Action · April 5, 2016

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (2016)

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Do you like hot dogs? How about horseshoes? Hand grenades? (everyone likes hand grenades) Anyway, we've got all that, and guns. SO MANY GUNS. So if you like ordnance, meat, and groan-worthy puns, this is the VR sandbox game for you. Hot Dogs, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (H3VR for short), is the heaping pile of our mad obsessive VR experiments. This is an impressionistically developed experience. We’re 6+ years and a 100+ updates in so far, so expect it to mutate, expand, contract, somersault, and occasionally explode along the way to final release. Gear Up Assemble your ultimate range companion from nearly 500 Firearms and 250 Attachments. Customize your perfect loadout, be it tacti-cool or utterly cursed and save it for future play. (Coming Later This Year: Share your creations with your friends too!) Plink & Train Try out your favorite platforms on H3’s suite of Firing and Demolitions ranges. Improve your aim and reaction time in the M.E.A.T.S. target shooting trainer and Compete on global leaderboards. Meat Your Maker Combat some of the most sophisticated AI Agents in VR (yup, even though they’re hot dogs), at range or in melee. Put your mastery of H3’s massive arsenal to the test, and even join the First 2 Wurst Tournament Community on Discord! Explore a Meaty ‘Murica Dive into a Wiener’s Weird World; a land overtaken by confused but affable sentient meat and the ruins of bizarre firearm themed attractions. Experience an absurd fragmentary tale told through multiple genres of game. Celebrate Enjoy the various goofball holiday event modes the game has gotten over the years, including our much beloved biennial Meatmas Firearm Advent Calendar. Take & Hold Battle your way through this Sci-fi Action Roguelite. In Take & Hold you are the intruder to the system. Equip yourself to take and then defend control points, while defeating Encryption Targets of escalating complexity. Earn tokens for your performance and spend them in item shops to prepare for the next wave. Return of the Rotwieners Awake outside the town of Wienerton, where a plague of rotten undead meat has beset the eccentric townsfolk of the Honey Hamlet. Find weaponry, craft powerups and explosives, and complete quests on your journey to discover the cause of the Rotwiener outbreak. Meat Fortress Fight in the Meat Fortress combat arena. Made with the official permission of Valve, this loving homage to one of our favorite games has Meaty parodies of Team Fortress 2’s 9 iconic classes, and VR adaptations of the entire original firearm set of the game, as well as over a dozen original creations made in the TF2 style. Wurstwurld Explore the ruins of the Wurstwurld amusement park. Solve puzzles, complete extreme horseshoe challenges, stand off against robit bandits and collect old logs that reveal the background on the most foolhardy and most assuredly not child safe amusement park doomed to failure. Meat Grinder Survive the Meat Grinder, the very first game mode added to H3 back in 2016. Navigate by flashlight through a surreal hellish fast food themed maze, collect precious ammo, defending against animatronic assailants, and dragging the ‘meat’ back to the Grinder in time.

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Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume22.1k Steam reviewsTop 23% in Action
Positive rating97% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 5%
Concurrent peak218 playersTop 23% in Action by live player count
Engagement hours38 h averageTop 11% for session depth among Action

Peer Action titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Sandbox · 321
  • VR · 306
  • Physics · 299
  • Shooter · 299
  • FPS · 295
  • Simulation · 289
  • Gun Customization · 230
  • First-Person · 215
  • Funny · 208
  • Moddable · 183
  • Realistic · 178
  • Action · 162
  • America · 153
  • Comedy · 152
  • Destruction · 147

Reception Metrics

Steam community

97%Overwhelmingly Positive · 22.1k reviews

21.4k positive · 663 negative

Curator recommendations

21.7k

Peak concurrent players

218

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

38h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

8h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

2h

Current engagement

Achievements

1

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateApr 5, 2016
DeveloperRUST LTD.
Base price$19.99
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · [email protected]

Features & Capabilities

Input & Comfort

  • Tracked Controller Support
  • VR Only
  • VR Support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Editions & Packages

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