Star Wars is at its best when it feels like a lived-in universe, which is why living in Star Wars through VR is so enticing. Luckily, there have been a relative plethora of exactly these experiences over the past decade.
No matter what type of fan you are or how comfortable you feel with VR, there are options for everyone. It just so happens that the best option for me is one that you can no longer experience, but I’d still recommend all of these Star Wars VR games.
I highly recommend installing Quest Games Optimizer as it’s a massive boon to the native Meta Quest titles on this list. There’s a huge ceiling for Meta Quest 3 users to make these Quest and Quest 2 games look and run much better, helping the games hold up to modern standards more than they otherwise do.
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Droid Repair Bay
Droid Repair Bay has the distinct privilege of being the only Star Wars VR game to take place amidst a movie. The minor irony is that it’s also the least essential, though that doesn’t mean it isn’t without its merits, especially for the price of free.
This roughly 10-minute experience from ILM Immersive—Lucasfilm’s studio that focuses on XR experiences—sees the player repairing BB-series droids during the standoff between Leia and Snoke’s ships during Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Resistance pilots run through the hall outside the repair bay as you perform robot surgery using basic VR control prompts. It plays like a flavorful VR tech demo, which was a little more relevant in 2017 than in 2025.
BB-8 fans are going to love the personalities of the droids here, and it’ll run on virtually any modern PC. As long as you don’t expect much from it, this is a nice few minutes of free immersive entertainment.
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Trials on Tatooine
ILM Immersive’s Trials on Tatooine was Star Wars’ first foray into VR, and it did a great job selling why this fictional universe is a great match for the medium. It’s another freebie that will take you no more than 10 minutes to complete, though it packs a bit more of a punch than Droid Repair Bay.
For one, this is the only Star Wars VR experience that opens with a title crawl. This probably feels more novel in 2025 as the franchise has made a concerted effort to stop overusing the conceit, but even if you still tire of it, the effect is particularly cool in VR. It’s also the most up-close and personal we get with the Millennium Falcon as Han Solo lands the iconic ship over you. You can nearly feel the steam from its exhaust pipes as it smothers your face.
The Falcon is the main attraction here, to be frank. Any gameplay is half-baked, especially as you’re given a lightsaber only to momentarily use it as a laser reflector. Still, you’re getting a condensed blast of series iconography at no cost, and like Droid Repair Bay, it’ll run on any modern machine.
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Star Wars: Squadrons
If you’re a fan of the classic Rogue Squadron space combat games, Star Wars: Squadrons is the successor you’ve been waiting for. Maneuvering through dogfights from within the cockpit of a TIE Fighter or X-wing is utterly surreal, and the arcade-level mechanical depth makes it easy for anyone to grasp while leaving plenty for hardcore players to master.
Everything you can do in the PC and PlayStation 4 versions is also available in VR. This includes the full campaign and every online multiplayer mode. You’ll need to join community Discord servers if you want to guarantee online matches at this point, but the story mode is still a great taste of what being a pilot in the Star Wars universe feels like. It was a pretty special moment to turn around in my X-wing and see the droid helping me navigate. If you can pick the game up on sale (it’s often as cheap as $1.99 on Steam), it’s worth trying for those details alone.
There are caveats here, though. For one, there’s a lot of tumbling and swerving involved, so consider passing on this if you’re easily prone to motion sickness. Also, the startup experience is particularly awful in VR as it’s a major pain to get around the prompt to log in to an EA account, at least in the PCVR version. At least you don’t need an EA account if you only plan to play single player. Lastly, the game didn’t recognize my Meta Quest 3 controllers, and I needed to use a gamepad. Your mileage may vary with other headsets’ controllers.
The upside is that Squadrons doesn’t have particularly demanding PC requirements. If you can get over the hurdles, there’s a one-of-a-kind Star Wars experience to be had here.
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Vader Immortal
Vader Immortal was something of a hero game for the Oculus Quest. It follows a canon story proceeding the original trilogy wherein Darth Vader scours a desolate planet for a powerful ancient artifact. Your character plays a pivotal role in his plans, a conceit that leads you to unearth your latent lightsaber and force powers across the three episodes. In other words, Vader Immortal saw ILM Immersive finally committing to the Jedi power fantasy people were craving most from a VR Star Wars game.
The execution is a mixed bag. The story is little more than a means to make cool VR moments happen, the force powers undermine lightsaber combat, and two-generation-old graphics are showing their age. However, it gets Vader right, presenting him as genuinely intimidating and larger-than-life while also exploring his intimately human side. It’s one of the better depictions of the Sith Lord outside the original trilogy, which itself is enough to easily recommend this game to any Star Wars fan.
Well, at least for the right price. The combined cost of $30 for what’s essentially a 2.5-hour playable film is tough to justify. Wait for a sale, which typically allows you to nab all three episodes for the price of one.
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Star Wars Pinball VR
Zen Studios established itself as the leading digital pinball developer with its authentic recreations of classic tables and immaculately realistic physics. Its forays into VR have only ratcheted up these qualities. So, while Star Wars Pinball VR may seem paltry with its 10 tables against the non-VR version’s 19, playing on them is more convincing.
There’s a pretty eclectic selection of pinball tables here. While most lean on the original trilogy, animated series and modern entries like The Mandalorian and Rogue One also get their due. Challenges, leaderboards, and tournaments provide a wide range of ways to engage with the tables. The VR-exclusive features are also a delight, including 3D models of characters who stand next to their respective tables and animate as you play, and a room you can decorate with unlockable memorabilia. It all amounts to the purest celebration of the franchise available in VR.
It’s also a great deal at full price. 10 tables for $25 is great value when you consider Zen Studios is charging up to $15 for single tables in its latest VR pinball venture. No need to fork up the big bucks for one Indy table when you can get your Harrison Ford fill in spades here.
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Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge
The best Star Wars experience you can play in VR right now is Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge. What could’ve been a cash-grab tie-in with the Disney theme park land is instead a playground for ILM Immersive to showcase refinements on all its prior works.
This is primarily a shooter that adequately adapts everything you’d expect from VR gunplay: free aiming, manual reloads, ducking behind cover, and holsters around your body. The AI isn’t particularly smart, but then again, that’s pretty on-brand for enemy troops in Star Wars. However, what you’ll probably be most engaged by are the titular “tales” that put you in the shoes of other characters for a spell. This is where you get to play with lightsabers, force powers, and auto-targeting bounty hunter android gun arms. When factoring in its exceptional Last Call DLC expansion, this is the most comprehensive Star Wars VR game.
It’s also a treat for anyone who loves the Galaxy’s Edge theme park land. It’s filled with offhand lines and interactions with park-exclusive characters that help flesh out the lore. It’s pretty cool to be face-to-face with trinket merchant Dok-Ondar beyond his animatronic form, or to eat a virtual Ronto Wrap. But the coolest moment has to be overlooking an accurate depiction of the land from the cantina’s window, which ironically includes the actual cantina you can visit in-person. Knowing these references isn’t remotely essential to enjoying the game, but for me, it puts it over the top. If the parks aren’t your thing, there are still plenty of classic characters thrown into the mix who you won’t find in other Star Wars VR games.
It’s worth noting that the PlayStation VR2 version features enhanced visuals over the original Quest 2 release, making it the best way to play if you have a choice.
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Secrets of the Empire
Secrets of the Empire had a profound impact on me, and not only because it was my first tango with VR. This 15-minute adventure offered by location-based VR company The Void died alongside the company after it was shuttered during COVID lockdowns. Not even a video walkthrough exists, but then again, that couldn’t possibly do this experience justice.
The Void was a breakthrough in VR immersion by placing players—equipped with a headset and haptic vest—in a maze of rooms wherein everything seen in the headset had a tangible real-life counterpart. If there was a doorway, you could go through it. If there was a chair, you could sit in it. If there was a gun, you could pick it up. If you were playing alongside others, you could see them as their pre-chosen avatars. This setup was also ingenious in how it could be recycled to fit any number of experiences, but Secrets of the Empire was the company’s marquee offering that it’ll be most remembered for.
This experience—developed by ILM Immersive—serves as a prequel to Vader Immortal, with Cassian Andor sending you to that game’s planet to infiltrate the Empire’s outpost. After getting caught, you shoot your way through a legion of Stormtroopers using physical gun props until finally getting extracted at the last possible moment. Specific moments remain lodged in my memory, like vibrations when riding a skiff that tricked my body into trying to balance itself, and thinking I was playing smart by using a doorway as cover against incoming gunfire. A cast member had to push me along, likely so I didn’t break things by not moving into the next room. Too smart for my own good, perhaps.
Secrets of the Empire was an experience that transcended Star Wars. It showed me what VR was capable of, and with The Void now being shuttered for good, who knows if it’ll ever get there again.
Star Wars has been on a VR hiatus for the last few years, but it’s finally mounting a comeback.
Conducting rhythm game Maestro is receiving a DLC pack on June 20th which will include “Duel of the Fates” from Star Wars: Episode I and a lightsaber baton. This is one of my favorite VR games, so I’m confident this performance will be nothing shown of a showstopper.
There’s also Star Wars: Beyond Victory, a new game from ILM Immersive centered around podracing that will use a mix of VR and MR (mixed reality) to tell its story. It looks to be a divergence from ILM Immersive’s past work, but that only has me more excited to check it out. There’s no release date at present, though we know it’ll be a Meta Quest exclusive.
- Resolution (per eye)
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2064 x 2208 (pixels per eye)
- Storage
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128GB or 512GB
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