Onward

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Mixed · 69%Mixed · 69%2025

$24.99

US Steam price, checked 55 min ago

The verdict

A pioneering VR milsim with excellent gun handling and immersion, best with friends in co-op. Skip it if you're on PCVR: many report boot failures, downgraded visuals, an abandoned game and kid-filled lobbies.

Great for

Quest or VR players who want immersive tactical co-op with friends

Main risk

Won't launch on some PCVR setups; abandoned, downgraded visuals, toxic lobbies

What players love

Deep immersion and tense firefights

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“The level of realism and thus immersion in this FPS is unlike anything I've ever experienced in over 20 years of gaming.”
Steam review · 8.5 h played ↗

“This game is hands down one of the most immersive VR games I've ever played.”
Steam review · 6.1 h played ↗

“The quintessence of VR. If you dreamed of crawling on your apartment floor, hiding from virtual machine gunners, this is for you.”
Steam review · translated · 1.4 h played ↗

Great with friends in co-op

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“Some of my favorite gunplay with friends. This game is much more fun to play with friends.”
Steam review · 37.7 h played ↗

“Fun game, best played online with a squad.”
Steam review · 27 h played ↗

“A good VR shooter to play PVE with friends.”
Steam review · translated · 14.7 h played ↗

Realistic, satisfying gun handling

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“Best handling of firearms in any vr game period.”
Steam review · 43 h played ↗

“Immaculate gun handling”
Steam review · 2202.8 h played ↗

“the realistic weapon handling and tactical gameplay make up for it”
Steam review · 4.6 h played ↗

Tactical, teamwork-driven play with radio

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews

“If you are into tactical firefights and winning matches through teamwork this game is for you.”
Steam review · 55.1 h played ↗

“you are forced to use the tablet map and radio to play a bit slower and tactically”
Steam review · 3.6 h played ↗

Many game modes, PvE and PvP

Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews

“it has couple PVE modes one that deals with waves and the other is more you progress and earn gear as you complete missions.”
Steam review · 6.8 h played ↗

“it's an amazing game with a large variety of game modes and weapons to play around with.”
Steam review · 15.1 h played ↗

What players complain about

Quest-driven downgrade of graphics and sound

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews

“instead of making different graphical presets for different headsets, they nuked the game from orbit and destroyed everything that made the game the best in its space”
Steam review · 17.4 h played ↗

“Onward just received a massive downgrade in terms of gameplay/graphics/sound in order for it to fit on the Quest”
Steam review · 50 h played ↗

“The last update turned the game into trash, all so Oculus Quest owners could play it too.”
Steam review · translated · 21.5 h played ↗

Toxic kids and teamkillers in lobbies

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Joining lobbies now overrun by screaming children, who wanna play this game like COD.”
Steam review · 36.6 h played ↗

“You can't play without getting into a server with a 10 year old that keeps saying racial slurs.”
Steam review · 43.5 h played ↗

Multiplayer broken or dead, few players

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Multiplayer is absent; no tinkering with internet or router helps. Don't buy.”
Steam review · translated · 24.2 h played ↗

“the playerbase has hit a whopping 16 players (current 24 hour peak)”
Steam review · 22.3 h played ↗

Abandoned by developers

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews

“The game has been abandoned by devs. They have confirmed that the game will no longer be getting developer support or any new content or updates”
Steam review · 817.4 h played ↗

“since the developers have stopped updating it and handed updates off to mods it is not worth purchasing this game”
Steam review · 53.3 h played ↗

Game won't launch or boots to black screen on PCVR

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews

“It will no longer boot for my VIVE. RIP all the fun I had it it. DON'T BUY IF YOU HAVE PCVR.”
Steam review · 145.1 h played ↗

“theres like a 50% chance that you won't be able to play the game and just get a black screen”
Steam review · 241.8 h played ↗

Cheaters, modders and weak moderation

Mentioned in ~1 in 25 negative reviews

“modders still rampant can crash your game in a click.”
Steam review · 14.2 h played ↗

“kids with mod menus have been running rampant and screwing everything up”
Steam review · 28.2 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Minimum

OSWindows 10

ProcessorIntel i5-4590 3.3 GHz

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 970

Recommended

OSWindows 10

ProcessorIntel i7-4770 3.4 GHz

Memory16 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 980

OSWindows 10

ProcessorIntel i5-4590 3.3 GHz

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 970

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