PlanetFate (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Silver Award

System: Valve Index & HTC Vive
Price at Time Of Review: £2.89
Comfort Rating: Yellow
Genre: Strategy,
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+

 

Description: Defend your planet from incoming asteroids, aliens and more in this VR-only room-scale HTC Vive game. Position defence units in orbits around your planet, plant mines and keep an eye out for planet-bound threats from any direction.

PlanetFate is being built from the ground up for virtual reality. Being able to manipulate defence units’ orbits using Vive’s controllers and move around your playspace to identify incoming threats makes this a tense and action-filled game. The fate of your planet rests on your quick thinking, strategic skills and spatial awareness.

Review: PlanetFate is one of those games that is best off being played that reading a review or watching a video of it being played. It is a bit like the arcade classic Missile command only in 3D and in VR. While basic the graphics do look OK and you can easily lose yourself in this game for a short while, but things to get repetitive quickly and with only one main game mode there isn’t a whole lot to do here. But credit, where credit is due this, is something new, something different and that should always be reworded. I am happy to suggest you give this a try, but I would wait for a sale before doing so.