VR Rome Reviews

Sorry to say, but the quality of this game is really bad. 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. There are some information tablets about the buildings and you can view the 3D models of the buildings.

A must for all fans of roman antiquity, like myself. I've read countless books on roman history, and also on the history of the city of Rome itself. The simulation is set in Rome of the year 320 AD, when Rome had reached its zenith with regard to buildings. At that time, it was basically become complete, and had all the buildings we know today. Maxentius and Constantine added the last buildings during that time. Not long afterwards, 100 years later, the decline began, and all those wonderful monuments were lost. But fortunately we can now experience them in VR! Ok, the simulation has some technical issues, I'd say that it is quite hardware intensive for one. Everything runs smoothly on my rig, except for this game on highest settings. And the graphics could be better. But honestly, I don't care so much, because walking around, exploring, reading about the history of the different buildings, marvelling at the sheer size of them, is just an impressive experience, so that I forget the technical issues. I can absolutely recommend this game to any fan of Rome or roman history.

A nice program if you're interested in Rome and all things Roman. However, I feel that its' 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). When I upgrade my processor maybe the frame rates will get higher than 15fps in the majority of areas. I'm still going to recommend this program though as I think the author needs encouragement to come back and polish it a bit more. Edit: After two years in 2021 I upgraded by PC for an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and an RTX3070 and yes, surprise, surprise the frame rates are up and running smoothly.

I was excited to find an app to show some detail of Rome in the past, with all of its buildings and glory. Well... this app really needs more work. The graphics are very poorly optimized and run poorly on my system, causing jitter and loss of controller tracking within about 15 seconds. What very little I could see looks promising. This is definitely a labor of love. It just needs much much more work. Not worth the price even if it were half what I paid.

Clever app design and can see lots of research involved. It doesn't look very polished but I understand the huge effort. Hope the creator keeps improving it and sending updates.

Thank you so much! I already owned the Rome Reborn apps and separately they might have more accuracy. But I have been looking for a way to walk through Ancient Rome in VR. Those other apps don't let you do that, you're trapped in a few select spots and get to look around. You set me free. By means of teleporting a few meters at a time I get to move around large parts of the city. You can see and feel how large things were or how far they were apart. It became much more clear how most people lived in their apartments and what their surroundings were like. This is almost everything I wanted Rome Reborn to be. 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. But it accomplishes it goals. My biggest wish here would be to let me walk as well as teleport, and also to have the option to turn with my controller instead of only my head. I'm thrilled with this app! 9/10

It's a great work accomplished by an indie developer. That's what I hoped from 'Rome Reborn' to be. You can move around in all locations, you get useful information at many places, you can see actual photographs for comparison (wish these would be in 3D), and you can access nice 3D overview models. It could have some more details and I would prefer smooth locomotion over teleportation, but this does not diminish the value of the experience.

Great experience! Developer did a great job in trying to bring the feel and vibe of Ancient Rome. No free walking and there aren't any life scenes but building ambiance is great. Worth it for any ancient Rome enthusiasts!

It has potential, but it's very basic. It needs higher end textures, NPCs that move around. Proper refined 3D trees not 2D ones like Duke Nukem 3D lol. It needs more life and would be nice to see the Roman roads and chariots. There are also no interiors or objects to pickup, nothing to really learn from. You also can't freely move around, it's teleportation around the map set teleportation at that :( If the developers keep working on this then it'll be great, but if they leave it as then it needs to basically be really dirt cheap.

This is as far as I know the first Rome VR where you can actually move free, I mean, the movement system is so far only teleport, but at least you really can move around. The area covered is also relatively large. I was astounded so see how large many of the structures actually were, but also how strange "walled in" the many areas of Rome felt, quite in contrast to modern cities. So it was a real eye opener. A few downsides, which I hope are worked on: not all buildings have notes, so some temples you don't know which was which. Also I hope there will be an Oculus-friendly way to turn with the stick. So far you have to turn physically. I free move mode would help and some improvements with performace and a bit more detail maybe. But other than that it is the best Rome VR so far, and I did not regret buying it. I recommend it to any Rome fan.