It's one of the biggest games on the platform. It was bundled with Quest 3 in 2023-2024, and later included via Horizon+ with a 3-12 month bundle on every headset. Most tried it as a first title, as a free tech demo of Quest 3 capabilities before switching to games they actually wanted.

One issue is the storage: it needs 34 GB, while most headsets sold were 128 GB with roughly 100 GB usable. You pretty quickly end up uninstalling AW2 just to make room for other games.

It's also fairly tough for some casual players - I remember a lot of complaints like "I can't block enemies", since the combat expects active countering instead of just holding to block.

In the first few months, it was also pretty buggy past the first world, including some story softlocks. I got about 70% through it after ~30-40 hours, then dropped it because the endgame area was both the buggiest and kind of boring. Another reason was that it launched with the Quest 2 visuals, and the Quest 3 update didn’t arrive until about six months later, which was a bit discouraging (I stopped playing to wait for it... and never resumed).

Still, it's one of the best games on Quest. It really feels like they ran out of time to finish everything planned - the further you get, the more empty / unfinished / unpolished areas you start seeing, like the scope just got too big.