System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: £11.39
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Shooter
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing or Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+
VR Shop Score 1/100: 60
Description: ‘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’
Review: SteamHammerVR – The Rogue Apprentice is a pretty good attempt at a Steampunk style shooter with adventure elements and all set in Victorian London and to be fair to the developers it does look pretty well polished. But sadly the shooting action is where this game lets itself down and the shooting action is 95% of what the game is making it quite a boring game to play. The weapons don’t feel powerful enough and the enemies (although looking good) are kind of boring, like the mechanical rats which are just lame as dead ducks. I will even go so far as to say this game is long enough to offer its own value for money, but whether you will play long enough to experience that value for money is another thing as the monotony of it all would have set it long before then.
