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PROTON VR

ProtonVR is a VR Roguelite Retro Shooter dream-inspired by classic 90s shooters and movies. Customize your weapons arsenal, buy attachments, upgrades and choose your playstyle. Fight commandos, cyborgs, robots, zombies and much more!

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May 1, 2026
93 days ago
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About the Game

ProtonVR is a Retro VR Action Shooter

An indie solo-developer dream game: Inspired by the 90s vision of futuristic battles, robots, lasers, and space, ProtonVR will throw you into no-nonsense action-movie hero mode.

Face off against ruthless Cyborgs and hyper-corporation Automatons as you navigate through randomly generated levels.

Own your arsenal of over 30 customizable and upgradeable weapons and gadgets to ensure victory over the many threats that await you.

Key Features

  • Retro VR Combat Shooter

  • An Arsenal of over 30 Guns

  • Awesome Skills and Gadgets

  • Weapon Attachments and Upgrades

  • Player Upgrades

  • Multiple Modes

  • Procedurally Generated Levels (Rogue Game-Mode) and static hand-crafted Levels

  • Challenges and in-game Rewards

Story

You are an Auditor for Titan Corporation an intergalactic security , consumer and aerospace company that is greedy to the core.

Your job is to manage threats to Titan Corporation with the employment of company-policy hostile takeovers, projectile incentivization and ballistic downsizing.

Prepare yourself for a challenging and retro pixel-art VR experience.

Own your playstyle.

  • Commando - Unleash chaos, blasting everything in your path with unrestrained firepower.

  • Stealthy - Silently taking out enemies before they even know what hit them.

  • Tactical - Approach every corner with caution, using precision, threat-analysis and quick reactions to eliminate foes with professional efficiency.

Your game, your choice. The game will offer you a chance to test your abilities with the playstyles and builds you come up with.

Unlocked weapons spawn mid-game or you can purchase them. There are over 30 weapons to choose from and customize to your liking. Tools of destruction to bring constructive justice to the grim world of ProtonVR.

Attachments:

  • Scopes , Holographics, Ironsights, S.M.A.R.T. Targeting Systems...

  • Grips, Foregrips, Stocks, Shoulder Pads...

  • Underbarrel Shotguns, Grenade Launchers, Railguns...

  • Supressors, Muzzle Brakes, Focusing Crystals, Splitter Prisms...

  • Kinetic Accelerators, Cooling Cowls, Energy Cranks...

  • External Batteries, Electrical Dynamos...

  • ( ... and more made-up stuff that exists only in ProtonVR! )

Go nuts!

Upgrades

Upgrades can completely change a way a weapon behaves and fires, buy these from Vendor Arcades during your run.

Ammo

Some weapons allow to have multiple types of ammunition that fire unique rounds, some examples include:

  • Shotguns can fire Flechette, Dragons Breath, Mini-Missiles, Bouncing Betty, Explosives

  • Machineguns can fire Armor Piercing, Teflon Rounds, Ricochet or Splitters

  • Railguns can fire Regular, Rebound or Kinetic Hyper-Penetrators

  • Blasters and Plasma guns can fire EMP Orbs, High-Density Plasma, Gamma rounds

  • Ray guns can fire Welding Arcs, Phase Cutters and Disintegrator Beams

Levels

The arenas within the game will be open and dynamic with some areas being more vertical, other areas can force the player into close-up action, high places to allow for sniping, open spaces for enemies to attack in all directions and some zones with traps.

Some locations will have unique objectives to blow up,  whilst others have zones to defend or capture.

Objectives

  • Capture and Defend

  • Seek an Destroy

  • Survival (Waves)

  • Elimination

  • Incursion

  • Extraction

Armory

In the player's office-space-station, there is an Armory for players to upgrade, customize and test their weapons or throw a bunch of grenades onto far away trash cans.

Join the Community Discord and give your feedback to help make this game and make it your own! (Click on the links on the right)

ProtonVR is inspired by classics like COMPOUND, Doom, and System Shock, with a retrofuturistic cyberpunk atmosphere influenced by Blade Runner.

Legal Disclaimer: This game is a work of fiction. All names, characters, corporations, and incidents are fictitious. Any resemblance to real entities, living or dead, is purely coincidental.