Free demo · 16 November 2026
The free IKAREE demo comes out on 16 November
The free demo of IKAREE for Meta Quest comes out on Monday 16 November 2026 on the Meta Horizon Store. It is free: take the chair, meet the crew and play a whole story mission.
What you can play
- The captain's chair. Command the IKAREE by voice and meet the six officers of the bridge crew.
- The demo mission. Signature, a story mission of about an hour at the gas giant Thessaly, with eight endings. The whole mission.
- The dry dock. Set up your space, learn to talk to your crew and try every order before the mission starts.
- The real Milky Way. Real stars and their exoplanets outside the windows.
- Just the headset. The demo runs on Meta Quest 3 and 3S on its own. No PC, no cable.
The demo is its own app on the Meta Horizon Store. As soon as its store page is live, this site links to it, and the news says so too.
What you need
A Meta Quest 3 or 3S, a microphone (the headset's own works) and an internet connection. While you hold the communicator button, your words go to a speech-recognition service that turns them into text, and the game works out which order or answer you mean. We do not store your voice recordings. Details are in your voice and privacy.
After the demo
If you want to keep flying, the full game is where the voyage continues.
Coming too: an easy editor
We are building an easy editor for missions and encounters, so you can create your own stories and alien encounters without programming. How the editor will work.
In development
Take the chair.
The free IKAREE demo comes out on 16 November 2026 on the Meta Horizon Store. The full game will follow.
- Meta Quest 3 / 3S, standalone, no PC needed
- Walk the ship in your room, or play seated; internet and microphone required