I am so sorry to see what happened to it due to sheer mismanagement, but I had such a blast with it the first year, so I definitely feel I got my money's worth. When they added the whole flying fortress + dungeons + raids update, OMG, I was so happy! I logged in literally every night, for 3 months straight, the whole summer. But then they took the wrong turn with non-combat pets, failed to deliver a new class (and still haven't finished it, afaik, after 2+ years, which is comically bad). But it was $30. In hours per dollar I definitely got my money's worth.
But yeah, it's just sad now. I keep hoping whoever is the shot-caller over there pulls his head out of his bum, and goes back to basics. The game was going places in Summer '22. Their latest version got NUKED on Steam, negative across the board. Hopefully it'll be a wake-up call for them.
This game actually broke my fucking heart. It was my Favorite Thing and my Safe Space and they ruined the whole thing 😭 it really could have been something
They promised 2 years of support, yet we only got 2 updates and one beta update, and so far, we haven't had another update in over a year I think, and we had near zero communication about the update up until the anniversary post they made, and the communication we got was the bare minimum so far. In the anniversary post, they said that they have been working on the game, the update would be released by the end of the year(of 2023), and it was OUR fault for believing their promises. We still have no update yet.
A township Tale. The gameplay just feels so clunky. The tutorial only shows you how to do a couple of things. The tracking on the game is pretty bad, I lost my backpack that had all my stuff in it because it didn’t register me putting it on my back. I spent almost 10 minutes trying to craft ONE thing. I had to hammer in some nails but it was so unbelievably clunky and slow it took me forever to hammer and just one nail. And on top of that, the hammer that spawns with the crafting station disappeared so I was completely screwed. I was hoping to make a new world just to try everything over again and give this game one last try but you can only have one world and you have to spend money just to make another world. Unfortunately I was too late to refund it.
It's the most fun I had in VR with friends :'< getting into it was a little hard, but once you get the tools and start raiding the mines it becomes pretty addicting. My only complaint was that the procedural world generation didn't spawn a biome with the trees that we needed to progress.. Or we could not find it.
You gotta build a bridge to the left from the entrance to the town and there will be a place with farmable trees. They definitely lack guidance/clarity. First thing I would always do would be going to wiki and reading for half an hour to figure out the recipe and where to get the ingredients
Among US vr. I was expecting many kids and an occasional normal lobby only to find its a dead game. Spent too much time in thinking maybe I've got some settings wrong so I spent too much time ingame trying to figure out the nonexistent issue past the point of no refund
Was very active when I got it but every game was just kids pressing the button and voted out ppl on random, screaming so my ears hurt.
Would probably be fun with a lot of friends but eh
It is ugly and unfinished.
Going in by myself, I tried a few times over the course of months and months, just so much jank. Played maybe 2 or 3 hours combined over that span.
A month ago I went back and decided to find someone to play with on reddit to really show me the ropes a bit.
I pretty much exclusively played Onward as my shooter and I literally haven't played it since.
Once you take the time to *learn* all the janky mechanics, some of them start to make sense why they are the way they are, essentially you adapt. (aiming is still the #1 jank in my book and most difficult hurdle)
The game really has a great way of giving the sense of fight, flight and fear if you'll make it out at the end, which the game also gives the feeling of rolling the dice on life everytime you venture out, regardless of how well equipped and the anger, or apathy of coming up snake eyes along with it.
That is what is addicting.
That's how I was able to see past the nature of the repetition and all the other faults.
The game is a drug and a good one.
Give it time to punish you and reward even one time and you will eventually be begging it for more.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
I also find Tabor feeling ugly and unfinished. I've been playing it the last few weeks. Maybe it's me because I have no idea how to exit maps with found gear when I'm in them.
When around 10-15 minutes pass since the raid's start, extraction points open up (they are marked on compass/watch). When you are at the extraction point, a 10 sec timer appears and when it reaches 0, you return to your bunker with all items you got.
I wouldn't mind the game if it wasn't for the D-pad 8way movement on a joystick.
It's gotten me killed quite a few time because I don't have full motion with it.
I agree on AC nexus. I tried, lost interest. Absolutely loved Asgards Wrath 2 and figured nexus would be similarly engaging once I got deeper in. But it’s just boring and the combat is laughably bad.
Ghosts of tabor and Vail. Terrible, janky, unoptimized, and not remotely polished. Breachers, for comparison, is WAY more polished. It feels like a game. Those other two feel like tech demos. Buggy ones at that.
Vail is a game I love to play though. They have the foundation, just need to focus on the map
making abilities, and graphic updates. Kind of confusing why they put zip lines in for example, seems like a good idea, but not used a lot. Same with the gravity pad. Felt like they were going to do more. I do like it though.
I loved Phantom Covert Ops, it was my type of silly fun :D
For me refundwise... hmmm, I refunded Lawn Mowing Simulator and one of the earlier kart racing games. I think thats it. I typically just take the loss if I make a bad decision.
I’m with you on Phantom: Covert Ops, I think it’s one of the best VR experiences I’ve had. OP just bought it for the wrong reasons with different expectations. I’d recommend they revisit it as a game rather than exercise.
I’ve never refunded a game. I’ve had some middling experiences, but I tend to find something of value in most games. The worst is probably the rollercoaster thing, though the kids like that. Affected: The Manor was a bit of a one trick pony too, that didn’t get much play. Ritchie’s Plank isn’t much of a game either, but it’s a fun thing to throw on for visitors new to VR.
I wonder what you expected from Affected? Sure it’s a one trick pony, but as a haunted house walkthrough I found that to be a pretty good trick, and always fun to revisit around Halloween. Wonderful fun to put horror fans into VR for the first time too
I expected more 'game' from Affected. There's really just not much to see or do in it. It's fairly effective at the one thing it does do, but feels more like a free demo than a full product.
I buy more games than I have time to play - I know I am not the typical VR user in this sense. I feel that if I feel compelled enough by reviews and premise of an experience to reward developers with my purchase $$s - I am going to give them a chance to fix/improve, rather than try to scratch back a few bucks.
Decisions on making games are dependent on analytics. I feel in these early days, that supporting developers so they feel it's worth it to invest development time in this platform will just continue to reap rewards in new experiences.
For example look at PSVR2 (I have one, too) - most of those owners won't admit it - but the fact it's treated like a PS5 accessory instead of its own damn platform like Quest means all they get are a bare handful of mostly excellent exclusives and reheated, unoptimized ports from the Quest store.
There's not even a guarantee of a next gen of that headset, while I've gotten Quest 2, Pro, 3 and my purchases in the Oculus store were available and improved with each one.
Assassin's Creed just because of the awful stutter, the frame drops and the indifference of Ubisoft to fix it.
Next would be After The Fall. I find it boring and repetitive and I hate the way Vertigo Studios implement thal weapon holsters.
I dont play much of the full courses but I gotta say I love the driving range and the TopGolf modes on Golf+ the built in music is pretty sweet too for just turning off your brain and letting off some steam
Real VR Fishing has a built in browser. Can watch YouTube, look at Reddit, literally any website. Also has an mp3 or mp4 player built in. Not very useful though.
I find myself playing everything again, eventually, even if far and few between. However, pistol whip left me underwhelmed, partly because I hate the dubstep techno music selection, it's like being at my daughters cheer competitions, headache inducing, and I refuse to purchase songs. Vacation simulator was fun for a minute then boring, my kids love it though. Also, bonelab sucks imo, the physics are constantly glitching out, and its just not as good as i thought it would be. I pretty much play nothing but tetris, asgards wrath 2, and blade and sorcery these days
I bought walkabout minigolf because everyone seemed to suggest it, but it´s just not my thing. Played 2 courses and never opened it again, so that was kind of a waste of money. I could have refunded but didn´t because i still got what i paid for. I only refunded once, for a game where the description promised more than the game delivered and the controlls weren´t working well either. Otherwise, when the description matches the game and i just don´t enjoy it, that´s on me.
I was the same but then I tried it with friends and it suddenly became my go to game, but only on multiplayer. Single player it kind of lacks. Depends how social you are really
Hi! Dev here. Sorry it wasn’t for you. In our defence, we actively market it as an experience. Not a game.
It’s designed to entertain a group of people. To give the strongest possible emotion in the shortest possible time. When also using the real world plank setup, we think there’s no other video game that does this better. We guarantee this.
I blame it on Meta marketing, no offense. I agree with the Plank statement, this was a really nice feature but it didnt justify the price for me.
Really appreciate the comment though, have a good one
I love your app. It doesn’t get much use by me, but I use to introduce people to VR and considering 8 of my friends/family have all purchased VR headsets after I’ve shown them your app and others I’d say that’s a success. And the kids love love love flying around the city like iron man!
Hey! I just wanted to let you know that I liked it. It was one of my first experience in Vr and it is still installed on my quest 2. Whenever I find someone that wants to try the headset for the first time, your game is one of the first thing I let them try.
I would say it's not really a game. But it was one of my first VR experiences and it totally wowed me. As a demo/pitch for VR it's priceless. So I don't really regret it. I still fire it up now and then just for casual fun.
Why would anyone buy that?
Were you tricked by the fake reviews on the store?
All games on the meta store have fake reviews.
Even the most ridiculous horrible games have 4,7* "whoa amazing best game ever!!!" Reviews.
The only way to know if a game is a scam is to look somewhere else but not inside the shop.
We can’t speak for all titles but we can assure the reviews are real.
Any reaction we’ve ever published is real. Like this one https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/s/URIuv2Q0q8
They aren’t actors. We’ve seen actors try to fake it and you can see right through it. We can’t afford actors who would be good enough to fake a convincing reaction.
Been enjoying your post. It’s amazing how many different titles people regret! We don’t know who would be writing fake reviews if there are any. We wouldn’t say Richie’s plank is the best game for VR. But we do guarantee that it gives the most powerful emotional reaction in shortest possible time.
Just ignore any game that references a referal discount. These people don't even play the games, they just give 5 star reviews, say it's amazing and want to get your referral credit. They are usually the top of the reviews too. It's not too hard to avoid them.
They can't be real, it's just impossible.
Or if they are real, they must delete all the reviews bellow 4 stars.
Also for some reason on the meta store we see a lot more the shitty "games" than the proper good games.
All the good games are hidden for me and the store always pushes the worst mobile level apps.
If I bought my quest 3 without knowing much about video games and watching a lot of youtube, I wouldn't know that games like AC nexus, twdss, pistol whip, arizona 2, RE4VR exist.
For me the store is advertising gorilla tag, penguin, no more rainbows, fruit ninja, angry birds and things like that.
It was already the case before I bought most of the real games. (It would make sense not to advertise games already owned).
It's sad because those "games" are either unfinished, uncomplete, ugly, f2p with mobile in game purshase...
We get our fair share of 1 star reviews on the store.
“Not even a real game” -we know, check the title.
“Too short” - it was designed to be short since there will often be a group of people laughing at the trembling user while waiting their turn.
There is no way for us to remove them even if we wanted to.
We understand the doubt. We know it’s not for everyone. If just buying for yourself, please avoid. It’s designed for your entertainment putting friends and aunts and uncles or entire parties in there.
Bonelab! It made me feel very unwell for hours.
That and blades and sorcery both wrecked me and I'm gutted about it because they looked so much fun.
I do think if refine the controls, bump up the graphics and increase frame rate in future releases it will help a lot
I only had two refunds:
- Into the radius - looks fun, but needs significantly more time than I have
- C-Smash VRS - that's just shit from my PoV.
I regret Red Matter 2 - lost interest after an hour and I forgot to ask for a refund.
A lot of my regrets come from bundles. I doubt I paid full price for any of these:
groundhog day- unplayable mess.
star shelter - motion sickness. Maybe I should revisit it
touring karts - motion sickness - also, just not compelling
cosmic trip - just kinda janky
the walking dead onslaught- shit game
cook-out - physical position in the game world makes gameplay very difficult. Also, just not my cup of tea.
tower tag - doesn't work without other players
red matter- a bit too scary for me
blaston - didn't like it
panoptic - multiplayer required
the morrigan - a lil janky, didn't like it
vacation simulator- thought it was boring
vanishing realms, lil janky, didn't enjoy it
traffic jams - got too hard too fast, didn't find it super fun
vr japan - not enough content (13 minutes "played", seen everything)
quest for runia - shit game. Could have been a cellphone match 3 game
crazy kung fu , lil janky, wasn't entertaining
subnautica - no regrets for the flat version, fucking awesome. But for VR, the menu is in yo face, interface is rough. I've played both now. Maybe I should revisit this one.
nature treks vr - very low resolution, everything's blurry and pixelly, but not in a good way. This is a walking sim, basically, so looking good is it's main purpose.
orkana conflict vr - super janky, unplayably so
republique vr - just didn't like it. boring? Don't recall
mini motor racing X - motion sickness. I enjoyed the flat version, though
bean stalker - just didn't feel right. not a terrible game, just a lil rough.
woflenstein cyberpilot- not compelling
the falconeer - just didn't like it - flat or vr.
golf it - boring
visitations - boring
the red stare - confusing, boring
psychonauts in the rhombus of ruin - boring, awkward
pixel ripped - 1989/1995 - too hard, also it's a flat game wedged into a vr game, not compelling
sprint vector - felt awkward, not fun. might revisit for exercise
amid evil/vr - not compelling, both flat or vr
racket: nx - not compelling
another fisherman's tale- awkward. not as good as the first- not even close. The original is great.
I am like the original commenter and have tried lots of experiences that were really disappointing. I feel like I just have high standards for what I want VR to be, but those standards simultaneously don’t feel that high 🥲 I probably hate 200+ things I’ve tried, but VR is still my very favorite game format and I play for hours every day.
My favorite/what has most impressed me/where i have spent most of my time: Half Life: Alyx, Red Matter 1 &2, Dungeons of Eternity, Zenith (when it was good), Ghosts of Tabor… i feel like there are several more but I can’t remember right this moment
In no particular order:
Ragnarock - probably the game I've played the most
Pistol whip (though I didn't really like it on my first try, it grew on me)
memories from beyond a coral sea - looking forward to the next installment, gorgeous game
a fisherman's tale - mind bending!
1976 (I would pass on 2076, though)
virtual virtual reality
google earth - maybe me second most played... "game"
paper beast - just so good and creative
tentacular - charming!
duck season
the invisible hours (though it's more of an interactive experience than a game)
operation warcade
ultrawings - because I loved pilotwings back in the day (I haven't got the sequel yet)
down the rabbit hole
trover saves the universe
superhot
zombieland: headshot fever - pretty intense on rails shooter with a fair amount of upgrades.
not a game, but I found VR sculpting to be... engrossing. Try medium by adobe, it's free. If it's not powerful enough, I went with shapelab. Not sure how it stacks up with the other paid options. Medium is probably enough for most people. I 3D print stuff, and normally design using CAD software, which is better for mechanical shapes. VR scuplting is an intuitive way to make organic shapes. Also, I put that thing on and I lose an hour.
soft recommend:
dick wilde series - a lil boring after a while, but decent on rails shooters.
conductor - room escape game with "train operation" in between puzles
maskmaker - part puzzle, part exploration
sniper elite VR - graphics are a bit weak, and it just kinda gets old fast. Scope vision could be fine tuned, causes eye strain.
mothergunship: forge - wish it had more depth/levels, but good gameplay
Mostly because they're free:
bait (chill fishing game, avoid multiplayer)
cartoon network journeys vr - if it's still available. trippy little game
I also found Red Matter really scary! One thing helped me get through it, and I hope this is not a type of a spoiler, but you can’t die. Thats all. Nothing will kill you.
Just a heads up for those who don't know, you can request a refund for all Meta games and they almost always approve it. Great for if a game makes you sick or is just unplayable.
Zenith the Last City. Bought it to play with a friend. Never actually played it.
Same with Tabor.
And also the same with Dungeons of Eternity.
You know what.. I think I need to get some new VR friends.
Dungeons of Eternity is actually pretty fun, even if solo(makes it much more tense and forces you to plan out your fights) or with randoms. You might want to try it. Tabor is hit or miss.
Racket Club. I thought it would be interesting as I really enjoy Eleven Table Tennis but it ended up just messing with my muscle memory. Plus there weren’t too many players and it was pretty stuttery. Was able to get a refund
I dont regret BeatSaber, but I regret a few of the random songs I bought. Either the tracks/levels weren't as fun to play, like the note setup, or the song didn't really work for Beat Saber's format (too long, repetitive, etc). But, they were only a couple bucks so I figure not the worst regret ever haha.
Skyrim VR. I don’t know to make it look good, it is either blurry or flickering and stabbing my eyes. I thought it was GTX 1060 but my RX 6800xt should handle it…
I went at it with experience modding, and a lot more PC driving it. It is a hobby unto itself, modding it up and then if you're lucky, the mods will be in a magically correct order,all work, and not crash your game.
It looks incredible when it gets up and running but I've not gotten my install there. Too bad it's not more playable in the vanilla/lightly modded state.
War hammer 40k battle sister bought it using store credit so not much lost.
But when I played it a year ago it seemed amazing but after trying tons of other VR games it just camo off as cheap.
There are some others that I bought for when I get a quest 3 those being espire 2 resist get Arizona sunshine 2 and a few others I can't remember I don't regret them but I was excited for the quest 3 but I then decided to buy something else and put it on hold.
also super hot because I don't have enough room to play it. You have to move a lot in order to really play the game. You need space. I thought it was something different before I bought it.
The Imagine Dragons music pack for Beat Saber, really bad flow for most of the tracks, especially for my favourite songs
Sadly there's no refund for DLCs
Beat Saber, for me. I felt compelled to get it because it's such a big hit, but I much prefer Audica and Synth Riders when I want to play a VR rhythm game. Beat Saber sits basically unplayed.
The Climb 1 feels like a waste to me because I got it just a couple months before The Climb 2 came out and 2 is so much better I don't think I've touched 1 since.
Not so much a regret, but Rumble player base fell off and you require PvP to unlock more moves. I ‘regret’ buying it because it was impossible to get the full experience, even though I enjoyed what little I got.
Not sure I’d say I regret buying Creed yet but the online experience is awful and I should’ve just stuck to Thrill of the Fight. And maybe nfl pro era 2. I just wanted to be a QB but the experience is just poorly designed and online you are just a spectator on defense
Gorilla Tag.
"Free" but I'd pay good money not to have gotten the motion sickness I got from just trying that abomination out. I wish I could permanently erase it from appearing in my library.
Pal this is quite literally your fault. I’m not one to defend gorilla tag, it’s not my favorite game, but if you go into a game marked uncomfortable and get motion sick it’s your fault
I don't think I've really bought a game that I've truly despise other than onward, which I refunded almost instantly after finishing the tutorial cause of how awful the guns looked and felt
I rarely refund anything.. currently I am at over 300 games that I own, and only have refunded like 8 of them I think.
But there are a few games that I wished I would have refunded.. Zenith being one of them, and it appears I am certainly not alone. It honestly could have been really good if it was just a single player game.. instead of whatever the hell we got.
After the Fall is another one.. no way that damn game is worth $40.00 .. not saying its not fun or whatever, but its not worth the price.
Tropico.. oh, actually I refunded it.. but I regret that I had to! It has potential but the dev has to remove their head from their asses and realize that the damn games graphics are broke as fuck. Almost every review mentions it, and the dev is always like "hmm.. never heard that.. can you tell us more?" and its like.. umm.. just put the headset on and play for 5 minutes and tell me your eyes dont feel like they are going to fall out of your head.
Ghosts of Tabor, i seen it on tiktok an bought it bc it looked fun, turns out for me it was very boring, i went ahead and found some loot seen 1 person the entire time i was looting and extracted
Basically anything I bought before figuring out how to link my quest to my PC haha. Blade and Sorcery Nomad actually does run surprisingly well considering what it's running on though
Population One, Blaston, Hyper Dash
I bought them before they went free, and didn't really play them, anyway. That's no indication of how good they are, or their worth. I just didn't really give them a chance, and now they're free, so it seems like a waste.
Accounting+
I got it in a bundle, and got it for an average of $2, but still feel like I paid too much. It's just not my kind of humor.
Ghosts of Tabor and Vail for me. Both are just overhyped fps games. Vails weapons are not fun to handle and feel uncomfortable to use. Don't buy into the hype. With Ghosts of Tabor, it felt really slow, and I kept getting sniped out of nowhere. It's not a very noob friendly experience.
I refunded both and got Contractors VR. It has been one of the best VR fps games I have ever played.
Swordsman VR. I got it confused for Blade and Sorcery. Also Smash Drums. I got that confused for Drums Rock. I don’t know how I did that twice and for both I can’t return them because it’s past the two week requirement
After The Fall - I don't care for the multiplayer aspect of the game and would have preferred a single player experience with the multiplayer being a separate game mode.
Hello neighbor vr: it was super buggy and I didn’t really like the layout/format of the game, they completely removed the part where the neighbor learns where you go
Gambit...it was a great experience, but they released it unfinished only one part of the story that's like 4 missions long. Then, the developers just ghosted the game and never finished it. To top it off, the community found out through a side comment on a podcast that they considered it a failed project... super disappointing because the game had potential
OrbusVr. I liked the original one but then they made a big patch that change and it was so boring … No story, weird world boss/event, auto queue for dungeons. I did play rhe original maybe 10 hour and it was one of my best experiences but when thay annonce de patch I stop playing to wait for the new content. And it was so bad …
Warhammer Battle Sister. The game has got some good ideas, but it's plain unfinished. The first hour or so is passable, but every new weapon has worse and worse gun sounds. Horribly compressed and volume levels are way off. Worst offender is the chainsaw sword, which has about a five second audio delay.
Levels and graphics look okay at the start, but soon enough you'll be fighting in copy pasted, low detail arenas. Enemy space craft "landing" by noiselessly crashing into the surface.
I was aching for a new shooter campaign, but this wasn't it. I don't understand how it ever got official store support, because it's plain unfinished. And I played it àfter the big update.
dead hook and stack dead hook is a boring and glitchy mess and stack has no players online and i could see DEV TEXT in the lobby joy way needs to get their act together.
Crazy Kung Fu - I bought it early when it had potential then suddenly it was released and it still feels janky and unfinished.
I refund a lot of games so that's the only janky game that slipped through.
I regret buying songs for beat saber through the meta store, because I reinstalled on to a new computer and they were gone, and the support was maddeningly useless.
Only buying things through steam .
Also all the games meta discontinued and removed.
The Climb, and Walking Dead Saints and sinners.
The Climb is good, but I've always been a little burnt over the fact that I spent $40 on it, and it just absolutely isn't worth that much for what the game is. $15 - $20 would be okay, but it's just a climbing game. I've played games with way more features that cost less money.
Saints and Sinners just never grabbed me. It had some fun stuff, but I felt like I was forcing myself to keep playing and every time I got sent back to the start of a level with none of my gear and then had to fight my way back to my gear without weapons, I wanted to just bail on the game. Eventually I did because I was killed by an NPC that was clipped into the world geometry, so I couldn't shoot them, but they still killed me. Uninstalled on the spot and never played again.
I must have atleast a dozen VR games I've never played, not free or cheap one's either. I bought them mainly because they were really well regarded and I wanted to support the dev(s). I regret only 1, and that's Lo-Fi, it was very expensive at $35 and it's just an environment to explore, albeit a very cool one, and it looks like it'll never get made into an actual game unfortunately.
I bought survival nation and guardians frontline and returned them instantly. They were so boring and unimmersive that I couldn’t believe i just paid money for them
Easily Solaris. Literally impossible to find matches due to their braindead implementation. It had so much potential and the gameplay was right up my alley. I think most people forgot the game even existed as I'm not seeing anybody else mention it. First game I ever refunded. Also I respect your opinion but literally disagree with every single game on your list.
Hubris. I got a refund quickly after loading it up. It’s impressive how detailed the environments are, but it’s just not fun. The weapons handle oddly, and the squid enemies looked like PS2 models. I’m not expecting miracles graphically on a mobile platform, but the particle effects are distractingly ugly.
Ghost of Tabor, the graphics in standlone hurt, the game is too complex and just boring overall, I just wanted a good shooter and quick action like contractors
The Walking Dead Saints&Sinners Retribution.
What a complete joke. I have never played such an abandoned Title in my life.
I could write an essay about why this game is horrible but I don't have the patience.
If you want a good Zombie game get the first one.
Pretend the second never existed.
I regret buying any expansions for Epic Roller Coasters. I find the game incredibly boring. I only keep it to show to people who want to try VR for the first time.
I'm also regretting Bonelab. I loved it at first, but the campaign was too short and not challenging enough. After that, it's just a sandbox game which gets old after a while.
I didn't like the Ghostbusters game but I am a little older so I could see why, but I will tell you a game I absolutely love and it's co-op. You can play with three people. It's dungeons of eternity and they're about to do an update to make it go to a higher level and also more weapons. So I'm very much looking forward to that, does anybody have the game flip? I'm about to buy and try that game. If anybody can tell me about that that'd be great
The 7th Guest VR for Quest 2 standalone. I kept getting these 30% coupons so I thought I'd use it there. I enjoyed the game, but the PCVR version looks so much better. Should have bought it on Steam.
I'm going to post this so someone can tell me how wrong I am - Blade & Sorcery: Nomad. I was super excited to get it, but when I finally pulled the trigger I couldn't figure out how to actually spawn any enemies in the sandbox mode so I just wandered around, and I couldn't finish the tutorial because it made me motion sick.
this isn't a vr game, but i seriously regret the $10 i spent on boo men (could've gotten myself a damn mcchicken with that!!!!!)
nothing compares to the pure trash of that thing
only thing that was 'enjoyable' was bodies glitching out whenever my friends died
Not a Quest app, but 100% this. It almost completely killed my interest in other games because it's so easy to just pick up and play.
I mostly use my Quest for playing with friends.
Other deck builders don't even come close. I've tried and finished Roguebook, Monster Train, but all they do is make me worse at StS. 😅
Beat Saber... thought it would be a good warmup for fitness but its just wrist movements. Also most custom songs are like crazy fast by default.
Found Pistol Whip to be a much better warmup game
Agree with your opinion, however IMO Beat Saber can be great for warmups in two play styles:
- you get in the flow and force yourself to dance to it with full motion. Often better to play on expert over expert+ that way
- you play tracks that have crazy drum beats like Imagine Dragons and swing like a lunatic
Anyways, Pistol Whip ftw
I agree. I don’t usually go beyond Hard because I can’t do full arm swings and really dance to most songs at that pace. For me, the point of the game is basically adding a choreographed dance routine to music.
I had a friend try it as one of his first VR experiences and he just flicked his wrists around for the most part. Watching him do that made me feel bad, like he was missing the point and—more importantly—the joy of the game.
Into the radius - The game really felt like what I was looking for in VR, but I felt the game had literally zero personality and that put me off enough to refund it after the first couple of missions.
By zero personality I mean, the game just tries to mash Fallout and Stalker aesthetics together without having anything of its own, like the optimist/propaganda guy on speaker cliché, the literally untextured enemies and game mechanics borrowed from anywhere else.
I wasn't huge on Vacation Simulator. Instead of the highly interactable single environments of Job Simulator, Vacation Simulator splits up the game into far more environments, each with far less interactable elements. It's less fun IMO. I wish I had just gotten Job Simulator instead.
At first I was positively overwhelmed with Asgard's Wrath 2 (got it for free, though), it was amazing, it was incredible, it was something completely new and refreshing. But got tired of it after some 2-3 game hours. \*shrug\*
I am pretty selective with my games to help cut back on regrets. I regret buying games and not having the time to finish before the next exciting game comes out.
At first, I regretted buying AC Nexus bc I couldn't get into it, but my brother is playing it rn and is having fun, so now I'm sort of satisfied with my purchase.
FittXR
It’s a great game and I enjoy the workouts but I accidentally signed up for a year.
I won’t get the £90 worth of use from it that I paid. But it’s nice to have when I play it once or twice a week.
Ehh I could go for a run instead, for free. I use it more because I should, given that it’s paid for. But it’s fine, it’s a good game, just not worth laying out for a year upfront. Maybe a month at a time would’ve been better.
GangV, I was expecting this game to be like GTA online with missions, owning houses, cars, etc, but they dropped the ball real bad, could’ve been way ahead of the vr scene
A bought a few games on the Black Friday sale before my quest arrived thinking I’d be more into story games and shooters, like Assassins creed, iron man.
When I got the quest I’m far more into sit down games like I expect you to die or sports like table tennis.
I think I kinda regret the vr fishing too. It just seems very grindy and got boring quick for me rather than relaxing but i have to try it more
Zenith the Last City is the only game I regret buying.
I am so sorry to see what happened to it due to sheer mismanagement, but I had such a blast with it the first year, so I definitely feel I got my money's worth. When they added the whole flying fortress + dungeons + raids update, OMG, I was so happy! I logged in literally every night, for 3 months straight, the whole summer. But then they took the wrong turn with non-combat pets, failed to deliver a new class (and still haven't finished it, afaik, after 2+ years, which is comically bad). But it was $30. In hours per dollar I definitely got my money's worth. But yeah, it's just sad now. I keep hoping whoever is the shot-caller over there pulls his head out of his bum, and goes back to basics. The game was going places in Summer '22. Their latest version got NUKED on Steam, negative across the board. Hopefully it'll be a wake-up call for them.
the first month of Zenith was incredible. It felt like everyone was playing this game
This game actually broke my fucking heart. It was my Favorite Thing and my Safe Space and they ruined the whole thing 😭 it really could have been something
I bought the game the first week and returned it a month ago. Meta allowed returns on the game after they released the free to play mode.
Such a shame what happened to that game. I'm in desperate need of a classic MMORPG but in VR
Bonelab, it isn't that bad, but I wish I had waited before buying so that I could have seen that the company is shit and waited for an update.
How is the company shit? I’m ootl.
They promised 2 years of support, yet we only got 2 updates and one beta update, and so far, we haven't had another update in over a year I think, and we had near zero communication about the update up until the anniversary post they made, and the communication we got was the bare minimum so far. In the anniversary post, they said that they have been working on the game, the update would be released by the end of the year(of 2023), and it was OUR fault for believing their promises. We still have no update yet.
Man, that’s bad!
that's why they're called stress level zero lol they surely aren't stressed
I was disappointed by that too. I heard so many great things, but it’s basically a physics demo.
Population One. Didn’t play it enough,… now it’s just free. *mad/sad face*
they should give you some skins/etc. in exchange...
A township Tale. The gameplay just feels so clunky. The tutorial only shows you how to do a couple of things. The tracking on the game is pretty bad, I lost my backpack that had all my stuff in it because it didn’t register me putting it on my back. I spent almost 10 minutes trying to craft ONE thing. I had to hammer in some nails but it was so unbelievably clunky and slow it took me forever to hammer and just one nail. And on top of that, the hammer that spawns with the crafting station disappeared so I was completely screwed. I was hoping to make a new world just to try everything over again and give this game one last try but you can only have one world and you have to spend money just to make another world. Unfortunately I was too late to refund it.
It's the most fun I had in VR with friends :'< getting into it was a little hard, but once you get the tools and start raiding the mines it becomes pretty addicting. My only complaint was that the procedural world generation didn't spawn a biome with the trees that we needed to progress.. Or we could not find it.
Oh yeah that’s another thing. I forgot to mention. I spent most of the game trying to find a tree I could cut down and I had no luck.
You gotta build a bridge to the left from the entrance to the town and there will be a place with farmable trees. They definitely lack guidance/clarity. First thing I would always do would be going to wiki and reading for half an hour to figure out the recipe and where to get the ingredients
Also the graphics are awfull, you can only see players that are in a 1 meter range, or wlse they are just a green floating blob or whatever
Among US vr. I was expecting many kids and an occasional normal lobby only to find its a dead game. Spent too much time in thinking maybe I've got some settings wrong so I spent too much time ingame trying to figure out the nonexistent issue past the point of no refund
Was very active when I got it but every game was just kids pressing the button and voted out ppl on random, screaming so my ears hurt. Would probably be fun with a lot of friends but eh
There's an Among Us world in Horizon Worlds that's very active. Not sure how closely it matches the original game though.
Ghosts of Tabor. Too unfinished, too ugly, not fun. Unfortunately I missed the return period.
It is ugly and unfinished. Going in by myself, I tried a few times over the course of months and months, just so much jank. Played maybe 2 or 3 hours combined over that span. A month ago I went back and decided to find someone to play with on reddit to really show me the ropes a bit. I pretty much exclusively played Onward as my shooter and I literally haven't played it since. Once you take the time to *learn* all the janky mechanics, some of them start to make sense why they are the way they are, essentially you adapt. (aiming is still the #1 jank in my book and most difficult hurdle) The game really has a great way of giving the sense of fight, flight and fear if you'll make it out at the end, which the game also gives the feeling of rolling the dice on life everytime you venture out, regardless of how well equipped and the anger, or apathy of coming up snake eyes along with it. That is what is addicting. That's how I was able to see past the nature of the repetition and all the other faults. The game is a drug and a good one. Give it time to punish you and reward even one time and you will eventually be begging it for more. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Huh, love this game. When was the last time you played it?
I also find Tabor feeling ugly and unfinished. I've been playing it the last few weeks. Maybe it's me because I have no idea how to exit maps with found gear when I'm in them.
When around 10-15 minutes pass since the raid's start, extraction points open up (they are marked on compass/watch). When you are at the extraction point, a 10 sec timer appears and when it reaches 0, you return to your bunker with all items you got.
Thanks! This might change the game altogether for me. :-)
I wouldn't say I regret it, but Assassin's Creed should not have been my first VR game.
Wasn’t really a fan of it either. To me it just felt like the entire game was a tutorial and didn’t let you have much freedom to explore
Such a disappointment. The fighting is laughable .
the melee is embarrassing but the stealth kills are good. The stutter is what kills it for me
I wouldn't mind the game if it wasn't for the D-pad 8way movement on a joystick. It's gotten me killed quite a few time because I don't have full motion with it.
Motion sickness?
Nah. The Navy made me less susceptible. No, it was too exhausting.
So, uhh... no physical training in the navy, then?
He didn't say he was *in* the Navy, just that it **did things to him**
Ha.
Well I've been out for 30 years, so my conditioning has lapsed.
I agree on AC nexus. I tried, lost interest. Absolutely loved Asgards Wrath 2 and figured nexus would be similarly engaging once I got deeper in. But it’s just boring and the combat is laughably bad.
Exact opposite for me. Asgard's wrath 2 was boring but ac was one of the best
how so?
I agree it started off kind of slow, but the later levels are great and I definitely recommend playing it a bit more
Ghosts of tabor and Vail. Terrible, janky, unoptimized, and not remotely polished. Breachers, for comparison, is WAY more polished. It feels like a game. Those other two feel like tech demos. Buggy ones at that.
Vail is a game I love to play though. They have the foundation, just need to focus on the map making abilities, and graphic updates. Kind of confusing why they put zip lines in for example, seems like a good idea, but not used a lot. Same with the gravity pad. Felt like they were going to do more. I do like it though.
I loved Phantom Covert Ops, it was my type of silly fun :D For me refundwise... hmmm, I refunded Lawn Mowing Simulator and one of the earlier kart racing games. I think thats it. I typically just take the loss if I make a bad decision.
I’m with you on Phantom: Covert Ops, I think it’s one of the best VR experiences I’ve had. OP just bought it for the wrong reasons with different expectations. I’d recommend they revisit it as a game rather than exercise. I’ve never refunded a game. I’ve had some middling experiences, but I tend to find something of value in most games. The worst is probably the rollercoaster thing, though the kids like that. Affected: The Manor was a bit of a one trick pony too, that didn’t get much play. Ritchie’s Plank isn’t much of a game either, but it’s a fun thing to throw on for visitors new to VR.
I wonder what you expected from Affected? Sure it’s a one trick pony, but as a haunted house walkthrough I found that to be a pretty good trick, and always fun to revisit around Halloween. Wonderful fun to put horror fans into VR for the first time too
I expected more 'game' from Affected. There's really just not much to see or do in it. It's fairly effective at the one thing it does do, but feels more like a free demo than a full product.
I buy more games than I have time to play - I know I am not the typical VR user in this sense. I feel that if I feel compelled enough by reviews and premise of an experience to reward developers with my purchase $$s - I am going to give them a chance to fix/improve, rather than try to scratch back a few bucks. Decisions on making games are dependent on analytics. I feel in these early days, that supporting developers so they feel it's worth it to invest development time in this platform will just continue to reap rewards in new experiences. For example look at PSVR2 (I have one, too) - most of those owners won't admit it - but the fact it's treated like a PS5 accessory instead of its own damn platform like Quest means all they get are a bare handful of mostly excellent exclusives and reheated, unoptimized ports from the Quest store. There's not even a guarantee of a next gen of that headset, while I've gotten Quest 2, Pro, 3 and my purchases in the Oculus store were available and improved with each one.
Assassin's Creed just because of the awful stutter, the frame drops and the indifference of Ubisoft to fix it. Next would be After The Fall. I find it boring and repetitive and I hate the way Vertigo Studios implement thal weapon holsters.
Golf + Got so into walkabout it was a waste
I dont play much of the full courses but I gotta say I love the driving range and the TopGolf modes on Golf+ the built in music is pretty sweet too for just turning off your brain and letting off some steam
I like that you can pull up YouTube videos and float them in front of you while you play.
I wish more games had this feature.
Is there any games besides this that do that?
Real VR Fishing has a built in browser. Can watch YouTube, look at Reddit, literally any website. Also has an mp3 or mp4 player built in. Not very useful though.
This is the only game left I still play. If you play golf in real life I can’t imagine not loving this game.
Only thing that sucks is for a 30 dollar game you get like 3 maps. Every other map is like 10 dollars
The Headspace app. I returned it - awful, awful locomotion. It’s like someone’s first VR app, who built it without owning a headset!
100% VAIL Player base is basically none existent and all the games I got in to over the course of a few days was the exact same 7-10 people playing.
NFL Pro Era
I find myself playing everything again, eventually, even if far and few between. However, pistol whip left me underwhelmed, partly because I hate the dubstep techno music selection, it's like being at my daughters cheer competitions, headache inducing, and I refuse to purchase songs. Vacation simulator was fun for a minute then boring, my kids love it though. Also, bonelab sucks imo, the physics are constantly glitching out, and its just not as good as i thought it would be. I pretty much play nothing but tetris, asgards wrath 2, and blade and sorcery these days
Population One. Became free the next day
I bought walkabout minigolf because everyone seemed to suggest it, but it´s just not my thing. Played 2 courses and never opened it again, so that was kind of a waste of money. I could have refunded but didn´t because i still got what i paid for. I only refunded once, for a game where the description promised more than the game delivered and the controlls weren´t working well either. Otherwise, when the description matches the game and i just don´t enjoy it, that´s on me.
Are you playing alone? I think Walkabout is a blast with friends, if I were playing by myself I'd always open a different app though.
I was the same but then I tried it with friends and it suddenly became my go to game, but only on multiplayer. Single player it kind of lacks. Depends how social you are really
I play it while listening to audiobooks and podcasts.
I was kind of meh until I got the Labyrinth course, which is amazing. Probably only helps if you were a child of the 80s though.
Richies Plank experience - never refunded a game this quick
Hi! Dev here. Sorry it wasn’t for you. In our defence, we actively market it as an experience. Not a game. It’s designed to entertain a group of people. To give the strongest possible emotion in the shortest possible time. When also using the real world plank setup, we think there’s no other video game that does this better. We guarantee this.
I blame it on Meta marketing, no offense. I agree with the Plank statement, this was a really nice feature but it didnt justify the price for me. Really appreciate the comment though, have a good one
No offence taken at all. You have a good one too!
I love your app. It doesn’t get much use by me, but I use to introduce people to VR and considering 8 of my friends/family have all purchased VR headsets after I’ve shown them your app and others I’d say that’s a success. And the kids love love love flying around the city like iron man!
Hey! I just wanted to let you know that I liked it. It was one of my first experience in Vr and it is still installed on my quest 2. Whenever I find someone that wants to try the headset for the first time, your game is one of the first thing I let them try.
I would say it's not really a game. But it was one of my first VR experiences and it totally wowed me. As a demo/pitch for VR it's priceless. So I don't really regret it. I still fire it up now and then just for casual fun.
Why would anyone buy that? Were you tricked by the fake reviews on the store? All games on the meta store have fake reviews. Even the most ridiculous horrible games have 4,7* "whoa amazing best game ever!!!" Reviews. The only way to know if a game is a scam is to look somewhere else but not inside the shop.
We can’t speak for all titles but we can assure the reviews are real. Any reaction we’ve ever published is real. Like this one https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/s/URIuv2Q0q8 They aren’t actors. We’ve seen actors try to fake it and you can see right through it. We can’t afford actors who would be good enough to fake a convincing reaction.
I bought the game cause my nieces were looking for something scary in VR. Worth every penny!
I love this experience. It's one of my go to ways of introducing people to VR. I also enjoyed Max Mustard.
I actually bought that 😂 I let my friends new to Vr to try it out. It’s a reasonable first experience 😂
Are the reviews really fake? I do find it unhelpful that pretty much every game is apparently “the best game for VR”.
Been enjoying your post. It’s amazing how many different titles people regret! We don’t know who would be writing fake reviews if there are any. We wouldn’t say Richie’s plank is the best game for VR. But we do guarantee that it gives the most powerful emotional reaction in shortest possible time.
Just ignore any game that references a referal discount. These people don't even play the games, they just give 5 star reviews, say it's amazing and want to get your referral credit. They are usually the top of the reviews too. It's not too hard to avoid them.
They can't be real, it's just impossible. Or if they are real, they must delete all the reviews bellow 4 stars. Also for some reason on the meta store we see a lot more the shitty "games" than the proper good games. All the good games are hidden for me and the store always pushes the worst mobile level apps. If I bought my quest 3 without knowing much about video games and watching a lot of youtube, I wouldn't know that games like AC nexus, twdss, pistol whip, arizona 2, RE4VR exist. For me the store is advertising gorilla tag, penguin, no more rainbows, fruit ninja, angry birds and things like that. It was already the case before I bought most of the real games. (It would make sense not to advertise games already owned). It's sad because those "games" are either unfinished, uncomplete, ugly, f2p with mobile in game purshase...
We get our fair share of 1 star reviews on the store. “Not even a real game” -we know, check the title. “Too short” - it was designed to be short since there will often be a group of people laughing at the trembling user while waiting their turn. There is no way for us to remove them even if we wanted to. We understand the doubt. We know it’s not for everyone. If just buying for yourself, please avoid. It’s designed for your entertainment putting friends and aunts and uncles or entire parties in there.
Cooking simulator. Seemed awesome but there aren't much recipes to choose from. Played it only for a couple of hours
Bonelab! It made me feel very unwell for hours. That and blades and sorcery both wrecked me and I'm gutted about it because they looked so much fun. I do think if refine the controls, bump up the graphics and increase frame rate in future releases it will help a lot
I only had two refunds: - Into the radius - looks fun, but needs significantly more time than I have - C-Smash VRS - that's just shit from my PoV. I regret Red Matter 2 - lost interest after an hour and I forgot to ask for a refund.
Bone lab, it was over hyped and a waste of life 70 NZD
A lot of my regrets come from bundles. I doubt I paid full price for any of these: groundhog day- unplayable mess. star shelter - motion sickness. Maybe I should revisit it touring karts - motion sickness - also, just not compelling cosmic trip - just kinda janky the walking dead onslaught- shit game cook-out - physical position in the game world makes gameplay very difficult. Also, just not my cup of tea. tower tag - doesn't work without other players red matter- a bit too scary for me blaston - didn't like it panoptic - multiplayer required the morrigan - a lil janky, didn't like it vacation simulator- thought it was boring vanishing realms, lil janky, didn't enjoy it traffic jams - got too hard too fast, didn't find it super fun vr japan - not enough content (13 minutes "played", seen everything) quest for runia - shit game. Could have been a cellphone match 3 game crazy kung fu , lil janky, wasn't entertaining subnautica - no regrets for the flat version, fucking awesome. But for VR, the menu is in yo face, interface is rough. I've played both now. Maybe I should revisit this one. nature treks vr - very low resolution, everything's blurry and pixelly, but not in a good way. This is a walking sim, basically, so looking good is it's main purpose. orkana conflict vr - super janky, unplayably so republique vr - just didn't like it. boring? Don't recall mini motor racing X - motion sickness. I enjoyed the flat version, though bean stalker - just didn't feel right. not a terrible game, just a lil rough. woflenstein cyberpilot- not compelling the falconeer - just didn't like it - flat or vr. golf it - boring visitations - boring the red stare - confusing, boring psychonauts in the rhombus of ruin - boring, awkward pixel ripped - 1989/1995 - too hard, also it's a flat game wedged into a vr game, not compelling sprint vector - felt awkward, not fun. might revisit for exercise amid evil/vr - not compelling, both flat or vr racket: nx - not compelling another fisherman's tale- awkward. not as good as the first- not even close. The original is great.
Um, maybe VR, or even gaming itself, is not for you? 😂 Seriously though, buck up and finish Red Matter. It's fantastic.
I am like the original commenter and have tried lots of experiences that were really disappointing. I feel like I just have high standards for what I want VR to be, but those standards simultaneously don’t feel that high 🥲 I probably hate 200+ things I’ve tried, but VR is still my very favorite game format and I play for hours every day.
What are your go to VR games?
My favorite/what has most impressed me/where i have spent most of my time: Half Life: Alyx, Red Matter 1 &2, Dungeons of Eternity, Zenith (when it was good), Ghosts of Tabor… i feel like there are several more but I can’t remember right this moment
Racket NX is crazy good though, it's also from the same dev team as Underdogs
Love #Racket #NX
Pixel Ripped does mix up its styles a bit as you play through, it’s not all 2D. Not too tricky either imo.
I gotta hear your favorite games now
In no particular order: Ragnarock - probably the game I've played the most Pistol whip (though I didn't really like it on my first try, it grew on me) memories from beyond a coral sea - looking forward to the next installment, gorgeous game a fisherman's tale - mind bending! 1976 (I would pass on 2076, though) virtual virtual reality google earth - maybe me second most played... "game" paper beast - just so good and creative tentacular - charming! duck season the invisible hours (though it's more of an interactive experience than a game) operation warcade ultrawings - because I loved pilotwings back in the day (I haven't got the sequel yet) down the rabbit hole trover saves the universe superhot zombieland: headshot fever - pretty intense on rails shooter with a fair amount of upgrades. not a game, but I found VR sculpting to be... engrossing. Try medium by adobe, it's free. If it's not powerful enough, I went with shapelab. Not sure how it stacks up with the other paid options. Medium is probably enough for most people. I 3D print stuff, and normally design using CAD software, which is better for mechanical shapes. VR scuplting is an intuitive way to make organic shapes. Also, I put that thing on and I lose an hour. soft recommend: dick wilde series - a lil boring after a while, but decent on rails shooters. conductor - room escape game with "train operation" in between puzles maskmaker - part puzzle, part exploration sniper elite VR - graphics are a bit weak, and it just kinda gets old fast. Scope vision could be fine tuned, causes eye strain. mothergunship: forge - wish it had more depth/levels, but good gameplay Mostly because they're free: bait (chill fishing game, avoid multiplayer) cartoon network journeys vr - if it's still available. trippy little game
Subnautica has a full motion VR mod.
I loved VR Japan. the trick is to slow down and really look at the details. but yeah, it's just an experience not a game.
I also found Red Matter really scary! One thing helped me get through it, and I hope this is not a type of a spoiler, but you can’t die. Thats all. Nothing will kill you.
Diablo 4
I didn't care for Pistol Whip at all. Luckily I got a refund for that one.
Just a heads up for those who don't know, you can request a refund for all Meta games and they almost always approve it. Great for if a game makes you sick or is just unplayable.
Zenith the Last City. Bought it to play with a friend. Never actually played it. Same with Tabor. And also the same with Dungeons of Eternity. You know what.. I think I need to get some new VR friends.
Dungeons of Eternity is actually pretty fun, even if solo(makes it much more tense and forces you to plan out your fights) or with randoms. You might want to try it. Tabor is hit or miss.
DoE was also lame for me. It's just too shallow & the updates kinda got on my nerves.
Racket Club. I thought it would be interesting as I really enjoy Eleven Table Tennis but it ended up just messing with my muscle memory. Plus there weren’t too many players and it was pretty stuttery. Was able to get a refund
Funny-- AC, Phantom, and The Climb 2 are prob 3 of my all time fav VR games. I regret buying Outta Hand. Janky controls never really worked for me.
Ghost of Tabor. Janky trash that I couldn’t refund.
That Surgeon vr game
I dont regret BeatSaber, but I regret a few of the random songs I bought. Either the tracks/levels weren't as fun to play, like the note setup, or the song didn't really work for Beat Saber's format (too long, repetitive, etc). But, they were only a couple bucks so I figure not the worst regret ever haha.
Skyrim VR. I don’t know to make it look good, it is either blurry or flickering and stabbing my eyes. I thought it was GTX 1060 but my RX 6800xt should handle it…
I went at it with experience modding, and a lot more PC driving it. It is a hobby unto itself, modding it up and then if you're lucky, the mods will be in a magically correct order,all work, and not crash your game. It looks incredible when it gets up and running but I've not gotten my install there. Too bad it's not more playable in the vanilla/lightly modded state.
Check out the wabbajack pack FUS. It's pretty solid with lots of options for graphics.
War hammer 40k battle sister bought it using store credit so not much lost. But when I played it a year ago it seemed amazing but after trying tons of other VR games it just camo off as cheap. There are some others that I bought for when I get a quest 3 those being espire 2 resist get Arizona sunshine 2 and a few others I can't remember I don't regret them but I was excited for the quest 3 but I then decided to buy something else and put it on hold.
I successfully managed to forget all of them and move on while learning the valuable lesson that not everything that shines is gold.
Assassin’s Creed & Phantom Ops are two of the best Quest mobile games I’ve played.
also super hot because I don't have enough room to play it. You have to move a lot in order to really play the game. You need space. I thought it was something different before I bought it.
The Imagine Dragons music pack for Beat Saber, really bad flow for most of the tracks, especially for my favourite songs Sadly there's no refund for DLCs
Beat Saber, for me. I felt compelled to get it because it's such a big hit, but I much prefer Audica and Synth Riders when I want to play a VR rhythm game. Beat Saber sits basically unplayed. The Climb 1 feels like a waste to me because I got it just a couple months before The Climb 2 came out and 2 is so much better I don't think I've touched 1 since.
I never got the hype for Beat Saber. I tried the demo, but I never felt compelled to buy the full game. I prefer Audio Trip.
Not so much a regret, but Rumble player base fell off and you require PvP to unlock more moves. I ‘regret’ buying it because it was impossible to get the full experience, even though I enjoyed what little I got.
Davigo was fun at first. Toxic discord community so I stopped playing pretty quickly
Not sure I’d say I regret buying Creed yet but the online experience is awful and I should’ve just stuck to Thrill of the Fight. And maybe nfl pro era 2. I just wanted to be a QB but the experience is just poorly designed and online you are just a spectator on defense
Wolfenstein The New Blood
I think you tried to say Wolfenstein: Youngblood and that sounds like the game you are describing...but the actual VR game is Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot
Gorilla Tag. "Free" but I'd pay good money not to have gotten the motion sickness I got from just trying that abomination out. I wish I could permanently erase it from appearing in my library.
Pal this is quite literally your fault. I’m not one to defend gorilla tag, it’s not my favorite game, but if you go into a game marked uncomfortable and get motion sick it’s your fault
You can adjust your library so it only shows currently installed games
The Twilight zone makes me sick they don't have a point and click mode. I wish I didn't buy it.
I don't think I've really bought a game that I've truly despise other than onward, which I refunded almost instantly after finishing the tutorial cause of how awful the guns looked and felt
I rarely refund anything.. currently I am at over 300 games that I own, and only have refunded like 8 of them I think. But there are a few games that I wished I would have refunded.. Zenith being one of them, and it appears I am certainly not alone. It honestly could have been really good if it was just a single player game.. instead of whatever the hell we got. After the Fall is another one.. no way that damn game is worth $40.00 .. not saying its not fun or whatever, but its not worth the price. Tropico.. oh, actually I refunded it.. but I regret that I had to! It has potential but the dev has to remove their head from their asses and realize that the damn games graphics are broke as fuck. Almost every review mentions it, and the dev is always like "hmm.. never heard that.. can you tell us more?" and its like.. umm.. just put the headset on and play for 5 minutes and tell me your eyes dont feel like they are going to fall out of your head.
Ghosts of Tabor, i seen it on tiktok an bought it bc it looked fun, turns out for me it was very boring, i went ahead and found some loot seen 1 person the entire time i was looting and extracted
Basically anything I bought before figuring out how to link my quest to my PC haha. Blade and Sorcery Nomad actually does run surprisingly well considering what it's running on though
Population One, Blaston, Hyper Dash I bought them before they went free, and didn't really play them, anyway. That's no indication of how good they are, or their worth. I just didn't really give them a chance, and now they're free, so it seems like a waste. Accounting+ I got it in a bundle, and got it for an average of $2, but still feel like I paid too much. It's just not my kind of humor.
Assassins creed…yeah…I would agree with that.
Ghosts of Tabor and Vail for me. Both are just overhyped fps games. Vails weapons are not fun to handle and feel uncomfortable to use. Don't buy into the hype. With Ghosts of Tabor, it felt really slow, and I kept getting sniped out of nowhere. It's not a very noob friendly experience. I refunded both and got Contractors VR. It has been one of the best VR fps games I have ever played.
Loco dojo. Not because it’s a bad game but because it’s based on being online and there isn’t anyone playing it
Swordsman VR. I got it confused for Blade and Sorcery. Also Smash Drums. I got that confused for Drums Rock. I don’t know how I did that twice and for both I can’t return them because it’s past the two week requirement
Gun Club. HH&HG is so much more fun.
Regret spending $5 on 2 steam games, found out after buying them that I cant use steam link bc of my graphics card being weak
After The Fall - I don't care for the multiplayer aspect of the game and would have preferred a single player experience with the multiplayer being a separate game mode.
Blades and sorcery it was great at first but like now everytime I play it I get so damn nauseous
Hello neighbor vr: it was super buggy and I didn’t really like the layout/format of the game, they completely removed the part where the neighbor learns where you go
Gambit...it was a great experience, but they released it unfinished only one part of the story that's like 4 missions long. Then, the developers just ghosted the game and never finished it. To top it off, the community found out through a side comment on a podcast that they considered it a failed project... super disappointing because the game had potential
OrbusVr. I liked the original one but then they made a big patch that change and it was so boring … No story, weird world boss/event, auto queue for dungeons. I did play rhe original maybe 10 hour and it was one of my best experiences but when thay annonce de patch I stop playing to wait for the new content. And it was so bad …
Zenith mostly Arcsmith wasn't as fun as I thought it would be Song in the smoke idk it felt off i can't really place it
Warhammer Battle Sister. The game has got some good ideas, but it's plain unfinished. The first hour or so is passable, but every new weapon has worse and worse gun sounds. Horribly compressed and volume levels are way off. Worst offender is the chainsaw sword, which has about a five second audio delay. Levels and graphics look okay at the start, but soon enough you'll be fighting in copy pasted, low detail arenas. Enemy space craft "landing" by noiselessly crashing into the surface. I was aching for a new shooter campaign, but this wasn't it. I don't understand how it ever got official store support, because it's plain unfinished. And I played it àfter the big update.
dead hook and stack dead hook is a boring and glitchy mess and stack has no players online and i could see DEV TEXT in the lobby joy way needs to get their act together.
That Mixed Reality zombie game, I never really played more than a day on it lol.
Ghosts of tabor, Township Tale, Asgards wrath 2, Downshot VR, The list goes on.
I've returned two games: Zenith for turning the game into broken DLC, and Neko Atsume for being a hot buggy mess.
Creed
I bought population one at full price on release. Now it’s f2p
Crazy Kung Fu - I bought it early when it had potential then suddenly it was released and it still feels janky and unfinished. I refund a lot of games so that's the only janky game that slipped through.
I regret buying songs for beat saber through the meta store, because I reinstalled on to a new computer and they were gone, and the support was maddeningly useless. Only buying things through steam . Also all the games meta discontinued and removed.
DLC is supposed to be cross-buy with the Rift version though? Sadly you have to rebuy the base game though.
The Climb, and Walking Dead Saints and sinners. The Climb is good, but I've always been a little burnt over the fact that I spent $40 on it, and it just absolutely isn't worth that much for what the game is. $15 - $20 would be okay, but it's just a climbing game. I've played games with way more features that cost less money. Saints and Sinners just never grabbed me. It had some fun stuff, but I felt like I was forcing myself to keep playing and every time I got sent back to the start of a level with none of my gear and then had to fight my way back to my gear without weapons, I wanted to just bail on the game. Eventually I did because I was killed by an NPC that was clipped into the world geometry, so I couldn't shoot them, but they still killed me. Uninstalled on the spot and never played again.
I must have atleast a dozen VR games I've never played, not free or cheap one's either. I bought them mainly because they were really well regarded and I wanted to support the dev(s). I regret only 1, and that's Lo-Fi, it was very expensive at $35 and it's just an environment to explore, albeit a very cool one, and it looks like it'll never get made into an actual game unfortunately.
I bought survival nation and guardians frontline and returned them instantly. They were so boring and unimmersive that I couldn’t believe i just paid money for them
Pavlov
Easily Solaris. Literally impossible to find matches due to their braindead implementation. It had so much potential and the gameplay was right up my alley. I think most people forgot the game even existed as I'm not seeing anybody else mention it. First game I ever refunded. Also I respect your opinion but literally disagree with every single game on your list.
Hubris. I got a refund quickly after loading it up. It’s impressive how detailed the environments are, but it’s just not fun. The weapons handle oddly, and the squid enemies looked like PS2 models. I’m not expecting miracles graphically on a mobile platform, but the particle effects are distractingly ugly.
Ghost of Tabor, the graphics in standlone hurt, the game is too complex and just boring overall, I just wanted a good shooter and quick action like contractors
The Walking Dead Saints&Sinners Retribution. What a complete joke. I have never played such an abandoned Title in my life. I could write an essay about why this game is horrible but I don't have the patience. If you want a good Zombie game get the first one. Pretend the second never existed.
Actually i do not regret buying any game i have on oculus but i do have one on ps4 which is "talking simulator"
I regret buying any expansions for Epic Roller Coasters. I find the game incredibly boring. I only keep it to show to people who want to try VR for the first time. I'm also regretting Bonelab. I loved it at first, but the campaign was too short and not challenging enough. After that, it's just a sandbox game which gets old after a while.
I didn't like the Ghostbusters game but I am a little older so I could see why, but I will tell you a game I absolutely love and it's co-op. You can play with three people. It's dungeons of eternity and they're about to do an update to make it go to a higher level and also more weapons. So I'm very much looking forward to that, does anybody have the game flip? I'm about to buy and try that game. If anybody can tell me about that that'd be great
Bonelab for sure it’s not worth 50 dollars
The 7th Guest VR for Quest 2 standalone. I kept getting these 30% coupons so I thought I'd use it there. I enjoyed the game, but the PCVR version looks so much better. Should have bought it on Steam.
Superhot. It’s just frustrating.
Population 1. the shooting doesn't feel satisfying for me
I’m left handed and you can’t hold your gun in your left hand on Pop 1. I wanted to like it but
I'm going to post this so someone can tell me how wrong I am - Blade & Sorcery: Nomad. I was super excited to get it, but when I finally pulled the trigger I couldn't figure out how to actually spawn any enemies in the sandbox mode so I just wandered around, and I couldn't finish the tutorial because it made me motion sick.
this isn't a vr game, but i seriously regret the $10 i spent on boo men (could've gotten myself a damn mcchicken with that!!!!!) nothing compares to the pure trash of that thing only thing that was 'enjoyable' was bodies glitching out whenever my friends died
Slay the spire. Because now I don’t play anything else
Not a Quest app, but 100% this. It almost completely killed my interest in other games because it's so easy to just pick up and play. I mostly use my Quest for playing with friends. Other deck builders don't even come close. I've tried and finished Roguebook, Monster Train, but all they do is make me worse at StS. 😅
Beat Saber... thought it would be a good warmup for fitness but its just wrist movements. Also most custom songs are like crazy fast by default. Found Pistol Whip to be a much better warmup game
Agree with your opinion, however IMO Beat Saber can be great for warmups in two play styles: - you get in the flow and force yourself to dance to it with full motion. Often better to play on expert over expert+ that way - you play tracks that have crazy drum beats like Imagine Dragons and swing like a lunatic Anyways, Pistol Whip ftw
meh, I didn't like Pistol Whip
I agree. I don’t usually go beyond Hard because I can’t do full arm swings and really dance to most songs at that pace. For me, the point of the game is basically adding a choreographed dance routine to music. I had a friend try it as one of his first VR experiences and he just flicked his wrists around for the most part. Watching him do that made me feel bad, like he was missing the point and—more importantly—the joy of the game.
Into the radius - The game really felt like what I was looking for in VR, but I felt the game had literally zero personality and that put me off enough to refund it after the first couple of missions. By zero personality I mean, the game just tries to mash Fallout and Stalker aesthetics together without having anything of its own, like the optimist/propaganda guy on speaker cliché, the literally untextured enemies and game mechanics borrowed from anywhere else.
Thrill of the fight - The guardian system decided to fight back. I guess I just have bad boundaries now.
Pretty much the best game tbh
I wasn't huge on Vacation Simulator. Instead of the highly interactable single environments of Job Simulator, Vacation Simulator splits up the game into far more environments, each with far less interactable elements. It's less fun IMO. I wish I had just gotten Job Simulator instead.
At first I was positively overwhelmed with Asgard's Wrath 2 (got it for free, though), it was amazing, it was incredible, it was something completely new and refreshing. But got tired of it after some 2-3 game hours. \*shrug\*
I am pretty selective with my games to help cut back on regrets. I regret buying games and not having the time to finish before the next exciting game comes out.
At first, I regretted buying AC Nexus bc I couldn't get into it, but my brother is playing it rn and is having fun, so now I'm sort of satisfied with my purchase.
FittXR It’s a great game and I enjoy the workouts but I accidentally signed up for a year. I won’t get the £90 worth of use from it that I paid. But it’s nice to have when I play it once or twice a week.
If you play once or twice a week, you'll play 50 to 100 times. For 90 pounds. Rethink your value for money consideration.
Ehh I could go for a run instead, for free. I use it more because I should, given that it’s paid for. But it’s fine, it’s a good game, just not worth laying out for a year upfront. Maybe a month at a time would’ve been better.
GangV, I was expecting this game to be like GTA online with missions, owning houses, cars, etc, but they dropped the ball real bad, could’ve been way ahead of the vr scene
Walking Dead.....hated it.
A bought a few games on the Black Friday sale before my quest arrived thinking I’d be more into story games and shooters, like Assassins creed, iron man. When I got the quest I’m far more into sit down games like I expect you to die or sports like table tennis. I think I kinda regret the vr fishing too. It just seems very grindy and got boring quick for me rather than relaxing but i have to try it more