Tethered

It's just too shallow, and has too much busywork. It's cute. The "floating island" look, and the peeps working for you, are both nice visually. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of gameplay. Mostly what you do is send peeps around collecting resources, and not much else. At night, hostile slugs show up which you have to kill, but otherwise it's almost entirely resource gathering. It doesn't help that your peeps don't have a lot of independence. If a resource gets exhausted, they'll stop doing anything. If a peep doesn't get orders for long enough, they start getting upset, and eventually die. Often enough you'll send peeps off to gather something arbitrary just to give them something to do and avoid the "no orders" penalty. There's some outright busywork in there, like the fact you have to manually collect Spirit points. The goal of each scenario is to reach a certain Spirit score. You get Spirit for doing things like defeating enemies, but you don't just actually get the points until you point and them and press left-trackpad long enough to hoover them up. The controls aren't the absolute worst VR controls I've encountered, but they're not good. Too much reliance on mapping certain actions to certain buttons, instead of using gestures or clicking on dialog choices. Some of the UI choices violate common conventions, i.e. you're constantly pressing "down" on the trackpad to select things or confirm choices, instead of the far more common "trigger as mouse click" convention. In fact, the trigger button is never used. Ultimately, the problem is that you're constantly doing near-mindless actions, like sending idle peeps off to mine something, and only very rarely making anything resembling a real decision.

I played this in virtual reality. The presentation is very nice, but unfortunately the gameplay is overly simplistic combined with tedious micromanagement to accomplish those overly-simple tasks. I hate it when a game's design is at that nexus point of being both fiddly and too simple at the same time. It's the same problem I have with Final Fantasy XII. But that's a whole 'nother review. With Tethered, I'd had my fill of the game after completing the first non-tutorial level. It's not a game design that I enjoy. There are probably better God games in VR these days, with better interactions than using the motion controller as a glorified mouse pointer.

i like it so cute and im happy play it again in pc

game doesnt work checked on the disscution saw more ppl with the problem the fix doesnt work for all cant recommend

I hate games with broken achievements

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A wonderful little VR RTS. An hidden gem for me. Works perfectly fine with the Index.

Member VR? When you coudl push ANYTHING because VR headsets owners were desperate for that "Killer app"? Well, this is more of the same... ultra basic gameplay - would have been getting SLAMMED if not a VR title... only bought because people were absolutely desperate. Played it a few hours and got bored to tears.