Splitmetrics: VR games Downloads on Android grew by 40% in H1'24
The reason for the popularity surge is unknown.
App Radar was used to calculate the installs.
The 28 most successful VR games in the year's first half were downloaded 5.5 million times. This is 40% more than the previous year.
Splitmetrics notes that the total number of downloads for the year was 10 million in 2022; in 2023 - 8 million.
The top five most successful VR games by downloads are Rec Room (2.7 million installs); VR Thrills: Roller Coaster Game (470 thousand installs); VR Roller Coaster 360 (335 thousand downloads); Sky on Fire: 1940 (313 thousand downloads), and Fulldive VR (295 thousand downloads).
The most downloaded VR game on Google Play by a large margin is Rec Room (32 million lifetime downloads). In second place is VR Thrills Roller Coaster Game (23 million); in third place is Fulldive VR - Virtual Reality (11 million).
However, the rankings do not include app stores - Cardboard (37 million downloads) and Meta Quest (17 million).
