SteamHammerVR - The Rogue Apprentice

Hooray for Steam and God save the Queen, great steam punk game with plenty of ingenious weapons and lots of clockwork enemies. Well, what a surprise this game is, set in Victorian London with lots of various maps which you unlock as you clear a level. The enemies are cool and inventive and fit in with the steam clockwork era. Although a room scale wave shooter, it is different in the enemies and kind of suits this Steam Punk theme. The visuals are good while not overly taxing and the voice acting and acting are pretty good which is unusual for VR games so far. Musically it's great and the map in the sewers the music is perfect, there is a room below the main room you start off in where you have a guide and training area for the weapons. Now the weapons also have voice command which is pretty cool and you can use to combine 2 different weapons (one in each hand) to fight some enemies more effectively. It's just a matter of remembering which combos good for which enemy. It's a fun game and at $15 seems reasonable for what you get, decent amount of levels (11) but the weapons are where this game shines. It's great to go around with a steam hammer in one hand and a Tesla gun i…

It's been a while since I was excited for a game that was this disappointing. https://youtu.be/lWlf0cUp3NE SteamHammerVR claims that it is "A truly immersive story adventure..." and I find that to be borderline false advertising. I don't believe that Wave Shooters would fall under the 'Adventure' genre even if they do have a story. SteamHammer drops you into the middle of a London intersection about to be overrun by rat-bots with no context or backstory. You're then picked up by a guy in a blimp for equally lacking logical reasons. He then shoves you in a steampunk Ironman suit and sends you out to kill more rat-bots which for some reason want to suddenly attack a single house that you then have to protect. As far as stories go, it's all over the place. To be fair though we could poke holes in most RPG stories starting hours so we'll skip that. The delivery of the story I did find rather interesting. The thematic black and white TV with the audio slightly out of sync was amusing and fitting. The weapons looked interesting at first glance but to the level that I played before I'd had enough, I didn't find them to equally useful. My main weapons were the magents for smashing sm…

[h1] Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers [/h1] This should be more fun than it actually is. This is the case where the whole is not more than the sum of the parts. This game has a nice variety of weapons, enemies, & upgrades. It has some nice set pieces. Steampunk robot wacky universe with a cooky narrator and a strange menu system. Yet somehow, this game falls short of where it should. Part of the problem is that enemies seem kind of dumb. Instead of making enemy AI good, it's just let's throw as many enemies at the player as we can. Your weapon arsenal is pretty slow and can't keep up with the horde. So it's just a matter of running away and trying to eliminate as many as possible, rinse and repeat. Like old school Serious Sam, but not as quick, frantic, or fun. There is full locomotion and snap turning (with the A or X button on your Touch controller). You can also at times press grip to blast forward. Strangely, there's several areas of the map that you can't travel to, so there are invisible boundaries. Voice commands work great, but you have to memorize them all because you will need to change weapons often. I don't know. I wanted to love this game. I j…

Wave shooter with a steam punk theme that had a lot going on for it, but in the end just isnt fun. Graphics are ok, performance was fine... but this game is just plain not fun. Its a case where the game has a lot on its side, production value is there, like it feels polished at parts, the theme, the graphics are interesting and have a nice setting, weapon designs are cool and inventive, the audio and voice acting is fine, it has a bunch of different and varied enemies that act a bit differently... But somehow the overall implementation when put together, just feels off, weird, not clunky or janky, but... awkward, and boring. They try to to be inventive, but it felt cumbersome and awkward to me. Weapon selection is clunky and even when understanding how it works its hard to do quick swaps depending on the situation. And the weapons use "steam" to work, so they have a limited use per time, and each hand shares the steam with all the weapons, so if you deplete it using the hammer and change to the sniper for a quick long shot, you still need for it to recharge. You get attacked by a horde of 100 mice, and your base weapon a SteamHammer, requires 1 smack per mouse, thats 100 s…

Stars received: 4.6/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions [0.4] Controls & Training & Help [0.4] Menu & Settings [0.3] Sound & Music [0.4] Graphics [0.4] Game Design [0.5] Game Story [0.4] Game Content [0.5] Completion time (level/game)? [0.3] is it Enjoyable & Fun? [0] Could it hold a spot in Favorites? (& if the Game can be repeatedly played again) [0] BONUS point: Multi-Player related [1] BONUS point: Review for VR [N] - if Registration is required with providing PII Game description key-points: First Person door Defense Overview: clunky controls and game-play, a bit grumpy style makes it less attractive survive and beat the enemy waves using different Steam-punk weapons

Pretty fun; though a bit glitchy for me at least.... If you're obsessed with steampunk, I don't know why you wouldn't pick it up... haven't seen many (any?) VR games with this theme. Give it a shot, you might really enjoy it.