PLASMATIC VR Reviews

Too many problems. The puzzles aren't interesting, and it is just too difficult to control turning the spheres.

EDIT: After playing this some more, I'll recommend the game for now - but only if you're willing to spend some time learning the cumbersome controls. This game is very different from other VR games and may only apply to very experienced users. It's also an inexpensive game with nice graphics, and it can work well as a puzzle game. Choosing Ultra setting does not work but creates a black screen - and I'm using a RTX 3090 and i9 10900K (10 cores and 20 threads). Clearly devs never properly tested the ultra setting, lol. I'm using Valve Index - tried SteamVR res 300 - 500%, got nice 90 fps in res 300% and 400% (using High setting). The game supports finger tracking for the Index, but only Wands are show in the tutorial videos, which felt kinda odd. The game has images of the Index controllers on the some walls though. You only got teleport and snap turning, it would be nice with full locomotion and smooth turning too. At first I was unable to complete the tutorial due to frustrating controls, but giving it another shot,I did manage to complete the tutorial - kinda like learning to ride a bike ;-) This game may profit from more play-testing to find and even out the rough spots. Btw, when starting the tutorial I could not end/stop it - had to fully exit the entire game and restart it - that's very annoying. Always give users a button to be able to return to the main menu. In the start you can choose between "Tutorial" or "New Game" - but new game automatically starts the tutorial - please fix that - if I want to start a new game it means I do not want the tutorial - or I would have chosen the tutorial ;-) There seems to be a potentially great puzzle game hidden under some initially cumbersome controls, and clearly a lot of love went into the nice graphics, and you do get some Portal atmosphere. I do recommend trying the demo first, and of course you can play the game for 2 hours and refund if you don't like it. I've decided to keep it - it is very special. Btw, the game seems blurry - but res 400% makes it quite sharp - you may need to use extreme res to get rid of the blur. Devs should add full control over graphics settings, not just high, ultra etc. Let users decide to use TAA, MSAA etc. The game does not support native Oculus drivers, only Steam drivers - just tested my CV1 and SteamVR constantly started, so Oculus users may experience a performance hit, sadly. Would be great with support for native Oculus drivers.