Hyper Bowling VR Review

Hyper Bowling VR is an indie bowling simulator game developed and published by Blaze Forward Games. It was released in 2016 for the HTC Vive.

When you begin you are located in a room where you customise the game before you begin. Look to the left and there are a row of cubes and a platform in the middle. These are the bowling alleys that you can choose. You can choose from a mansion, a disco, an icy place, a green alien alley, a beach and more. You just pick up that cube and put it on the round platform . Then you choose your bowling ball and walk to the door and pull the trigger button.

You are then loaded into the bowling alley. Hit the menu button to choose your music and away you go. You won't find the same sort of atmosphere as the real thing but the music is good. It is quite relaxing. I thought they could have added a simulation of people bowling in the alley next to you. That would have added to the atmosphere. It is a one player experience so I would recommend to play it for a relaxing time by yourself.

The visuals are good and the environments are good enough to make you feel you are somewhere nice. The bowling mechanics are very real meaning that is easy to bowl a gutter ball at first until you get used to moving your arm to make the ball straight. Everything about the experience is quite realistic. You have to step over to the area where the ball is and pick it up, then walk down to the line and bowl the ball.

If you are not a fan of ten pin bowling I would not recommend this game as you would tire of it quickly. But if you are I would say there is some fun to be had choosing different alleys and music and settling in to the environment and having a bowl. You can bowl like you would normally, (with a limited run up) or you could just stand there and move your arm. I liked to take a couple of steps and land sideways to bowl. I found that would make the ball straight.

All in all I would say that it is a good bowling simulator. The price to purchase the game is not high and it is a good indie game if you like bowling.

I give it 6.7/10