I Fetch Rocks

An absolute dream if you love sci-fi, simulation and engineering. Extremely complex systems to play with, fix and upgrade right from the start. Maybe could stand to give you the option to pilot a simpler ship from the jump and ease into the complexity a bit more, I like me some engineering/computer science-y games but this is pretty intimidating even for me, and I've been a professional programmer for years.

I've barely finished the tutorial and haven't even fiddled with the complexity this game offers, but the experience of throwing a huge asteroid at the station like I'm Marco Inaros alone was worth the cost of the game.

Definately a niche market game. If you enjoy VR and are looking for a complex ship simulator this is def your game. Every wire, every component has a purpose. Upgrade your ship, build complex automated systems, or just fly around and fetch rocks for companies. Its up to you. This is a sandbox VR game and it doesn't force you to do anything. You can do contracts or build anything you want. Some items are unlocked from doing special contracts so they def help, but you can build anything if you know how to. Lots of various ores to collect. Dangerous radiation fields exist away from your ship. Check out my walkthrough video on my youtube channel (Link is in my profile) for a walk through of the game's tutorial to see if its something you'd enjoy. I give this a 10/10. Very solid game at time of posting this. 20 hours in with no noticable game breaking bugs. There are some misspellings in their documentation, but the fact it HAS documentation to help you learn this game is already amazing. Fun little race game as well if you want to challenge your flight skills in zero G, also simulates inertia like space engineers or something. This game is comparable to it in regard to building ship systems, just not the ship itself. It compares to stationeers in the sense that it simulates data transfer and logic circuits, again, no base building, but this isn't about base building. Its about fetching rocks. :) Very chill game if you want it to be, or you can venture out into the radiation belt and try your hand at finding more rare ores or you can just poke around with logic circuits in the dock in sandbox mode which unlocks all the modules and tools with no limit to setup whatever you want. I do suggest that you play the game in career mode if you want to experience more of a "content driven" gameplay where things are unlocked and have some small element of progression. TL;DR - VR is required! - Its complicated but if that's your kind of game you will like this. Well documented Space + VR + Customizing and logic circuit control. If you like starship simulator, you'll like this game. If you like stationeers, you'll like this game, if you like space engineers, you'll like this game. If you like Call of Duty, you won't like this game. If you like Shooting and fighting games, you won't like this game.

Died of asphyxiation in the tutorial due to high CO concentration, as I forgot to switch the carbon plate. Excelent 5/7, would die again.

Great looking game. Just wasn't my type of game so i asked for a refund.

Every time I try to fetch a rock I always have to let go of it because it would pull my ship with it.

Awesome Game/experience. Runs and looks great on a Vive Pro 2, works great with wand controllers. Lots of attention to detail. Features a fascinating new take on presenting radiation exposure to the gamer, it looks like being inside a cloud chamber. Sooner or later, you will be designing your own upgrades for your ship, buying the parts and seeing it work. I wish I recorded this wild unscripted adventure. I had a ripe fat rare rock (that'll get me close to unlocking wireless modules) heading home and the radiation knocked out my lights, engine and half my gear, I thought about just quitting for the night because death seemed moments away, instead I prioritized the problem: first power plant then life support. By the time those were sorted, my ship and rock was wedged into the processor (during repairs I had coasted straight in from 6500km away, lucky I'm not a smear on the wall). Next problems, fix tethers, un-wedge, fly clear with no inertial dampers, all while servicing a life support that is chewing through consumables since whatever fix I thought I did. Try to land w/o inertial dampers, out of control spins, almost collide with station, now drifting out front I have to learn how to fix inertial dampers with an hour's progress at stake. Seeing the damper's instrument cluster light up after jumpering past burned out components... a genuine thrill. Got to the hanger, saved, now I have to repair all the wiring and buy redundant components and prioritize where to install them.