Indie VR Hit ‘Gorilla Tag’ is the Most-rated Quest Game Ever, and Only Just Coming to the Main Store – Road to VR

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4.5 million players and Gorilla Tag might just be getting started
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Indie VR hit Gorilla Tag has been staggeringly popular despite only being available thus far on Quest’s App Lab. Now set for release on the main Quest store on December 15th, it will launch as the most-rated game on the entire store, even surpassing Beat Saber, one of VR’s best known apps.

App Lab is Meta’s ‘unlisted’ app store for Quest, which allows developers a way onto the platform but precludes them from being promoted or easily found through the main Quest store that most customers see.
Still, we’ve seen apps find success on App Lab, and none more so than Gorilla Tag, a simple game of multiplayer tag with unique hand-based locomotion and charmingly low-fi visuals, which has succeeded in finding an audience despite not being visible in the main Quest store.
Having only been on App Lab since March 2021, Gorilla Tag has already amassed 46,000 reviews; that’s more than any other Quest app—even those on the main store—including Beat Saber’s 45,000 reviews, which is perhaps VR’s most well known game to date. Compared to Beat Saber, Gorilla Tag of course has the advantage of being free, but the game also has the most reviews among free apps too—even those on the main store—pulling ahead of the top free app, Rec Room, which sits at 22,000 reviews.
And now the game is finally headed to the main Quest store, where it’s destined to only become more popular. Developer Kerestell Smith has announced a Gorilla Tag release date of December 15th on the main Quest store. Gorilla Tag is also available on PC VR.
Smith began Gorilla Tag as a one-man project under the studio name Another Axiom. With the game’s explosive popularity, Smith has grown the studio to 15 people, according to Meta.
Gorilla Tag’s popularity isn’t only measured in reviews though; Smith said earlier this year that the game had reached a staggering 4.5 million players.
And where has the app found such traction, despite being ‘unlisted’ in the Quest store? Smith tells Road to VR that TikTok has been a huge driver, with the hashtag #gorillatag seeing 4.4 billion views to date—purely organic, according to the developer.
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Medal of Honor sucked. Your opinions are suspect.
My kids love this game. I tried it for about five minutes and almost broke my wrist. It’s fun but I can’t see spending more than a couple hours on it.
I’d throw the cooking sims in with those too. Casual games are great for getting people into VR but sucks for most of us that want higher quality and more in depth games.
Yes, of course: those, too ….
Finally a reason to buy into PCVR.
Constantly in TOP 5 by player count, those PCVR users with their expensive hardware can not be wrong!
Its the highly opinionated gamers¿ that tanked medal of honor not the kids actually having fun playing vr.
what are you even talking about!
rec room, beat saber, gorilla tag, blade and sorcery and pavlov are the MASTERPISSES, the pinaccle of VR gaming, bees knees.
Especially pavlov, with it’s hundreds of minecraft maps and mcdonalds ttt!
People like what they like, can’t say they’re wrong.
I just wish GTAG would just add official mod support, because all the people asking me to provide a way to install mods with headset only is getting annoying. I do make the app to install BONELAB, Blade & Sorcery: Nomad and Ragnarock mods.
And I still remember criticizing the game because the serial numbers on the rifles were wrong.
Compliments to the dev!
Medal of Honor? seriously? Hey, maybe you love it, and I’m fine with that. But most people did not like it. It looks very uninspired to me.
Gorilla Tag is popular because a large percentage of Quest 2 users are kids, and it’s a free game. It may be a low effort game (the dev himself said as much), but it kind of struck gold with it’s movement system. It’s just something people–especially kids–find very fun.
Medal of Honor made some poor choices. It takes over 20 minutes until you can actually play (interact) in the game when you start it. Before it’s tutorial and people talking to you. If I get a game like this, I want to shoot stuff.
Also, the game takes so much space on your Quest, and a big part of it is the documentary that is not part of the game. Why is that not an optional downloadable part?
There’s unfortunately an autoban feature that bans you permanently for reasons that are a mystery to everyone it happens to and there’s no way to fix it.

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