Espire 1: VR Operative
Skip · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 1, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.7h 8h to 100%
- Value
- $4.25/hr
- Reviews
- 55% of 583 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
About the game
Espire blends the classic spy-thriller action of titles like Goldeneye 007 and Metal Gear Solid. Virtual reality has been militarized. Become the super-spy pilot of the Espire Model 1 Frame. Infiltrate an IFA facility under siege, identify threats, and eliminate them. You are the ultimate weapon.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or greater, 21 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 56 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. On the same math METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN ($19.99, scores 74) and Alien: Rogue Incursion VR ($39.99, scores 18) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Espire 1: VR Operative
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 219 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 58 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
50% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 01:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
-80% Discount , BUY NOW !!! This game is so good that I should bought it earlier !!! I can use dart gun stealthy shot every single of the opponents right in the buttock to make them sleep zzZZZ !!!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's not the most advanced stealth game ever and the AI are potatoes, but it's competent enough to enjoy and I love playing a game set in Australia.
it almost worked for me, but it quickly got bland and repetitive. it had some good ideas and mechanics, i always love games that give you plenty of gadgets so that you can come up with your own unique solutions to every problem, but the games main issue is that its just too easy. the enemy AI isnt very good, they must all be extremely nearsighted because they cant see you if youre more than 20 feet away from them...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Espire 1: VR Operative scores 1/100 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/669290/espire-1-vr-operativeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.