18 Mixed Reality Games For Quest 3 You Need To Play
SideQuest’s top Mixed Reality picks for you to enjoy on your MR-ready Quest 3!
One of the more dramatic jumps made by the Meta Quest 3 over the Quest 2 is full-color passthrough and the far superior Mixed/Augmented Reality experiences it can provide as a result. Indeed, it’s more powerful generally—and you can check out this list of 20 free VR games to test that power!
But, to help you take advantage of the Quest 3’s much-improved Mixed Reality, we’ve compiled a list of the top 18 MR experiences you can try on SideQuest right now!
1. Track Craft
Have a blast with Track Craft’s unique blend of RC racing and stunting in Mixed Reality! Unlock new tracks and cars to add to your garage, take on the built-in challenges and time trials—and even create your own with the intuitive track editor to turn your real-world game space into an RC heaven!
Track Craft is a highly polished MR treat—in fact, we covered it in our 2023 Indie Spotlight, which you can watch at the end of this article!
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2. CoasterMania
Turn your living room into the ultimate theme park with CoasterMania!
Like Track Craft, CoasterMania offers unrivaled creative options to design and shape your dream roller coaster within your home space. You can then hop in a cart for a first-person experience of your creation. This title is in early access right now, but updates are coming thick and fast—so be sure to leave the developers your helpful feedback on SideQuest.
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3. Cubism
Challenge your brain and have heaps of fun with Cubism’s increasingly challenging puzzles. With full hand tracking support, light and dark modes, two campaigns, and a local puzzle editor, it’s time to join Adam Savage and give your brain ‘its first cup of coffee in the morning’ with this spatial puzzling gem. Cubism was also one of the very first games that started life on SideQuest and broke through to the Official Meta Store—so we’re always keen to shout about it!
[Get Cubism!]
4. Puzzling Places
Wholesome 3D jigsaw puzzling comes to VR with Puzzling Places. It’s an outstanding way to exercise your mind and switch off from the outside world by escaping to one of the 21 stunning real-world puzzles, lovingly recreated from detailed photogrammetry scans—and each available in a range of difficulties to test your puzzling skills. This is yet another well-deserved breakout title from SideQuest to the Official Store—and 100% worth your time.
[Get Puzzling Places!]
5. Dungeon Maker
Take ‘the floor is lava’ to the next level with Dungeon Maker—the app that allows you to create your own custom dungeons in passthrough and set challenges for any would-be future adventurers in the form of traps, pitfalls, enemies, lava crossings, and more! And the best part: it’s totally free to play!
[Get Dungeon Maker for FREE!]
6. MiRacle Pool
MiRacle Pool is one of the best examples of Mixed Reality we’ve tried, bringing a life-size virtual pool table into your home space with textures so good you’d swear it could be the real deal. That, plus its satisfying physics and true-to-life gameplay makes MiRacle Pool the best way to play pool in VR!
[Get Miracle Pool!]
7. Hitstream
Created by a solo developer in his spare time, Hitstream is not only a fun, fast, and furious workout, but also a great example of how MR can be used to elevate a fitness experience in VR—no need to worry about bumping into anything while you get your sweat on!
[Play the free demo!]
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8. PianoVision
We also included PianoVision in our 2023 Indie Spotlight—and it deserves recognition once again as one of the very best musical apps on SideQuest! With top-notch MR and hand-tracking features, if you’re looking to learn some new piano skills or start tinkling those keys as a complete beginner, Pianovision will engage you masterfully.
[Get PianoVision!]
9. Spatial Ops
It’s fun. It’s frantic. It’s completely free-to-play—all you need is to grab your Quest 3 squad and gear up for some intense FPS action, entirely in Mixed Reality. Spatial Ops turns any real-world space into an urban battleground ripe for multiplayer good times. Just be sure to pick an area large enough to make the most of the impressive MR tech on display!
[Get Spatial Ops for FREE!]
10. Smash Drums
Another breakout ‘smash’ hit from SideQuest to the Official Store, Smash Drums brings the thrill of drumming on stage to the comfort of your front room. With 46 classic tracks to drum along to right now—and more well on the way—Smash Drums is an excellent rhythm game that takes full advantage of the Quest 3’s MR capabilities.
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11. Toy Monsters
Toy Monsters is an inventive tower defense game, built from the ground up with hand tracking and Mixed Reality in mind. Think Plants vs Zombies in MR, with all the charm, detail, and varied gameplay that you’d come to expect with such a comparison!
[Get Toy Monsters!]
12. Spacefolk City
Spacefolk City is yet another SideQuest to Official Store success story, with its charming graphics welcoming you into this casual take on a traditional city-builder in space—and now in MR! You can freely adjust the position of your floating city in your room to enjoy its balance of freedom and challenge that’ll keep you coming back for more!
[Get Spacefolk City!]
13. Eleven Table Tennis
Eleven Table Tennis is the game for you if you’re a fan of real-world table tennis. The physics are slick and satisfying, and the MR update brings the action right to your room! With matches available against other players online, or against the advanced AI in practice mode, you’ve got plenty to sink your teeth into here.
[Get Eleven Table Tennis!]
14. The Woozles
If you love Lemmings, you’ll get a kick out of Woozles—and it’s a gem for anyone looking to try Mixed Reality on the Quest 3. Guide your Gizmoids through the mystical terrain—and your own home—and help lead them on the correct paths to victory!
And, as of right now, The Woozles is free-to-play!
[Get The Woozles for FREE!]
15. FPS Enhanced Reality
FPS Enhanced Reality was great on Quest 2, but with the Quest 3’s far superior MR capabilities, it has really come into its own. With your home turned into a warzone, you’ll be pitted against an onslaught of AI opponents to battle using a variety of weapons and an immersive cover system. There are also plans for online PvP in future…
[Get FPS Enhanced Reality!]
16. GorillaZila: Maximum Rampage
GorillaZilla is a monstrous MR hit that’ll transform your living room into a thriving metropolis—for you to smash up!
Optimized for Quest 3, this is a surefire hit if you want to scratch your itch for embodying a certain giant ape and going to town on a virtual metropolis…
[Get GorillaZilla!]
17. Deisim
Deisim is one of the biggest hits to make it from SideQuest to the Official Store, and now, you can play Deisim in Mixed Reality!
Satisfy your craving to be worshipped—right in your living room!—as you bring your creations to life, shepherd your people, and get building in your own space.
Deisim was great before—and this MR update just makes it even better!
[Get Deisim!]
18. MR Chess
Play against the computer, or match your chess-y wits against your pals in the immersive MR Chess!
The standout feature is undoubtedly the ability to play with either a real or a virtual chess board in Mixed Reality, truly allowing you to play your way. If you go virtual, satisfying haptic feedback helps the digital feel physics, and if you choose a real board, your opponent’s pieces will digitally appear alongside your real ones. Clever stuff!
[Get MR Chess!]
The SideQuest Indie Spotlight, 2023
Several of the games covered in this list made it into our Indie Spotlight at the end of 2023—a showcase of independent titles we wanted to recognize for their achievements or their potential for the future.
Check out the full Spotlight, brimming with incredible indie titles that you can play right now:
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Developers (like us) are free to experiment with mechanics and modes on their journey to official stores, while players can safely explore thousands of apps across the wonderful world of VR — the biggest collection all in one place, actually.
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