Excavator Simulator VR

A fun little game that explains how to operate an excavator. My only complaint is that there isn't sound.

I can not recommend this game, there is no sound, you get stuck in the ground easily, there is only about 10 minutes of gameplay, the digging is not very optimized, also dirt randomly falls out the side of my bucket when swinging the excavator, the one good thing I have to say about it right now, is the joystick feel pretty good! I will test this game after every update and update this review if the game improves. Update, the cpu usage seems to have been fixed, I uninstalled and reinstalled the game and that fixed it! Still at this point will not recommend as there is only a few minutes of gameplay, and there is still no sound

in my opinion, its an good game, still needs sound, the controls are a bit iffy but only because there is a limited dead zone, it just take a little bit to get used too. 1. needs sound 2. ability to customise the excavators control dead zone, so that the excavator arm isn't always moving. (after playing for a bit it does get easier to get the controls back to a neutral no movement zone) 3. more levels. this game has great potential, keep up the great work.

Are you planning on updating or expanding the game. I work in an open pit sand mine. I would be grateful if you could add hual trucks to the sim and have them to drive off screen and dump their load when full. It would simulate the real world more closely.

I actually used this as a training tool.. I am renting a mini ex. for the weekend and wanted to gain some seat time prior. This was better than nothing, however this is getting a thumbs down for some misleading info on the store page. 1. There is no dedicated "sandbox mode". The only way to actually dig freely is through the "Dig Tutorial" 2. The store page states "operate a giant 90 tonne excavator in either ISO or SAE control patterns" however there is no option to change, you are stuck in SAE. 3. There is no sounds. 4. There should be an option to use the thumbsticks rather than grab the grips, the grips are a bit wonky because there is no return to home to stop unwanted movement. Overall for $5.00 it served its purpose, I am fluent enough with the controls to confidently operate my machine this weekend. However I would not recommend to anyone buying this expecting to have any amount of fun or entertainment.

If you actually take a look about the developer you can see he did this game as Computer Science Senior Design project in 11 weeks. You can even view the project on Github https://github.com/MrJohnWeez/VR-Excavator-Simulator I still decided to buy this and play around. Besides the missing sounds, only annoyances I found were too sensitive controls when first grabbing the joysticks ingame, whole excavator started to wander around. This is also caused by missing physical response since you are just gripping your VR controllers. And when digging too big of chunk (which happens a lot because previously stated issue) the excavator starts bouncing(flying xD) around.