VR Rome

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VR Rome is a single player casual role playing game. It was developed by Steven Luo and was released on November 5, 2018. It received neutral reviews from players.

"VR Rome" is a virtual reality game that reconstructs Rome in the year 320 AD, allowing players to explore the city and find famous sites like the Colosseum and Pantheon. Each important building includes a tip with its name and year of completion, as well as an information panel describing the building and its current state of ruins. The game also features a museum gallery with building models for closer examination.

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Audience ScoreBased on 15 reviews

optimization4 negative mentions

The game offers a unique experience of exploring Ancient Rome, providing a sense of scale and historical context that is engaging for enthusiasts.
The developer has shown a lot of passion and effort in reconstructing the city, with interesting information about various buildings and structures.
Despite its technical issues, the game has potential and could become a great educational tool for those interested in Roman history.

The game suffers from poor optimization, resulting in choppy performance and low frame rates on various systems.
The graphics are lacking, with basic textures and a need for more detailed environments, which detracts from the overall immersion.
Movement is limited to teleportation, which feels restrictive and less immersive compared to free walking options that players desire.

graphics
9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics in the game have received significant criticism for being poorly optimized, resulting in issues like jitteriness, muddy visuals, and pop-in effects. While some users appreciate the effort to recreate classical Rome, the overall graphical quality falls short of expectations, especially for a VR experience. Many hope for future updates to improve the visual fidelity and performance.
- “I saw a few people complain about the graphics... sure this is not a big budget game with ray tracing, nor is it intended to be.”
- “If the dev would expand on this app's feature set and improve the controls and the visuals, this could easily be worth $15 to visit ancient Rome.”
- “Would love to give a full review if the app is ever updated to deal with optimization and graphical issues.”
- “The graphics are very poorly optimized and run poorly on my system, causing jitter and loss of controller tracking within about 15 seconds.”
- “Graphics were muddy and there was lots of pop-in and some jitteriness.”
- “The reason for that is because of the graphical issues I encountered.”
optimization
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33%
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The game's optimization is widely criticized, with users reporting poor graphics performance, low frame rates, and issues like jitter and loss of controller tracking, even on capable systems. Despite enjoying the content, many players express frustration over the performance issues and hope for future updates to improve optimization.
- “Everything runs smoothly on my rig, except for this game on the highest settings.”
- “I would love to give a full review if the app is ever updated to address optimization and graphical issues.”
- “The graphics are very poorly optimized and run poorly on my system, causing jitter and loss of controller tracking within about 15 seconds.”
- “However, I feel that it's not optimized very well, resulting in low frame rates for most of the time on my system (i7-2600, GTX 1070, 6GB RAM - on the HTC Vive).”
- “So all in all, I enjoyed what the app had to offer, even if I couldn't really enjoy it because of the performance issue.”
gameplay
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay features a basic teleport mechanic, which some users found lacking in depth and complexity.
- “The teleport mechanic was also very basic.”