I'd love to recommend this, and I've thought hard about if I should review it at all. But at the end of the day it just isn't a game and the fact this is the 1.0 version out of early access seems to imply the dev is happy with it as it is which really isn't right. There is potential but its woefully light on content and gameplay right now.

The premise is fantastic, play a huge godzilla like monster (well the head and hands of one anyway) and rampage around a city area smashing up buildings. But sadly that's where the gameplay stops, you just smash buildings for essentially no reason. There is a target level of destruction at which point you unlock the next of the available 5 levels. But beyond that nothing happens, nothing challenges you, you simply cannot fail. Even the planes that show up form level 2 onward to strafe you with machine gun fire don't actually do anything as you can't die, or even be hurt.

As it stands its okay fun the first time through which will take 10-15 mins. After that there's almost nothing to bring you back. Early hopes of the game opening up and more depth and challenge being introduced give way to a realisation that it really isn't a game at all. Instead it's basically a toy lego town to play in. Maybe good for very young kids but for most this is going to be too shallow of an experience to hold your attention.

Sadly its another seriously underdeveloped and shallow VR experience, something which is really letting down the incredible potential of VR at the moment and possibly one of the reasons why I'm being more harsh than I might otherwise be. But VR devs need to step up to the plate and make more compelling and engaging content or this amazing tech won't last.

Anyway with a lot of work it could become amazing but it seems the dev is happy with it so that is unlikely. I hope I'm wrong about that. In the end I would of refunded, only it crashed on exit apparently and steam kept running the clock. So I'm stuck with it. No biggie as at least its quite cheap and I can hope that the dev might return to the project and add some game to this interesting idea. 

You are a monster. All you do is destroy buildings. That is it.

And it is glorious

+ Spectator camera on helicopter - ideal for viewers looking at screen or on stream
+ Destruction - physics coresponds with cartoony graphics

- Quite short - just 4 levels get repetitive soon
- Teleportation only - sometimes it is hard to find a spot where you can teleport; walking and smashing would be much better

Movement: Teleportation
Controls: Motion controllers

My progress: 1 hour, finished (~3x each level)
Recommended price: 1-3 €

My overall recommendation score: 55%


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This has a lot of potential.

Right now it's _very_ early access, however depending upon what the developer adds, this could be a modern (VR!) take on Rampage which to me is an immensely satisfying thought.
I'm very keen to see where this goes, and I'll be right here on the ride.

Pros
- Me Smash!!
- Me kill!!
- Me destroy!!
- Me feet make ground shake!!

Cons
- not enough, me need more levels!
- me want to climb buildings!
- me want to eat people!

Fun game!
I can't wait for more levels and more stuff.

The other negative reviews all say the same thing, and I pretty much agree. The levels aren't interesting, they don't feel like a real, cohesive world but like the same 3 models plopped over a small section of a canvas. The scale is accurate, but this doesn't work in its favor. Picture yourself bending down to pick up an action figure that a kid left on the middle of the living room floor. Now do it 50 times. That's the first level. I wanted so badly to be able to move, even if it was in big, lumbering kaiju steps, but you're stuck with the teleport and its really weird, long load times. Which could also, just maybe, be okay, but the items are placed so far apart that you can't beat up a block of houses. You have to teleport to one, wait for the"teleport load," touch it, watch it instantly crumble in a second, rinse, repeat. It's like when you're forced to watch a 15 second ad before a 5 second YouTube video--just a waste.

It's definitely not a game, just a toy. But it's not even a fun toy.

Fire Hose Games have both published and developed a small handful of successful games over the last five years. King Kaiju, one of their latest endeavors, sees the company broadening their catalogue with a second virtual reality release. As one might expect from the title, King Kaiju is a Godzilla simulator; you romp around a small town, destroy buildings, annihilate planes, kill and eat people, and breathe fire all over the place.

There are a total of three levels, and each of them have their own objectives; kill 40 people, destroy 155 buildings, and cause $315,000 worth of property damage. The maps aren't very diverse, and in all honesty they all looked the same to me. The gameplay feels excruciatingly sluggish due to the slow fade out/in when using the teleport locomotion, and in some areas where the objects are spaced further apart it feels like it takes absolutely forever to destroy buildings. Catching and eating people is fun, as well as breathing fire all over the city; two things that the game doesn't exactly tell you how to accomplish.

King Kaiju could benefit from a small opening tutorial. Until I delved into the forums I had no idea how to breathe fire (hold the two grip buttons), and I'm still not entirely sure how I'm supposed to grab the news chopper or the scoreboard helicopter. You can also apparently crush items by picking them up and pressing the grip buttons, another feature that I didn't know existed until I was out of VR. There's also a problem here with performance, and during the last level the game went completely blue and forced me to restart from Steam HomeVR. Enabling SSAO in the options screen also puts the game at abysmal framerates, and makes the screen-door effect 100x more noticable.

I came to King Kaiju after playing VRobot, and I must say I was quite disappointed at the lack of content, tutorial, and slow-in-comparison gameplay. The pricetags between these titles are significant, however, and the fact that King Kaiju is only $5.49 CAD makes it much more palatable for the majority of gamers. It's not a bad game, but it's only 15-30 minutes of mediocre fun at best; you could probably tack on an additional half-hour if you're an achievement hunter. I wish there was a neutral option, but due to the performance issues I'll have to go with a downvote on this one.

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It's not entirely a game. You play an unbeatable monster. However, it's fun and really immersive. There's something about attacking a city while tiny airplanes dive in at you that makes you forget about everything else. This game ends up being more threatening to my walls and furniture than any other because you kind of get lost in the rampant destruction.

I wish the game had been more forward about how to use the breath weapon. You grab both triggers on the Vive to breathe fire (or shoot lasers if you picked the giant cat). Also, I don't know that this game will pull me in forever, but for what I've paid for it, I got tons of enjoyment.

Not much to it, I see it's out of early access but doesn't look or feel like it is. Gameplay is simple, graphics are very simple and maps just look unfinished. Surround them with mountains or something at least, the people walk like they're permanently walking uphill even though there are no hills. The buildings are repetitive, the vehicles are boxes on wheels and the maps look like they were put together in 5 minutes with no real thought.

I know it's only $5.00 but it should at least look like it's worth that little and I'm afraid it doesn't. It's a real shame as there is an opportunity to do a good version of this type of game with some real objectives instead of just kill 30 people.

It's just not good or give you any reason to return to once you feel you have had enough, VR is filled with these my first unity projects and it's giving VR a bad name. I can't understand how this game has got 67 reviews and sitting at very positive, it's a unfinished project and if it was a normal game at $5.00 would be considered a real ripoff.

I received in a bundle and honestly if I hadn't I would be refunding quicker than you can say "I made my first game in unity and now going to charge money for it"

If you'd ever wondered what it would be like to be Godzilla then wonder no longer. This game is a fun little stress reliever where you can just go around and destroy whatever you like. The only con about this game is that it gets repetitive after a few minutes. It would've been nice if there was some sort of armed force fighting back against you. Maybe that would've made the game more fun. Would like to see that in future patches.