Playing Pride & Prejudice 1: An Austen Armoire
As the title suggests, it is the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
It is strictly speaking a visual novel. I mean there is no game, it is the text of the full novel transcribed (Only the first 23 chapters, however) with an interactive part where you can dress the characters (Elisabeth, Jane …) With various clothes in a nice visual style and create postcards with quotes from the book.
Essentially, it’s an easy, fun, and enjoyable way to re-read this lovely novel at a pace to suit everyone’s taste and without affecting the reader’s imagination. Good work
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
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Such a lovely game for Austen fans of all ages! Beautiful character art and a lovely soundtrack. Would love to see more illuminated novels like this!
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Historium VR - Relive the history of Bruges
Awesome! History lessons via VR. The graphics and movement are great and you really caught me off-gaurd with the opening scene. Very enjoyable. This is a great way to experience history and have the knowledge stay with you. Very nicely done. More please. :-)
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
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This experience (I have no better word for it) was one of the things that inspired me to get a Samsung Mixed Reality headset. (I was very reluctant as I was concerned with motion sickness, but have felt no ill effects, FYI…) All I can say is that while very short, this is an absolutely amazing experience (there I go again)! I love historical games and this is like a dream come true to be so immersed in a historical environment like this! I only hope that some day soon, there will be full games made like this that very interactive! This is mind boggling!
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Hoards of Glory
I really enjoy the attack/defense dynamics. It adds a level of strategy beyond luck of random die rolls.
Being brand new, the game has a few quirks, but i’m confident the devs will deal with them in time.
– Real player with 52.4 hrs in game
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Edit: I have found a few bugs. D3D error that froze the game, upon resuming that save, the AI’s kept rolling their winning shields but continuously used them for shields rather than winning the game.
A simple dice placement game. With dice games, luck is always a big factor and as long as their is a mechanic to mitigate the luck, the game becomes interesting. In Hoards of Glory your dice choices are: place dice on the board to try to fill it for the win, attack another players dice pool to set them back, defend your dice pool from players that have a large dice pool and may go on the attack, put dice in the bank so you can buy new ones at the beginning of your next turn, any combination of these can be done in a turn. The game has AI players and online, although I don’t know how many people have this game so I’m not sure if finding opponents is possible. This is one of those hidden gems, simple and fun.
– Real player with 25.3 hrs in game
Kupechestvo
AI smarter than me (
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
The scenario mode is quite fun, even with AI opponents. The trade mechanics is quite simple. But when you’re combining it with event cards from the scenario mode, it is becoming interesting.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time
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– Real player with 11.5 hrs in game
Out of the free educational type offerings, this title is a great for a short jaunt. You can’t teleport and fixed scenes are played in sequence but you can really see the potential for AC Unity to be in VR. The visuals are fine on an original Vive at 150% SS. I play modded Skyrim with 4K-8K textures, and I thought the intricate mesh details of the cathedral were really impressive. The textures are medium resolution.
It really is a huge regret Ubisoft hasn’t brought any of it’s open world titles to VR although AC Oculus title is planned.. Also a huge regret that AC Unity had such a terrible launch because it is one of the most beautiful open worlds created. But I’m glad at least more people can see the tremendous amount of work that Ubisoft put into recreating Paris.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Over The Hills And Far Away
Tensions brewing since the Napoleonic War resulted in the War of 1812 between the United States and the British Empire, alongside 10,000 Native Indians. Over the Hills and Far Away, a debut kinetic visual novel by War girl Games focuses on the aftermath of a battle when the British Empire suffered a major defeat and Procter abandoned his army. Our protagonist, William Aubrey survived the battle and has ran to an abandoned farmhouse where he meets a young Shawnee girl called Mai hiding from the storm.
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
No matter who wins or loses a war there is always pain left behind -for the victor, the vanquished, and even for those who try to remain neutral. Set in the War of 1812, Over The Hills And Far Away tells the story of a soldier and a little girl on the run in a harsh and unforgiving world. This game is a kinetic visual novel, meaning there are no choices to be made, the entire experience is reading. While this may not be everyone’s cup of tea the story itself is very much worth it as this is an engrossing piece of historical fiction.
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
VR Battleship YAMATO
I’m glad I purchased this product and it was worth the wait, it’s an awesome tour of a beautiful ship, and it’s quite sad that this was lost. To my perspective, the Yamato seems smaller than I imagined. I’ve been on the Missouri, and while it’s said the Yamato is larger, I felt it was the opposite in both height and length - at least on the outside. This experience is still not entirely bug-free or perfect, but it’s very stable, and very doable for the most part. I did not think I would enjoy it as much as I did, and I’d say as far as most VR “walking sims” goes, this would have to be among the best, as it’s educational, fairly well detailed, and being able to approach the ship from afar and make your way through it provides an excellent reference of object scaling and immersion. The UI is very bare bones, and translations could be better, but it functions fine and is not hard to understand.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
While on the product page it says a VR headset is required, it is not. They already patched it to support regular computer monitor. I highly recommend this….well, it is not a game but more of a virtual museum. I love navy ships and have visited several museum ships in the US, such as USS Midway, Iowa, and Lexington. These great ships were built to fight the Japanese Imperial Navy. However, none of their rivals remain existing in this world. The majority of the Japanese Imperial Navy’s ships had been sunk by the US force during the war, including Yamato. Others were either destroyed by the GHQ after the war was over or nuked during Operation Crossroads. There are no WW2 Japanese museum ships to visit. This software is the best and arguably the only way for now to visit a Japanese Navy battleship. You can see those chambers and equipment you typically can see in a US battleship museum like the Iowa, but aesthetically and functionally different as it is a Japanese design. It is a pity that the promised expansion never happened, but the content available for now still worth every penny.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
Great Paintings VR
Let’s get the obvious out of the way first. A free app with an enormous number of classic paintings in high resolution ( perfectly fine resolution free of charge IMHO). Good locomotion/navigation and a decent presentation. I think the presentation can be improved, as others have mentioned, however I and my wife easily got absorbed in the art, itself. The magnification feature is handy, especially when you move in somewhat close to the larger paintings…and there are some massive paintings in this offering. With now over 1000 paintings, one can plot their own art history journey for quite some time without exhausting the content here. I applaud the effort and I’m grateful VR experiences like this are here for us all. I viewed the experience on an HP Reverb G2 headset.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Gee! This is a really great app! More than one thousand of art masterpieces scanned at high resolution and exhibited in a virtual museum with audio comments and classical music soundtrack. And it’s completely free! It’s not like browsing images on your flat device, it’s more like being there, in the virtual museum; beauty of the paintings seems to be enhanced by artificial light, just like in real museum. I would like just better textures (ceiling, floor, walls, etc.), more details in the galleries, and also better frames around the paintings. You can also enjoy a few photo galleries. Absolutely suggested to art lovers.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Nuremberg: VRdict of Nations
Experienced on the Oculus Quest 2
You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/U7jtJ03pfbg
This app originally released in Russian so I didn’t download it. Luckily, English language support was added back on November 3, 2021. I strongly recommend this experience for anyone interested in history. I will note that the developer is a Russian government owned news agency (Russia Today). However, I found all the information in this app to be historically accurate.
And this is an important piece of history to remember. This is about the trial of five Nazi criminal defendants which include: Göring, Dönitz, Rosenberg, von Ribbentrop and von Schirach. You’re basically collecting evidence in this app sufficient for their conviction and sentencing for crimes against humanity. The whole experience takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes to complete. Most of the information is narrated for you and you will see some videos, lots of photos, & several texts, along with visiting different historically important locations for these defendants.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Nuremberg: VRdict of Nations is a free to play VR experience that is about history. It worked on my HTC Vive system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok, was understandable. This program is now in English, by selecting the English flag on desk. Has 13 steam achievements. Has instructions on vr use at beginning. The English voiceovers was understandable. You have 5 persons of interest to investigate. Looks like there is more than 30 minutes of playtime in this program. You have to search for clues in a linear fashion.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Type:Rider
Come take a journey through typography and learn a little about the origins of literacy. This sounds like it would be a blast… and it is: at first. But that’s for later.
Type:Rider is an interesting platforming game that has you controlling a colon. You jump slide, bounce, etc through levels collecting the alphabet while avoiding various dangers. The difficulty scales the further you progress.
The story aspect of the game was quite fascinating. I learned a lot about fonts, and where they came from through this game. It reinforced certain things I had learned before and added more details to them as well. Type:Rider can be a very fun game for exploring this piece of culture.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Can I nominate this for an utter crap award?
Ok, so the game is f&#*ing beautiful (mostly in the beginning) and the typography story, while going waaaaay outside typography, is fascinating. Play a little game, read a little story. If that were it I’d give it 5 stars and nominate it for sainthood. But, it goes down hill. Waaay down hill. At breakneck speed. With no controls to speak of. Actually… that’s a pretty good description of the game, but I’ll do it justice.
You play as two dots, possibly a colon with a balance problem or an ellipsis amputee. Maybe a homeless umlaut. And you slide back and forth with the cursor keys or the ‘a’ and ’d' keys. Understood, common, no vertical controls, but space to jump. Simple, right? No. You see you only control one of the dots and drag the other around. This is a huge problem because you can’t see which one you’re controlling and the Unity physics engine gives it weight (a little typographical humor there). You can also wall jump, but what constitutes pressing against the wall seems to be up in the air and often goes the opposite of what you expect. In fact getting stuck on the scenery and terrain (which are often indistinguishable) is also a problem. And the scenery/terrain doesn’t really use the physics engine. It won’t push you, it will crush you against the air instantly.
– Real player with 7.4 hrs in game