Crisis VRigade: From Facebook reject to SideQuest success

Seven months ago, Crisis VRigade developer Sumalab claimed its game had been rejected by Facebook’s console-like curation policy and kept from official release on Oculus Quest. Today, sideloading platform SideQuest revealed the game had passed 50,000 downloads for the headset.

With the SideQuest software, you can download and install content for Quest that’s not available on Facebook’s official store. At 50,000 downloads, Crisis VRigade is SideQuest’s most-downloaded app. SideQuest confirmed to us that this statistic is only counting sideloaded apps downloaded via its platform, and not other downloads installed through SideQuest but obtained elsewhere. SideQuest also noted that this month’s release of Pavlov Shack is likely to catch up to Crisis quite quickly.