The Assembly Reviews

UPDATE: (I wish there was a maybe button, but I'm recommending anyways) This game is great. It works as a standing experience or as a sitting one in VR. I've not tried non-vr but I'm sure vr is where it shines. Pros: -wonderful graphics and voice acting. It's very immersive. -interesting puzzles and locations -very polished for a vr game -interesting story -5-6 hours of playtime. Cons: -no motion controller support -you must exit steamvr BEFORE launching the game. It caused a lot of problems for me, as you can see in the later end of this review. -costs extra for VR. (OLD REVIEW)The following has been fixed: Unplayable mess on my Vive. I meet more than the system expecations and I'm getting nothing but missed frames. I've tried on two systems so far. I'll hold on to the game and change my review if it is fixed within a reasonable amount of time. But for now, no go. I also don't understand why I had to pay $10 extra for VR support when it's supposedly a VR game. I understand if it was a game like "The Vanishing of Ethan Carter" which was origninally a non-vr game. I'll gladly support that and pay extra since they put in EXTRA work to port their game over. If this was built from the ground up, there is no reason to nickle and dime us.

Didn't get very far into it. The story and gameplay seems interesting enough, but really needs support for index controllers. Some other QOL changes would be nice, too. Like, being able to recenter the camera view. Made it very frustrating to play.

DONT BELIEVE THE OTHER REVIEWERS!!!!! The game looks nice and has an intruiging framework with this mystical organisation. The puzzles are demanding and interesting as well. NONETHELESS: the game takes like 2 hours to play through and the story is a HUGE disappointment in the end without any real implications for the planet or something, like i wouldve expected since the assembly is such an allmighty organisation... The disappointment will be complete if theres no sequel... which i wouldnt buy for 20 Euro anymore tho... I guess this whole game is just some sort of VR-Gag and wasnt supposed to offer a deep story.

I just finished playing through the non-VR version of the game. PROs: Interesting storyline Noticable attention to detail in modelled game assets Clever adaptation of the puzzle/sleuth genre into the intended VR format CONS: Short game! I'm quite impressed with what nDreams has been able to create. And while the game is rather short, it has some replayability. I look forward to playing this again when I have an HTC Vive!

It's quite pretty with fairly simple puzzles and seems fairly linear. It is quite short and there only seems to be a little bit of replayability [spoiler]I might go back and discover the other Adam options[/spoiler] The controls are fairly well done and the story isn't bad. Feels a little odd that in a high security secret lab, almost no-one locks their PCs, they leave confidential files in plain sight and leave incriminating evidence on memo recorders but then the entire story is a little contrived! I think it is worth the sale price but there's nothing hugely new or memorable in it.

Keeps you mildly entertained for a short time. The credits surprised me. Other games like this are way better in story, world and gameplay fun. I got it at a reduced price and sadly that was still too much. Really, don't. - short - not deep - world makes not too much sense and feels very graphically dated - No graphics settings, requires editing of unreal config ini. - English voice acting is good. German voice not so good. Imagine your dad making up voices for a bedtime story - Changing voice to english required a secret start parameter from the developer mentioned in the discussions.

I played this with the HTC vive. Pros: -Story driven with great voice acting. I played the german version. There is not much story driven VR content but this would be good without VR too. -Graphics. While probably not groundbreaking they are good enough to feel like you're there. Playing with a Titan X Pascal at 1.8 SS it looked great. -Sound, Music, Voice acting - just great Cons: -The added motion controls are just that: Added. You'll never need to actually duck to find something. You can feel that this was designed for the xbox controller. It is still better to play with the vive controllers though. Could've been done better though. -Lengh: Played through in about 3.5 hours. I has a bit replayability with multiple endings and achievements though. I would buy it again and reccoment it to anyone who owns a Vive or Rift.

I'm updating this review after ending the game. 6.2hrs with 22/29 achievements, I was quite sure to reach most of achievements to be honest, it's a good surprise (especially the achievement for collect all dossiers). Could be surely finished in the half of the time, if you jump away to dialogues or exploration, but with a such mood could be better an action game than an adventure. Great story, extremely geek oriented, moral choices during the game and well... I'm sad the game is ended to be honest, not because it's short (to be a VR game it's quite long) but because I was totally involved into the story and honestly I hope in sequels or DLCs, so many side stories inside. ----- Bought it after the handtracking support update, as I'm a Vive owner. What a game and what a graphics! It's basically a sort of point and click adventure, but for VR. The story seems extremely interesting, with good dialogues and voices, and english subtitles are activable if needed (please, consider to translate at least subtitles in many languages). The roomscale use and the whole button assignment for Vive wands need some work, as the game was built over sitting + pad interface. But it's very easy to forgive this, with a such quality! Lots of interactive objects, pointing and activating instead grabbing like Job Simulator, but you can open any door or drawer. Finally a real adventure for VR, and a good one. About negative reviews until yesterday (quite a lot!) almost all of them came from Vive owners frustrated for the lack of handtracking. This is no more an issue.

Almost insultingly simple puzzles, story is very cliche and extremely slow paced, and is full of "pseudo-intellectual" nonesense and so-deep moral dilemmas. Not worth the money VR or no VR. The game was also 3hrs long, and I took quite a lot of time examining every room (for seemingly nothing mostly.)

If you like first-person exploration games with a slight touch of puzzles, this may be worthwhile when on sale. Otherwise, it'll probably feel lacking. It's not a Myst or Obduction or Talos or Quern. It's more like Firewatch, where there's not many puzzles and it's more about taking in the atmosphere and story than it is exploring worlds and solving puzzles. The game is essentially wandering around a few different floors of a secret research facility. There are a few puzzles, but not many, and they're not difficult either. Most of the gameplay is akin to wandering a floor, finding a key in a locker or a passcode on a computer, then using that to enter an area that was previously locked. The game has an interesting theme but played more like an interactive story than a first-person puzzler.