ObserVRtarium

ObserVRtarium

NSC Creative · June 8, 2017 · Early Access, Simulation, VR

ObserVRtarium is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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ObserVRtarium price

ObserVRtarium is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About ObserVRtarium

The ObserVRtarium is an interactive, room-scale VR, virtual museum experience. Go beyond the glass and get up close with a collection of amazing past and present space artefacts including the Soyuz, ISS, Saturn V, Apollo LEM and Apollo LRV. Using your VR controllers you can manipulate the objects to get a perfect view of every detail. Once you’ve explored the models you can teleport to the objects around the room which are created at an accurate human scale so you can get a real sense of what it is like to stand at the foot of the epic Saturn V rocket that took humans to the Moon and how the Soyuz craft which takes 3 Astronauts at a time plus supplies to the ISS is maybe smaller than you thought!

The experience is suitable for home VR users and we also encourage museums and attractions who want to experiment with room-scale VR but are struggling to find appropriate educational material to give it a try.

Check out our early access details to read more about what we have planned in the future, this is just the start of building our virtual museum and we want to know what you want to see in it. We are actively looking for museum and science centre partners who are interested in finding ways to digitise and explore their collections in VR.

Produced by NSC Creative, The Immersive Storytelling Studio based at the National Space Centre, UK.

ObserVRtarium — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players appreciate the impressive visual presentation and immersive VR experience, particularly praising the detailed spacecraft models and awe-inspiring atmosphere for space enthusiasts. However, critics point out that the project lacks meaningful gameplay mechanics and interactive elements, functioning more as a static museum exhibit than an actual game, with concerns about its abandoned development state and limited content.

Recommended Nov 2, 2025
Игра 'ObserVRtarium' — увлекательный VR-проект для любителей астрономии. Погружение в виртуальную обсерваторию оставляет яркое впечатление: живописные пейзажи, детализированные модели небесных тел и интуитивное управление. Однако технические недостатки (частые лаги, нестабильная физика) снижают комфорт. Игровой процесс требует времени на освоение механик, но для фанатов космоса это стоит. Рекомендую для энтузиастов, но новичкам может показаться сложной.
Recommended Jul 27, 2025
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Not recommended Apr 20, 2025
ObserVRtarium is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, ObserVRtarium is a software application that displays a virtual space museum in VR, that's it. It's not even complete, the developers walked away from this almost 8 years ago after they discovered only 5 concurrent users even bothered to try this, and that only happened once. This is abandoned non-game garbage polluting Steam. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop. There's no loop here, no true interactive fe…
Recommended Nov 26, 2023
If you own a VR headset, this title is a must. The feeling of awe when standing under the Saturn 5 is incredible even if you are in a simulation
Recommended Jan 14, 2020
---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☑ Gnome. ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☑ Gnome. ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Starring at walls is better ☐ Just don‘t ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Gnome. ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Earrape ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Gnome. ☐ Human ☐ Lizards ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Gnome. ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boiiiiii ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Just press ‚A‘ ☐ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Gnome. ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☑ Gnome. ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isnt necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding ---{Story}--- ☐ Story? ☐ Text or Audio floating around ☑ Gnome. ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Gnome. ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{Price}--- ☑ Gnome. ☐ Worth the price ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{Bugs}--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Gnome. ☐ Can get ann…
Recommended Dec 18, 2019
Extremely small and not very informative spacecraft museum, but life-size 3D models look impressive.

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