VetVR Veterinary Simulator
This is an Early Access version of ‘VetVR Veterinary Simulator’ being developed by a small but passionate indie studio led by real veterinarians. We’re developing this game in association with the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital and are excited to incorporate your feedback into the final game. Tell us what you think in our Community Hub!
You got hired straight out of vet school. Your new employer recognized your talent and love for animals, so they’ve chosen you to help them launch their brand-new vet clinic! Show them everything you’ve learned by providing gold star care to a variety of tailed and scaled clients.
Diagnose and treat complex medical conditions, mysterious injuries, and emergency scenarios! Determine what is wrong with your patient based on the animal’s behavior, medical reports, and real-world data such as X-rays and blood tests. Find the right treatments and remember that each decision will positively or negatively impact your patient.
Brush up on all your veterinary fundamentals by playing through numerous training levels created by real-life DVM, MSc, PhD Veterinarians. Grow your confidence as a veterinarian regardless of previous knowledge levels and practice making split-second decisions that affect the life or death of your animal patient. Practice using tools, requesting tests, reading charts, and administering drugs to treat and heal animals in various levels of need. Each patient will require real veterinary logic and test your skills. When mistakes are made, rest easy knowing you can restart a scenario at any time.
As you complete both high and low-intensity scenarios, don’t forget to look around. You might be surprised by what you find. Discover fun Easter eggs, unlock hidden games, and be rewarded with new and exotic animal cases. Between saving lives, take some time to relax in the lobby and play fetch with the clinic mascot, Bruce. Be careful letting him around the snack bar though, he has a reputation for stealing anything with a carb in it.
As you successfully treat everything from minor wounds to unidentified patient illnesses, you will find that your work is really having an impact. Customers are talking about the clinic and even recommending it to others. They’re especially fond of your care for their pets and it seems like the harder you work, the more your clinic’s reputation grows. Get rewarded by unlocking new and exciting scenarios! Did someone say the local zoo was looking for more vets in the area to work with? I guess we’ll find out!
Game Discussion
Steam User 16
VetVR is an amazing interactive veterinarian simulator. You start off as a student fresh out of school and are hired at an animal clinic. Now you must move up through the ranks and become a 5 star clinic.
Each rank comes with a new series of training and patients to see. Also, secret unlocks for your waiting room to have fun with. The training and treatment on the dogs is very interactive and has a great feel to it. You actually get into the scenario, and want to do good on the training and help that dog on the table. Your first time setting up the anesthesia machine for a patient feels great and you will look back on your training.
I played the game both standing and seated. Both ways play amazing, with easy access to items on any level. It also supports smooth locomotion and teleport movement. Comfort is not an issue with this game.
If you are a fan of sim games and love dogs, this is an excellent VR experience with lots to do.
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Steam User 6
As someone with no medical training, I think this is a really good sim. The main takeaways for me are that I have no idea how to read ultrasounds, and that low blood pressure/high pulse is terrifying when you have the EKG constantly in the background.
The controls are smooth and easy to interact with, on the Index controllers my only issues were I could not teleport with the right controller, and that selecting medications uses a physical grip instead of a trigger press. On a very high-spec machine, this plays butter smooth with no settings touched. Oddly enough, there are physics for the hoses and very little interaction with the dogs themselves, though that may be intentional. (On the table, I have not interacted with any in the lobby.)
I highly recommend this game to anyone who has a passing interest in medical work. I hope to see more practical applications come to "gaming platforms."
Developers:
I assume all the unlabeled medications don't currently serve a purpose in-game, I am not familiar with all of them yet some have their purpose on the container. I assume Fentanyl is dosed in micrograms, whatever unit of measurement it uses has a broken symbol. Because there are no finger physics and objects are grab/no grab, the dial to adjust anesthesia is hard to turn without hitting the switch.
As a player who is interested in medical but has no experience with animals, the pharmaceuticals and blood tests were easy, but I struggled with reading radiology and ultrasounds. It may help to have a slower introduction for imaging as I have no idea where organs are located on a dog and I still don't. It could be helpful to have anatomy charts inside the game itself, perhaps even a full model.
Steam User 3
This game is very interesting and a lot of fun. It has a great mix of education and VR silliness. You can feel the early access but all the details are there behind the sometimes clunky menus. I'll keep coming back to look for new updates.
Steam User 1
Pretty good! Fun little "missions" clearly based on real life examples and enough VR interactivity to make it fun. It's not the most detailed VR game out there, but it definitely teaches you stuff and gets the point across.
Steam User 13
Experienced on the Meta Quest 2
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I do not recommend this app for most gamers because it isn't a game at all. It's really a primer for those interested in becoming a Veterinarian or basic training for a technician at a Veterinarian's office. There is no game here. It's a set of scenarios where you are mostly following the directions given.
There are some scenarios where you'll be tasked with making the diagnosis. Most of these you'll just look at the information then make logical conclusions. However, there's at least one scenario where you're not given enough information to make any kind of diagnosis (the last scenario in junior vet). There's also an exam where, again, you are not given information on how to complete this without already knowing the material from outside the game.
The app lacks overall polish & lacks content. I guess this is the state of Steam Early Access. I finished all scenarios in under 2 hours. I found the controls to be very clunky. You basically use point & click interactions or hold objects in certain areas. The visuals & sounds are lackluster as well.
App is running on the Unity Engine. On my RTX 3080, I was getting 90 fps. I did not experience any serious issues or bugs. You do have full locomotion or teleportation available, along with snap turning. You can reset height from the settings, so you can easily play seated. You automatically have these lasers shooting out of your hands, but you can easily turn them off.
I don't regret my purchase. I found the app to be educational. I can see it being useful for some. I think I got my money's worth given that educational content of this kind (job training) is usually a lot more expensive. Hopefully, more content is added in the future, along with overall polish, once it's officially released out of Early Access.
Rate 5.5/10.
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