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Lists of killer apps and games by user ratings - for the Rift hmds and Quest 1 & 2 with Link

RuneSR2
Grand Champion

To get an overview, here're lists of the highest rated games and apps for the Oculus Rift hmds and for Quest 1 & 2 with (Air)Link. If you're new to PC-VR, maybe these lists can be of inspiration - and maybe even old-timers can find stuff they've overlooked...  

To be included at least 40 users must have rated a game or an app, and the average user rating must be at least 4.5 stars out of 5 (= 90 % or better) - based on user ratings in the Oculus Rift Store (Steam games or apps are not included). Maybe we could call these lists for grade "A" games and apps - or simply current Rift killer games and apps  😉

And why the need for 40 user ratings? In the Oculus Rift Store there are many games and apps receiving high ratings, but to provide sound statistics it's not enough with just 3 user ratings - or 10 - or even 20. I've chosen 40 because it's close to the minimum number of individuals I'd want in a group, if I was trying to get some robust statistics after collecting answers to a questionnaire (for a medical trial and similar investigations). I've provided the current number of user ratings for each game or app, so if some readers only trust average ratings based on 100, 500 or even 1,000 user ratings, the lists will accommodate for such preferences. 

Note that these lists are not influenced by my preferences - I'm just the guy counting user ratings and associated average ratings  o:)
Also note that new awesome games or apps may not yet be on the lists due to an insufficient number of user ratings. 

Highest rated Rift games:

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98% average rating
The Room VR: A Dark Matter (379 ratings)
Altdeus: Beyond Chronos (71 ratings)
Red Matter 2 (56 ratings)

96% average rating
Beat Saber (15344 ratings)
Moss (949 ratings)
Golf+ (289 ratings)
Walkabout Mini Golf (187 ratings)
Merry Snowballs (44 ratings) - removed from the Store (Feb 2020)

94% average rating
Robo Recall (11352 ratings)
Lone Echo (5283 ratings)
I Expect You to Die (1273 ratings)
Brass Tactics (764 ratings)
Trover Saves the Universe (303 ratings)
Until You Fall (198 ratings)
Airtone (99 ratings) - removed from the Store (maybe Jan 2021), still available on Steam
Jet Islands (78 ratings)
Hyper Dash (46 ratings)

92% average rating
Gorilla Tag (1101 ratings)
Eleven: Table Tennis VR (910 ratings)
Blaze Rush (780 ratings)
Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted (778 ratings)
Space Pirate Trainer (726 ratings)
Vox Machinae (390 ratings)
Vacation Simulator (383 ratings)
Final Assault (273 ratings)
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (233 ratings)
The Invisible Hours (228 ratings)
Bending the Light (174 ratings)
Racket: Nx (113 ratings)
Virtual Virtual Reality (114 ratings)
Synth Riders (115 ratings)
The Under Presents (58 ratings)
Crisis VRigade (55 ratings)
Mini Motor Racing X (49 ratings)
Down the Rabbit Hole (49 ratings)

90% average rating
Vader Immortal (5609 ratings)
Superhot VR (3690 ratings)
Asgard's Wrath (3585 ratings)
Blade & Sorcery (3913 ratings)
Elite Dangerous (2566 ratings)
Stormland (1946 ratings)
Job Simulator (1489 ratings)
Boneworks (1344 ratings)
Gorn (928 ratings)
In Death (726 ratings)
Pistol Whip (709 ratings)
The Thrill of the Fight (620 ratings)
Brass Tactics: Arena (481 ratings)
Windlands (388 ratings)
Audica (368 ratings)
Racket Fury (346 ratings)
Red Matter (315 ratings)
Witchblood (265 ratings)
A Fisherman's Tale (224 ratings)
Raccoon Lagoon (217 ratings)
Form (206 ratings)
Thumper (196 ratings)
Journey of the Gods (134 ratings)
Shadow Point (117 ratings)
Catan VR (95 ratings)
Half + Half (80 ratings)
The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone (79 ratings)
The Eastern Edge (75 ratings)
Gravity Labs - Gravitational Testing Facility & Observations (66 ratings)
Shooty Fruity (65 ratings)
Audio Trip (44 ratings)


Highest rated Rift apps:

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96% average rating
Wolves in the Walls (1147 ratings)
Art Plunge (85 ratings)
Get Lost in Nature with Luke (60 ratings)
Where Thoughts Go (44 ratings) 

94% average rating
First Contact (1684 ratings)
Crow: The Legend (891 ratings)
Show It 2 Me (203 ratings)
Electronauts (104 ratings) - removed from the Store, still available on Steam
Sky VR: Hold the World (83 ratings)
Jig Space (57 ratings)
Arden's Wake (43 ratings)

92% average rating
Aircar- 92 % (2455 ratings)
1943 Berlin Blitz (1032 ratings)
Allumette (870 ratings)
Dear Angelica (882 ratings)
Fantasynth (568 ratings)
Dance Central (350 ratings)
Sensor Bounds (223 ratings)
Apollo 11 VR HD (209 ratings) - removed from searches in the Store, still available on Steam 
Wonderful You (155 ratings)
The Bond (133 ratings)
Beach Body Bros (117 ratings)
Nanome (40 ratings)

90% average rating
Google Earth VR (8776 ratings)
Henry (1178 ratings)
Wrench: Engine Building Demo (330 ratings)
Sharecare VR (300 ratings) - removed and replaced by a new and updated app
Tilt Brush (268 ratings)
Spice & Wolf VR (65 ratings)
Chroma Lab (42 ratings)

BTW, to make these lists I selected the Oculus Store category containing all games and apps, organized the items according to user ratings (highest ratings first) and then - one by one - checked the number of ratings and the average score. 

Finally we could also check which game or app (with an average user rating of at least 90 %) has the most votes in total - and the winner in each category is:

 

Rift game with the most ratings

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Rift app with the most ratings

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RuneSR2
Grand Champion

Btw - just to show "The Mystery of the Missing Myst😉

 

Myst arrived one month after Demagnete and was present on the list for some weeks, but now Myst is suddenly no longer on the list of "New Releases" (and several other games have similar fates):

 

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Choosing "Browse all" and sorting by Release Date gives many more titles - but still Myst is gone:

 

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I do get the feeling that Myst may not be the only game missing here, but I don't keep track of all games and apps. When I manually search for Myst, it's easy to find though:

 

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- so devs have not removed the game from the Rift Store (I bought the Steam version, but only the Oculus version supports native Oculus drivers).

 

Not easy to sell the game for the devs if you have to actively search for the game... Might explain the very few ratings to some degree. This is one of the finest VR games ever made, especially for adventure games - should get much more exposure. 

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@RuneSR2 wrote:

 

Not easy to sell the game for the devs if you have to actively search for the game... Might explain the very few ratings to some degree. This is one of the finest VR games ever made, especially for adventure games - should get much more exposure. 


 

But none of that is actually true. 


Facebook gave Myst its own segment at their last conference. That's a huge spotlight. Cyan actively publicizes all of their upcoming work and releases on Twitter. Including their PCVR version of Myst both on the Steam and Oculus Store.

 

Also, those of us who own Oculus products get an email regularly that lists all New Releases. Facebook also posts news about new releases on their official Oculus Facebook Page, on top of sending out Tweets and releasing YouTube videos. On top of all that, the Oculus PCVR Store will recommend things to you that are similar to Apps you already have, and it even recommends titles that people on your Friend's List enjoy.

 

Nobody has to actively search for anything just to find stuff, since both the developers and Facebook do a great job of advertising.

 

In truth, this is all consistent with how any other storefront works, including Steam. The Steam Store and the Oculus Store promote VR Apps in ways that are extremely similar. 

 

There simply is no problem here. You seem to be going out of your way to invent problems that otherwise don't exist. This Myst fiasco is a prime example. Myst never vanished nor was ever missing. You simply did not search for it correctly, and instead of typing the word "Myst" in the Oculus PCVR search bar, you instead made a post saying that it was gone.

 

Rather than intentionally looking for reasons to paint Oculus PCVR in a "doom and gloom" light, perhaps it would be best to take advantage of all the ways that both Oculus and the Developers advertise new titles and hidden gems.  

 

 

RuneSR2
Grand Champion

Asgard's Wrath is also now missing from the Oculus Originals tab - and pretty sure Luckey's Tale and Defector once were there too (and some other puzzle games I can't recall):

 

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https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/section/2237688226318959/

 

I guess Asgard's Wrath then no longer is an Oculus Original 😉 

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@RuneSR2 wrote:

Asgard's Wrath is also now missing from the Oculus Originals tab - and pretty sure Luckey's Tale and Defector once were there too (and some other puzzle games I can't recall):

 

I guess Asgard's Wrath then no longer is an Oculus Original 😉 


 

This type of list is usually controlled by Tags. That could be something controlled by the developers. Or perhaps Oculus cycles through recommendations on its list instead of just doing a data dump of everything in specific categories.

 

Then again, maybe it's a bug! 🐞

 

This is some good QA Testing you are doing for the Oculus PCVR App. You should consider raising a ticket with Oculus support with stuff like this.

 

I will say that your overall effort here may get lost because it seems more like you are trying to search for cases that attempt to prove "Facebook is killing PCVR" instead of what is really happening here, "Rune is debugging software." Food for thought! 🍔

> You're absolutely right there's a problem with the Rift Store not showing all games, not sure when that happened.

That is not a bug. It is a feature. There was a post in blog (or dev blog?)

Now dev could publish hidden app which is available by direct link or exact name (not partial) in search.

Reason is ... you need to comply to far less rules to be approved as hidden app then as a listen app. (for example you need not support for one handed, color blind, neck limited and other people).

Anyway those devs are able to advertize own games with different means. Post links in social media, send links with e-mail. So ... may be google know them also.

> But if you had actually searched for the name "Myst" then it would have shown up for you.

"Hidden apps" could be found with exact name search or you could use direct link. There was a post from Oculus.

> Not easy to sell the game for the devs if you have to actively search for the game... 

They could put a direct link from their own web site. So It is not hard. but it is up to the devs now (not store).

Do you know of other 3rd party vr stores? It may be there also.

I doubt that's the explanation - why would Oculus make Asgard's Wrath a hidden app?! Looks like a bug to me - I have informed Oculus about some missing apps, they would look into it.

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

Awesome to see that Myst has returned and is no longer hidden:

 

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/section/1489565597808736/#/?_k=4rjvlc

 

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2 more apps were also no longer hidden (VR Coaster Madness and Take Aim) - great! So maybe that was a bug after all (I contacted Ryan a few days ago about these problems who contacted the team) - nice to see that Myst is back! I really don't believe that hidden games sell well. 

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

RuneSR2
Grand Champion

 

Zenith just arrived and now has an average rating of 90% based on 67 ratings. Get the game here - 10% off on Steam, full price in the Oculus Store:

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1403370/Zenith_The_Last_City/

 

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/3476054399136890?ranking_trace=1943584525923090_347605439913...

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"