The Nest

Most inconsistent set of controls I've ever used in my entire life! One minute the trackpad selects stuff, the other it teleports me ACROSS THE MAP!

Game is completely unplayable. Can't even get past the first menu (Using Vive). I tried removing the option to set the steam vr window on top, and also downloaded the beta... all for nothing. If you own a Vive, I highly recommend you do not get this game.

I would very much like to give this game a good review, I have seen other people play the game (Pre update) and it looked great! But for me, not so much. I got this game one day and spent 45 minutes trying to get it to work, unsuccessfully of course. Could never get into a game or get people to join when I hosted a game, IF hosting ever worked for me. No matter what map, what game mode, what settings, I would always either spawn in the sky, in the floor, or in a totally black room and be unable go back to the main menu or even see my hands! I will spend more time trying to get it to work and will comment again if i get it to work reliably.

When I first purchased this game, it had great promise. Now it is quite literally a completely different game than when I originally got it. It went from a single player game with promises of multiplayer, to a multiplayer-only (which is completely dead) game with promises of single player.

This is a very small very simple game. What is there is fun, but there is not a lot there. I had fun with it, but there are so many good free games, and bigger more full games for a similar price I think it gets outshined now. When it came out the competition was much smaller though, so at the time I was quite happy with it. Now it might not quite hold up to the value in other games. Still a postive review though!

Игра "The Nest" - это атмосферное погружение в жизнь крошечного насекомого, пытающегося выжить в макромире. Визуально игра завораживает: детализированное окружение, реалистичные модели насекомых и восхитительные световые эффекты создают невероятно правдоподобный, хоть и несколько жутковатый, мир. Геймплей, хоть и не инновационный, достаточно увлекателен: нужно собирать ресурсы, избегать хищников и развивать своего персонажа. Однако, игра страдает от некоторых недостатков. Управление иногда кажется немного неуклюжим, а обучение недостаточно полным, из-за чего приходится интуитивно осваивать некоторые механики. Кроме того, не хватает разнообразия в заданиях и событиях: спустя некоторое время геймплей становится немного предсказуемым. Несмотря на это, игра оставляет положительное впечатление. Уникальная перспектива, захватывающая атмосфера и чувство уязвимости делают "The Nest" достойной внимания, особенно для любителей симуляторов выживания и необычных сеттингов. Рекомендую, хотя и с некоторыми оговорками.

"The Nest" is an abandoned Early Access PvP arena shooter for VR, which is why it failed. When developers decide that PvP is the same thing as content, then they need to have a huge player base to "go viral", and less than 2% of Steam gamers ever bothered with VR. This game was dead before the first line of code got written. This features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and it's clear the developers behind this didn't understand that. You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality product, this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must learn they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I had my cat walk over the keyboard while the EULA was displaying, which fixed that problem for me. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging real cash money for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. 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.

Game is fun if you can find 4 or more players to play with. The locomotion and sniper gameplay is legit, not a fan of slinger. Compare this game to Smashbox Arena which has tons of good reviews, the pvp map in this game is too large for just 2-3 players and there's no bots to fill up the blanket. I can see the love and effort that dev put into this game but they may went to the wrong direction. Multiplayer VR game needs good bots to stay alive, just look at Space Junkies, a well polished vr shooter game developed by Ubisoft, without bots it's already dead when it get released. And it's not a good idea to introduce new class to a game if it doesn't have stable player base. Lack of players will make balancing impossible and it's very important for a pvp game. I didn't play the single player(cooperative) mode too much because it's really not that good, compared to the quest game in Rec Room, which is also free.