Bot Colony
Bot Colony is an ambitious title, maybe even too ambitious for what it’s worth. So far, playing it is more of a struggle than entertainment…
I am aware that Bot Colony is an Early Access Game, but still, this build is not playable by far. I’m afraid i wouldn’t even be wrong if i would say that there is literally almost nothing in Bot Colony that works as it should… Let’s start with the game’s motto: “The Game You Speak With”. This is the main reason why anybody would pay attention to it, but unfortunately in the end the player will find out that this is actually “The Game Which Doesn’t Understand You”. That’s it. I’ve said it. Natural language understanding is just not ready to be implemented in a game. It wil get you right about one time out of ten. Other then that you’ll get replies like “I don’t know what you mean”.
– Real player with 55.8 hrs in game
Review after June 18 major upgrade
Introduction
Bot Colony is an ambitious title, aiming to provide a non-scripted story by allowing you to freely converse with robots. If you enjoyed literary works like ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’, Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, movies like ‘Space Oddysey 2001’(not one of my favorites though) or Anime like ‘Ghost in the Shell’ and ‘Psycho-Pass’, you’ll find a similar setting here.
An important remark is that most of the gameplay is text (or speech) conversations, which at times can be both agitating and humorous, and that might not appeal to everyone.
– Real player with 27.4 hrs in game
In Verbis Virtus
TL;DR:
This game has great atmosphere with an immersive spellcasting system and nonlinear level design that also at times has really clever and hard to figure out puzzles!
Pros:
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Fun and a really Great way of doing spellcasting that makes the game so much immersive!
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Also if for some reason you’re having trouble casing some of the spells, make your own voice recognition model (it’s a feature implemented in the game, just go into the options menu).
This actually, for me at least, nullifies the ‘con’ I’d otherwise have since I found it a bit tricky to cast the ‘mark of fire’ spell.
– Real player with 32.7 hrs in game
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In Verbis Virtus is a terrible game that you probably should not play, but not for half of the reasons I’ve seen in other negative reviews for which I’d like to clarify here.
Bad points that actually were not bad:
Like you, I was lured to this game by the voice command spells. I believe the people saying that this does not work do not have it configured well or do not have a mic. The store page warns you to have a mic, and outside of a very few moments in game I found the voice commands to work very well even when speaking quietly, and I have a voice that mumbles, so that piece impressed me.
– Real player with 18.6 hrs in game
Starship Commander: Arcade
I can’t recommend this to anyone other than those that want to support VR development.
Sorry, but I was thoroughly unimpressed with every single aspect of this project. I’m not sure I would have even been impressed 3 years ago. It’s just not a good game. Period. The graphics are uninspired. In a world with Alexa and Siri, the voice recognition and responses are pathetically limited. In a world with Half Life: Alyx, this hardly even qualifies as a VR tech demo… even for a mobile VR platform, let alone the Vive Index I played on.
– Real player with 20.5 hrs in game
Experienced on the Oculus Rift
You can view my (edited) gameplay here: https://youtu.be/FoH5CmxQVvo
This is an approximately 13 minute cinematic experience, which has varying scenes depending on your voiced answers. This is like a 360 stereoscopic video, choose your own adventure type experience, which is like the stuff on Amaze VR. You don’t use motion controllers at all. It can be fun to try to find new scenes based on your novel responses. Unfortunately, even though the reviewer VR Focus said the AI was good, the AI responses really aren’t good and have severe limitations … but they can be funny (I wouldn’t trust VR Focus who seems more concerned about clicks than accuracy in his reports).
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
One Hand Clapping
This game is super neat, especially if you already have a vocal background. It could get frustrating otherwise, as you will be asked to match pitch and harmonize. There’s also some rhythm elements, so having a sense for that will also help.
The sound design is lush and gives many clues. It takes the sounds that you’re producing and incorporates them into the game as you go, resulting in even richer soundscapes. The puzzles are occasionally mildly bewildering, but then they click and become super intuitive. The art style is super cute.
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
I love this game! I finished my first playthrough the same day it finished downloading, and I’m definitely going to play through it again. I keep hearing that the devs are going to add more content, which is super exciting. The voice controls are wonderfully intuitive - I grew up playing some of the first video games that used singing as a mechanic (think karaoke games) and wow - things have changed in a good way.
Some things to note: you’re going to want a decent mic for this. It doesn’t need to break the bank, but you should probably have a pop filter on it for best results. I didn’t play with one and it definitely picked up background noise on occasion. I’m not sure how to adjust the sensitivity of my mic personally, but you’re gonna wanna play around with things until you find something that works with your setup.
– Real player with 6.9 hrs in game
The Voice Inside
-Try To Escape The Darkness!-
The Game
The Voice Inside is a voice-controlled atmospheric exploration adventure game with elements of psychological horror.
The ‘voice control’ mode provides a whole new voice-driven game experience. It enables you to freely move your character using your voice. You can also use a controller or mouse & keyboard.
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It’s fun and challenging!
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You can choose between more than 30 voice commands to help a nearly blind character navigate through a dark, atmospheric, and abstract world. Meanwhile, you solve puzzles, face enemies, and perform actions to recover the light.
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The character reacts to easy commands such as ‘move’, ‘run’,‘45 left/right’, ‘show commands’ and many more. A voice inside the game will guide you and help you find a way out. But be careful – the Darkness is chasing you!
Ready for the challenge?
Modes
Voice-Control, Controller, Mouse & Keyboard
- Voice Mode
- Controller/Mouse & Keyboard Mode
The character will move freely in response to more than 30 voice commands!
Developed by 2 Students
Keep Talk Until You Dead
Keep Talk Until You Dead is a Survival action game. The events of the game take place in the wild west in the town of NewCotton.
All people living in the city were infected with unknown disease, which turned them into zombies.
The protagonist gets unusual abilities, with his voice he can kill zombies, can freeze enemies, and also he can destroy zombies with a snap of his fingers.
Your Voice Is Your Main Weapon.
Control Your Voice to Destroy the Enemies.
Unique Abilities
Use Your Skills to Survive.
Improve Your Skills
Don’t forget to upgrade your character, because his fate depends on you.
Complete Quests.
Complete Various Tasks and Receive Rewards.
My Little Army
Resurrect your undead skeleton army, equip them with ancient artifacts and become the greatest boss like no one before. Kill good guys, bad guys, eradicate or enslave other monster clans. Your goal is to earn the title of the Greatest Evil. Does this sound badass? Better read mode.
You will be able to command army by your own voice. Yeah, its possible. You can shout, yell, scream at your minions and it works! I mean that they become even more angry, deal more damage and start act like a total fools… Well, sometimes it’s not the best way out because ability to recrut more minions is limited. Better take care of them.
Espire 1: VR Operative
Espire 1 is currently my favorite VR stealth game. It was rough at launch but the major issues related to glitchy and inconsistent guard behavior seem to have been ironed out with the first update. There’s already plenty of fun to have in the challenge missions and I’m looking forward to more being added to the game over time.
The performance of this game is very good overall as you would expect from something that was simultaneously developed for the Quest headset. While this means the environments are somewhat bare I prefer the approach because of the higher frame rate. I often see frame drops in other stealth games like Budget Cuts or Unknightly with an RTX 2060 but I can run most of Espire 1’s challenge missions at 144 FPS without a hitch.
– Real player with 36.7 hrs in game
SHORT VERSION:
It can be fun and there is a freedom in it that is not like other VR stealth games but the glitches and certain factors of the game kinda ruin it.
I am waiting till the updates fix it to play again.
If you don’t have it, follow it on news and pay attention to updates. Or wait for it to be discounted, at least then if you don’t like it you wouldn’t have paid the full price.
LONG VERSION:
Best attempt at a fun stealth game, but so far a little disappointing.
Not saying I didn’t have fun, but certain glitches and game design ruined fun playthroughs.
– Real player with 13.2 hrs in game
Binary Domain
Binary Domain was yet another part of a (free) bundle given away by SEGA, featuring mediocre games mainly. When I started playing it, I was expecting an average shooter (the reviews didn’t provide much clue). What I got was an absolutely positive surprise in all aspects. But I’m not explaining this fact that I liked this game so much with the element of surprise: I wish every overhyped AAA game could provide as much fun as Binary Domain did. It has everything a good game needs: a thrilling story, excellent characters and funny (!) dialogues, choices & consequences and of course great combat with fluid controls. This is one of those games that would require a sequel, but apparently won’t get one, since the game never received the proper amount of praise and appreciation it should have deserved.
– Real player with 105.3 hrs in game
Binary Domain is a Third-Person-Shooter with a cover system set in the future after catastrophic events led the world to some major changes.
In 2080, due to climate changes, the world faced the large flood ever existed, and in search for cheap, reliable labor, the humanity turned to robots, in hope for a better future. To lead this revolution is Bergen, a US-based company, responsible for manufacturing robots for all over the world. But Bergen is not the only one in the business. Amada, a Japanse company, sued Bergen for stealing their technology. Bergen won, much because of its influence… They do manufacture over 90% of world robots, and this made the USA more powerful than ever!
– Real player with 48.8 hrs in game