The Boys Review

It came as quite a surprise when ARVORE and Sony Pictures Virtual Reality announced The Boys: Trigger Warning in late 2025. Could a VR game truly capture the essence of what made the TV series so great, in addition to all the blood and gore? Our friends at 131XR put this to the test, and their review of The Boys is anything but surprising.

Hanging out with The Boys

Firstly, The Boys: Trigger Warning is an officially licensed video game adaptation, featuring the cast of characters (visually at least) everyone knows and loves (or hates). This means dramatic cutscenes with Butcher and the rest of the team, as you embody a brand new character, Lucas Costa.

Costa is just your average joe working at Vought until one day a family outing turns into disaster, as a washed-out bunch of Supes called the Armstrongs kill his family. The Boys manage to save Costa, and with the help of some Temp V, imbue him with powers to exact revenge.

So the narrative might not be entirely original, but does the gameplay make up for it? Not exactly.

Trigger Warning is what you might expect from a VR game based on a very violent and visceral TV series (and comic books). You’re infiltrating Vought to cause carnage, and you can choose whether to march straight through the front doors or take a more subtle, stealthy approach. In fact, with all the air vents and armed guards littered about, the game does encourage more of the latter.

However, as 131XR finds in its review, The Boys is more of a fan service to those who love the franchise than trying to bring in new fans. And that’s because the gameplay is quite dull and even slapstick at points. 131XR uses the example of when using Temp V to gain powers, their hands turned into blades. You’d think you could then slice and dice enemies, cutting off a limb here and there. Instead, simply walking up to an enemy would see them burst apart, with arms and legs flying off with little to no effort.

Finding the action to be rather mundane, the biggest issue 131XR had was that of stuttering. This is of concern as it can cause nausea and the dreaded ‘simulator sickness’ if not addressed. Check out the full review below for those in-depth details.

The Boys’ Future

All of that means The Boys: Trigger Warning has some serious issues to fix before it can be recommended to anyone beyond the serious fan. However, it could be that the game was pushed out before it was entirely ready. As you probably already know, the fifth and final series of The Boys will begin streaming on Amazon Prime on 8th April 2026.

So it might be worth binge-watching all five series and then playing Trigger Warning, giving the devs time to release some updates.