VR Steampunk
What is steampunk? Other than being a great theme for virtual reality, you can consider it as being sci-fi as the Victorians may have perceived the genre. Take a look at these excellent VR games and apps that embody the steampunk culture.

SteamDolls VR
- Price
- FREE
- Available on
- HTC Vive
SteamDolls is a steampunk inspired adventure game with a touch of stealth and built from the ground up for VR. You assume the role of a cunning thief and anarchist known as "The Whisper" and make your way through heavily secured environments. Stick to the shadows and avoid getting caught by the guards as you struggle with the haunting apparitions of a mesmerizing witch trying to reveal the truth about a conspiracy that could shake the very foundation of the world.
- SteamDolls VRMekside VR
- Price
- $7.99
- Available on
- HTC Vive
Mekside VR is a steampunk-inspired creative VR game that lets the player explore and build landscapes, buildings or mechanical devices in a large, persistent, fully physically simulated virtual world while interacting with its other inhabitants and socialising or cooperating with other players.
The basic building block in Mekside is a cubic voxel, and there are several dozens of different materials available with unique properties. The game allows building to take place both as static blocks placed in or on the terrain, or as voxel-based objects that freely moves by physical simulation. There are motors and pistons available to interconnect built shapes, sensors to control or trigger motors and even rockets and turbine engines.
The physical simulation includes aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, so the player could build working aircrafts, helicopters and boats.
To give an immersive VR experience, Mekside VR uses two hand-controllers for the player to interact with and direct the creative process in the game. The locomotion method recommended is free movement using the touchpad of one of the controllers, with optional field-of-view limiting to make this method of locomotion work well for most players.
- Mekside VRCrimson Steam VR
- Price
- FREE
- Available on
- Android
Immerse yourself in a hurricane steampunk slaughter. Improve your characters, collect the best guns, fight alongside your friends in a challenging co-op mode.
- Crimson Steam VRAirship Commander
- Price
- $9.99
- Available on
- HTC Vive / Rift CV1
Steampunk Airship Battle Simulation
- Airship CommanderSteampunk Skyship
- Price
- FREE
- Available on
- Rift DK2
You're on a ship.. In the sky.. A skyship. The skyship was created for a Virtual Environments class at the University of Texas at Dallas. You can move around on the ship, and go into the various rooms to look around. And yes, you can even "go overboard" and fall, and fall, and fall. Run "Skyship Oculus.exe" in extended mode or "Skyship Oculus_DirectToRift.exe" for Direct Mode. You can move around the ship using the standard WASD keys and the mouse to move the direction. Press ESC to close the program.
- Steampunk SkyshipSteamHammerVR - The Rogue Apprentice - London 1892
- Price
- FREE
- Available on
- HTC Vive / Rift CV1
Your adventure takes place in Victorian London 1892. The dastardly Professor Rattwurm is attempting to enslave the fine English folk with his multitude of clockwork automatons! Armed with your steam powered weapons, can you save old London Town?
- SteamHammerVR - The Rogue Apprentice - London 1892Steampuff: Phinnegan's Factory
- Price
- $4.99
- Available on
- HTC Vive / Rift CV1
Phinnegan's Factory is set in an original universe, The Sky-High City of Steampuff – first created by Steelehouse. We are a small studio of artists, animators and gamers working in Tulsa, OK and we've been making content for other folks for the last 17 years. For a very long time, we'd wanted to make an animated series – in 2012, we did. We created the Sky-High City of Steampuff and in doing so, created a lot of artwork and lore. When we decided to make our first game, we knew our universe and its unique aesthetic would be a fantastic VR experience – so Phinnegan's Factory was born.
Features
BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED - You'll experience a immersive world that is wholly unique, both in tone and style. Every detail has been painted and placed for players to explore.
FRANTICALLY FUN GAMEPLAY - This isn't a game you can win by standing or sitting still. You'll need to duck, dodge, shimmy and leap out of danger.
DUAL GAME MODES (Coming Soon) - Once the game is complete, you will choose between two modes of gameplay. Endless Mode will pit you against wave after wave of enemies. Adventure Mode will provide multiple levels with objectives you must complete.
COLLECTIBLE ART & UPGRADES (Coming Soon) - As you progress, you'll unlock concept art or cosmetic items. You'll also unlock more powerful devices to assist you in the Factory.
LOCAL LEADERBOARDS - Everything is more fun with friends, especially winning.
IMAGINATIVE ENEMIES - You will face waves of mechanized monstrosities. Every robot is unique in design and function – each enemy has its own attacks and weaknesses.
EPIC BOSS ENCOUNTERS (Coming Soon) - Adventure Mode will introduce exciting encounters with giant bossbots. You'll need your wits as much as your Farraday Model 53 to claim victory.
- Steampuff: Phinnegan's FactoryCogs and Cowboys
- Price
- $5.99
- Available on
- HTC Vive
The wild west just got a lot more wild.
Fight off steam-powered machines literally bent on destroying you. Use your arsenal of modified western weapons to fight back, using abilities such as shields and slow motion to get the upper hand. Use Room-Scale VR to duck and dive behind cover (you may even find yourself rolling and army crawling around to avoid fire). The weapons at your disposal range from scoped revolver snipers to gatling rifles.
- Cogs and CowboysDerail Valley
- Price
- FREE
- Available on
- HTC Vive
Derail Valley puts you in the driver's seat of a shunter locomotive. Using motion controllers to operate a train, you are tasked to assemble specific train sets within given time frames. You will plan optimal routes, switch junctions and avoid derailment along your way in a fictional train yard system with stunning sights.
Be it through physical presence, bent railway simulation, derailment, or other core features, Derail Valley is taking the focus on imperfections in the railway world to a level never before seen in train simulator genre. Still, it tries to stay accessible to both the hardcore train simulator fans and players new to the genre and VR in general.
Derail Valley is aimed for a Q2 2017 Steam Early Access release.
- Derail ValleyRooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle
- Price
- $14.99
- Available on
- HTC Vive / Rift CV1
ooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle is a unique puzzle game inspired by sliding puzzle and platformer games. In a twisted mansion made of rooms that slide like puzzle pieces, player should find a way to the exit by moving rooms and using what's inside them. As the player explores the mansion, various gadgets are introduced and make the puzzles more tricky and challenging.
Set in a fairy tale-like world full of magical objects and spooky stories, player takes a role of an innocent little girl, Anne, who was accidentally trapped in the mansion. As the story unfolds itself, player goes through the dark legend of the twisted mansion.
The game has 144 levels which are divided into 4 themes (mansions). Each mansion has basement levels where Anne can use her special abilities like using a cellphone to teleport, placing a bomb, and moving all rooms at once.
Rooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle is a long awaited, official and fully realized sequel to Rooms: The Main Building, critically acclaimed and an award winning IGF finalist game released globally on Nintendo DS, Wii, and Steam. Rooms: The Main Building has sold over 400k units since its release in 2010.
- Rooms: The Unsolvable PuzzleNevrosa: Prelude
- Price
- FREE
- Available on
- HTC Vive / Rift CV1 / Rift DK2
You woke up in a strange place — is it a dream or reality? What do you need to do? Are you alone here?
A sneak peak into Nevrosa world that brings new gameplay mechanics to VR games:
— Redirect walking — we don't use teleport or any other locomotion system. You'll have to do it on your own but don't go beyond your chaperone! You can get on youtube!
— No jumpscares.
— You just take things with your hands and only one button is used — press a trigger on your controller to interact.
— Oh and you can die. And probably will.
Original puzzles, dark atmosphere and creepy creature and a creepy creature that follows you will help you to prepare for the upcoming full-time escape-horror experience that will finish the story you have started.
Some more things you'll probably find in Nevrosa: Prelude
Art deco-inspired environment filled with creepy puzzle machines is waiting to share it’s secrets.
Survival horror elements: strange creatures hide in this room… What will happen when you meet?
An evil artifact in your hands: why does it follow you? Does it whisper something or is it just in your head?
Dark soundtrack with position sound system.
Different endings: you decide how this nightmare ends.
- Nevrosa: Prelude