Orc Assault (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Silver Award

System: Valve Index & HTC Vive
Price at Time Of Review: £14.99
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Tower Defence
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

 

Description: Once upon a time all was peaceful and serene in the far off land of Camalon, but the silence has been broken as the Orc hordes have returned to the peaceful kingdom to claim the land that they once held most sacred. The only thing stopping them from conquering the innocent people of Camalon is your arsenal of weapons and advanced research towers. Progress through various waves and stages of Orc and Goblin invasions on both paths and open room-scale battlefields, all along developing an increasingly sophisticated tower system to take down even the most powerful of Orcs enemies.

For a truly unique experience, you can now enter the world of Orc Assault exclusively with the HTC Vive VR headset and oversee the entire playfield. Once you play tower defence in virtual reality at room-scale, you will fully understand the complete immersion that VR provides a wide range of gaming experiences. The fully animated characters and detailed animation-inspired world immerses you as you plan your final tactics and use fully-tracked controller wands to plot your strategy and defend both the town on Camalon and riches beyond.

Review: Orc Assault is a game that appears to have been the work of love by the developer who then went onto hate it. It looks amazing and the strategic tower defence game style feels great in VR. Even the orcs themselves look OK as they are entering the battle wave after wave. But it seems once the game was made to look good all work stopped and the gameplay was a bolt-on for some reason. There is a vertical learning curve on this game and the towers themselves don’t suit the theme of the game. Why isn’t it arrows, capsules and some big siegecraft weapons?

But it has to be said for the current sale price of £1.49 it is still worth a look. But I wouldn’t pay any more than that and I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for the game to be updated. But do give it a look as it looks nice at least and maybe you can survive a lot longer than I did making it more fun. But if you ask me this is too overpriced (at full-price) too hard to play and for some reason long abandoned (which is the biggest shame of all).