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Hellsweeper VR is Super Cool
Somehow, I totally missed Hellsweeper. It came to all major current VR headsets last year — several months before I personally jumped on board the modern VR gaming train with a Quest headset. I’ve seen reviews or footage sometimes pop up in my YouTube feed, but I clicked on by. I occasionally saw it while browsing the Meta store — then laughed at its outlandish aesthetic and moved on. Maybe it was also the silly name, or the weird intense vibe of its concept, or the fact that it screamed “I’m just another roguelike in a sea of similar games.”
I built all this resistance in spite of the fact that it’s published by Vertigo Games, makers of several legendary VR hits including The 7th Guest VR, which I nearly fully loved. Hellsweeper VR is a character action game with with breathtaking magical physics-based combat, qualities that should have hooked me. It also clearly a debt of gratitude to titles like Devil May Cry.
If you’d asked me in 2005 what my favorite current PS2 game was, I would have told you Devil May Cry 3 without hesitation.
So yeah, Hellsweeper, in spite of its daft name and its intense aesthetic, seems like something totally made for me. Well, I had some time to kill and I noticed it had a demo. I downloaded said demo on my…
