VR Shooter Guns

VR Shooter Guns
Information
VR/AR	VR
Developer	Cykyria
Publisher	Cykyria
Producer	Benedikt Engelhard
Platform	SteamVR, Oculus Rift (Platform)
Device	HTC Vive, Oculus Rift
Operating System	Windows
Type	Full Game
Genre	Action, Indie, Shooter, VR
Input Device	Tracked Motion Controllers
Play Area	Standing, Room-Scale
Game Mode	Single Player
Language	English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Release Date	September 7, 2017
Price	US$1.99 (Steam, September 2026)
App Store	Steam, Viveport
Website	https://vrsg.cykyria.com/
Infobox Updated	09/27/2026

VR Shooter Guns is a science fiction first-person shooter for virtual reality developed and published by Cykyria, an independent VR studio in Nuremberg, Germany, founded in 2014 by Benedikt Engelhard. The player fights through a space station to escape hostile robots. Development began in 2015 with a demo for the Oculus Rift DK2 played with Xbox controllers. Cykyria built the game for VR arcade use, first as a treadmill version for the Cyberith Virtualizer and then as a room-scale version for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, which was released on Steam on September 7, 2017.

Reviewed 27 September 2026. Checked the merge of both prior pages and every new fact against the Cykyria press kit, the official game site, the Steam store data, four Steam update posts, the Steam review summary and Metacritic. About review dates.

Gameplay

The game is set in a distant future in which humans consume what large automated robot factories floating in space produce. The player is one of the few humans whose job has not yet been taken by androids, supervising production alone during long, uneventful shifts while an artificial intelligence watches.

VR Shooter Guns has four levels. Players compete for a high score in 15-minute and 30-minute runs, and the difficulty increases with each round. An endless permadeath mode is also available, and scores are posted to a global high score table. The game is played standing or in a room-scale space with tracked motion controllers, and the Steam release supports both SteamVR and the Oculus PC runtime.

Players move by teleporting by default. A March 2018 update added an optional free locomotion mode, controlled with the Vive thumbpad or the Oculus thumbsticks, with adjustable speed and an adjustable vignette. Grenades were added in November 2017: a coin carrying a grenade drops after every tenth headshot, and the player throws it by touching the holographic grenade, holding the trigger and releasing it. Levels contain checkpoints that the player activates to keep the score earned so far; a player who dies without an activated checkpoint loses the score made since the start of the current level. A pumping heart signals that it is time to take cover and look for the next health pack.

Features

• Single-player
• Steam Achievements (26 achievements)
• Steam Trading Cards
• Interface in nine languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean

Development

Cykyria was founded in April 2014 and describes itself as a studio for branded VR entertainment and games for homes, events, trade fairs and VR arcades. According to the developer's press kit, development of VR Shooter Guns started in 2015 with a demo that ran on the Oculus Rift DK2 with Xbox controllers. The studio calls it its first game and says it was made "especially for Arcade usage with the treadmill Cyberith Virtualizer and roomscale play". Cykyria states that it uses the VR technology of Unreal Engine 4.

The press kit credits Benedikt Engelhard (business and development, producer), Doris Conrad (game design), Manuel Ermer (game design, development), Michael Scherzer (game design, testing) and Pierre Hain (testing).

Release

The treadmill version for the Cyberith Virtualizer, an omnidirectional treadmill, was playable in arcades before Cykyria announced the room-scale version for Steam and Viveport. The Steam version was released on September 7, 2017. Arcades can license the game through Steam's cybercafe paid site subscription, while the Virtualizer version is licensed separately through the developer.

Platform or channel	Version	Date	Notes
Oculus Rift DK2	Demo	2015	Development demo with Xbox controllers
Cyberith Virtualizer arcades	Treadmill version	Before the Steam release	Licensed separately by Cykyria
Steam	Room-scale version	September 7, 2017	HTC Vive and Oculus Rift
Viveport	Room-scale version		Listed by the developer
SynthesisVR, SpringboardVR	Arcade distribution		Listed by the developer

Updates

Cykyria released several updates on Steam after launch.

Date	Update	Main changes
October 13, 2017	Friday the 13th update	Improved bots; a contest mode with a private high score table for competing with friends; an Oculus Rift option to move teleport to the B or Y button; separate volume and render quality settings
November 24, 2017	Up-grenade	Grenades; the 30 minute run became the default mode; footstep sounds; hints for new players; visual and AI improvements
December 23, 2017	Winter Is Gunning	Korean and Japanese interface and subtitles
March 11, 2018	Free locomotion	Optional free locomotion mode; revamped menu; redesigned first level; option to skip the intro level

Reception

As of September 2026, Steam rated the game "Mostly Positive", with 31 of 41 user reviews across all languages positive. Metacritic listed no critic reviews for the PC release.

System Requirements

Windows

The Steam listing requires a 64-bit processor and operating system, and SteamVR or Oculus PC.

Minimum

• OS: Windows 10 64bit
• Processor: i5
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: GTX970 or better
• DirectX: Version 11
• Storage: 4 GB available space

Recommended

• OS: Windows 10 64bit
• Processor: i5
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: GTX1070 or better
• DirectX: Version 12
• Storage: 4 GB available space

Setup Instructions

Steam lists the supported play areas as standing or room scale.