Chunks Reviews

I've been waiting for this game ever since I first found out about ViveCraft (former name). The wait was well worth it! I spent what felt like a few minutes building an insane rollercoaster which ended up taking 2 hours. I can't wait for new features and community plugins. There are so many possibilities! The minecraft like textures don't bother me much and I love how easy it is to build things as you are free to scale from 1:1 to 1:64 very easily. Really looking forward to future updates.

This review is for the v0.2 Alpha 47 version. The 0.2 Alpha! For such an early version of a game it is amazing compared to much of the VR dreck currently available, sure it's not perfect and doesn't have a lot of content yet but I thought it was worth the price for the amount of fun I've had playing and letting friends & family ride the coasters I've created. The only real issue I had was I don't have a lot of space available so building can be challenging but once you get the hang of teleporting and changing your scale it gets easier.

I really wish I could reccomend chunks, and to an average user with the games out on the vive now I just can't. As a support of Gary and Gmod I would love to see what this game could be if some more time would be dedicated to it. I bought it early on when I got my vive and it was pretty fun to play with, it still is fun making a rollercoaster bank to one side then spiral down and slow it right down. That's it mostly, it's fun to create something to induce motion sickness to even the most confident they're not prone to it. The tool used to draw the track feels like magic, placing blocks is satisfying and so is scaling your size, but just nothing else has been added to this game in the entire time it's been out besides a zombie mini game thing which the controls for are quite confusing and difficult. I hope I can change this review in the future to reccomend, I really do.

No updates for ages (last update was in 2017 I believe!) and doesn't work with the new index controllers. Complete waste of money - should be £0.99 in its current state. Very disappointing and a clear example of what early access should NOT be!

While I really like the basic gameplay of Chunks, I just can't recommend it currently. Since I bought it months ago, there haven't been a lot of updates and when there finally was an update it was always just some rather minor changes. It seems to be almost abandoned now, or at least a very low priority for the devs. The game tried to rely on steam workshop for custom gamemodes but failed, since the userbase is just too small and the workshop almost empty. It's sad, because the game can be really fun for a while and has a ton of potential. It just doesn't look like that potential will ever amount to a game worth 20€.

This product is a perfect example of why you shouldn't always jump on early access games. I purchased this day one of release, primarily, because I like construction games and coasters. Thought this would a perfect mash up. It's basically a simplified minecraft with a super basic coaster builder with forgettable physics. Speaking of forgettable - I believe the developers forgot to continue working on this product as it hasn't been updated forever. I should have given the money to homeless person.

Holy fuck the sense of scale. Beautiful. Absolute must have. The building is really intuitive, though menu navigation can be tricky at first. Once you figure out the controls, which are labled if you turn the Vmotes to the side, it's really easy to teleport and start building. It might take a good 20 minutes until you get fluent with it though. The rollercoaster implementation is amazing as well. You need be careful though or you're not going to have a good time. Building of the tracks is easy and works great with the controllers in that you can twist the Vmote to twist the track, and tilt to tilt etc. Just don't make one that will make you sick when you ride it. This game exceeded expectations. It's been my favorite room scale experience so far and has given me the sense of scale no other game has done yet. Highly recommend.

While the game itself is rather neat, there is almost no community activity following the game. The developers, the guys behind Rust, obviously have their hands busy with Rust, so they're not very active on this title. Updates have been slow and minor, and replies on the forums are pretty much non-existent. I think there is great potential for this game, and it IS a lot of fun already, if you're ok with the extremely limited nature of placing coloured blocks and riding rollercoasters, you should buy this. If you're expecting a lot more development with new block types, new mechanics, perhaps connecters to make different contraptions, I would say wait wait wait. It isn't clear if this title is going to become much more than it is right now, as it currently feels really empty and dead. I don't recommend this game in its current state, simply due to the almost complete lack of community. There are a couple members making stuff in the workshop, but I think even they are like "What's going on with this game?" right now, So, take "recommended" review with caution, I was strongly debating giving it a not-recommended review, for the reasons mentioned above.

I'm a bit worried about this one, it's been in early access for 2 months now and the steam page estimated "“Around 2-4 months.”" for early access. The game has hardly been patched at all since then and it's still very much just the framework of a game. There still aren't any tools for custom content similar to garry's mod. Theres still time for this game to become great but with so few patches I'm just worried it's been abandoned.

Edit: Previous review still intact but here's an update. The developer, which is just 1 person at Facepunch, is still slowly working on Chunks and there's an alpha branch to use to get the latest updates. I had to go to the Facepunch forums to get him to talk and I let him know he needs to be communicative over Steam. We'll see where things go from here but for now I still can't recommend Chunks in its current state. They stopped development and won't respond to customers. Isn't worth 5 bucks and won't leave early access. Don't touch.