The Meta Quest Store's Best Sellers of 2025 — No Surprises, One Big Upset
Meta's Quest Store best sellers for 2025 are mostly familiar names, but a few newcomers cracked the list. Here's the full breakdown and what it says about VR gaming.
Meta dropped their 2025 best-seller list for the Quest Store in late December, and the results are… pretty much what you’d expect. With one exception that caught me off guard.
The Usual Suspects
Beat Saber topped the list. Again. I don’t think there’s a timeline where Beat Saber doesn’t top this list. It’s the Minecraft of VR — the evergreen title that sells headsets and keeps selling to new owners. Meta acquired Beat Games years ago and that acquisition just keeps paying dividends.
Asgard’s Wrath 2 held the number two spot. Makes sense. It’s the biggest Quest-exclusive game ever made and Meta bundled it free with new headsets for a while, which drove installs even if the dollar revenue came from standalone purchases later.
Supernatural was up there for fitness apps. Population: ONE for battle royale. BONELAB did well in the physics sandbox crowd. Gorilla Tag continued its reign as the social VR phenomenon — mostly driven by younger users, but the install numbers are staggering.
The Surprise: Puzzling Places
Here’s the upset. Puzzling Places — a calm 3D jigsaw puzzle game — cracked the top 15. This isn’t an action game. It’s not a fitness app. It’s not social. You sit there and piece together 3D scans of real-world locations, rotating fragments in space until they click together.
It’s meditative. It’s quiet. And apparently a lot of people wanted exactly that.
I’ve talked to Quest owners who say Puzzling Places is their most-played app because they use it to wind down before bed. The fact that it outsold flashier titles tells you something about how people actually use their headsets versus how marketing departments think they do.
Mixed Reality Games Are Growing
Several mixed reality titles appeared on the chart for the first time. First Encounters doesn’t count — it’s free and preinstalled. But paid MR games like Spatial Ops and MR-enabled updates to existing games (Demeo, Angry Birds VR) showed up in the trending and top-grossing categories.
The Quest 3 and 3S sales clearly pushed the MR ecosystem forward. When people have hardware that supports mixed reality, they buy mixed reality content. Not exactly shocking, but it’s good to see the numbers confirm it.
What’s Missing
No Vision Pro apps in this list, obviously — it’s Quest-only. But it’s worth noting that the Quest Store ecosystem is way ahead of visionOS in terms of gaming revenue. Apple’s App Store for Vision Pro doesn’t even publish comparable best-seller data, which tells you the numbers probably aren’t flattering.
Also missing: any VR game that launched in the second half of 2025 cracking the top 5. The biggest sellers are still titles from 2023 and 2024. That’s either a sign of a mature library or a concern about the pace of new hit releases. Honestly, it’s both.
What This Means for 2026
The Quest Store generated over $2 billion in total revenue since launch (Meta’s number, not independently verified). The platform is commercially viable. Developers are making money. The question for 2026 isn’t whether VR gaming works as a business — it does — but whether the hit rate of new releases can accelerate.
I want more Puzzling Places moments. Games that nobody expected to break out, finding massive audiences because VR enables something new. The best-seller list being dominated by 2-3 year old games isn’t a bad sign per se, but the medium needs fresh hits to keep momentum.
Bring on 2026. The install base is there. Now we need the games.