Wacky Wings VR Reviews
Launch into this idyllic, arcade-style ride and take to the skies to explore the thrilling and diverse VR world of Wacky Wings!
App ID | 566900 |
App Type | GAME |
Developers | Pocket Money Games |
Publishers | Pocket Money Games |
Categories | Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Tracked Controller Support, VR Only |
Genres | Casual, Indie, Racing |
Release Date | 16 Jan, 2017 |
Platforms | Windows |
Supported Languages | English |

11 Total Reviews
11 Positive Reviews
0 Negative Reviews
Negative Score
Wacky Wings VR has garnered a total of 11 reviews, with 11 positive reviews and 0 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Negative’ overall score.
Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
39 minutes
I'm a new vive user and bought this game in a bundle. Its good arcade fun and differnt to other vrgames ive played so far.
im only on world 3 (as i suck at the moment) but looks like i have a long way to go to unlock all the planes and worlds etc.
Overall its great game at a great price!
👍 : 5 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
1262 minutes
Wacky Wings is one of the most addictive, underrated and replayable VR games on the market. The graphics are limited to an old Atari style presentation, but with the modern flash and smooth animation of VR. The simplicity of it has you flying fast automatically while you try and stay airborne by hitting fuel signs in a constantly depleted fuel situation, all the while avoiding collision with the obstacles in your path, and collecting coins all the while. 40 levels are passable with bronze and silver medals coming with ease, but gold medals require a large portion of coins being captured and you need all 40 gold in the 40 levels(10 sets of 4 common themed maps) in order to advance to the 2nd thrid of this game.
The 2nd area is blitz mode, giving a black and white WWII style rainy night over london firefighting. You must shoot down 40 planes, all the while collecting the fuel they leave behind when destroyed. It took a while before I finally jumped all thw way to 59. Before that I had reached 30 once followed by a heartbreaking 39 and then many more trys before I blasted on through this section.
Finally comes endless mode, a short, fuel heavy replay of all the standard maps, connected indefinitely while you fly through the sun cycles of dawn to day to dusk to night and back to dawn again. You hear the cheers that ended levels before but do not stop. Actually you speed up just a tad with each segment of the sewed together endless stream and a nice arcade music track plays, speeding up in sync with the increase of your flight speed as you hold on and build up as much speed as you can surive past.
Platinum medals are bonus skins for the many different flyers you unlock. Besides comsmetic value there is one difference that really adds up over time and that is the tight quickness each new vehicle increases in handling. This allows you to try tighter, more aggressive cuts and cross over manuevers. I still have 3 to unlock still.
This game is so worth the incredibly low price.
P.S. I had a couple of problems a few months back due to bugs. The developers jumped right on it and patched it while thanking me for helping them discoverr a bug. I was impressed with their professional response.
👍 : 5 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
8 minutes
I like it, but I 'love' low-flying games (100HM anyone?) It's Arcadey more than sim. Tricky and fun. Try the demo, there's some cool levels later on, that I haven't unlocked yet in the full game, but are pretty cool. The one thing that games like this reveal about VR, is how absolutely quick and responsive the controls are, regardless of the VR element. Gestures are intuitive, and it will be interesting to see how different people respond to control methods, like this.
👍 : 2 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
405 minutes
My favorite vr flight simulator. Works with rifcat and gamepad like a charm. I love it.
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
221 minutes
Where are some fun this game was for the price. Where is very simple mechanic text Justice work!!!. I like to see more games use this formula and expand on it. So if you like endless Runners here you are.
👍 : 4 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
73 minutes
Bought this game as a part of a bundle and my word is it great. Imagine flying around, atop of a toy air racer, down different colorful environments and feeling the sense of exhilaration when you make the perfect turn to avoid smashing into the side of mountain.
The game features both 3rd person and 1st person mode that you can switch on the fly, in game. 1 person is my favorite and makes turns easier to measure. I still crash a lot but you begin to get a better sense of the simple but precise flying controls using the vive wand. As you progress, you unlock other flying machines, including helicopters, drones, dragons, a harry potter style broom stick, back to the future style cars, etc.
If this game had multiplayer, I'd buy 4 copies in a second. It'd become the VR equivalent of Mario Kart.
Highly recommended, don't let the simple, colorful graphic style fool you, this game can be challenging and really deserves more attention.
👍 : 5 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
8 minutes
First impressions: Lots of fun so far, plays great with touch or Xbox controller. Looks really cool, awesome cartoony visual style. Looking forward to unlocking more vehicles!
👍 : 6 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
164 minutes
So first of this is a great value. It is a fun "feel the sense of flying and things zooming past your head" kinda game and it is a solid game. The levels have a nice design and good artwork nice audio and music too. I enjoyed the sense of speed and the challenge was there.
There are some levels I liked better than others. Some levels it's impossible not to earn platinum and live and others it is the opposite. Some you will blast through and others will proceedurally kill you with impossible situations. The city I found was the worst. Others were super amazing like volcano and caves. Pro tip: get the FUEL!
Unlocking all the extras took longer than I thought. For example getting the Blitz mode required me to beat the regular mode. Blitz mode I didn't find that fun. Endless Mode was pretty fun as it is a bit more forgiving than regular but the speed gets much much faster!
So far I'm 2.7 hours in and thats a lot compared to many titles. I think I've unlocked everything. Will I play again? I do like aviation so I will try the endless mode a couple times and perhaps use it as a demo for new to VR friends.
👍 : 7 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
251 minutes
Great arcade VR title that is casual to play yet offers that slight challenge that makes it addictive and fun.
Fly your wings through each level dodging the obstacles in your path while also collecting fuel to stop yourself from crashing down. Simultaneously try to collect the coins to earn yourself higher grade medals which unlock different novelty wings and skins [i](Dragons, Brooms, Drones, UFOs etc.)[/i]. The levels are randomly generated which offers the challenge by putting your reflexes to the test and each world provides new environments, obstacles, soundtracks, and day and night cycles. [i](Worlds: Country, Snow, Sea, Desert, Cavern, City, Volcano, Toy, Space)[/i]. There is also the option to fly in 1st or 3rd person mode which can be activated via controller during gameplay.
After the campaign there is the added bonus of blitz mode which is practically a new game itself. Set in WW2 in a vintage black and white atmosphere you must use new controls to shoot down enemy planes to gain fuel for as long as you can.
You're rewarded once again after blitz mode with the added bonus of endless mode (I love this one). This mode features all the campaign world levels in an infinite cycle but as you progress dodging obstacles the speed increases infinitely also, making it become hectic really quick. The tempo of the soundtrack also increases with the speed which adds to the fun!
Overall great value with lots of detail and rewards for gameplay!
👍 : 5 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
578 minutes
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I first heard of this game in relation to a competition to gain early access to Dimension Hunter - another game by Pocket Money - the stylized "graphic novel" looking shooter game -
I saw the rules of this competition - to post your furthest distance traveled in Endless Mode - seemed doable - so I got the game for a little over $5 -
What I didn't know was that in order to unlock Endless Mode, you have to kill 50 enemies in Blitz mode.
To unlock Blitz mode, you have to have gold medals on all 40 levels - yes, 40 levels spread across 10 worlds.
Worlds include:
Farm
Sea
Cave
City
Under Water
Volcano
Giant (toy room)
Space
sure i'm forgetting some -
In Wacky Wings, you control a little flying vehicle or creature as you navigate your way through linear courses set with different themes (see world list above) - you use an xbox controller or motion controller to move the avatar around, collecting coins and fuel.
Interesting things about the game -
excellent handling - motion controls work very well with wonderful haptics, you can 'feel' when your fuel runs out - more than a rumbling, more like a torque/twisting inside the controller.
You can swap between thrird person and first person view during gameplay - first person is very very immersive - I did not get sick one bit, others may be more sensitive, not a problem for me.
Lots of different "wings" to choose from, including:
delorean from back to the future
W-wing (like an x-wing from star wars)
Tardis from doctor who
person on a broomstick
dragon
propellor plane
helicopter
submarine
Mechanics of the game -
FUEL: you fly down the course, and you need fuel - if your fuel runs low, you begin to sink to the grown and will eventually crash, fuel appears as a pickup scattered along the course. Pick them up and you are fine.
COINS: You collect coins for medals - to unlock higher modes and new wings --- and you collect coins for increased handling/manuverability - cool concept, makes you want to go out there and get those coins so that you can pull off some tight turns.
Overall -- strongly recommended, a very fun game with lots of replay value. pretty immersive, soothing gameplay - can play forever.
Oh - and I livestreamed my gameplay from pickup to putdown ( in two chunks) - first session was almost 4 hours of me standing, playing the game (you don't have to stand, I like to stand). Second session, I hit endless mode and made it to lvl 11.
The game is very inexpensive, but I think is worth at least 3 times the price. Fun! More fun than other games of the same variety, fun for the whole family.
Gets your pulse pounding when you are going for a long stretch in endless mode.
Here is me unlocking everything and drilling down to lvl 11 in endless mode
👍 : 11 |
😃 : 0
Positive