System: Valve Index & HTC Vive
Price at Time Of Review: £3.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Party Games
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing or Sitting
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: 15+
Description: You and your friends will have to communicate and work together (yelling at each other) to keep the ship going!
Review: Games with social multiplayer aspects like Ubisoft’s Star Trek Bridge Crew and FriendShip are designed to make VR more social when in reality it is often just you alone in VR. The idea of the game is devilish simple by design, but rock hard to do in reality.
This multiplayer game only sees you in control of a spaceship that requires a lot of tinkering to stay active. In front of you is a panel with several switches that are called various things and you will get told what to do. Push this, Set this to 2, pull that. But often what you are told to do isn’t on your control panel at all, so in that case, you have to read it out so someone else can do it. Then, in turn, they will often read things out that you need to do.
If you get a good friend to play with you, this game can turn into a real laugh and often ends up in some playful blaming of each other. Sadly it gets boring very quickly and was quite buggy at times. But that is just about all I can find to hate about this game. It’s a genius idea that has a lot of potential. I just hope more people start to play it as it is a little quiet at the moment.
