Mutant Boxing League VR
- April 5, 2024
- Filmic Studios
Get on Steam"Mutant Boxing League VR" is a fitness-focused boxing game that offers a variety of opponents and environments to progress through, as well as tutorials and minigames to improve your skills. Learn both attack and defense techniques, and utilize special gloves to gain an edge. The game aims to make training enjoyable, with a variety of challenges and the opportunity to earn unique boxing glove skins.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game is a genuine fun experience and provides a good workout, making it a great entry point for those new to boxing.
- Graphics are appealing with a fresh art style, and the variety of opponents and challenges keeps the gameplay engaging.
- The training tutorials effectively teach boxing basics, and the mini-games add enjoyable variation to the overall experience.
- Hit detection is inconsistent, with many punches not registering properly, leading to frustration during gameplay.
- The game lacks flexibility and realism in its boxing mechanics, with many unblockable punches and rigid movement that detracts from the experience.
- There is no support for left-handed players, and the overall optimization issues can lead to performance problems on various hardware setups.
- graphics9 mentions
- 56 % positive mentions
- 11 % neutral mentions
- 33 % negative mentions
The graphics of Mutant Boxing League VR are generally praised for their clean, cartoonish style and fresh aesthetic, contributing positively to the game's appeal. However, players have reported significant performance issues, including frame rate drops even on high-end hardware, which detracts from the overall experience. While the visuals are enjoyable, some users feel that the game's physics and optimization need improvement.
“Graphics are good and the style is fresh for the genre.”
“What this game does well are the challenges and nice cartoon-like graphics.”
“I like the art style of the environment and opponents.”
“It's a stand-in-place arcade boxing game with cartoony graphics and poor optimization.”
“I was getting constant frame rate drops using an RTX 4080 and i9-14900K processor, no matter what I changed in the graphic options.”
“Mutant Boxing League VR is a decent boxing game, but it cannot compete with Thrill of the Fight in any way other than visuals.”
- optimization7 mentions
- 43 % positive mentions
- 14 % neutral mentions
- 43 % negative mentions
Overall, the game's optimization is criticized, with users reporting poor performance despite having high-end hardware, such as the RTX 3090. While some players experience smooth gameplay on older systems, the general consensus is that the game feels under-optimized given its simplistic graphics and minimal activity.
“Runs smoothly on my old PC using a Rift-S and GTX 1070 card.”
“Performance is fine with an RTX 3090 and Index resolution at 300% in 80 fps.”
“Straight after trying the game, I did a 15-minute warmup on Pistol Whip and 12 rounds on Thrill of the Fight; no performance hitches with those.”
“It's a stand-in-place arcade boxing game with cartoony graphics and poor optimization.”
“Performance is fine with an RTX 3090 and Index resolution at 300% in 80 fps - but since close to nothing is going on, this game feels very badly optimized.”
“It perhaps had something to do with the performance.”
- story5 mentions
- 40 % positive mentions
- 20 % neutral mentions
- 40 % negative mentions
The reviews do not provide specific insights into the game's story, focusing instead on performance and graphical enhancements for PC VR compared to the Quest version. Overall, the narrative aspect remains unaddressed, suggesting that players may find the technical execution more noteworthy than the storyline itself.
“This is a Quest game enhanced for PC VR - but the developers put much effort into making better textures, lighting, dynamic shadows, and environments for PC VR.”
“Note that the developers used the Quest trailer on the Steam store page; the game looks like garbage in that trailer but looks much better when you try the PC VR version.”
“The game feels more like physics made for the extremely weak Quest processors.”
“Note that the developers used the Quest trailer on the Steam store page; the game looks like garbage in that trailer but looks much better when you try the PCVR version.”
- gameplay3 mentions
- 67 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 33 % negative mentions
Gameplay experiences are mixed, with some users criticizing the menu and initial performance issues, while others appreciate the fast-paced action, variety of opponents, and engaging mini-games. The dodging mechanics have received both praise and frustration, as players find it challenging to avoid attacks effectively. Overall, the game offers enjoyable moments once it runs smoothly.
“Played a few hours now and I really like the fast-paced gameplay and variety of opponents, challenges, and minigames.”
“Runs perfectly on my RTX 2070 with very smooth gameplay.”
“Menu runs poorly, the game runs poorly until it works. Gameplay feels more like boxing, yet the arms are still a full block. Dodging is cool, but they don't want you to slip your way out. If you try avoiding an attack by outright moving away, you'll get hit because you didn't roll. I love the get-up mini-games, but the punching mechanics are horrid. If Trot had all of this, it would be great.”
