Разработчик: GamestormVR
Описание
Compatible with 3dRudder
SteamHammerVR is fully compatible with 3dRudder
About the Game
'The Rogue Apprentice' contains Eleven Missions which take you on a story based adventure staged in some of the most iconic locations around Victorian London, including, The Tower of London, Limehouse Warehouse, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, St Pauls and even the famous London Sewers. It's a hugely engaging and immersive experience with several types of challenging gameplay.
As the narrative unravels you will unlock each mission. more of the story and more powerful weapons, there are plenty of twists and surprises to enjoy as you discover the truth about your recruitment as 'The SteamHammer'
Seek & Destroy mode gives you Four full on 'Arcade Wave Shooting' versions of SteamHammerVR, with a mass of combos to boost your score, see how far you can battle your way to the top of the Global Leaderboards! Try your hand at 'Panic on the Streets of London' , Have a pint in the Skillington Arms for the hilarious 'Bar Room Brawl', keep an eye on the time in Westminster for the 'Big Ben Bash' or go to the Tower of London for a 'Kick in the Crown Jewels'!
Exceptionally Community Driven Features
- Unique VR Combat: With six different weapons and two hands you have over 36 weapon combinations with an amazing amount of physics to master.
- Voice Commands: Want to keep you finger securely on the trigger? No problem, you can use several one word voice commands to instantly switch your weapon load out mid battle
- Choice of Free Movement, S.M.A.R.T. Teleport or use a combination of both.
- Compatible with 3dRudder
- 4 Camera Angles and Auto Camera Switch for Monitors: See all the action from several angles or just let 'auto cam' switch between them
- Challenging and Not so Challenging: Easy, Medium and Hard settings available for all modes
- Testing Range: Before you go into the fray you can test all the functionality of your Exo-Suit and weapons
- An Amazing Original Soundtrack album from Polish sound Magician Przemek Kasperski is included with the game
Your adventure takes place in Victorian London 1892, but dark deeds are afoot, aside from the distant cries for help in the fog, the streets seem eerily quiet but you are soon to realise why, the dastardly Professor Rattwurm is attempting to enslave the fine English folk with his army of clockwork automatons raging havoc all over town.
Using this new-fangled steam power, some ingenious state of the art 19th century gadgetry along with the guidance and expertise of Doctor Obadiah Springhorn you should be more than capable of victory.
From the safety of Springhorn's elaborately furnished command centre in the Airship 'Horndenburg' the story unfolds as you plan your strategy and practise with the all the weapons which will be at your disposal. Your steam powered Exo-Suit has only two hands but your load out contains six unique and upgradable weapons which you can switch between during battle:- The Steam Hammer, The Steam Cannon, The Magnet Beam, The Rotor Saw, The Tesla Ray and The Rail Gun!
With some experimentation, a little strategy and a modicum of skill you should be able to complete all the missions and reveal the full story of 'The Rogue Apprentice'...if not you will be hauled back into the 'Hordenburg' for essential suit repairs and you can try again!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, simplified chinese
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10
- Processor: Intel i5-4590
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
- Storage: 9 GB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR. Room Scale 2m by 1.5m area required
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i7-4770
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
- Storage: 10 GB available space
Mac
Linux
Отзывы пользователей
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 smacks that have to be targeted, and there arent many weapons that could make it easier you know you HAVE to do it.
Recharge is in my opinion way to slow, weapons do upgrade, but progression doesnt feel worth it.
Short ranged weapons feel too short range and i never could get how far they reached, long range weapons are hard to aim and shoot slowly so you cant fix your aim with repeat shots.
Basically weapons are just plain not fun to use.
Levels while look good, are small and limited, you get sent waves of enemies and you have to destroy them, some times you have objectives like protecting a door, and such, but it really gets repetitive really fast.
Cant recommend this because while it had potential, in the end is more frustrating and repetitive than anything.
Stars received: 4.6/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
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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.
Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers
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 just didn't have all that much fun. Buy it on sale. The devs seriously tried, just keep your expecations low. There isn't so much of a story, as just missions to do with this narrator dude who you may enjoy or find annoying. In the end it just felt like a wave shooter where you can move around within a certain area with too many enemy spawns. I think this game could be tweaked to make it more fun, but who knows if that'll ever happen.
Rate 6/10.
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 small bots and the hammers for taking out larger bots. None of the other weapons really felt like they lived up to the other two.
Now. The main complain.
This.
Is.
A.
Wave.
Shooter.
This isn't an adventure game. It's not going to have you traipsing across London as a bad ass steampunk Ironman. Maybe it's just me but that's the impression I got from the social media posts and the Steam page. I very well could have interpreted all of those things incorrectly however I went in with one set of expectations and what I found was nothing more than an average, run of the mill Wave Shooter that just wasn't enjoyable.
There was story. I'd periodically hear dialog while fighting but wasn't really able to follow it very well while fighting. Even playing through the level twice I feel like I missed bits of it and overall I didn't feel like it added much to bending over and swatting at rats.
I can't really quantify fun or say exactly why I didn't find the game enjoyable. Bending over at a 90 degree angle and swatting rat-bots just doesn't do it for me. The larger enemies were equally as unsatisfying to smash into pieces. So...
Ultimately, SteamHammerVR just wasn't fun and for that it gets a thumbs down.
First off, I only played this game for 15 minutes but I don't feel like my problems with the game are going to be fixed with more game play. Maybe one of them, but I haven't got the patience to keep at it. I'm going to try to be as constructive as possible. If you're considering a purchase of this game, the things I disliked may have no effect on you and it might be an awesome game for you. It just wasn't FOR ME.
Stuff I liked
- The game has a really good Steampunk aesthetic going.
- The graphics are OK. Some of the textures seemed a bit dark to me but that could be chalked up to a design choice
- Voice Commands! This is the best thing about this. You can just say one word and switch to some default loadouts!
- You can combine weapons in several ways so there is some potential for interesting strategies
Stuff I disliked
- The narration/voice in this game is made to sound "old timey" which fits in with the steampunk aesthetic, but I found it hard to hear and understand properly.
- The enemies are all basically rats in the first level (I'm sure this changes) but it felt like I was constantly having to run from them to avoid being overwhelmed
- Run is the wrong word. I've never felt more restricted in-game movement than this. You can press the grip buttons to dash to predetermined points in the map and that's it. I'm not a fan.
[*] The weapons seem really awesome, but don't really FEEL awesome. There's a tesla coil gun that seems like it should do more but it's pretty weak. There's a steam hammer weapon that should feel more like you're power-punching enemies but didn't convey the feeling of power at all. On the plus side you can upgrade these weapons though.
I think the main thing is that I'm not as big a fan of the Steampunk aesthetic as some might be. If you're into that stuff then this will probably be super cool for you. To me, it's just a wave shooter with some really interesting but weak weapons and unsatisfying movement methods.
I think maybe the developers could add captions for the speech (which could help with other languages too) and maybe tweak the weapons so that even if they didn't do more damage, maybe they could stall enemies or keep them from swarming you so quickly. Adding another option for movement would be nice as well. The S.M.A.R.T. system is really just teleporting to specific nodes on the map, and while it makes sense in terms of the Steampunk world, it doesn't strike me as a fun mechanic.
If the developers are reading this, sorry that I didn't like your game, and no, I don't really want a free copy. It's possible that I'm in the minority and everyone else will love it. It just didn't click with me.
I also find it kinda odd that my review doesn't show up on the store page. Apparently it was too old of a review to show up.
I was able to get on with the game now thanks to a patch/fix. Everything that I had a problem with, (grabbing and holding objects) were fixed. I played a level and was very impressed. Very intense gameplay and I'm sure other who enjoy "hold the line" type games will like this also.
Thanks to the creators for addressing the issues and taking them seriously. It is indeed a challenging and worthwile game.
Love this Game, Could of got it for free but i paid for it and gave my free key away because i think the Devs deserve the cash for all the hard work.
I love streaming this whenever i do everyone always asks what game it is because its so much fun.
The choice of weapons, the humor which is so typically British and the details that have gone into making this are all top notch.
I love it i think you will too.
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! THIS game is totally the reason why I bought VR!
The atmosphere both visually and audibly totally immerses you in Victorian London it is stunning and this game is a massive bang for your buck with loads of different locations and all sorts of different tasks and gameplay types to complete.
I won't spoil the story but it is beautiful, funny, silly, scary but actually ingenious and I think steampunk fans will totally love it.
Strangley, whilst I really enjoyed the Story mode in here, the seek and destroy arcade style wave shooter mode version of the game is extremley addictive, at time of writing I haven't tried them all but will be back in there for another high score attempt soon.
Voice Commands are AMAZING! Springhorn guy is HILARIOUS Weapons are challenging but totally worth the learning curve, favourite for me is the Magnets.
Nice to see a game go from demo and ealry access and not only be completed but tick all the boxes of what VR should be, this is a must have for any VR library IMHO.
Wave shooter... again.... :/
very bad
Wow! Just Wow. This is not your standard common all-garden wave shooter (infact there is a barely any shooting). Not only is it visually stunning but game play is awesome! I like the magnet weapon the best but the amount of things you can do with the various weapon combos is so much fun. It is definately authentic 'Steampunk' and the characters and story are well thought out. I love the Doctor character he is very funny and very well portrayed!! The enemies range from scary to downright hiliarious too. The Pub level is definately my favourite!!
This is already one of my favourte games!!
Very good price for what you get and I can't wait for more levels!!
Highly recommended.
I originally posted a review when the demo first came out detailing the exellent presentation but lacking enjoyable gameplay. The developers replied more recently and kindly asked if I could give the demo another go. So today I did.
The demo has changed from the first time I played it, again they've stepped up the polish, it's very charming. The problem still remains, the gameplay is dull. Sorry devs, you're clearly talented guys, the visuals, style and original steampunk weapons are lovely. I played the latest demo for 5 minutes and gameplay just isn't fun. The crawling clockwork rats just aren't interesting, and the weapons lack punch when connecting with the rats. Which is odd as smashing the boxes and barrels is convincing.
It clear a lot of work has gone into this title, I'd recommend anybody to try the demo before purchase, maybe this game just isn't for me.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | GamestormVR |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 46% положительных (13) |