Aviators VR

Works on Reverb G2. Historic VR experience completely ruined by its visuals. The whole thing looks extremely blurry, yet there is unbearable screen stuttering on RX 6800XT. The game starts with short boring turret section, then proceeds with museum experience. I usually like the latter in VR, but here I had no intention to spend time looking around at such ugly and terribly performing visuals.

"Aviators VR" is a student project from the Polish institute of... yeah I'm not going to try pronouncing that. This year the students did pretty good with the 3D modeling and failed every other aspect of game design. Let's break it down. What do you do in the game? Well, you don't do much. This is more like an interactive museum than a real game, as you take on the role of a turret gunner in a museum. No, the museum doesn't have turrets. The turret is on a plane in the museum. Ok? Anyway it's in VR, it's badly polished, it's very small and has limited gameplay or interest... one of those things that might as well be a Youtube video. Nice 3D assets though. The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. It's VR exclusive, and that shows the developer failed to understand the most basic axiom of VR game design... if the only cool thing about your product is VR support, your product is not cool. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 6 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.