, and it’s still amazing. Runner-up pick: Pistol Whip. (Sorry, I still like Superhot more.)

If you’re up for a creepy dive into mysterious puzzle boxes, this unique VR game from the makers of the hit game series called The Room is a fantastic and spooky mental challenge (it’s not great for kids, however). There are lots of other escape-room games on Quest, including the excellent I Expect You To Die 2 (listed above), and a ticketed live multiplayer escape-room experience from Adventure Labs, as well.

Read our The Room VR: A Dark Matter review.

The synesthetic Tetris Effect was one of the best games of 2018, and the Quest version is mostly as good. It’s intense, the music is amazing and although the levels are frantic, it’s also weirdly zen. This is a perfect way to unwind.

Read our Tetris Effect review.

An endless and randomly generated set of castle enemies meets you every time you play, and this roguelike game uses a bow and arrow as your only method of navigation and attack. The mechanics feel great, and being surrounded by enemies you’re firing arrows at can be incredibly intense.

Want to revisit ’90s games, including the experience of sitting on the floor with a controller playing games on a TV? You can do that already with a little retro 16-bit console, but Pixel Ripped pulls it off uncannily in VR. You’re a kid in a house, playing games that don’t exist. Then you enter the pixel world, and it gets stranger. The original ’80s-set Pixel Ripped 1989 is now inside as an add-on DLC, too.

Red Matter was one of the best-looking Oculus Quest games, and Red Matter 2 pushes the graphics even further, especially on Quest 3. The puzzle-solving, atmospheric and brooding adventure is set in an alternate-timeline Cold War in space. Your tool-filled space suit glides around and grapples with the brilliantly evoked world, which often has Half-Life vibes. It’s one of the most stunning visual experiences you can have.

What’s the best way to get a workout in VR?

There are lots of ways the Quest can be a surprisingly good fitness device, provided you’re OK with sweating with a headset on (buy silicone face covers for the Quest 2, or replacement foam inserts). Beat Saber is still a classic, but Supernatural is the best subscription-based Peloton-type experience, and it uses the Apple Watch or other heart-rate trackers to measure heart rate. I’d also recommend active hand strap accessories to keep your controllers more tightly attached, and lay down a nonslip yoga mat.

Is the Quest appropriate for kids?

It depends. Years ago, I said I wouldn’t recommend a Quest 2 for kids unless you’re occasionally sharing games with them in a place where you can watch them play and make sure they’re playing safely, but Meta has slowly rolled out improved parental controls in VR. For older kids, it’s fantastic. But make sure to watch what they’re playing by casting the screen to your phone with Meta’s Quest phone app, and stay away from voice chat-based games to be safe unless they’re directly connecting with friends. Also, make sure you keep a wide, clear play space!

Should I get the Quest 3?

The Quest 3 and Quest 2 all run the same apps and games. The Quest 3 is more expensive, but has superior graphics, clearer lenses, added mixed reality effects with high-res passthrough cameras and a higher-res display. It’s the best headset, but the Quest 2 is still our value pick for most people.

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