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 mostly positive reviews from players.

VR Rome reconstructs Rome city of 320 AD. You can walk in a continuous 2km * 2km play zone to visit the eternal city 1700 years ago. The reconstruction has archeology and architecture materials supports, and in the game you can view descriptions, photos and 1:500 models for each important buildings.

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Audience ScoreBased on 16 reviews

optimization4 negative mentions

Faithful and large-scale reconstruction of ancient Rome with impressive building models and historical information.
Good educational experience and immersive for fans of Roman history and architecture.
Passion project feel with interesting features like map navigation and 3D building models.

Performance issues such as low frame rates, choppiness, and poor optimization on many systems.
Limited locomotion options with only teleportation available and no smooth movement or joystick rotation.
Graphics quality is basic with muddy textures, lack of detail, and static 2D elements reducing immersion.

graphics
9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics in this VR experience of classical Rome are generally considered subpar, with issues such as poor optimization, jitteriness, pop-in, and limited visual quality options. While the concept is appealing, the muddy visuals and performance problems detract significantly from the overall experience. Users hope for future updates to improve the graphics and optimize performance.
- “I saw a few people complain about the graphics, but this is not a big budget game with ray tracing, nor is it intended to be.”
- “If the developer would expand on this app's feature set and improve the controls and visuals, this could easily be worth $15 to visit ancient Rome.”
- “There's only the option at the start to change resolution and go from normal to better graphics, but mine was already set to normal.”
- “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.”
- “I'm happy that they reconstructed classical Rome, but the graphics are pretty horrible, there's an annoying pigeon chirping the entire time, you can't turn around with the controller, it's just overall not good, which is too bad because I was excited to see Rome in VR.”
optimization
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game suffers from poor optimization, causing low frame rates and jitter even on relatively powerful systems, which negatively impacts gameplay and controller tracking. Users report significant performance issues, especially on high settings, and hope for future updates to address these problems.
- “The graphics are very poorly optimized and run poorly on my system, causing jitter and loss of controller tracking within about 15 seconds.”
- “I feel that it's not optimized very well, resulting in low frame rates most of the time on my system (i7-2600, GTX 1070, 6GB RAM - on the HTC Vive).”
- “On my rig, performance was not very good.”
gameplay
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay is noted for having a very basic teleport mechanic, suggesting simplicity and limited complexity in this feature.
- “The teleport mechanic was very basic.”