Far Beyond: A space odyssey VR

Far Beyond: A space odyssey VR

Mains Digitales Interactive · 2016 · Simulation, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, VR

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About Far Beyond: A space odyssey VR

1 - General Warning


For some people (1 in 500) becoming the last survivor (the kapaye) of an extinct civilization and be chosen to cross space in search of a new habitable planet may cause a dissociative identity disorder. We recommend that you consult your doctor to protect yourself from any psychological risk before entering Far Beyond: A space odyssey.

2 - Efforts and Repetitive Stress


Establish a travel strategy in hyperspace, schedule refueling points on the galactic map, scan and extract resources via the holoviewer, monitor the autonomy level of the spaceship in order to maintain the oxygen recycling system on and repair the extravehicular probes can put your body and your mind to a severe test. If you experience any of these symptoms (high sensitivity to the autonomy alarm, pain in your arms when you scan a planet, annoyance when you miss a deployment to extract resources or shame when you break down) please only blame yourself (you are just bad).

3 - Use and Maintenance Of Embedded Equipment


To help you in your journey, two extravehicular probes, Columbus and Digger Master await you in the hangars of the spaceship at the back of command bay.
Here are some recommendations to reduce the risk of damaging equipment:
  • Deploy the probes only to detect, scan and extract resources on hostile planets.
  • Perform regular and careful maintenance of the probes to protect yourself from the risk of failure.
  • Remember to recycle your used parts.
  • We recommend that you periodically upgrade the parts that compose the probes in order to improve wear resistance and increase their performance.
  • We do not refund the probes forgotten in a planetary system.

4 - Responsibilities, Failures and Deaths


By agreeing to take part in this lone interstellar travel, you agree to take on the role of the Kapaye, you agree to take the risk of failing, you agree to be alone with your responsibilities, you agree to be alone facing death. Naturally we clear ourselves of any adverse effects that the experience of a slow and repeated death can have on your nervous system.


Far Beyond: A space odyssey is a peaceful space survival Virtual Reality game combining strategy, reflection, resource management and human scale crafting.

In Far Beyond: A space odyssey, you play the last survivor of your civilization.
The last chance of survival you have is to take command of the Genesis, a spaceship on its last legs "supposed" to allow you to go across the universe and reach your one and only goal: a distant habitable planet, primitive and without any trace of intelligent life called "Earth".

Equipped with two mechanically capricious probes, Columbus and Digger Master, you have to cross the space, juggling between refueling and recharging the battery, extracting ore, repairing damages and planning your moves in hyperspace.
You will have only one goal: reach a distant habitable planet in order to deploy the E.D.E.N project, a demographic bomb composed of genomes and matrices of your lost civilization, to give birth to a new colony.

Will you survive long enough to bring back your civilization to life far beyond your own galaxy?


A game designed and developed from A to Z for VR



A perfectly comfortable virtual reality experience.
No artificial locomotion nor camera movement therefore no risk of nausea. (Roomscale for motion controllers)

No display directly on the screen.
All user interfaces are fully integrated into the environment to not ruin the feeling of immersion.

A graphic rendering close to presence.
Gorgeous and inspired graphics thanks to 4K textures and a native supersampling of the resolution.

A realistic and meticulous sound design.
All sound effects are in spatialized 360° 3D audio.

A possible interaction with every object.
Grab, manipulate, or throw all of the objects you can find around you.

A gameplay system, mixing survival and strategy, rich and hardcore.



A tough and certain challenge to every game play.
Successfully reach a distant planetary system safe and sound is your only goal. However, one mistake and the game will start again (only in the higher difficulty setting).

Human scale crafting.
Repair and upgrade the probes through a unique human scale crafting system.

A guarantee of replay value.
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy for each new game. Build and assemble more than fifty parts to upgrade your probes. Multiple random events make each game play unique.

Time as the worst enemy.
Each exit consumes the battery of your spaceship. Plan effective travel and refueling strategies to avoid falling into blackout and thus succeed in moving towards your goal.

Limited resources.
Fuel and construction ore are exhaustible resources. Use your two space probes to scan and extract resources essential to your survival.

Upgrade your equipment.
Unlock, build then assemble by hand more than fifty upgrades using the onboard ore synthesizer.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jun 28, 2021
I really wish I could recommend this game but in the end there is simply not enough depth to make the game interesting. The Good: - Disassemble and repair huge probes and parts of your ship with hand tools. - Upgrade your probes with new parts. - Resource management (not executed that well) - Graphically impressive The Bad: - Your upgraded parts don't do anything except last longer - No depth to exploration. Each system has planets that are either ore or fuel, that's it. - Even extending the battery life it's max is 10 minutes meaning you constantly need to find a system to charge in without running out of fuel. The concept is great. Space survival with maintaining your ship and equipment with hand tools requiring you to disassemble everything bit by bit but that's it. Upgraded arts don't do that much for improving gameplay and the one place that would benefit from longer life parts (fuel cells) cannot be upgraded. I'll probably play this a bit more but I do not recommend purchasing it. You've done everything there is to do by just going through the intro of the game. With some gameplay expansion this could be a great game but I don't think an update is coming.
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Not recommended Jan 16, 2021
[0.2] Controls & Training & Help [0.2] Menu & Settings [0.2] Sound & Music [0.2] Graphics [0.2] Game Design [0.3] Game Story [0.3] Game Content [0.3] Time to complete feels ok? (& if the Game can be repeatedly played again) [0] is it Enjoyable & Fun? [0] Could it hold a spot in Favorites? [0] BONUS point: Multi-Player related [0.4] BONUS point: Review for VR Stars received: 2.3/10 ___ Note: v.3 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions Game description key-points: skip and don`t look back Overview: early 2017 content with poor design and development. Let`s call it simply a failed attempt to make something good with open space content. also noticed failure with spacial orientation and controls.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 22, 2025
I would love to be able to recommend this game, but to be honest with you, I cannot. Pros: I love the concept. The tools feel good when you build and repair your probe. Cons: After a brief tutorial on how to refuel your probes, you are thrown to the wolves. Scanning a planet for resources is tedious and takes a different kind of power than the fuel that the scanner probe takes, (which is a different kind of fuel than your ship takes). No explanation on your other probe, which is just as important as the scanner probe. And when something breaks down, you just get a general alert. My driller broke down, and was just saying "Alert", I had NO idea what was wrong, but it prevented me from drilling... which is how you get materials to fix your driller. Solar System hopping is neat, but it's random, so if you need ore, you better pray to the RNG Gods that you get it, otherwise you'll burn through your fuel. (Which can only be gathered through your driller probe.) So, if you need fuel for both your ship and probes, you might as well restart. I will have say, that there is a setting that makes fuel recharge automatically on safe planets, but I personally feel that that kind of defea…
Recommended Oct 15, 2023
Very underrated game, my favorite VR game. Take the time to go through the Prologue to understand the concepts and then give it a try and prepare to be challenged. A good mix between difficulty, progression and fun. I first played it on the original HTC Vive and the resolution of the hardware handicapped the immersion. The visuals are well done and a lot of thought went into the game design and interfaces. Making a game this well thought out and implementing the concepts is extremely hard, well done Devs! I'm using a Quest 2 now and having a bit of a problem with the controls so I hope they continue to support the title.
Not recommended Mar 16, 2023
Space Mechanic Simulator! (strategic flying included)
Not recommended Apr 1, 2021
Fantastic game! That did not age well...

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