
Pavlov is a multiplayer shooter in VR with heavy focus on community features. Realistic reloading features and fast paced combat as part of the core experience. Play the #1 most popular VR shooter on PC today.
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Pavlov is a multiplayer shooter in VR with heavy focus on community. Set in both modern and WWII era's, you can choose a variety of ways to play the game how you want it.
Community hosted dedicated servers.
Quick-starting developer hosted lobby system.
Search And Destroy, Deathmatch, King of the Hill, and Gun Game game modes.
Multi-crew realistically operated tanks
Bots.
Offline mode.
Practice range.
Killhouse.
Proximity voice chat and radio communication.
Custom map support with modkit.
Custom game mode support.
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 602 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 601 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
Pavlov kind of fell off. I first got my PCVR headset in 2018ish, and Pavlov was *the* VR game to get (outside of Beat Saber haha). It hits that perfect balance between adhering to some sense of realism, and allowing for arcadey action, where Counter-Strike tends to sit. A big draw for me was the Steam Workshop support, most of the time when other people are playing, you head to the server browser and see a large variety of maps and gamemodes available to choose from. A particular favorite of mine was always the Jailbreak gamemode/map, you have a team of jail guards looking after the other team of prisors, whose goal is to do the jailbreaking mentioned in the gamemodes title. It was always a thrill dashing around the map as a prisoner, doing various tasks to enable my escape, under watchful eye of guards who are most likely going to RDM me. Anywho, Vankrupt Games made the highly logical move of making a Meta Quest version of the game available to players, with the unfortunate compromise of not supporting the Steam Workshop, which really isn't there fault, how would the infrastructure of pushing Steam Workshop content to a non-Steam game even work? Most of the submissions would not even be optimized for running on the mobile device. This effectively killed a lot of activity on Steam Workshop maps, as a significant portion of the playerbase are unable to access to content, most who can just end up joining those who cannot because they have the most players. Again, this isn't Vankrupts Games fault, it's just unfortunate circumstances from my perspective. Another issue with making the game more accessible is how it effects who is in the playerbase, there's just a lot more young children in lobbies which really throws off the vibe I got prior to the Meta Quest version of the game. Again, not Vankrupt Games fault. I love Pavlov VR, the guns are constantly fascinating to hold and manipulate, they're fun to try to shoot others with, and I still have lots of fun with the game as it is today. All my complaints are just stupid boomer posting, go play some Pavlov today.
игра полная имба. Купил в начале катки калашик, поставил бомбу, убил всех КТшников, а потом уже и в игру зашел
welcoming community Bought the game did the tutorial played around with some of the guns in the range I go into menu sever ready to fight some people see only a ww2ttd is available I join and 3 minutes in I am against the wall with 5 German solders infront of me they all call me a chud and firing squad me I get banned off sever 10/10 would join again
Pavlov used to be one of the best shooters for VR but the developers absolutely killed this game They added cosmetics to a $25 game They made a update that killed almost all mods The whole selling point was the really cool mods like the Cod Zombies mod and they killed it And none of the developers of those mods wanted to fix it Don't even think about buying this game I mean this game is dead 62 average daily players per month They added Playstation VR support so all of the snot nosed egotistical kids started playing ruining matches You know it's all right having a few kids 'cause they can be funny sometimes but most of them are just insanely racist and just cuss constantly And they keep adding esports additions for no reason Like no one wants to play E sports on Pavlov because there are no players That's like cooking a 5 star meal for your cat Yeah the cat will enjoy it but you just wasted all that time for a one singular animal doesn't help They update the game once every two years and most of the updates are just like let's add a map and ruin a feature I mean I literally haven't touched the game since 2025 and there's nothing new to look at because there hasn't been any updates It's ****ing ridiculous Doesn't help that this game Runs like a paraplegic grandma And the game is 70 gigs for what The three maps and the 8 million cosmetics I want to replay the game to see what's new in the modding scene but I can't be bothered to delete anything to download this ♥♥♥♥ lol Also there was never a seated option like I'm fine with standing but man sometimes I just want to sit down and just shoot stuff But Nope the game is going to sit and think you're crouching so you move insanely slow Sorry for the long review I'm very critical and I don't know when to shut up haha
I will not be redownloading this game until something is done about the openxr runtime crap. No other game for vr on steam has had me go back and forth setting one or the other for openxr just to play a game I bought On Steam to play On SteamVr. It was running perfectly fine and then this stuff with openxr and the dance back and forth of which launcher needs to open the game just ruined everything. Either way it looks like garbage, On Steam vr the viewpoint drags and lags behind where my head is pointing so I feel like I've got silly goggles on and the Oculus App Launcher has like almost like in game dead pixels and missing textures everywhere. I have no idea how it's meant to be played but it used to run fine on steamvr with oculus equipment so what on earth changed??? I tried this game again today hoping for some kind of update to have fixed literally anything and it's the same crap from nearly a YEAR ago so what are we doing. Not even getting into the workshop wipe, this in of it self is ruining the game.
This's once a good VR shooter, until they DOWNGRADED the game to UE5. The performance is poor. The file size is super bloated (It's larger than the fxxxing Elden Ring!). You devs should stop chasing the UE5 slop trend. We need frame rate and responsive control, not a stutter film to watch. Stop using the broken engine only good at trailers.
I haven't played this version of the game in a very long time and it's mostly because this game is not what it used to be anymore ever since they added cross play with the PlayStation version. This was very fun playing on modded lobbies but with cross play it's mostly just vanilla Pavlov which isn't all that fun anymore. It's also why I switched over to the Quest version of the game (Pavlov Shack).
It's hard to say there's anything necessarily WRONG about Pavlov these days, but VR shooters have simply moved on. (That and the mod support seems a little bit unstable after they swapped to an ingame mod browser instead of Steam Workshop) For reasons of modding, crossplay, general game feel and shooting, and actual content to play, you'd be better off playing Contractors VR or Zero Caliber 2.
Единственный минус этой игры - это маленький онлайн. Если у вас не загружаются сервера, то попробуйте сервера с регионом America
Workshop purge doesnt deserve to be reccomended
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Engagement
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Audience
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