Sky Sanctuary
When to buy and when not to buy?
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Sky Sanctuary is a beautiful archipelago where you can play all kinds of different Samurai mini games. As the game is in early access, there are only a few things to do at the moment.
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Japanese wood cutting (Tameshigiri)
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Bow and arrow skill training (Kyudo with 3 modes)
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and there is a sandbox zone where you can use/try out several Samuari weapons like Shurikens and smoke screen balls.
– Real player with 44.6 hrs in game
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When I first saw this game I couldn’t help thinking of similar sword slicing VR titles like Fruit Ninja or Katana X, and wondering what would make this game stand out from its competitors. But actually, Sky Sanctuary is probably the more padded out game of the three by presenting itself as a tongue-in-cheek samurai and ninja training game. So whereas chopping things with a katana is an element of all three games, that’s just one component of Sky Sanctuary’s full experience, also offering the ability to walk around the small floating island, shoot a bow, and mess with ninja type goodies like smoke bombs, shurikens and fire staffs. Both the sword and bow experiences are essentially ranked mini-games, with the option to also just mess around the island with them.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
Fruit Ninja VR 2
I’ve barely done anything yet, but I can tell this game is very promising.
– Real player with 15.1 hrs in game
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Found this title before early access was available; and since it’s times during playtesting it’s honestly made me smile like a little kid again.
Keep in mind - Halfbrick intends on mostly doing a open-world / level-based approach here. Classic modes like arcade & zen are not present here, but they are in the first Fruit ninja VR title.
The game is currently in early access as of this writing, and already it has plenty of fun content to poke around with! In addition to bow & sword gameplay, there are many small details the developers have been cooking up, like relaxing landscapes, beautiful ambiance design, and little minigames to discover across the map. Generally, plenty of things to do in order to take breaks from all of the hack-and-slashing!
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
Dread Templar
(Don’t Fear) The Templar
It took playing the recent Quake remaster, but now I get it.
It’s good. Nay, ace. No doubt about it. If it wasn’t up against the stiff competition that is the years upon years of high quality ‘boomer’ shooters, this would be a completely unqualified early access recommendation.
Ultrakill, Ion Fury, Post Void, Project Warlock 1 + II, Amid Evil, DUSK, HROT, Maximum Action, GTTOD, Prodeus, Cultic, etc - be they full games, early access, or just demos, the retro, ‘boomer’ shooter genre really is booming. I also cannot wait for the likes of Into the Pit, Fortune’s Run, and Forgive Me Father. In fact, there are so many that even when I say that I’d place this firmly mid-list it’s not even that damning.
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
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TLDR; If you like retro shooter gameplay, and would like to have fun, buy it now!
I will just start listing what comes to mind, that makes me love this game, then write some experiences from my first 8 hours of playing on the hardest difficulty so far. Smooth movement with air controll using the mouse, running feels similar to classic doom (taking a short time to reach full speed), satisfying meaty gun sounds and very good feedback with lots of gore, build variety that actually changes gameplay, bullet time, stylish awesome visuals, amazing soundtrack, atmosphere, very good enemy and level design, exploration with rewarding secrets to find, weapon swapping combos combined with positioning during combat.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Retro Classix: Wizard Fire
Data East 3
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
VRandish
Excellent fluidity in the locomotion; though the control implementation needs some work: (1) Vive control touchpads are activated with touch, not click, so there are a lot unwanted triggers; (2) the Index controllers do not have thumb stick integration; and (3) the bow is very difficult to use… I spent 10 minutes ‘pressing A/X near the bow’ with nothing happening.
I do like the scale of the world (is it procedurally generated generated?).
The enemy detail / animation is quite nice.
I would like to see some sort of XP / level system, even in this early stage, it would provide a sense of accomplishment (and give reason to hunt).
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
There’s no real game contents. Walk around and hit mobs… that’s it.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Retro Classix: Gate of Doom
Arcade machine classic dungeon crawler - now with unlimited quarters! Let the Knight, Wizard, Bard and Ninja die and die again as you slaughter monsters, collect loot and thwart evil!
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
Incredible game! worth trying out for any retro fans
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Awaken The Time
i recommend to try this game .
The update of sounds and the entire graphics, all emprovement,now in my steam library look amazing!!
This game is very hard,although is an alpha the animatios are very good.
In the beginnig you encounter two tipe of ennemies.
The gameplay is self explenatory.
I like the idea because i always loved mazes.
And this maze it is high quality and hard.
I can’t wait to play it on console.
The game is worth playing.
– Real player with 13.1 hrs in game
Hello,
This game is still in early alpha as I am writing this. Off course there will be some bugs and glitches but this is normal.
When the game is fully released I expect all these bugs and glitches to be ironed out.
The concept of this game is really great, putting multiple genres into one game is always difficulty.
i do like the game but it needs alot of work, I wil be waiting for the full release to see if this game has lived up to the potential it has.
I have made a video review of this game which also shows my opinion.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game