Buy here or on Oculus store for VR?

[Captain Dope]

Just bought a Quest 2. This game looks really interesting. But do I buy it here or on the Oculus store if I wanna play it on VR? I'm pretty new to this.

[CryptoKev]

Hi there, I own a Rift S and bought this game here on Steam and it works fine in VR. I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think buying it on Steam might future proof it a bit in the event that you get a VR headset that is not Oculus/Meta and want to play it again via Steam VR. I'm fairly certain that if you buy things from the Oculus Store that you can only play them as long as you have their VR headset.

[Clam Stamp]

I have a quest 2 also, and the last post is right, definitely buy it on steam. The Oculus store really sucks. Also if you are having problems running VR games through Steam VR, download the app Virtual Desktop, it makes all my games just work.

[вш]

Welcome to VR.

Like the first guy said, should try to buy it on Steam if its not exclusive because if you get different brand of vr...you would still be able to play those vr games that you bought on Steam. If you bought from Oculus, it stays in your Oculus account for all your Oculus vr headset(s)...

However, I made my first "mistake" by exploring Oculus store first and bought Saint & Sinners from there but am kind of glad that I did. Why? Because I was able to play it using just Oculus on 5ghz wifi without issues...anywhere. We were able to run around in our fenced backyard. I could even take it over to friends to play.

As for VR on steam, you would have to stay linked up on SteamVR with cable if you want good quality and experience. Air Link with SteamVR kinda sucky at the moment.

So think about pros and cons before buying every vr game.

[ModestLunatic]

It's cheap on humble bundle right now. As long as you have a PC that run VR games. There is also the stand alone version on the Quest store.

[Gamer Mickey]

Actually the main reason you should buy your VR games on Steam has nothing to do them being locked to the Quest 2 if you buy it on the Quest store. It's just that the PC VR version is always better.

Yes I know that a lot of Quest games will get you the Rfit version as well (from the Oculus desktop app), but the games are usually cheaper on Steam where there's a sale.

[вш]

i made a mistake of buying a standalone version on the quest store because I wanted my vr achievements on here. lol...oh well.

If you bought it on here, you'd have to link up using steam vr by using cable to play games from steam library...unless you have good wifi then you could ditch the cable and use Airlink.

Wifi 5gh would be sufficient enough but you would encounter some terrible blurriness and lag using steamVR...idk about PC VR as i don't use it...

But I am using wifi 6 and enjoy playing it free roaming in play room or outside without cable and there is no lag nor blur.

If bought on quest store and downloaded it into your Quest, you can play take it with you to anywhere and show off to your friends if they have wifi. Doesn't need steam etc.

[Giacomo]

Buying in the oculus store gives you both the stand alone quest 2 version and the pc oculus version. As mentioned above though, it is good to buy on steam to future proof yourself from losing any games if you change to a non oculus headset later on.

[Rusty]

If like me the game won't start through Steam (thus making it so the app doesn't appear in Oculus) you can add the exe to Oculus library and play it through there. Make sure you add the one with the words "shipping" suffixed to it.

[Filo Beto]

Buy it on steam. I am 1 million percent certain.

[Giacomo]

No idea what you mean about the controller config, worked fine on default settings for me.