Emergence ᵠ Reviews

Lots of fun and very beautiful to experience. The price is on point. I wish there were more fractals and coloring / lighting options and an ability to zoom in on fine detail. With a bit more work (the ability to use custom formulas, perhaps some way of producing static 360 stereo images to allow for more detail at the expense of being able to move, with a switchable real-time preview) this would easily be worth double the price or more.

This is very cool if you own a vive and like fractals. pro -there is a flashlight -cool music con doesn't use all of the screen

I enjoyed this very much. It would be nice if the "Render Region" used more of the visual space alotted by the vive, the square visual screen makes me feel like im still just looking at a screen. Cool visuals nonetheless . Oh and a little less sensitive controls would be nice, you know for those finer tuned details.

Great software! About 25 years ago, I used to render fractals using my x386. I was wishing I could fly in these abstract scenaries, listening to some trippy ambient or techno... Today, it is (almost) happening. I haven't had time to use it much, but I already have few suggestions: - maybe we could play our own playlist? - would be great to have a "random" mode... - ...and maybe a "flight" mode ! Great job, anyway!

Must-buy for the vive. It does everything i could have asked it to. This is literally THE type of thing i was hoping would come to VR.

Didn't know I needed this. I've been interested in fractals for a long time, especially Mandelbrot. Seeing it all in VR is another level. Highly recommended - great variety of options in the infinite universes to explore and then also playing with colors and light/darkness. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS

Incredibly cool but hard to recommend for purchase to anyone that enjoys seeing games reach an actual 1.0 release. This game is deader than disco but if there was a neutral option, I'd use it since the price of admission is pretty decent considering what you're getting. Just sad that there seems not to have been any updates since its release 2 years ago but it's still worth $9.99 to someone out there in its current state. edit: dev reached out re: my review and it was very helpful and kind and explanatory, so I'll flip this to positive and wait for the next update. Seriously, this game is great.

While I personally believe its very important to be supporting developers who try things new in VR, I don't believe this project is ready to be sold as a product on the steam market. The ease of usability is practically non-existant. The scale function scales the fractal from its object position, not the player position, making it extremely difficult to explore the fractal. There is only one movement control, and thats forward, so if you are interested in this game because you want to navigate and explore the detailed fractals in VR, you probably wont be able to properly do that until the developer improves this game. Also, it really needs antialiasing, as there is flickering everywhere, and there is a black box around the field of view, so you aren't even getting a real VR experience.

Gameplay is always better then words. Most recent updated Version 2.19: https://youtu.be/f6XDGL1L1lM

So stoked i stumbled upon this. Fractal Alchemist is still the better option for creative types who want to create their own fractal worlds from scratch, but as far as real-time exploration is concerned, Emergence is king. When set to an ideal render distance and number of iterations, the performance is Godly smooth and you can make and watch huge fractal transformations emerge at max stable frame rate. This one is an out of body experience that no VR user should pass up..