Well, it is a roguelike, in that every time you start you get a new randomly generated world. It is pretty difficult, at least it was for me starting out and getting used to aiming arrows. You move around the world and kite enemies, and lead them into favorable fighting areas. As you go through the level you earn gold that you can use to upgrade your arrows and or get some health back and maybe other stuff. At the end of the level you enter a dungeon and then there is a boss fight, and then the world resets.

As for how much content there is, I haven’t played it a whole lot so it’s hard to say. As you accomplish things in the game, you unlock new things for further playthroughs. For instance, if you kill something like 10 archer enemy types in one run, a new type of archer might open up. I don’t know how many enemy types you eventually unlock, although it gets significantly more difficult. For instance, when you start, there are only 3 main enemy types, an archer type, a sword man guy, and a zombie guy. Even though that doesn’t sound like a lot, you can be under a lot of pressure especially when you enter a big room full of enemies with zombies rushing at you, the swordmen approaching you and at the same time having to deal with the archers. Generally I will exit the room and start killing enemies as they come after me through a doorway, but the archer’s can also teleport! so it can be a bit dangerous.

RIght now I am dealing with significantly more dangerous archer types that fire multiple rounds of arrows (so that if I’m facing even 2 of them at once I’d better move to a more favorable position), swordmen with shields so you have to aim at their face or non shielded body, and I just unlocked some kind of super dangerous archer enemy type that fires a very quick arrow directly at you that is much harder to deal with and block.

I’d say the replayability is definitely there, because you always have a different level loadout, you’re unlocking new stuff, and you can go for high scores on the leaderboard. The game is pretty difficult. Some of my runs only last around 10 minutes or less and the game is getting significantly more difficult, although now that I am becoming familiar with the game I am also a much better archer =)

Unfortunately I don’t know how many new types of enemies open up so I’m not sure how long the content slowly feeds in, though I have seen some youtube videos with enemies I’ve never encountered before. You could wait for more content, but I think what is there already will last you for a long time, especially if you’re going for high scores which I’m nowhere even close to approaching =)

Ah didn’t reply to your question about saving: Feature Update 20666
FEBRUARY 22 - SOLFARSTUDIOS
Feature: At the starting island of Purgatory II and higher, you now have an option to take a break, exit the game safely and later continue from that point in your next game session. If you step off the starting island and engage the enemies, the continue point becomes unavailable and you must reach the starting island of the next Purgatory chapter to make use of this feature. We hope this alleviates the long play sessions some of you pros are experiencing!

Humble Bundle’s $15 tier includes Obduction. I was never a Myst fan, but that kind of experience in VR sounds like it could be cool.

Anyone tried Obduction on Rift? Worth $15 for that and a bunch of other games that will add to my Steam backlog? ;)

I played a bit of Obduction on the Rift. I can say it is quite the experience because of the visual nature of the game, although I could never play it for very long. I guess it’s because of how bright the game is? My eyes would start hurting after a while. I didn’t experience this with any other VR title but maybe it’s just me.

The game isn’t native to VR and you can tell. It’s been converted to VR. So you don’t really have an interactive world like Job Simulator, there are touch interactions but they’re a bit basic.

All in all though just being in the world in VR is a great experience and I plan to return to this soon.

Thanks for in-depth notes @Zenchess, appreciate it. I can’t see any better way to spend my credit on Oculus store right now so I think I’m going to take the plunge! :)

Thanks, @Zenchess! And thanks, @Profanicus, as I didn’t realize it was on sale in the Oculus Store for $15. If you were spending your own cash, Humble Bundle would make more sense, as you’d get a bunch of other games to add to the backlog and maybe never play. But with that $15 credit…

Looks like they launched Catan VR for GDC. $15 in the oculus store.

Yeah brought it down to a tenner in the local currency. Bargain! :)

Oculus Rift is down to $249 on Amazon without the VR controllers right now. If you want a full-featured VR rig, you want the Rift Touch controllers. But if you’re just looking for something for simulators like DCS or Elite, that’s a pretty killer price of entry.

Sims are still 90% of what I play on mine. I try out lots of other stuff just for the experience, but rarely play sustained games outside of flight sims in VR.

Bargain! (if you don’t plan to ever use one of the best bits about VR)

And you could pick up the Touch controllers and 2nd sensor seperately later, for not much more than buying the full bundle.

Oculus Rift edition of LA Noire will be released today! If it winds up on the Oculus store, might be a good way to spend that $15 credit.

Also, there are rumors about a VR mode for No Man’s Sky in an upcoming patch. That could be cool.

I’ve very much enjoyed Griffin McElroy’s LA Noire VR videos. Don’t think I need to play it though.

The Wipeout collection on the PS4 has a free update available for the PSVR that is supposed to be amazing. The whole game is now playable in VR. Going to check it out tonight.

Could the next No Man’s Sky update include VR support?

Anyone getting Skyrim VR today? I’m busy with Fo4VR so I’ll probably wait for a sale, but hopefully it’ll run better than the pig that is Fo4VR (still love it though)

Also, I think I’m mostly cured of my mild arachnophobia since having a kid means that you get dozens of giant rubber spiders scattered around the house at any given time, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to handle frostbite spiders too well in VR. I find myself turning away a bit whenever a radscorpion gets on top of me.

Oh is that out today? It’s tempting, but $50 bucks for something I’ve already played through about 3 times…

I was waiting for some feedback on the Rift controls before taking the plunge! If it’s all rosy I will probably be getting it.

Controls seem fine from Steam reviews… no real consensus in the negative reviews. I’ll get to this sometime. I can see the DLCs at last :)

Augmented Reality Street Fighter

I have a feeling somebody is getting sued by Capcom very very soon.

If any of you VR fellows haven’t already, now is the time to get your il2 on for 16 bucks: