No Heroes Allowed! VR

No Heroes Allowed! VR
Information
VR/AR	Virtual Reality
Developer	Acquire, SIE Japan Studio
Publisher	Sony Interactive Entertainment
Platform	PlayStation VR
Device	PlayStation VR
Operating System	PlayStation 4
Type	Game
Genre	Strategy
Input Device	DualShock 4
Game Mode	Single-player
Release Date	October 14, 2017 (Japan); October 17, 2017 (North America and Europe)
Price	US$29.99
App Store	PlayStation Store
Website	https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/no-heroes-allowed-vr/

See also: VR Apps and PSVR Games

No Heroes Allowed! VR is a virtual reality real-time strategy game for the PlayStation VR headset on PlayStation 4, published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It was developed by Acquire with Sony's Japan Studio and released in Japan as V!勇者のくせになまいきだR on 14 October 2017, followed by North America and Europe on 17 October 2017. The game is the first virtual reality entry in Sony's What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord? series, which began on the PlayStation Portable. The player takes the role of the God of Destruction, who spawns monsters on a diorama-like battlefield to defeat invading heroes and destroy their castle.

The game is played with a DualShock 4 controller while the player looks down on the battlefield as if it were a tabletop. Critics praised its humor and production values but wrote that the headset added little to the strategy gameplay. It holds a Metascore of 73 on Metacritic, based on five critic reviews.

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Gameplay

In the original PSP game, the player moved dirt blocks around an underground stage to stop invading heroes from capturing Badman. No Heroes Allowed! VR moves the action above ground onto a diorama-like field. The goal of each stage is to raise monsters, defeat the heroes and destroy the castle where the enemy king and princess live. The player is the God of Destruction, summoned by Badman and his daughter Badmella to help them conquer the world.

Monsters come from nests that the player places on the field. Placing a nest costs Charisma points, and stronger nests cost more. Nests can only go on Netherworld territory, shown in purple, and each new nest expands that territory around it. Each monster loses stamina over time, even when it is not fighting, and must eat to recover it; monsters that do not eat starve. Monsters form a food chain, and Sony's guidance is that strong monsters alone will not last without enough food, so the player has to build a balanced ecosystem. In PlayStation LifeStyle's description, slimes are eaten by bugs, bugs by lizards, and lizards by dragons. The player can also suck up monsters and fuse them into stronger ones. The player does not control individual units; instead, god-like powers send the horde toward targets, and other abilities damage heroes directly.

Stages include forests, deserts, volcanoes and snow plains, each with its own objective. Some stages change the rules; in one desert stage the sand carries heroes along like a conveyor belt. Each stage has a time limit for the conquest. According to Mogura VR, the strongest hero appears when the deadline runs out, and after a game over the player can strengthen monsters and retry the same stage. Push Square counted 15 levels and estimated that the campaign takes about six hours; replaying stages levels up monsters and earns higher completion ranks.

VR and controls

The headset is used to view the battlefield. Characters are 3D models instead of the series' earlier pixel art, and the player can move in close to watch the monsters. Mogura VR reported that the view is adjusted by moving the head and rotating the table, and that the characters are now fully voiced and that the villain and his daughter comment and give advice based on the state of the battle. All commands use the DualShock 4; Critical Hit described a mix of button presses and gyro aiming. The game does not support PlayStation Move controllers, which PlayStation LifeStyle called a missed opportunity. Both PlayStation LifeStyle and Critical Hit noted jokes aimed at the player's headset, such as Badmella teasing the player for how they look wearing it.

Development

The game was first presented at a press briefing during Tokyo Game Show 2016 on 16 September 2016. Senior producer Masami Yamamoto of SIE Japan Studio, director Haruyuki Ohashi of Acquire and a Japan Studio producer new to the series attended. At the briefing, the title was given as a PlayStation VR exclusive planned for 2017. According to Famitsu, it was the first game in the series to use 3D character models and the first in which the demon lord character speaks. The "R" in the Japanese title is read as "return".

In June 2017, Sony announced a release in North America and Europe in fall 2017. Road to VR, citing Siliconera, reported that the game had first been slated for spring 2017 before it was moved to the fall. On 1 August 2017, Sony announced the Japanese release date of 14 October 2017. In Japan, the game is rated CERO A and supports one player.

The series has used several English names. According to PlayStation LifeStyle, it was first titled Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This? and was later renamed What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord?; the third game, No Heroes Allowed!: No Puzzles Either!, introduced the "No Heroes Allowed!" name. PlayStation LifeStyle renders the Japanese VR title in English as V! What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord? R.

Release

Region	Release date	Notes
Japan	14 October 2017	Package 4,900 yen plus tax; download 5,292 yen including tax
North America	17 October 2017	PlayStation Store; US$29.99; rated ESRB E10+
Europe	17 October 2017	"Out today" post on PlayStation.Blog; Push Square lists 17 October 2017 for UK/EU

In Japan, early buyers of the package version, PlayStation Store version and Amazon.co.jp version received limited avatar sets. As of October 2026, the US PlayStation Store lists the game for PS4 at US$29.99, rated ESRB Everyone 10+ for fantasy violence and mild language. It requires a PlayStation VR headset and a PlayStation Camera. The listing states that the PS4 version can be played on PlayStation 5, although some PS4 features may be unavailable.

Reception

On Metacritic, No Heroes Allowed! VR has a Metascore of 73 ("mixed or average") from five critic reviews. OpenCritic lists a Top Critic Average of 73 from five reviews, with 20% of critics recommending it.

Publication	Score	Notes
Metacritic (aggregate)	73/100	5 critic reviews
OpenCritic (aggregate)	73	Top Critic Average; 20% of critics recommend
Push Square	7/10	Reviewed on PS4 Pro
PlayStation LifeStyle	7/10	Score as listed by OpenCritic
Critical Hit	7.0/10
Digitally Downloaded	80/100	Score as listed by Metacritic
Hobby Consolas	75/100	Score as listed by Metacritic

Sammy Barker of Push Square called the game "a deeply satisfying and surprisingly humorous PlayStation VR strategy game" that "doesn't do much with virtual reality, but it looks great inside the headset". He found the tutorials "needlessly convoluted", praised the writing, and considered the game expensive for its length. Chandler Wood of PlayStation LifeStyle praised the production quality and the game-industry references in the dialogue, including jokes about a bridge called the "last guardian". He criticized the lack of meters or indicators showing which monsters were hungry, which in his view made the ecosystem "a half-baked idea" and reduced much of the play to placing nests and hoping the food chain held. He also wrote that virtual reality was "more of a camera gimmick than a necessary feature".

Geoffrey Tim of Critical Hit also faulted the interface for not showing how much food was in the chain. He wrote that beyond a couple of gags, "VR doesn't really add very much to the game", and called the campaign simple and repetitive at about six hours, but praised the polish and "irreverent, witty writing". Matt Sainsbury of Digitally Downloaded called it "the very definition of a lighthearted, casual strategy game". He wrote that VR is a poor fit for a complex interface and that the game does not clearly show whether there is enough food, but that the humor and the tabletop presentation, which he likened to toy soldiers or wargaming miniatures, made it worth playing.