Craft Keep VR

August 13, 2017

Something for the Weekend: The Best VR Discounts on Steam

Looking for something new to refresh your virtual reality (VR) senses on a Sunday morning? VRFocus has scoured the depths of Steam to find you ten of the best discounts for a quick-and-easy fix this weekend. Whether you’re planning on using HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or the OSVR hacker dev kit, below you’ll find some of the best bargains in VR today.

Rez Infinite

Compatibility: Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

Rez Infinite made its debut on PC earlier this week, and for those yet to jump in there’s still time to grab Enhance Games’ VR masterpiece at the discounted launch price of £15.99 GBP. The typical price of Rez Infinite will be £19.99 when the discount ends on 23rd August 2017, but even then there’s no argument that Rez Infinite will be worth the asking price.

Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality

Compatibility: Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

A hugely popular VR title, Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality has a limited time sale for this weekend only. Offering a 25% discount, you can pick up Owlchemy Labs’ second major VR release – following the massively successful Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives – for just £17.24. The typical price of Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality stands at £22.99, so there’s no better time to become a Morty clone.

Gal*Gun VR

Compatibility: Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

Another new release, Gal*Gun VR publisher Inti Creates Co. is offering a launch discount of 15%. Priced at £19.54 opposed to the typical price of £22.99, you can ‘live the dream of being surrounded by hordes of cute girls who are madly in love you’ for a reduced price until 16th August 2017.

House of the Dying Sun

Compatibility: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and OSVR

Coming to the end of a week long deal, House of the Dying Sun is offering a discount of 50% for just one more day. Now priced at £7.49, instead of the typical pricing of £14.99, House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter that puts you in the cockpit of the Empire’s most deadly interceptor as you hunt down the enemies of your dying empire.

Overkill VR

Compatibility: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and OSVR

In support of a recent update for Overkill VR, Game Troopers has begun a special price promotion. Available now for £10.49, a discount of 30% from the typical price of £14.99, Overkill VR is a first-person shooter (FPS) videogame that offers a huge variety of customisable weaponry as it throws you into a heated and deadly warzone.

Fancy Skiing VR

Compatibility: Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

Contrary to much of the violence and comedy coming to modern VR, Fancy Skiing VR, developed by HashVR Studio, is structured on real skiing. Players use the motion-controllers of the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive as ski poles to get power and lean left or right to control the direction. Fancy Skiing VR is available for just £4.89 until 25th August 2017.

Kittypocalypse

Compatibility: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and OSVR

A tower defence videogame that aimed to make the most of VR early after the consumer launch of the modern hardware, Kittypocalypse undoubtedly feel short. However, it’s less of an ask to invest the title at its current discounted price of £5.49 rather than the typical price of £10.99: a 50% discount lasting just one more day.

Operation Warcade VR

Compatibility: Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

Operation Warcade VR launched back in June 2017, and with it brought the promise of an Operation Wolf modernisation in VR. However, now it’s not just about shooting cardboard cutouts of bad guys, but taking to the land, sea and air using everything from throwing knives to missiles to take out anyone who stands in your way. Operation Warcade VR is available for £8.99, a 40% discount from £14.99, for another day.

Duo

Compatibility: HTC Vive

A HTC Vive exclusive, DUO is an arcade videogame designed from the ground up for VR. A brick-breaker available for the bargain price of £5.99, developer NiVision has seen fit to encourage more people to experience their second VR release by offering a discounted price of £2.99 for a limited time.

Compatibility: Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

Craft Keep VR launched earlier this year as an intriguing combination of Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives and Minecraft. Set within a fantasy world of dragons, dungeons and foul-mouthed customers, you are an alchemist-blacksmith forging weapons and brewing potions. And now you can jump into the comedic world of Craft Keep VR for the discounted price of £7.36, saving 33% off the typical price of £10.99.

May 12, 2017

Craft Keep VR to Hit Retail Stores This Month

For the most part virtual reality (VR) content distribution has stayed digital, with outlets such as Steam, Oculus Store and the PlayStation Store being the main avenue for titles. Actual physical retail copies are a rare sight – PlayStation VR probably has the most – especially for PC videogames. This month Excalibur Publishing is bucking that trend with Craft Keep VR, with a retail version to be rolled out at the end of the month.

The company has now confirmed Craft Keep VR retail copies have now entered production, ready for their release on 26th May 2017. There’s no additional benefits to purchasing the physical copy in terms of content – some gamers just like an actual disk – and Excalibur has yet to confirm if the price will differ from the Steam version which retails for £10.99 GBP.

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Essentially a sort of retail management videogame where players have to forge weapons and create weird concoctions for customers, Craft Keep VR requires a careful juggling of supplies and materials to make what’s needed ensuring a successful business. There’s over 1,000 possible sword and axe types to craft with enchantment stones that can add attributes like fire and ice. Customers will also need repairs to be done using the forge, anvil and hammer.

VRFocus will continue its coverage of Craft Keep VR, reporting back with any further updates.

April 20, 2017

Craft Keep VR Preps For Launch With Screenshots Selection

Have you ever wanted to a medieval blacksmith? Hammering red-hot metal into the perfect form for stabbing or cutting. Or a potions master? Carefully measuring out the correct ingredients to create amazing alchemical concoctions? Well, beginning tomorrow, Craft Keep VR will allow you to do just that.

Craft Keep VR was launched into Early Access on Steam last October. At first only available to users of the HTC Vive, it later expanded support to the Oculus Rift with Touch. Now the title is finally ready to get a full launch as it leaves Early Access tomorrow.

To celebrate the forthcoming launch, the developers at Excalibur games have released some new screenshots so potential players can get a look at the upcoming full version of the title.

It has not yet been confirmed if the current Early Access price of £10.99 (GBP) will remain for the full version. Further information can be found at the Craft Keep VR Steam page. The developers are hoping that content will continue to be added even after the full launch.

VRFocus will bring you further updates on Craft Keep VR and other VR titles as they come in.

February 12, 2017

Forge Weapons and Brew Potions in Craft Keep VR for Oculus Touch

Last October UK-based studio Excalibur Games launched its debut virtual reality (VR) title, Craft Keep VR on Steam Early Access for HTC Vive. This week sees the developer expand support for the experience with Oculus Touch owners now able to dive into a medieval world of dragons, blacksmithing and alchemy.

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Already receiving a popular rating on Steam, Craft Keep VR had just one chapter available when it originally launched. Since then the studio has released several more updates adding a further two chapters, Mountain Rang and Forest Pick, alongside new crafting items such as sword hilts, explosive arrow heads and even sushi.

If fulfilling orders and building stuff is what you’re after in a virtual reality (VR) title, Craft Keep VR is available to purchase on Steam Early Access now, priced at £10.99 GBP.

For any further updates, keep reading VRFocus.

November 15, 2016

Craft Keep VR Brings Medieval Retail Management to HTC Vive

UK studio Excalibur Games has launched its debut virtual reality (VR) videogame, Craft Keep VR, now available as an Early Access title on Steam, exclusively for the HTC Vive. Presenting a medieval cartoon world, Craft Keep VR challenges the player tasks the player with operating a successful retail business amidst a high fantasy backdrop.

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Utilising the HTC Vive’s roomscale technology, Craft Keep VR has the player freely roaming around their own shop as they attempt to sell items to customers whilst keeping track of stick levels, crafting potions and daggers, and ensuring they have the inventory to meet demand. Craft Keep VR also includes a design tool for creation of unique skins: players can upload textures and apply them to in-game character models.

With surface similarities to the hugely successful Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives, Excalibur Games has accompanied the launch of Craft Keep VR with a trailer showcasing the videogame in action. Craft Keep VR is available to purchase as a Steam Early Access title now, priced at £10.99 GBP. VRFocus will keep you updated with future VR endeavours from Excalibur Games.

October 27, 2016

‘Craft Keep VR’ on Vive Turns You Into The Blacksmith That Makes Adventurers’ Weapons

Remember those cheesy movie scenes in which a mighty blacksmith uses fires hotter than the sun and hammers bigger than their heads to forge awesome weaponry? In Craft Keep VR, you can be that guy.

This new HTC Vive game from developer Arvydas Žemaitis and publisher Excalibur Games was announced this week. It’s a spin-off of the developer’s hugely popular Shoppe Keep, in which you run an adventurer’s shop. This time, however, you’ll be actually making the weapons and brewing the potions that RPG characters will flock to purchase so that they can finally fell that level 50 dragon.

“Craft Keep VR was birthed from the enormous amount of requests we received to make Shoppe Keep with VR support,” Žemaitis told UploadVR. “But because of the complexity of the game and amount of menus, panels, and button prompts on screen, it didn’t make much sense. We took the idea of Shoppe Keep – its world, and its visual identity, and built upon it. Craft Keep VR has been an opportunity to expand upon the lore and introduce a story line about an artist crafter traveling through various zones of the Keep world.”

In the game, you take on the role of an alchemist-blacksmith. Adventurers will approach with requests for specific types of swords and potions, and you’ll prepare them by making everything from hilts to healing remedies. For potions, you’ll mix herbs together and dip bottles in cauldrons like a mad scientist. Weapons, meanwhile, can be altered with enchantment stones that bestow properties like fire and ice upon blades. You’ll also have to repair some battle-worn swords.

You can see an exclusive clip of the first direct gameplay footage below. It’s got a dragon in it, which can only be a good thing.

Žemaitis is also experimenting with a multiplayer mode for the game, in which one player isn’t using VR but a mouse and keyboard instead. The developer is asking fans for ideas on how this mode might work. The game won’t feature any kind of connectivity with Shoppe Keep, though the developer is going to add Craft Keep VR-inspired items to the original release.

Craft Keep VR will be launching in Early Access on November 10th with a small slice of its story. Žemaitis will then add to the campaign during that pre-release phase before a full launch sometime in 2017. As for Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR support, all Žemaitis would say is that the developer is looking into other headsets.

You can find more information about Craft Keep VR on the game’s Steam page.