18 Mixed Reality Games You Need To Play On Quest 3

The only thing better than MR is more MR, so we’re back with even more top Mixed Reality picks for Quest 3 on SideQuest

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7 min readJul 4, 2024

Our last journey into Mixed Reality was a popular one—so popular, in fact, that we didn’t want to stop there! After all, there’s plenty of Mixed Reality mayhem ready and waiting to explore…

So, join us for yet another selection of 18 awesome Mixed Reality apps and games you can nab right now on SideQuest!

Why 18? Why NOT?!

1. Ultra Boxing

Realistic and strategic, Ultra Boxing is a pretty realistic fighter with some smart AI that’ll give you a decent boxing challenge—and a fair workout to boot. Master real boxing combos in immersive mode or full Mixed Reality and work on your defense to overcome your opponents. They’ll duck, dodge, weave, and fight back hard, so master the basics and take the fight to them! Seeing them ragdoll when you score a knockout is more than worth it…

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2. Hamster Inc.

Hamster Inc. is a cute title, drawing inspiration from Lego and Mechano where you’ll need to design and build a range of contraptions to help fluffy hamsters reach their goals and transport their selection of valuables from place to place. It’s a puzzler that encourages ingenuity, creativity, and freedom of expression with the blocks at your disposal. But it’s also a test of logic—so, get into Hamster Inc. and start experimenting. You wouldn’t want to make the lil’ critters sad, would you?

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3. Contour

Contour is the perfect MR app for aspiring artists, overlaying digital artwork on top of real-life surfaces like a paper sheet, canvas, or even a wall to help you accurately sketch out a design before starting your actual paint job. There’s a wide range of designs to choose from and plenty of options for getting your positioning exactly right before your work begins. It’s simple, effective, and an awesome tool for artistic types.

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4. Gesture VR

Another MR offering for artistic types, Gesture VR brings the intricacy of life drawing into your home space, giving you a range of tools to create your next masterpiece. With over 200 life-like models to draw—3D scanned from real models, animals, skeletons, and more, you’ll master your technique solo or take part in specially guided sessions. You can even store your creations in a virtual sketchbook and join up to 3 other artists for a communal drawing sesh.

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5. Bomber Drone

What’s better than piloting a drone? Piloting a drone that’s armed to the teeth, ready to take on an army of strategically placed turrets and secure the safety of helpless hostages! Bomber Drone brings explosive action into your home—and it’s actually pretty challenging, too! Those enemy launchers definitely keep you on your toes. Can you beat the clock, blast the enemy, and save the day?

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6. Arkio

Arkio is the perfect app for aspiring architects, creative collaborators, or anyone even mildly interested in interior or architectural design. With the MR mode, you can experiment with redesigning your home space. Or, you can hit the drawing board to design your dream cityscape—and bring your friends along for the journey. This is an impressive app, where you can import assets and create stunning designs. It’s free to try right now and, while complex, it’s well worth your time.

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7. I Expect You To Die: Home Sweet Home

Building off the success of the popular ‘I Expect You To Die’, Home Sweet Home brings the escape room formula to your home, transforming you into a secret agent racing against the clock to thwart the plans of evil Dr. Zor and save the day! It’s a fairly short experience, but it’s fun, frantic, and a great use of Mixed Reality tech in a free-to-play package!

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8. Mixed Reality Zombies—XR Horror

What..? Were you expecting MR Meerkats?

Mixed Reality Zombies delivers on its promise and more, bringing the shambling hordes of the undead into your home. Good thing you’re armed to the teeth with a tasty selection of weapons, including knives, pistols, a blunt-force crowbar, rifles, and a relentless shotgun, as you bring the fight to your gruesome foes. Break the boxes, upgrade your arsenal, and start blasting.

It’s not complicated. But it’s definitely a lot of fun.

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9. Mixed Snow Worlds

Turn your living room (or any other room) into a winter wonderland with Mixed Snow Worlds!

In this free-to-play app that’s purpose-built to show off the power of Mixed Reality, just scan your room and watch as everything freezes over—and then gets invaded by wintery enemies on the warpath. Using your trusty snow cannon you’ll need to stun and destroy these invaders before they trash your made-over furniture. This is an awesome demo of what MR is capable of!

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10. ForeVR Darts

From casual games to intense playoffs against your pals, ForeVR makes quality sporting and party games — and Darts is no exception. Using controllers or hand tracking, the feeling of virtual darts doesn’t get any finer—and bringing the board into your home space is very cool. Especially when competing against your friends around the world! And don’t worry if you’re no darts pro—there’s a handy aim assist to help you out!

[Get ForeVR Darts!]

11. ForeVR Bowl

ForeVR makes such quality games that we couldn’t NOT include another one. With awesome physics, ForeVR Bowl perfectly captures the feel of getting that perfect strike—and, of course, you can bring that virtual alley into your real-world space. There are tons of cosmetics to unlock, new aesthetic alleys to play in, and hours of fun to hurl yourself into whether you want to play solo, local co-op, or with friends around the world!

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12. Rube Goldberg Workshop

Using over 100 different ingenious components, it’s time to start building the ultimate chain-reaction machines in Rube Goldberg’s workshop. Then, once your construction’s complete, you can test it out in MR (of course, you can build in MR too)! With such an array of parts and mechanics at your disposal, the only limit is what crazy contraption your mind can make up!

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13. VR Workout

Drop the controllers and get fit with VR Workout—or, should we say, MR Workout? Bringing the fitness challenges into your home space, you can hit the targets without worrying about hitting anything in your immediate surroundings!

The free version nets you 8 minutes of quality workout time every day for life—and you can upgrade to a subscription to access everything this awesome app has to offer. If you love fitness in VR (and MR), check this one out!

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14. Retropolis dot.Line

Retropolis dot.Line is a creative and charismatic little puzzle adventure that’s fully playable in Mixed Reality. Set in the noire universe of Retropolis, you’ll need to help a female robot and her computer companion solve increasingly challenging connect-the-dot puzzles in 3D. There’s plenty of whimsy, great voice acting, and some brain-tickling puzzling on offer here!

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15. Cybrix

Cybrix is an intense block-breaking Pong-like where you become the paddle. Armed with two rackets, you’ll need to unleash your special skills, lasers, explosives, and more to break the synthy neon blocks and prove your supremacy on the leaderboards—especially when you go head-to-head in 2-player. Fully playable in Mixed Reality, there are more than 50 levels and even an endless mode to tackle—how far can you get? And how sweaty will you get?

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16. Crazy Kung Fu

Crazy Kung Fu transports you to a master’s dojo to learn the ways of Kung Fu, master the training dummies, and go head-to-head in online leaderboards to prove your skills. It’s addictive and fun—and, thanks to the MR update, you can bring the dojo to your living room. The training dummies enter your real space, allowing you to keep track of your surroundings while you train across the 70+ levels and 4 challenging game modes. Boost your reflexes, get fit, and have tons of Kung Fu fun!

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17. Synth Riders

Synth Riders is a smash hit musical workout where you move your body to the beat and get your freestyle groove on—and the rhythm’s even sweeter in Mixed Reality.

Mixed Reality mode opens a rift in your very walls, throwing colored balls at you at lightning speeds and the musical rhythms of one of the 70+ included tracks. Match your movements to the motion of the balls, boogie down, and even burn some calories while you have a blast!

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18. Demeo

Demeo gets even better in MR! The classic tabletop-style RPG is fantastical, fun, endlessly replayable, and perfect to play with your pals in Mixed Reality.

Roll dice, battle enemies, loot ancient dungeons, and grab your minis (you can even paint them to make them truly your own) in the game that channels tabletop DnD in full color on your Quest 3. There’s a whole lot to explore here, and the sheer variety means you’ll never play the same round twice—especially when you bring your friends into the mix for multiplayer action or a Heroes’ Hangout.

[Get Demeo!]

Want EVEN MORE games?

If mixing reality wasn’t enough, we’re just getting started…

We’ve got literally thousands of apps and games ready and waiting for you to dive into. Here are some top suggestions to get you started:

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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.

Because who needs limits, right?

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