Guildford Castle VR
Guildford Castle is a free roaming, narrative VR experience with light interactivity.VISIT ONE OF ENGLAND’S FIRST CASTLES, PAST AND PRESENT
Built in the wake of the Norman Conquest, Guildford Castle was one of England’s first castles and has stood for over 900 years.
Visit a hyper-realistic digital double of the castle as it stands today, created using state-of-the-art 3D scanning techniques. Step into the distant past and discover the royal palace and medieval town.
VIRTUAL TIME TRAVEL
Travel back in time to 14th century England and see what the former regional palace and town would have looked like in the late medieval period. Experience the sights and sounds of the era, with meticulously researched historical reconstructions, medieval soundscape and dynamic day-night cycle lighting.
ENGANGING HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Be transported through an engaging narrative audio tour which brings the castle’s history to life. Discover English medieval history by seeing it before your eyes via our rich audio-visual hotspots.
EXCEPTIONAL REALISM
Freely explore a hyper-real VR environment with 6DoF locomotion, lifelike, botanically accurate foliage, dynamic birds and butterflies and a rich soundscape. Experience a new level of VR realism.
Game Discussion
Steam User 4
A guided museum like tour of Guildford Castle, in Surrey, England.
I am someone who gets really hard when it relates to anything from or about the Middle Ages, so this was right up my alley. Like mentioned, this tour is about this castle and its surroundings, mostly the castle grounds. It seems like the castle itself is a 3D scan with the rest of the area having been handcrafted.
You are placed outside of the castle and then left to freely walk around and interact with the info boards as you please, the boards are scattered around the map. Some of the info boards will take you back in time and show you what it might have looked like when it was new, I liked this part a lot. The narration is really good, sounds professional, soft voice but easy to understand.
I did experience one issue though. These VR games sometimes untab themself when launched, usually happens on first launch and it will leave your game muted. So if your game is muted upon launching, you can fix it by clicking once on the game window on your PC, it should tab it right back in.
I love these guided VR tours and hope we get more of them, I want to visit other places.
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Help me out by following my Curator, I’d really appreciate it!!
Steam User 0
Let me Eldrad Wolfsbane (creator of Back to the Dungeon RPG) the unofficial Wizard of the OSR, I give this App Gilford Castle, THE highest rating that a historical VR app can have! IF you have a VR System then you MUST download this! It is perfection! It is a trip to the UK and a tour that you will eventually HAVE to take in real life! I am making plans now to go there!
Steam User 0
Update to the update:
Tried this time with a 2080 and Quest 2 (although still technically not supported hardware). The visuals are now very smooth, but didn't get the audio using Steamlink. Will continue trouble shooting and updating as I find solutions.
On account of the great support from the dev, I'm moving to a positive review. Hope to test with a physical link this week. For reasons unknown, I could not get my PC to recognize the Questlink app.
Update:
On account of the publisher's swift reply, I will borrow a headset from a friend and give this another try.
This is an experience, that I truly want to take advantage of.
Original Review:
Had severe issues playing this on the PSVR2 headset. Not even with a 4080 could I get this game to be stable for long. I'm open to community recommendations for getting this to run smoother.
Steam User 0
upvote for the effort and information. it's not a perfect experience tho
Steam User 0
good
Steam User 0
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