Not a terrible experience, but as a huge Titanic nerd, I was pretty underwhelmed. Maybe if you have just a passing interest in the ship/wreck, are super into VR titles, and/or are mostly into the Titanic from the Cameron film, then maybe you will have a better experience. But even then, the PC port is kinda meh since it's made for VR controls and immersion. Some major parts of the Cameron film set are not in this experiences for some reason, and overall it's just a mixed bag.
I was interested in trying this out since I noticed it was on sale for the first time since its release in 2018 and it actually is a complete experience unlike the other Titanic wreck exploration title on Steam which seems to have been abandoned. However, for those, like me, super into the ship, there's just so much wrong or blocked off it just became super frustrating.
At first I thought, from the screenshots, that perhaps this title (it's not a game, but a VR "experience") this wreck was attempting to preserve the wreck as we knew it from the 1980s footage and Ken Marshall paintings, since the forward part of the bow section is very much looking like it did then. However, my hopes there were dashed when I noticed that the first class gymnasium roof was collapsed in and none of the equipment was able to be seen. Going down the grand staircase well, the B-Deck parlor suites are inaccessible but the starboard C-Deck one is. Also, the Turkish Bath cooling room is also explorable, which is cool, but no portion of Scotland Road is. So there's a weird mishmash of places that have been accessible on the wreck in the past that are missing, which is what really frustrated me.
There's also a LOT of creative license taken, some of which I can understand and others I can't. There's a TON of woodwork still in place on this version, like even the deck planking, which is just not true to reality at all. Also all the wood paneling on the walls in the interior is still there, just made to look decayed, which is also not true in most cases. But I kinda understand some of the latter, in order to better help with the clunky player navigation and understanding where you are, because you can still get turned around fairly easily. But then there's also a ton of pieces of furniture still intact which is also very much untrue to real life. Especially the grand piano in the Reception Room. True to Cameron's vision of the wreck, but not at all true to the actual wreck.
As I mentioned, the controls are a bit frustrating because it's a port of a a VR experience. They're not terrible, just took a lot to get used to and they are a bit clunky. Especially since you are controller either a whole submersible or an ROV and so can have limited movement. They also prove fairly slowly and I don't think there's a way to speed them up.
I only tried out the sandbox part of the wreck exploration and not the "Experience" part which seems to have a bit of a docu-story mode and then a more guided wreck diving experience. That is mode is probably where the "annoying female voiceover" comes in that at least one other reviewer mentioned but I did not experience that in sandbox mode at all, just the kinda Mass Effect/90s synth-y background music.
So yeah, I was not really that impressed, but your mileage may vary depending on what you want out of the experience and what you are willing to put up with.
