Virtual travel and street view
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“i can basically go on road trips to amazing real locations in a matter of seconds without modern day gas prices”
Steam review · 8.2 h played ↗
Google Earth VR
Worth buying? What 287 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 287 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 92%Very Positive · 92%Google2016Simulation · Casual · Adventure
Free to play
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A free, awe-inspiring VR tour of Earth with street view, but abandoned since 2018, with clunky controls, blobby 3D models and bugs on newer headsets. Skip it if you want a game.
Great for
VR owners who want a free, relaxing virtual tour of the world and a great demo for newcomers
Main risk
Abandoned app with clunky controls, broken street view and bugs on newer headsets or controllers
What players love
Visiting your home and familiar places
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“Nothing is cooler than flying to your house and standing in front of it at human scale.”
Steam review · 12.9 h played ↗
Awe-inspiring sense of scale
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“You go from feeling like you are there as yourself, to feeling like a God surveying the entire world from above!”
Steam review · 3.2 h played ↗
Free to download
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“Unique experience for free, 10 out of 10”
Steam review · 3.2 h played ↗
Human-scale mode
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“In settings you can enable human scale and put yourself on top of a mountain or skyscraper.”
Steam review · translated · 2.4 h played ↗
Great for showing off VR
Mentioned in ~1 in 38 positive reviews
“criminally underrated software, and the best thing to show VR off to newbies”
Steam review · 37.1 h played ↗
What players complain about
Broken on Index, WMR, AMD and Quest
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“Does not work properly with Valve Index. Used to work fine with HTC Vive but not Index.”
Steam review · 2.4 h played ↗
Blobby low-quality 3D models and flat areas
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Only a few areas are 3d modeled, the rest is just a flat texture that looks worse as you get closer.”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗
Clunky, unintuitive controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“I don't understand why you have to use "rotate" function with dragging, which is super inconvenient, instead of rotating yourself with left/right stick.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗
Slow loading and texture pop-in
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“There is way to much loading pop in, you look in a direction for 30 seconds and its still loading objects in like there are too many LOD levels.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
Abandoned, outdated, street view broken
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“Unofficial coverage no longer loads in, this is due to a change in street view api.”
Steam review · 5.7 h played ↗
White orb blocking the view
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews
“Every time I try to use my right controller it throws a massive orb white orb in my face making it completely unplayable.”
Steam review · 2 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unsupported4 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or later, Windows 10
ProcessorIntel i5-6400 equivalent or better
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 Fury equivalent or better
Storage4 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 10
ProcessorIntel i7-6700 equivalent or better
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 980 or better
Storage8 GB available space
OSWindows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or later, Windows 10
ProcessorIntel i5-6400 equivalent or better
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 Fury equivalent or better
Storage4 GB available space
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