Blight
Blight is an extremely challenging and realistic single-player top-down perspective survival game.
The Blight
A mysterious new disease called the Blight has descended upon the land. You have managed to escape its devastating effects as it has consumed your village and left it to ruins - You now find yourself alone in the wilderness, tired and hungry. You’ve bought yourself some time, but for how long? The Blight grows larger every day, consuming everything in sight…
Realism
The game strives on providing a punishingly realistic and immersive experience with a ton of depth. Actions like chopping trees and cooking food take a lot of precious time. You can only carry a few things at a time. You need to boil water to make sure it’s safe to drink. Water and other liquids need to be carried in bowls and other containers, and will spill out if not transported securely. You will need to scavenge numerous raw materials, many of which will need to be processed, combined, treated or hardened to make tools, items and structures.
Challenge
The Blight is just one of many threats to your existence in the unforgiving wilderness. After quickly setting up camp you will constantly need to keep yourself well fed and hydrated, replenish lost energy with sleep and short rests, defend yourself from the wild beasts that still inhabit the woods, heal your wounds, protect yourself from the harsh elements, and figure out a way to somehow end this terrible disease. Almost everything in the procedurally generated world can and will kill you if you aren’t careful.
There are whispers of Druids in a far off land that may know more about the Blight…
Upcoming Features
The demo is currently live! You can download it to try out most of what the game has to offer and the level of realism/depth it’s going for. The next big update for the game in the current alpha testing phase is called The Story Update. It’s coming in the next few months and it will contain all these new things:
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Beginnings of the story around the Blight, where it came from, how to cure it, resources to collect, etc
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Village and road generation, with a compass to aid with navigation in Realistic mode
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More unique locations in the world where various resources are more abundant
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Ranged weapons such as throwing spears
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Armor and other protective items like shields
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Many more unique resources to find
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Panning for random resources in water
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More buildings and items to create
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Sharpening tools to regain some effectiveness
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Other survivors and creatures, hostile and otherwise
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Carts to move things around
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Localization and translations, starting with Russian
Long-term Future
The long term future of the game includes some of these big features:
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Co-op multiplayer
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Fishing
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Farming
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Building system (floors, walls, roof, etc)
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Character customization including gender
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Taming animals
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Injury and wound system
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More localized languages
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Meditation VR
I don’t have VR, so I was uncertain if this product would work for me. I tried it and it works fine without VR. The controls are a little different, The black screen with the VR instructions can be passed by pressing Enter on your keyboard. To get the image to be full screen you need to press F11. The ESC key will close the program. Screenshots are the usual F12.
I don’t know what the movement limitations are with VR, but you can move around without any problem when you are not in VR, The sound is also fine.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
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Great Relaxation App
Extremely beautiful environment with lots of little details that ramp up the realism. It’s a simple experience, sitting in a chair on a tropical beach. Nonetheless, it’s very well-done. If you enjoy casual VR experiences, it’s worth the download. The guided meditation at the beginning is pleasant, but it would be nice to have options to turn off voice and music, leaving only the nature sounds (update- I just noticed that the audio options have separate volume controls for voice, music, and sound effects- I may have just missed it before). The developer is very responsive to messages in the discussion forum and put out a patch within a couple days for a crash I was experiencing.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
Occupy White Walls
I was finally able to play the game again thanks to an update a few months ago. Unfortunately, the update also broke many galleries, by outright removing or otherwise affecting assets placed in galleries, changing lighting, and removing shadows. Most shadows have been restored since then and it wasn’t too much work restoring missing assets in my small galleries, but I don’t have any motivation to build while my galleries look totally different than intended due to lighting changes. Besides looking different, the new lighting just looks bad, missing a lot of prior definition.
– Real player with 292.4 hrs in game
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Occupy White Walls is a strangely addicting FREE early access game with a unique concept, a first/third person art gallery management simulator with some very light RPG elements to encourage further progress.
A brief tutorial will help get you situated with the basic mechanics and then you’ll be set to build your own unique space on a blank plot of land. The basic gameplay loop revolves around you opening your gallery for guests, both human and NPC, to bring popularity toward your gallery and with that, more money to spend on art, furnishings, building materials and even expanding your building area. You level up by spending money on art and displaying it in your gallery, and each level gained unlocks access to newer and more complex design choices for your gallery. Each gallery opening lasts 30 minutes in real time, but there is usually a decent amount of activities to keep you busy in the meantime.
– Real player with 147.2 hrs in game
Fractured Atmosphere
In Fractured Atmosphere you take control of a salvage team looking to pick any scraps you can find in a cold desolate universe. Traverse zero gravity environments and sift through wreckages to find valuables while avoiding environmental hazards and ever pursuing drones. With a strong focus on immersive environments Fractured Atmosphere aims to deliver a VR experience like no other.
Environmental Storytelling
Navigate wreckages in zero gravity, with VR allowing you to be fully immersed in this eerie environment. Scour abandoned computer systems for information and learn about the people that once flew these now decrepit spaceships. Each ship you explore will help to paint a picture of this universe and the struggles involved for the people who live here.
Hazards
Environmental hazards make traversal a constant challenge that require puzzle solving and situational awareness. Time is of the essence as automated drones will seek you out and try to put an end to your illegal salvage missions. Manage oxygen levels and get back to your shuttle in time to make your escape, because death for your scavengers is permanent. Don’t worry though, there will always be another grunt ready to test their ability.
Progression
While back at your spaceship you’ll manage your crew and augment them with perks and gear. Daily challenges encourage you to keep taking risks, pushing you to level up your crew and grow stronger. Over time you’ll acquire a large arsenal of weapons and perks suited to your playstyle.
HOST
Cool concept, very dark and kind of gross. Fun to figure out how to play as you go; I’ve never played anything like this. Good use of room scale (didn’t feel like I needed to actually move around my room, but nice to be able to stand up and move arms around w/o hitting anything).
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Amazing! This is the kind of thing I want to see in VR: immersive environments and slow-paced, thoughtful puzzles. I think the sound design sucked me in the most. I didn’t want it to end – definitely looking forward to more content!
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Pandemic by Prisms
Learn By Solving Real-World Problems
Have you ever wondered how scientists developed strategies to limit the impact of the 2020 pandemic on human lives and health systems?
Pandemic by Prisms is an immersive algebra learning game that builds lasting fluency with exponential functions and allows you to apply algebraic thinking to one of the most important problems today - the global pandemic. While it does not deal with the science behind pandemics, it is designed to equip you with foundational algebra skills to understand how to make informed decisions about a critical public health issue.
Collaborate With Us!
We’re launching our beta module to collaborate with users (like you!) to gather feedback so that we can continue to iterate and make this module fun, engaging, and meaningful for all users!
Please leave us a review, provide feedback, or ask us any questions on our Discord. We will be refining and finalizing our module based on reviews and user feedback from this beta launch - we can’t wait to hear from you! We will be releasing an update to this application later in 2021.
A Mathematical Approach from the Comfort of Your Room
Experience how a virus spreads through everyday activities and join a task force!
Explore virus containment strategies hands-on (literally!) and discover how math modeling can inform public policies
Feel, touch, & move to develop mathematical intuition and discover the underlying structure of exponentials
Get fluent with graphing and equations and determine when a virus overwhelms our city’s hospitals and save the city!
This module was developed with support from the National Science Foundation.
Math Is Not Boring Anymore
Prisms’ built-in math tools enable players to experiment, iterate, and gain fluency faster. Whether you use exponential functions every day or don’t remember what the word means, Prisms guarantees fun and intuitive learning for:
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High school students, to easily understand core math concepts
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Middle school students eager to learn advanced topics in math
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Parents, to refresh their algebra skills
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Teachers, to stay sharp and informed on new pedagogical approaches
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VR enthusiasts interested in educational applications
Stellar Team For Stellar Results
Prisms is an educational company based in New York. We are an award-winning team of educators, designers, curriculum developers who are passionate about education. Backed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and partnered with diverse schools across NY, MA, and CA, our mission is to create a new paradigm for STEM learning.
Space Dance Harmony
This game is truely early access in that there’s about 1/10th of the content that needs to be in a full release.
But what is there is very polished and feels great. They could have a hit on their hands if they deliver but I’ve been burned so many times by games like this that are strong out of the gate and never get a single update so we shall see.
Worst case scenario current state is a pretty decent to pick up and play game for a quick intense warm up workout. So for me it’s a keeper.
– Real player with 13.9 hrs in game
this is realy good! the danceinstructor realy knows how to move, the moves are well varied and match the music. as a non-dancer, i was very suprised about how different all the songs dancemoves are from each other. it is nothing like beatsaber where you just stand there and hit random boxes with a stick.
im not good with music classification, i would just call it feelgood-music. ;)
i just know its not something i usualy listen to, yet enjoy immensely while playing SDH.
there is a tutorial so you dont have to guess what you are supposed to do and what stuff means.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
Tin Hearts: Prologue
2 Minute Video Review → https://youtu.be/slPuCooKGbg
Tin Hearts is a lemmings type game. Tiny toy soldiers march forward and it’s up to you to guide their path to the goal.
You don’t control the toy soldiers directly, you need to change other objects to steer them. Starting with just simple blocks to make them turn, but eventually you’ll be manipulating other toys to steer them. And there’s some creative contraptions that get involved as well.
The levels start small, but eventually you’ll need to guide the soldiers through large toy shops.
– Real player with 8.7 hrs in game
Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers
The most beautiful VR game I have ever played. Each puzzle room will amaze you with its idyllic charm. You almost forget about the puzzles and just want to look around and play with the different assets. Unfortunately, most of the assets are there just for decoration as you cannot interact with them (outside what the puzzle wants you to interact with to solve the puzzle).
The puzzles follow along the normal Lemming-style puzzle challenges. However, several of the mechanics are done keeping with the toy workshop theme. You can stop time, forward time or reverse time. You’ll use toy blocks to guide your toy soldiers. They will jump on toy drums, take a balloon ride over obstacles, or bounce off a book or toy train. There will be obstacles such as the Jack-in-the-box to avoid.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Brickbuilder VR
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– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Its lego, in VR, its automatically cool. I will admit theres a couple of oddities, I dont get why the steps are repeated and it would be nice to rotate them rather than just move them around, make it clearer where hidden parts are going but seiroulsy, despite its flaws it works so well.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
ANDERSON
Definitely recommend this game if you like puzzle adventures, and the price is well worth it at this time. The graphics are good and it runs well ( I am using Vive Pro wireless with Vive controllers) now that the devs have applied some quick hot fixes….this dev team is the most responsive of all game devs that I have seen on Steam ( and I have been a Steam/Valve member since 1999)….shows you how much they care about making this game great.
No real complaints as it is a lot of fun….and the puzzles are challenging but not extremely difficult. The atmosphere is generally dark and the immersion is good. Audio/sounds are well done to match the content.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Anderson is a very fun puzzle game. Even though its still in early access, it has a lot of potential! I noticed a few bugs and other issues during game play, and the developers were very receptive to the reports and suggestions.
If you like puzzle games, especially in VR, this is one title to get and solve!
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game