Released Aug 2017 3.4★
Story Mode
‘The Rogue Apprentice’ contains Eleven Missions which take you on a story based adventure staged in some of the most iconic locations around Victorian London, including, The Tower of London, Limehouse Warehouse, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, St Pauls and even the famous London Sewers. It’s a hugely engaging and immersive experience with several types of challenging gameplay.
As the narrative unravels you will unlock each mission. more of the story and more powerful weapons, there are plenty of twists and surprises to enjoy as you discover the truth about your recruitment as ‘The SteamHammer’
Seek & Destroy Mode
Seek & Destroy mode gives you Four full on ‘Arcade Wave Shooting’ versions of SteamHammerVR, with a mass of combos to boost your score, see how far you can battle your way to the top of the Global Leaderboards! Try your hand at ‘Panic on the Streets of London’ , Have a pint in the Skillington Arms for the hilarious ‘Bar Room Brawl’, keep an eye on the time in Westminster for the ‘Big Ben Bash’ or go to the Tower of London for a ‘Kick in the Crown Jewels’!
Exceptionally Community Driven Features
Unique VR Combat: With six different weapons and two hands you have over 36 weapon combinations with an amazing amount of physics to master.
Voice Commands: Want to keep you finger securely on the tigger? No problem, you can use several one word voice commands to instantly switch your weapon load out mid battle.
4 Camera Angles and Auto Camera Switch for Monitors: See all the action from several angles or just let ‘auto cam’ switch between them.
Challenging and Not so Challenging: Easy, Medium and Hard settings available for all modes.
Testing Range: Before you go into the fray you can test all the functionality of your Exo-Suit and weapons.
An Amazing Original Soundtrack album from Polish sound Magician Przemek Kasperski is included with the game.
Synopsis
Your adventure takes place in Victorian London 1892, but dark deeds are afoot, aside from the distant cries for help in the fog, the streets seem eerily quiet but you are soon to realise why, the dastardly Professor Rattwurm is attempting to enslave the fine English folk with his army of clockwork automatons raging havoc all over town.
Using this new-fangled steam power, some ingenious state of the art 19th century gadgetry along with the guidance and expertise of Doctor Obadiah Springhorn you should be more than capable of victory.
From the safety of Springhorn’s elaborately furnished command centre in the Airship ‘Horndenburg’ the story unfolds as you plan your strategy and practise with the all the weapons which will be at your disposal. Your steam powered Exo-Suit has only two hands but your load out contains six unique and upgradable weapons which you can switch between during battle:- The Steam Hammer, The Steam Cannon, The Magnet Beam, The Rotor Saw, The Tesla Ray and The Rail Gun!
With some experimentation, a little strategy and a modicum of skill you should be able to complete all the missions and reveal the full story of ‘The Rogue Apprentice’…if not you will be hauled back into the ‘Hordenburg’ for essential suit repairs and you can try again!
User Reviews
User ReviewsTomasz Kirsz
Dec 05, 2017
★★★★★
Rich story mode, dynamic arcade mode + that steampunk feeling of Victorian London. Choice of weapons, British humor, attention to details + this is probably the only game with voice commands – which works great in VR. Highly recommended.
Przemyslaw Kasperski
Nov 15, 2017
★★★★★
This is really good game with rich story mode. It takes long time to finish it comparing to different VR famous games, this game is huge and suprisingly it is not standard wave shooter. You can feel the mood of Victorian London locations and fight many different automatons. This game gave me so much fun and a bit of fear for example in Sewers level. Don’t give up if you fail a level, try more on easy – weapons will be ugraded. First time I thought I could play on hard….it was mistake 🙂
I love voice commands for changing weapons, it is really cool!!!
I played it before many times especially Seek&Destroy mode which is pure arcade. I recommend to finish story mode first, than try to beat current score in S&D, for example after long annoying day. Absolutely worth playing!
Christopher
Nov 03, 2017
★★★★★
Love this Game, The atmosphere both visually and audibly totally immerses you in Victorian London. The story is great to follow and I also enjoyed the Seek and Destroy mode in this game.
OUTSTANDING… and well worth it.
Pierre
Jun 19, 2018
★
Testé en viveport.
Vraiment pas terrible. Graphismes moches, gameplay sympa 3 mn mais pas plus, armes déséquilibrées…
Dommage, l’idée était bonne.
Dan
Sep 01, 2019
★
Some fool has mapped the controls for movement to the same presses as changing weapon, meaning that it is impossible to move around the levels without continually stopping to cycle through weapons.
Quit quite broken.