HARD BULLET

I saw the Meta release and thought "Hey, I might as well give this product a shot again despite me hating it back when I bought it (how ever many years ago)." Yeah it's nice that they allow you to be able to have God Mode enabled and the waist reload is a pretty genius idea that I had not seen implemented on any other VR shooter, but the physics is weird when I go to melee enemies the katana sends ME flying into a corner of a hallway and the slow motion sound is just awful to listen to. The gun play is even worse than Blood Trail. No offense to you dev and team, but this product should be called Hard NO.

The game is simply amazing—so much emotion and a ton of fun. Even though the physics are weak, everything is somewhat monotonous, and the opponents’ AI is at the level of slippers… it’s still a very entertaining game, and I get an enormous amount of enjoyment from it.

Love it for content making. fun all around. can be laggy but theres fixes for that

freezes my computer completely and forces me to fully reset it every time i try to play
I'm going to have to refund this because god damn 😭😭

if you truly want a gorey game, don't waste money on this. just get an extra five bucks and pay for blood trail. this game not that gorey.

i do not recommend for index users since your just stuck infinite kicking

fun ash hell, but i wish there was a utility or a gamemode for creating scenarios

Terrible game, this is my second time refunding it. Blood trail better

One of the best VR games available. Should be dropping on the Quest today, gonna go buy it there as well since I hate SteamVR.

Game is really fun, but if you’re using a quest and you’re using steam link it’s really lagging you could barely play

Game is on the right track and it's plenty of fun when it works. However, that doesn't excuse the fact that there's still plenty of jank and 1 game breaking bug where enemies stop moving, and/or just stop spawning altogether.

Many people say this is blade and sorcery with guns, it's really just another shooter. My criticism is that the melee needs a lot more feedback, and the guns need just a bit of weight to them, as of now i wouldnt buy, but i will be trying further down the line!

I've had a ton of fun, it really does feel like John Wick VR, kinda like if Blood Trail and contractors had a baby and it became a wave sandbox type shooter. the only problem I have encountered is the memory problem... 5 or 6 rounds in, I'm already at 4.5k megabites of memory (which is an insane amount) and the game starts pooping the bed with extreme freezing and lag because it is taking up all of my RAM

this game is very bloody and gory but very fun

I bought the game and for some reason i just lost in the next couple of days without getting refund. This pisses me off and im scared to buy it again.

Terrible graphics, incoherent art style, unrealistic weapon operation and damage, janky physics, infuriatingly stupid AI, and maps that are both unrealistic and unfun (usually one is sacrificed for the other). Game modes are some of the laziest I've seen as well (way too easy, but somehow made progression excruciating at the same time).

This doesn't, in any way, get remotely close to what people are claiming as a "John Wick game", other than the outfit, pencils, and the scenery car that you don't interact with. If you want that, just stick to the Alyx mod, or maybe Blood Trail - and if it's Blade and Sorcery with guns you want, just get the gun mods - they are far more enjoyable than this mess.

The game always kick me out when I finished a level, it said the VR is connecting but no video is streaming, can you fix this bug? and sometimes, i mean often, the game does not automatically goes into the next stage when I finish all the enermies, which means I have to stop this room and re-enter it, which also means my process of this room is gone. Fix that please

The game is pretty fun HOWEVER due to the recent update I cant seem to play the game without it crashing and on top of that its really just another generic sandbox game until the crashing is fixed I cant recommend this game

I got bored of this game after my first hour of play through. I would just get blade and sorcery and if you need a gun based vr experience get contractors, onward, or hot dogs horseshoes and hand grenades.

worst gun sounds ive heard in my life ruins the entire game
melee is unsatisfying
if those two things were fixed and this had a real modding scene it would be my favorite vr game

Amazing game, It has gore, some serious fighting (You can have melees and guns, you can disarm, stab, shoot, punch, kick, fling, slam, and even torture, you have 2 mag pouches 6 gun and melee slots, and you can throw sharp to dull stuff at them you can jump on them, just plain bare hand fighting, you can do a call of duty to far cry take-downs, blasting some hype music to get more dope kills, to just playing the song in your head, the down side is it can NOT hold on by playing on a laptop, i would recommend a desktop computer, about 2,000 and a good cool down system (some type of gel cooling with fans) i would recommend getting a legion desktop computer like mine, has hardly ANY lag, i have a NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti super as my graphic's card, a 32 GB ram, 3 fans and one gel cooling, i would recommend the steam link VR on VR but also my VR is a Meta Quest 2, i think a Meta Quest 3 might have even less lag, you also need a real good motherboard, Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KF is my processor, also a wireless connector (for the wireless connect on steam VR) called Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz, hope this makes your lag less, if you have fiber network that is real good, but i don't so that might be something with lag, also you need 3,000 in stash for a good computer (my computer costed more then 2,000 but less than 3,000 so just with tax you should need 3,000 in stash) so this game is fun even if you have a small room since mine is one yard long and 3 yards wide for my VR boundry and i can still have a good time killing AIs so if you are crazy and moved your PC in you basement or garage you might have a funner time them me, but you have about 12 different melees and like 80 different guns also i forgot to add there is explosives (Semtex if you wanna have a good laugh) also i would recommend watching harry pair (on Youtube) for game-play me and my friend were taking turns playing and watching and we did some sick attacks also there's slow-mo which is even more fun throwing daggers and yeeting people. anyway, it's worth the money since you can get rage and even laugh while playing (worth the money of the game cost not the PC cost)

i,m playing on quest two and sometimes it just kicks me out of the game

The movement is alright and the detail is nice but there’s not enough for 20$ it’s just battle battle battle. No multiplayer

This game has massive potential, but the optimization issues made it unplayable. If a patch improves the performance, I'll definitely give it another shot.

I don't really like how enemies charge you, they have no survival instincts or combat movement they just run/walk towards you. Mechanics a little janky and I don't really like the constant vibration on index controllers. The game has potential but it isn't there for me yet.

fun to play for hours, amazing, good gore, and fun overall 9/10, only thing is to play on my vr it crashes like once every ten times i play idk why.

This game is really good, when im playing sandbox i make the clothes of the noc a gang members clothes and i pretend to be a hitman

I rarely leave reviews, but I love this game and it has so much potential that I wanted to take the time to voice my thoughts!

What I like:
-The details of bullet wounds, and the blood soaking in the clothes

-If you stab someone, and keep it there, they actually react to it. For example, screaming in pain

-The more damage you do to the body (for example, shooting the same spot over and over), the wound gets bigger and bigger. even down to where you can see the bones

-Slow-motion. It lets me feel awesome as I slow down time and annihilate everyone

-If you grab someone, and if you're about to throw them into spikes, or a hook, THEY REACT TO IT instead of acting like they don't have a care in the world. They even try to beg you for mercy if you're about to torture them


What I dislike:
-I had to disable skeleton's because it's like they have wolverine's skeleton, and are just unbreakable even with a shotgun to the face

-Reacting to bullets is exclusive to those who hold guns. Both the spawned dudes in Sandbox, and also people who don't have guns and are running at you with their fists just tank the bullet, and do nothing but let out a quick scream, then they just go on like nothing happened. Please add reacting to bullets for those npc's

-Melee weapons are a bit wonky and frustrating to handle

-Dude's are way too easy to knock over. Every time I punch them, they just collapse on the floor. If I'm fist fighting someone, that's not fun. These guys are soldiers, I want it to be harder to knock them down with a punch


What I hope to see in future updates:
-The ability to snap neck and break arms at the joint (without the use of mods)

-More animations. I do understand updates are in the works that adds more animations, so I'm excited for that. Some things I hope to see are even more realistic reactions to bullets. For example, if an npc is shot in the leg, they hold their leg in pain, and then have a limp. If they're shot in the stomach, their hands move to their stomach in pain. If you shoot them in the groin, they hold it and go down. These are things that the game Blood Trail does really well, and it's in my opinion the only thing that game has over this game. If this game can put in Blood Trail level of realism in regards to that, I'd only have to play this game, and I would adore it

-Facial expressions. Basically all they do is stare at you, and when you grab them, all they do is just hold their mouths open. I'd really like to see their mouths move when they speak, pained expressions when hit, fearful expressions, etc

-Enemies taking cover. This would be really cool and make it so much more realistic and cool to have enemies take cover when you're opening fire on them


Overall, I am a big fan of this game. It's one of my favorites. As you can see, I am a HUGE sucker for realism. I constantly go between this game, and Blood Trail because both are fun in their own way. As I said before, however, if this game adds the same level of realism in terms of reacting to wounds as Blood Trail does, I would never have to play that game and this game would be top notch for me in terms of gun combat. Thank you for reading, have a great day.

The game is incredibly fun, there's lots of variety with weapons, maps, enemies and fun to be had, but I still can't recommend it as of 2025.

The performance is horrible even on a rig that should be able to run it relatively well.
As long as the optimization problems aren't fixed, the game is practically unplayable.

I do hope it gets fixed soon, because the game otherwise is really fun.

good to blow off some steam, torture devices are absolutely insane.

RIDE mode is a joke! Enemies stop spawning in every other wave and there is absolutely no difficulty to it. This here is a very glitchy/jank game that hides under the early access title.
Why ever leave early access and optimize what you have when you can just port the game to meta instead??

Good game, gore awesome, doing some cool tricks, trying to do john wick style (kinda worked) still loved the gore.

if you wanna be a psychopath, this is the game for you, it has torture place, too.

been enjoying the game some of the glitches are hilarious have not got bored of it cant wait to see it finished

i really like it! one thing that bothers me is that you cant weld something (like the grenade-launcher-pistol-thing) to the slide of a shotgun and still use the slide like normal while grabbing that "something".
overall tho 9/10

PLEASE ADD FULL BODY TRACKING !!!! Full body tracking in this game would have been awesome, and it would have created a lot more immersivety to the game.

This game is absolutely awesome!
I was a little worried that my Quest 2 couldn't run this through steam link but i got it and it worked almost FLAWLESSLY!
There is only a bit a graphics problem on my headset but it still runs! Only problem is that I can't record things.
It was for sure worth my twenty bucks.

It's fun. I'd appreciate help tho. I'm not getting ride progress for some things but I'm getting some for others.

AI does nothing, just walks up to you and stands there. They don't attack unless you walk up to them directly, like you need to get right up to their face and then they will do something. The weapons feel weak and barely do any damage, even when the enemies are wearing no armor at all, goes mainly for the firearms, melee weapons are somewhat better.

Requesting a refund, as of right now most positive reviews come from a basic vr sandbox experience, yet once you really get into it, the game just breaks, the ai is flawed and the physics are just meh.
Optimization is so bad that at one point this game broke Virtual Desktop as well as my actual desktop and I had to restart my PC to get back to normal.

Once its out of Early Access, perhaps its a good game, for now, its a refunded game.

it makes me feel like john wick. you should get it to try it for yorself. my only complaint is that sometimes it gets pretty laggy

If you shoot the enemy's guns from their hands they just stand there with their fists up defenseless. They move into range but never close enough to actually strike so you could disarm a whole arena and just stand there and nothing happens. If you want enemies you can fist fight that actually try to fight play Boneworks, for armed melee combat, Blade and Sorcery.

Went in with high hopes to play the game only to find out it's a janky, laggy mess. Don't buy until an optimisation update or until release.

Bought it once back in 22' and refunded it because it was clunky and got stale very fast.
Bought it again seeing it had been updated and might be better. It sort of is.
My biggest complaint is the controls are absolutely asinine and you have no real way to fix them. Every other game I've played I can at least use steam bindings to fix it but not this. Why is there nothing on the joystick click? Why do I have to stop moving in order to hit the slowmo button? It all feels bad and I should be able to put slowmo or jumps somewhere that actually feels good.
The game does have some merits: The gun play is pretty good, I love the holster placement and the new drive mode is fun. The level design is great and combat can be mostly fun until you get in close to an enemy and realize the physics are wonky as hell. This was described as "Blade & Sorcery with guns" but B&S has mods with guns and that feels infinitely better. I bought this in the hopes of getting something that could be a gunfu sim but this is too clunky to feel good. Honestly I would be willing to give this more time and forgive some of the wonk if I could change my bindings to something that didn't make me feel like I was having an aneurysm.

***EARLY-ACCESS: All reviews I make of early-access games are to be taken with a grain of salt. Inconsistencies, bugs, and quality of life issues are expected to exist to some degree!

ONE SENTENCE REVIEW:
A very fun VR John Wick/Deadpool simulator that has a wide array of weapons, crazy gore and dismemberment, a really cool slow motion feature, and an overall awesome vibe and atmosphere, unfortunately accompanied by a decent lack of content as well as some bugs and quality of life issues.

PROS:
- Wide variety of guns to choose from, as well as both blunt and sharp melee weapons.

- Addicting atmosphere and gameplay, definitely makes you feel like you're in an action movie!

- Awesome features like slow-motion, intense gore, and immensely interactive physics that allow you to do things like slowing down time and disarming an enemy, removing the magazine and chambered round and then throwing the enemy off of a rooftop, all in a matter of seconds.

CONS:
- Repetitive "sandbox-syndrome" where the ability to do whatever you want (in a sense) can become monotonous and boring.

- Lack of additional content makes trying to navigate through different types of game modes practically non-existent, there is really only a wave-mode and a sandbox-mode and that's it.

- Ride Mode, which advertises itself as the "story mode" of the game, is really just wave-mode that has 3 categories: short, medium, and long ride, but none of them contain much (if any) story-telling and/or campaign-esque elements.

- Buggy A.I. enemies that struggle to navigate rather simplistic environments such as stairs, as well as struggling or even refusing to initiate aggression towards the player when the enemy is fighting with melee weapons or hand-to-hand combat, unless the player is practically on-top of the enemy.

SUMMARY:

Sandbox VR games... they all usually have the same downfall point, Hard Bullet included.

The game is great don't get me wrong, there's a ton of different weapons, the gore is INSANE, we've really only seen that level of gore in a VR game before with Blood Trail, and the overall gameplay is a lot of fun. However, the fall of all Sandbox VR games is that, it gets boring. Really boring. I feel like this could be solved by trying to branch out and add some game modes and features that other sandbox games don't have. Other than that though, it's great and I enjoy it a lot.

Side note, gotta fix the AI. Walking up or down stairs is a nightmare for them, and melee/hand-to-hand combat enemies constantly hesitate to come at you until YOU get right on top of them, even if the player is also unarmed. They need to be more aggressive and actually try and hit the player first without the player having to literally stick their face 6 inches away from the enemy's face.

OVERALL RECOMMEND?: [Yes] / No / Close Call

PRICE WORTH IT?: [Yes] / No / On Sale

DIFFICULTY TIER:

S - Two Betrayals or The Library from Halo:CE on Legendary w/ All Skulls On

A - Navigating The Antlion Infested Coastline in HL:2 Without The Buggy And Just A Crowbar

B - Left 4 Dead "No Mercy" On Expert

C - CoD: WaW "Little Resistance" on Hardened

D - Playing Cloning Clyde By Looking At The Screen Behind You With A Mirror

*[E] - Telltale's The Walking Dead Quick Time Events

F - Minecraft Creative Mode

*(Being primarily a sandbox VR game, the difficulty is entirely dictated by the settings you choose or don't choose to enable, overall, it's rather easy to get into the swing of.)

THE 5-RATINGS:

Graphics - 8/10 (Not bad at all, could be better, some occasional and slight "stuttering" when large enemy #s are present.)

Gameplay - 8/10 (Other than a few minor weird inconsistencies with hand-to-hand combat, gameplay is awesome.)

Comfort/Quality of Life - 6/10 (Can be easily disorienting for newer VR players, for seasoned VR players it is comparable to Boneworks or Bonelabs, QoL definitely needs love.)

Community - 10/10 {N/A} (Single-player game only at the moment, so the Community category is not applicable at this time and will receive full points.)

Content - 2/10 (Definitely needs more content, only two modes {technically 3 I guess: Ride Mode which is waves but "story-driven"? Sandbox, and the Arena mode which is essentially sandbox and Ride Mode clashed together} and one of them is falsely advertised, and the other can get very boring.)

OVERALL RATING SCORE: 34 / 50

OVERALL RATING BRACKETS:

0-9: I'd Rather Fight A Tank From Left 4 Dead In Real Life

10-19: Barely Above League of Legends

20-29: Play It Once, Probably Uninstall

[30-39]: Hey, That's Pretty Good

40-49: Quality Stuff Right Here

50: Kojima Level Of Excellence

This ass game does not even load on a high end device/headset. DO NOT BUY, IT'S JUST A WASTE OF MONEY.

A clunky, unsatisfying, mess.

The physics are sub-par at best--I mean, I can't even grab a gun off a table without the table freaking out and sending everything flying. And then the weight simulation? flaccid and buggy. If you slam a knife into an NPCs' throat or head they will jerk backwards in the direction you swung from. Why? It's extremely unsatisfying. And why do the NPCs' limp bodies have the ability to push me around? I've never had such a difficult time simply trying to pick up a person.

The guns are simply boring. They sound terrible, the recoil is poorly done, and even reloading is just, well, not fun? This game clearly wants to drive towards that action-packed Max Payne-esque style of combat yet everything is far to clunky to get me into a flow. To me it feels like to get a satisfying experience you need good RNG.

The full-body IK is way too tangled. Holding some of the guns and other weapons sometimes look extremely weird and even get in my way sometimes.

And the gore. Listen, it's nice to see bruising, bones, deformed skin, etc. But I just don't see the appeal. Maybe it's my bias? Maybe what I'm looking for just isn't what this game is about? So be it. But still, there is a lot of polishing that this game needs that it could benefit from.

This game has great potential. There's a lot of room for improvement and I really do hope the developers take the opportunities. It could be something great if they tackled that clunkyness. Would I recommend it? No. Thinking about getting this game? Watch some videos first and see how it looks. Me personally, I'd refund it if I could.
The developers do a great job when it comes to the constant insight into development, the updates, and the communication. Props to them. But man, I find this game is just disappointing.

Pretty fun and simple VR shooter. Makes you feel like an action hero. The controls are intuitive and satisfying.
Unfortunately not a lot of meat on the bones, only a few game modes so far. You'll probably see everything this game has to offer within the first couple hours.

I think this game has a lot of potential and I'll be sticking around for future updates.

It's fun but the gameplay loop is very short and repetitive. It's fun for about an hour but I can't see myself coming back to it unfortunately.

There was also a glitch where the enemies wouldn't spawn in after killing one in the start of a round but that can be remedied by restarting the round.

The game needs something to set it apart from the other arena fighting/shooting titles.

Really fun game ans enjoyed playing it when it wasn't stuttering.
I am above min specs and it stutters/freezes hard when enemies spawn.
I have looked up as many fixes as possible but it never fixes it.
If your system can run it properly you will have a blast.

I definitely love this game, with its current state it can improve and i love using the blades, sadly its VERY buggy from time to time