VROOM: Galleon Reviews

Excellent graphics and ship movement. Need to be able so set the sails and simulate going somewhere.

Amazing graphics for current VR hardware. Enjoyed the slow pace; just watching the ship rock and waves roll by. Can't wait for Vive support!

While I would recommend this VR environmental experience, I have to say that the total lack of a tutorial is bothersome. It is not clear how to interact with the environment and therefore it can become boring quickly. As a little pirate cove, some characters to interact with would also be nice.

Yarr! Here be a nicely recreated pirate ship, ripe for exploring in VR. As other reviewers have mentioned, it’s not really a game, but rather an environment that you walk around, and various items to interact with. It has all the pirate things you would expect: Treasure, cannons, rum, mermaids, sharks, even a shooting gallery with some monkeys. Be sure to search all around – I played for half an hour and can tell by watching the trailer video that I missed some stuff! The ship itself is very cool, the island is bright and rich, and some of the objects are fun to mess with. Not tons of content here, but at its price, I say it’s a good title for any pirate fans out there. Thumbs: Up!

I like the experiences created in the early days of VR. I love that when they still look good and are perfectly playable.

Be careful with this game, when I was trying it out, sinking the boat froze the engine, I liked the Idea for a while but the slow coding made a ton of issues on character death, i.e. If you play with the Mermaid and the Shark Eats you the game freezes.

Not a "Simulator" just one map and a ship you can run around in nothing else literally nothing else...

First let’s get past the main issue some people have with VROOM: Galleon, it’s not a game it’s a VR experience instead, and in my option a rather good one at that. It has plenty to explore and interact with and the touch controls work well with this experience and I like the fact that you get both a ship with items to examine and an Island to explore. On the ship you need to explore and interact with everything to get to the island, and climbing the rigging gives a very real feeling of height, just don’t try and grab on to the mast to support yourself like I did as it’s not really there. Then you need to get the ship to move you to the island so you can explorer it as well. Hint if you are having trouble getting to the island think about how you would control a real ship of this size and type. So in summary, if like me, you like exploring new thinks in VR that are hard to do in real life, then you will probably enjoy this VR experience. On the other hand if you are looking for yet another fast action wave shooting, go play something else this is probably not for you :-)

What a waste of money. It's not a game. Developer is talking about it being a VR game. Why they display it in simulator, I don't know. It's not doing anything and the ship doesn't even sail.

Controls are fiddly, using sort-of Tank controls that don't really make sense in VR. I only played very briefly and felt motion-sick (I work with VR headsets every day, it takes a lot to make me feel queezy in VR). Some interactive objects also unexpectedly moved the camera, causing sudden disconnect that added to my nausea. Collision is a little all over the place, can often just walk through stuff. General framework/layout and experience is missing, no menus or any sort of introduction into what's going on. Graphics are lovely however, but they don't make up for the lack of content. With the above fixed, I still can't see this for more than £1.99 on Steam.