Google-owned XR studio Owlchemy Labs announced that its breakout VR hit\u00a0Job Simulator (2016)\u00a0has now surpassed six million installs.<\/p>\n
Job Simulator has been one of the most successful VR games over the past decade, having not found firm footing as a launch title for the original HTC Vive, PSVR, and Oculus Touch back in 2016, but also for having pioneered many of the fundamentals VR developers rely on today.<\/p>\n
In short, the madcap simulator parody was one of the first to really nail VR object interaction while serving up immersive room-scale gameplay.<\/p>\n
And while you\u2019d expect a bulk of those 6 million installs to come from its earliest days as a regular chart topper, it wasn\u2019t until early 2020 that Job Simulator officially went platinum, selling over 1 million copies<\/a>.<\/p>\n By then,\u00a0Job Simulator had already found its next wave of\u00a0success on Quest, later coming to PSVR 2 and Apple Vision Pro in 2023 and 2024 respectively.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Notably, the number of installs probably doesn\u2019t directly reflect units sold\u2014decidedly a more direct measure of its success with consumers\u2014although it may not be that far off.<\/p>\n In 2016, Job Simulator\u00a0came free with HTC Vive for a limited time, which may count towards installs and not sales as such. It was also included in Meta\u2019s Horizon Plus subscription games service in March 2025, which lets Quest users download select titles and keep them as long as they\u2019re subscribers. That\u2019s another place the studios might feel more confident counting install numbers and not sales.<\/p>\n Another place is VR arcades. In 2024, leading software distributor SpringboardVR said Job Simulator\u00a0was their top-performing game<\/a>\u00a0thanks to its popularity with kids and VR first-timers. And those arcades weren\u2019t buying Job Simulator\u2014SpringboardVR is a games subscription service with an enterprise-focused licensing structure.<\/p>\n