Everest VR
Created by Sólfar and RVX, EVEREST VR is one of the most spectacular use cases of virtual reality yet. Preparing for your expedition at Basecamp, you will traverse the Khumbu Icefalls, scale Lhotse Face…
Everest VR is a simulator, released 2 August 2016 on PlayStation VR and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Everest VR is
Everest VR was released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation VR and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Created by Sólfar and RVX, EVEREST VR is one of the most spectacular use cases of virtual reality yet. Preparing for your expedition at Basecamp, you will traverse the Khumbu Icefalls, scale Lhotse Face, ascend the Hillary Step, and finally conquer the summit of Everest. You will learn to respect the mountain, you may even survive the encounter. You will leave the experience feeling like you were there.
How it plays
It is played from a virtual reality perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Everest VR holds a critic score of 48 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 20 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Everest VR launched on 2 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu and Overcooked!. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu, Overcooked!.
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