Heartless Dark
I can recommend this if you enjoy some atmosphere and an interesting challenge.
If you get over the initial learning curve the game has a lot of that ‘one more game’ feeling.
The dark and restricted vision can make it tough to navigate.
Once you get used to it then the challenge becomes not running out of ammo.
Once you get used to that the challenge becomes figuring out how to fight the monsters in interesting ways using the game systems (maybe kiting them through acid or stunning them with an exploding fire extinguisher).
– Real player with 9.5 hrs in game
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A very atmospheric and lethal rogue like. You have to budget your limited ammo and life against enemies that hit hard and fast but I’ve never lost a like a run thinking there was nothing I could do about it. Finding bullets and upgrades is always rewarding.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Paradiddle
This is what other VR drumming apps should have been. I’ve tried a bunch of them and they all left me craving for a better option. This might me the one for me!
It is fully customizable:
- You can add the drums you want in the virtual space, resize them how you want and place them where you want! If you’re an experienced drummer you can recreate your own kit accurately, and if you’re a beginner and don’t know where to start you can use one of the presets or recreate very quickly your favourite drummer’s kit.
– Real player with 168.0 hrs in game
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I just picked this up a couple days ago. Put in 3.4 hours so far and loving it. I’m a complete novice and while the game does not contain a tutorial itself it is still an amazing learning tool.
I used OVR Drop to bring in a youtube window to a show a beginner drum turorial to play along with - this works great! In a short amount of time I was able to learn a straight rock beat with high-hat, snare and base drum. It felt awesome.
Even though you don’t get the feedback of hitting a real surface, it still feels like you are playing the drums and certainly the timing and spacial aspects would transfer to real life. I’m looking forward to learning more and getting better.
– Real player with 49.0 hrs in game
Climber: Sky is the Limit
Climber: Sky is the Limit is a game with a unique mixture of survival and simulation. As a player, you are a climber who takes on the most difficult and dangerous peaks on earth. To succeed you need to plan your journey carefully by preparing appropriate equipment, choosing a suitable trail, facing extreme weather conditions, and surviving. Conquer your limits, overcome your fear and reach the sky.
Reach the summit
Each expedition is different, and the journey to the top is a great challenge. Conquer your fear, face your limits and reach the summit. In order to do that: traverse dangerous trails using specialized equipment such as ice ax, lifelines, or carabiners.
Face numerous dangers
During the journey, you will face diverse obstacles like blizzards, chasms, vertical walls, steep traverses, icy slopes, and crevasses. The key to success is to plan your next steps wisely and use the appropriate equipment at the right time.
Plan your expedition
Before setting off, decide which trail is best to the top taking into account weather conditions and the weather windows. Sometimes it’s better to take a chance and choose a more difficult route, but thanks to this you will be able to reach the summit before a snowstorm.
Survival
The key to survival is to have appropriate tools when you need one. Each piece of equipment has its weight but also makes your next step harder. Ensure you have enough food to recover your strengths, or you have a warm jacket and sleeping bag to warm up after a full-day climb.
Good timing also plays a great role during the expedition. In the high mountains, where weather changes quickly and night falls very fast, plan ahead to set up camp in the right place that gives you a chance to recover before the next challenging day.
Key Features
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Scale some of the world’s most famous peaks like Everest, K2, Broad Peak, and others.
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Face a variety of environmental challenges from chasms, vertical walls, steep traverses, icy slopes, treacherous crevasses, and more.
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Use specialized equipment to traverse dangerous trails and slopes like ice axes, carabiners, and lifelines.
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Contend with and plan around harsh weather conditions like blizzards, extreme wind, and plummeting temperatures.
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Keep up your health and strength by balancing stamina, morale, temperature, and hunger.
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Plan every point of your journey, packing only the necessities, choosing your path (will you take the safer route or the risky one?), preparing for each day’s trek and weather conditions.
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Vie for contracts from sponsors for a chance to buy extra equipment and fund future excursions, but be advised they may include incredible challenges.
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An immersive experience that has been created to be as realistic as possible through consulting expert mountaineers.
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Hell’s Gate - Slide Puzzle
Hell’s Gate makes you FEEL like Jeffrey Dahmer.
From the wailing of lost souls condemned to endless torture in the depths of Tartarus, to the occult and bizarre imagery plastered onto the puzzle pieces; This game really lets you immerse yourself and walk in the shoes of a deranged madman that will go to any means necessary to keep playing his sick and disturbed game!
Here’s the Keyes! Knock yourself out!
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
If you like puzzle games, you must get it.
An immersive soundtrack, good graphics, and challenging puzzles.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition
Short version :
One of the best RPG games EVER made, that’s coming from a gamer who’s played over a hundred RPG titles in his life.
Dark Souls - 9.5/10
_Long Version :
Darks Souls….. so much to say about this game.
The game throws the player in a very difficult world, not just by gameplay standards, but plotwise as well. The story / lore is depicted in such a way that it’s never speaking to the player directly, but rather to your character, it never breaks the 4th wall by directly telling the player what to do and how to do it, only the basic attack move buttons are given to you at the beginning, and from then on, you’re completely on your own for the rest of the 50+ hour journey. Unless you get a co-op partner that is._
– Real player with 254.2 hrs in game
TLDR: Yes.
Dark Souls has issues.
While most entertainment experiences go out of their way to encourage your interest, it feigns indifference to your attention.
Introducing itself via bizarre and meaningless cut scenes you find your protagonist in a pretty dull dungeon. “Oh look, a man with a sword viewed from third person” you observe with a mounting sense of déjà vu. “No doubt I have a healing potion and a sense of manifest destiny somewhere in my bag too” and reach for the reset button/cyanide pill. But Dark Souls IS different - not that it is keen to show off. Like Usain Bolt winning the Dad’s race on sport day mumbling something about how he probably jumped the gun, Dark Souls’ initial coyness infuriates and astounds with equal measure.
– Real player with 242.8 hrs in game
Neverlooted Dungeon : Almost Epic Adventures™
Venture deep into the Neverlooted Dungeon and face its treacherous, deadly traps. Armed with your creativity, trusty weapon and magical items, find your own ways to outsmart the dangers in a highly immersive world. Be careful, become paranoid, be the first to loot!
“Have you ever heard of the Neverlooted Dungeon and its Legendary Treasure? It’s a perilous place filled with deadly traps that no one has ever returned from alive, but I’m sure someone as smart and skillful as you could easily succeed. Try your luck now, loot and glory await you!”
As you enter, you feel like something isn’t quite right, and there may be a good reason why no one has ever returned. Will you be the first to loot the Neverlooted Dungeon?
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Defeat Hidden Treacherous Traps
Live out an intense adventure with a unique focus on defeating treacherous, deadly traps. Be careful, pay attention to the details, sharpen your senses, watch your steps, don’t touch anything, become paranoid.
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Find Your Own Ways Through an Immersive World
Find your own ways to overcome the dangers and challenges in a deeply immersive and interactive world where your creativity is rewarded. Pile crates on stakes, block saws with chairs, throw buckets at levers - it’s up to you.
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Careful Nonlinear Exploration
Explore a great variety of non-linear levels overflowing with forgotten secrets, hidden relics, piles of treasure, countless traps, and lurking monsters.
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A Dungeon Unlike Any Other
Discover a dungeon full of flashing arrows and vending machines, in a unique satirical dark fantasy world where something really wrong is going on.
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Customize Your Abilities
Acquire powerful magical items to customize your abilities, whether you’re a careful explorer, an outstanding acrobat, or a reckless fighter.
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Survive Lurking Monsters
Avoid monsters, fight them, lure them into traps, kick them into pits, or serve them as food.
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Dying is a New Beginning
If you die, try your luck again. Loot your previous corpse and use it to your advantage to progress even further.
Cogmind
Cogmind is a roguelike game, where you constantly build and rebuild your character. Your capabilities are defined by the items you acquire. There is no experience (no grinding!), you gain ‘levels’ by climbing to the next floor. This system makes various builds equally viable: combat, speed, stealth, all sorts of hybrids and so on.
Items are not just stats +X. You will balance energy output, heat generation and support with your combat capabilities, speed and information gathering capabilities. There are over a thousand different items: weapons, power sources, cooling, propulsion, sensors, armors, shields, hackware, build and repair utilities and many, many more. Each item has a cost to use it, with more powerful items typically having bigger costs. There are various synergies and you can get some sick combos! But don’t get too attached to the components you currently own, because sooner or later they WILL get destroyed. That’s why you constantly need to acquire new parts (they are everywhere!) to rebuild yourself, sometimes completely respecializing to a different build type (You were a heavy tank, machine of destruction, but after a particularly tough fight not much is left of you? Time to become an ultra light jet that zips past enemies before they get a chance to act!).
– Real player with 1628.0 hrs in game
This game is good. Really good.
I’ve put 200+ hours into it, and I still want to play more.
In depth reasons below, but a quick tl;dr:
This game solves a lot of problems that I’ve found with the entire roguelike genre, in major ways. Even without looking at roguelikes at all, this is a very good game in it’s own right, and once you learn all the systems in play (which the game helps you learn, instead of having to look in an out of game wiki for arcane details) it’s a joy to play. It’s also fun to discover these things out as you go, and I really liked the magical feeling upon finding new areas off the beaten path. Running into Z(partially redacted) was a really cool moment in my first few hours of play, and those are scattered throughout the game. In addition, the early game is a lot better then other games of this type, instead of being a slog.
– Real player with 532.5 hrs in game
DARK SOULS™ II
Everything is fair
– Real player with 236.0 hrs in game
The souls series is one of my favorite series ever, and this game is no different. ignore the hate for this game, its a good game, its just a 9 in a series of straight 11’s, one of the games has to be at the bottom and it just so happens to be this one, but that does not make it a bad game. I would recommend this game to all, including souls vets who have never played it and anyone new trying to get into the series.
– Real player with 182.3 hrs in game
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director’s Cut
A personal favorite.
Definitely a more accessible game than its predecessors, but retains the beautiful pseudoscience that made the first one so fun. Once again you play as an augmented super-agent. Once again you can pacifist run the game, and once again you can choose to interpret that as a challenge to knock every enemy unconscious and stuff them into an air vent. The game is notionally a “shooter” and there are a lot of guns, but the game clearly wants you to play as a stealth ninja.
– Real player with 99.5 hrs in game
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is an immersive stealth/action adventure game, where you’re a detective in a Cyberpunk setting. And that’s all I want to tell you about the plot of this game, because Deus Ex has one of the most interesting game plots I’ve had the pleasure of playing. Gunplay and stealth are basic, but the verity of options to tackle infiltration is what makes the game interesting to play. Character models and animations aren’t the best, and the controls are wack, but you can rebind the controls so its kind of a non issue. Overall I really enjoyed my time with Deus Ex: Human Revolution, I’m excited to see what the sequel & prequel have to offer. 8/10 Great Title
– Real player with 71.6 hrs in game
PowerBeatsVR - VR Fitness
Updated Review:
I’ve had this game since April and I still play it 5 times a week.
Pros:
*It is one hell of a full body workout. You will be lunging, crouching, punching, reaching, dodging, and just all around moving
*It is fun, not quite as fun as beat saber, but it is significantly more fun than BoxVR
*The developers are out-freaking-standing. They are the most responsive devs I have ever seen. They try to find a way to accomodate every request they get if they can. Even if they can’t, they are super friendly about it.
– Real player with 64.1 hrs in game
I’m very much enjoying including PowerBeatsVR into my daily exercise routines. If I was able to incorporate my own favorite music it would quickly become my favorite VR software. For now Audio Beats holds that place, but this doesn’t detract from the lure of being able to smash large boulders with only my fist in PowerBeatsVR. With the future improvements mentioned, I think this will be something important to keep my interest in keeping fit.
I would not want to see the scoring system changed in any significant way. I’m used to this, I know I have to be perfect in order to get the higher scores. I wouldn’t like it if the game was “dumbed down” in order to make reaching the higher levels easier to accomplish. Reaching the number 1 spot is the goal, and it wouldn’t mean very much if I found out I reached this level because the game had been altered to make it easier to do so. I don’t think it should necessarily be made artificially any more difficult either, but certainly don’t make it easier.
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game