Build Your Home Arcade in ‘Pinball FX VR,’ Out Now on Meta Quest

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Pinball is great. Owning a pinball cabinet, less so. Sure, it’s great to play your favorite table whenever you want, sans quarters—but the maintenance is a Sisyphian task, to say nothing of the eye-watering up-front costs.

Thankfully, there’s another option. Today, Zen Studios releases Pinball FX VR, a brand new built-for-VR version of their acclaimed virtual pinball series.

It’s been six years since Zen Studios released their original pinball game for Meta Quest—now renamed to Pinball VR Classic—and four years since Star Wars™ Pinball VR. That’s an eternity in VR terms, and as you might expect, Pinball FX VR improves on its predecessors in myriad ways.

First up, the tables themselves. Pinball FX VR ships with three beloved Zen Studios originals: Sky Pirates: Treasures of the Clouds, Pinball Noir, and Curse of the Mummy. These tables come to life in VR, allowing the action to spill out of the table and affect the room around you in ways that wouldn’t be possible in real life.

Pinball FX VR also brings real-world favorites to VR for the first time. Add-on tables at launch include beloved Williams Pinball classics like Indiana Jones™: The Pinball Adventure, The Addams Family™, World Cup Soccer, Twilight Zone, and Star Trek™: The Next Generation, plus a set of tables themed around Universal TV classics that includes Battlestar Galactica Pinball, Knight Rider Pinball, and Xena: Warrior Princess Pinball.

You can drill down into your favorite table and climb the leaderboards, or try out the new Campaign Mode which will challenge you with unique missions.

Like Star Wars™ Pinball VR, Pinball FX VR also places emphasis on where you play as much as what you play. Explore and customize your dream ‘80s arcade, placing tables around your neon-lit paradise. Take a break from the all-you-can-play pinball action to throw some darts, or decorate the space with themed items you unlock by playing each table.

And for the first time, Pinball FX VR takes advantage of Meta Quest 3 and 3S’s MR capabilities to let you place pinball tables right in your own environment. Put that Twilight Zone cabinet right in your living room like you’ve always wanted—without the $15,000 price tag. It’s the perfect way to build your home arcade on the cheap.

Pinball FX VR is available now in the Meta Horizon Store.