Cosmic Awakening VR Reviews

Short and scary -)

Really good looking environment and the gameplay is pretty scary (in a good way). Not bad for a 3 person dev team!

Good start but I hate being chased down and seems it was near the end of the game after 15 minutes of playing anyway so I quit

6/10 Spooky and cool to a point, but full of immersion breaking stuff. The monster walks through closed doors, and also stands right in front of you but doesn't see you. Also, there is no way to move without teleporting around like an idiot. I do recommend this though, just. It is only half an hour long and if it were any longer it would outstay its welcome.

Never went to sleep, Never had an awakening. Timed Air doesn't really work in vr. The best monsters are the unseen ones. The atmosphere needs a bit of work. I would rather you play PropagationVR. Overall Review: What's in the vents?

It's a decent game, but at this price I would say wait for a sale. The game itself is pretty tense, and has you searching all around for keycards to open doors, collectable items to find. Almost all objects are interactive, which adds to immersion. You'll be scared to look around corners and find a monster looking back at you. There are a few jump scares as well. I'm used to them by now but still the game keeps a good scary atmosphere. It can be quite difficult to figure out what needs to be done however. I watched an hour long lets play on youtube to help me figure out what to do in the rock conveyer room. That part is quite intense. It took me about 1.6 hours to finish the game after playing quite a while myself then watching the lets play once I got stuck. Overall a decent experience, although more length to the game would be nice. I will recommend it, but I would wait for a sale as I don't think its worth 27.99 CAD. I would say closer to 20 would be more in line with the amount of content and polish the game has. One downside I did find however, are the graphics settings. Keep them all at minimal and disable supersampling for any type of playabke FPS. My OC 980Ti could play only with these settings. Maybe others with faster cards will fare better, but this was my experience.

Huge smoothing issues and the controls just don't work on Vive. It doens't seem to configure correctly so you can't pick up things off of the floor, the actual gameplay is honestly confusing, and there isn't even a way to exit the game. Hope you guys fix this and make it into a good game as I've been waiting for it for a while and was very excited to throw down my cash.

really laggy on my gtx 1070 with i7 kaby lake. i wanna hold off on review till i can play it as it seems to have a good vibe and potential for sure. but cannot really play as is on my oculus. turned down game settings too. i also think horror needs locomotion

I got this game in the most recent Steam sale (Chinese New Year) and it's quite the deal for $3 USD. I'm not sure the game is worth the full price of $11.99, not because it's bad but because of the very limited content. The whole story experience probably takes 15-30 minues, just depending on your pace and your ability to find the right items (the store lists the experience as 1-2 hours and I just don't see how, even if you are looking for every item, that is accurate). In fairness, there is another mode called 8 page mode, but not sure that's really worth checking out. But the at least those random modes do give the game some replayability. In any event, I had fun and enjoyed the experience. This game has lots of atmosphere. You're in a space ship and you have no idea what's going on. Strange things start happening. You explore and discover some dark events that happened. There's several things you can grab and interact with. There's some nice ambient sounds as well as just random spooky sounds. This game is mostly an experience, with very light puzzle elements. Think walking simulator in VR. Then the alien appears. Admittedly, this is when the game starts going south. The alien first appearing is great and it does add a sense of dread. However, it soon becomes a chase around the spaceship while you're trying to figure out how to get out. It does become a bit tedious, especially if you don't find the correct item you're supposed to find. Still, I had fun and got more than my $3USD worth. This is a game you want to showcase to family and friends to show off your VR setup. It's short enough that most people will get to the ending quick enough, especially with a few hints. This is like a mini- Alien Isolation (but not as good). It's worth getting on sale. Sale Price Rating 7/10 .... this would be a great game to watch a non-gamer family member or friend play while you give them a little nudge to scare the heck out of them :D

Finished the Story mode in under 30 minutes and spent 20 minutes playing with the ping pong table. On my play through I only had one bug with not being able to put an item down. Pros: - The game does look good. - feels like you are on a space station Cons: - The atmosphere is too cliche - Exploration is just a few rooms - All that "technology" and the torches put out less light than the crappy LED on my phone. - The monster resembles what I imagine Cthulhu's love child would look like. - Can't use the environment to hide from Cthulhu's love child - After escaping the first room with the monster it's too easy to keep avoiding it, especially with the distance you can teleport. - Game is far too short, there are VR demos that offer more game play - Interacting with items is clunky - poor sound design If you are the sort that jumps at their own shadow, this game will have you wetting your pants, otherwise it's not with the price. Note for the developers. There is a lot of promise here, just remove Cthulhu's love child, increase the map size and play with the players mind more, the scariest monsters are the ones that are unseen. This game suffers what most horror games do, gratuitous monster chases. With a VR game I expect 3D sound in the game, whispers in one ear, subtle noises in the distant and a richer story. VR games don't need suspenseful music (like is used when the monster starts to chase you); with the Vive and a good set of headphones on, the immersion is at its maximum so lead and control the player with atmospheric sounds.