Ancient Journey VR Reviews

Very good, please add more artwork! Expand the epic museum!

This is a promising experience, but found controls annoying in WMR (not officially supported). Patiently waiting for developer to update, before trying out again.

Controls wonky, teleporting to environments gets one stuck there, scans seem pretty low-res.

Got something going here, but it's really nonsence. These trips back in time is really poor. Add to it an controller that can't turn you around.

Fantastic work! VR is not just for games its the way to discover the REAL world being at home! Dev please add more interesting places.

There is absolutely NO way that this VR experience is worth anywhere near $25.00. I only purchased it because it went on sale for 80% off at five bucks. To begin with, it will not start inside the headset unless you click start in a box that pops up on your monitor. There are also no options and you cannot disable or turn down the loud depressing music. There is also extremely limited information for each piece of art such as "Greek vase - 6th century BC." Then there are the scans themselves and let me assure you that they are low-res, low detail, and overall low quality. I mean why would anyone want to stand there staring at awful low quality scans while learning absolutely nothing? There are also only three rooms and they are cluttered with cheap looking statues that no curator would ever consider laying out in such a manner. And the scale of each piece of art is WAY off with everything being excessively large. There are also three areas that you can get to through portals, but the graphics are extremely outdated with flickering shadows and places where you can teleport straight through walls and outside the map. Overall, this is a very cheap VR experience that in my opinion should actually be free.

Recommended for only enthusiasts. I played this experience first on Viveport Infinity two years ago. When I saw it was on sale, I bought it for my steam library. The museum as the main experience is a realistic environment, which has three rooms for historical artifacts of egypt, rome and asia. The photogrametric details of the artifacts are not perfect, some of them are too simplified on geometry, especially the relieves are lacking details of small indents and concavities. But, their textures still seem at high resolutions and they look photorealistic and believable if you don't pay attention very closely. So in general it does its job. The game has only teleport locomotion and oddly no snap/smooth turning option available. That teleportation mechanics is not even good either but it does its job somehow. The museum also has three sub experiences as separate maps which you can teleport to. They are just a historical thematic environment to roam. Their quality is not as good as the main experience. Their graphics actually look quite outdated. Yet, I liked the Japanese thematic area because it is quite bigger than I expected and I hadn't seen a place like that before. The Egypt thematic area is annoyingly small and empty. The Asian one has bugs and visual glitches in multiple areas. So those two are lowering overall quality even worse. However, there are not many historical museum expedition experiences on steam and it is not pricy.

(Original Vive) Ah what a shame to have to leave a negative review. This experience is far too expensive for how unpolished and inconsistent it is. I honestly don't think there would be so many negative reviews if this wasn't marked at $24.99. Major issues in relation to this being a $25 product: - lack of detail in the artwork - lack of consistency with how art is labeled. All should have specific fields such as Date, Location found, Notes, etc. and for fields that are unknown, state that it's unknown. Consistency is necessary. - some art not labeled at all - some labels were very close to the ground and difficult/impossible to read - not possible to get close to some art/labels. Seemed to have to do with nearby portals. - portals should be labeled so we know where we're going - sizing seemed off. I couldn't tell in the main museum, as I have not seen these in real life and cannot compare, but when I visited India (I believe) it seemed that things were too big. Noticed the same with Egypt based on the black cat licking itself.... it was massive. It ruins the immersion - In Egypt I was easily able to leave the map area and go off in to the galaxy with a white floor beneath me.... lol.... - the graphics/lighting gets pretty messed up when visiting areas... another review had a good YouTube video showing this. - art is cluttered. It's a little better spread out in Ancient Asia - art is unorganized beyond their very broad regions... being more chronological would be nice. - (nitpicking) there is art from every major continent except the Americas - (nitpicking) an option for subtitles would be nice Anyway, this is currently $5 and that's an okay price for it, and people wouldn't be so disappointed with the above problems if that was the actual price. But there's no way this should be marked at $25 and I cannot in good consciousness recommend this based on the combination of that and the above issues. If it is going to be priced so high, it should have been labeled Early Access or something.... But this has been released as a complete product and it's not really acceptable.... especially considering the Release Date (June 2018??)... and these issues haven't been addressed? It's a really cool idea and on the right track to something really neat.... just feels incomplete and not polished....

Good idea but needs more work. Jumpy graphics, museum not very interactive, akward to move about, Moving your head about changes daytime to nightime in certain scenes. Sometimes trees are rooted in mid air. Flashing on and off scenery, cardboard cutout plants in some places. Painted doors that lead nowhere. Has potential but was released a bit too soon. Kept on running after it was closed down in Steam VR so it clocked up two hours in the background. Got a refund before it could clock up any more.

[h1]Experienced on the Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality[/h1] You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/cAW2rKFQmI4 I honestly would not recommend this game at the full retail price. It's way overpriced for what it is. I bought this on sale for $5 and even then I think it's only marginally recommendable for those who have an interest in ancient exhibits. The main problem with this app is that the 3D scans are not the best. Don't get me wrong, they aren't horrible, I've just seen higher quality scans in other apps, some of them free. That's not the only problem with this app. There are 3 exhibit areas. Each area looks like the exhibits were just thrown in together in a room too small to hold them all. I have no idea why you'd make small rooms in VR when you have that many exhibits, but it's done to a bad effect here. There's also very little information on the exhibits. You'd think at this price there would at least be narrated information for each piece, but that just isn't the case. There is only a narrated part at the very beginning which is very brief and then some very general narrated parts for the 3 areas you can teleport back in time to. The three teleport areas are just an odd inclusion into this app. They are just low visual quality re-creations of what these ancient locations, that may have an an artifact, would look like. You can teleport around and look around. Just like the steam VR 3D environments, only with less talented artists. Teleportation is the only locomotion method. There is no smooth or snap turning. The teleport locations all have frame rate issues along with other graphical glitches (luckily the museum doesn't have these issues). You can probably view the entire content this app has within 20 minutes, but if you're taking your time then probably 40 minutes. [b]Rate 5/10. Normal price should be $5 USD. I only recommend this app on deep sale to those with a great interest in the subject matter. There are just better apps of this type that cost a lot less or are completely free.[/b]