VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape)

VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape)

Skip · Narrative · 2016

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 42, under the fair line, at $3.99.

Length
0.4h 3.3h to 100%
Value
$9.98/hr
Reviews
84% of 252 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement8% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$9.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 82% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 40 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

VR: Vacate the Room is a short Escape the Room game.It is a VR Experience where you need to find clues to solve puzzles and find your way out.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $1.79. That was December 2018. It has been discounted 27 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 33 percent, about 9 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 34 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Granny ($7.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats The Search ($3.99, scores 30).

More about VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape)

Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 199 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 83 percent of everything written about it.

0.4 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 8.2 times the campaign.

What players say

Even if the graphics are not as best as they can be, this game for me is what VR is all about. Room scale exploration was invented for these types of games. This is the game I enjoyed most to be honest. I think "quests" and room escapes are much more suitable for VR than timer based, you are in the middle, teleport style FPS games. I really forgot I was not in the room, this was fenomenal. I WANT MORE!
eranRecommendedafter 1.1h17 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
For 2022, seamless and playable. Still fun as one of the first vr escape room games from 2016. But, the graphics looked outdated and there were only a few puzzles to solve. I had fun, though it wasn't as good as Belko VR.
VReckItRalphRecommendedafter 1.1hNov 2022Read on Steam
i'm having trouble deciding whether to recommend or not. for a couple of bucks, it's not a bad little experience, but there are a couple of problems: 1- the red note is almost impossible to read. infact, i was convinced i needed to do something other than use the light because all i was seeing was a pure red piece of paper underneath the light. 2- it is literally impossible for me to complete this game because i...
Taiwan LannistersNot recommendedafter 1.2h16 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape) scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/494810/vr-vacate-the-room-virtual-reality-escape
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Details

DeveloperhOSHI
PublisherhOSHI
GenreNarrative
Released2016
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements3