Lunar Odyssey (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Bronze Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £7.19
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: Interactive Experience
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing, Room-Scale
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

Description: Built in Unreal Engine 5, Lunar Odyssey is an immersive first-person VR celestial experience, depicting details of the Apollo Missions and the Lunar Lander, the moon surface and Apollo-era technology with impressive accuracy.

Lunar Odyssey early access offers the player both a mission-based mode (Escape) and free-roam. In Escape, during a modern day mission, the player is stranded on the Lunar surface after an incident and must utilize Apollo-era technology to Escape.

Review: No matter how much I tried I just couldn’t get ‘Lunar Odyssey’ to function like a normal experience. In my first few playthroughs I ended up with arms like a T-Rex and then I couldn’t get the batteries into the lunar lander! Maybe I was doing something wrong, or maybe it was glitched, I have no idea. What I do know for sure is there are far better Apollo Mission VR experiences out there and there simply isn’t enough content to justify the £7.19 asking price. It all just felt overcomplicated when it should have been a simple interactive experience.