InCell VR
Luden.io · 2015 · VR, Free to Play, Racing, Indie, Strategy
PC
Mostly Positive79% · 28 📉 Recent reviews down 66%
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About InCell VR
✦ AI summary
Race through a meticulously recreated human cell navigating organelles to reach the nucleus and unlock healing technology while impressing a sarcastic AI assistant. This VR-first action racer blends strategic pathfinding with arcade racing mechanics and real cell biology education, with procedurally generated layouts that keep every playthrough fresh.
InCell is an action/racing game with a bit of strategy and science thrown into the mix in a rare and highly unusual microworld of the carefully recreated human cell. This is the right project to start your acquaintance with VR or receive new VR impressions. The game is focused on Virtual Reality but you can play just fine without a set.
Thanks to all robot-gods out there we will not take this journey alone - our humble (with a tiny control-everyone mania) assistant is waiting for us (she is so sweet, isn’t she?). The Most Excellent Assistant Zero-Seven (she said that humans may refer to her simply as ‘Your Highness’). So the player’s task is to impress TMEAR07 with experiment on volunteer to unlock new healing technology for humanity. The problem is she doesn’t believe in that possibility because humans are simple and illogical (and she is genius… as always).
To cure our volunteer Mrs. Jane Smith and impress TMEAR07 players must select the right way through the objects (organelles) to the cell’s nucleus and do their best in innovative radial racings between selected objects. Each object provides unique abilities to improve racing params or to protect cell with different strategies.
Getting closer to understanding cell structure and organelles functions (which are similar to the real functionality of the organelles) players will improve their skills and will have a chance to impress completely suspicious The Most Excellent Assistant Zero-Seven (who knows why is she so much aware of the other six Excellent Assistant Robots disassembling…).
One old and wise robot (he is still remember his 386 childhood) said that it’s a bad idea to make this kind of girl-robot sad…
Ready steady go!
Thanks to all robot-gods out there we will not take this journey alone - our humble (with a tiny control-everyone mania) assistant is waiting for us (she is so sweet, isn’t she?). The Most Excellent Assistant Zero-Seven (she said that humans may refer to her simply as ‘Your Highness’). So the player’s task is to impress TMEAR07 with experiment on volunteer to unlock new healing technology for humanity. The problem is she doesn’t believe in that possibility because humans are simple and illogical (and she is genius… as always).
To cure our volunteer Mrs. Jane Smith and impress TMEAR07 players must select the right way through the objects (organelles) to the cell’s nucleus and do their best in innovative radial racings between selected objects. Each object provides unique abilities to improve racing params or to protect cell with different strategies.
How is it going inside the cell?
Getting closer to understanding cell structure and organelles functions (which are similar to the real functionality of the organelles) players will improve their skills and will have a chance to impress completely suspicious The Most Excellent Assistant Zero-Seven (who knows why is she so much aware of the other six Excellent Assistant Robots disassembling…).
One old and wise robot (he is still remember his 386 childhood) said that it’s a bad idea to make this kind of girl-robot sad…
Features
- Playable with VR (control the movement with your head only, or use keyboard and joystick).
- Solve the riddle of TMEAR07, find out why doesn’t she believe in the humanity (may be it is just robot’s bad today or some silicon stuff inside your PC makes she sad)?
- With each new start the cell structure will be generated anew placing the organelles in different locations.
- This game is a perfect opportunity to learn more about cell microstructure, different organelles and their roles in cell vital activity.
- Unlock harder difficulties where the true challenge awaits.
Hot keys
- Space - recenter camera position in VR mode
- M - switch mirroring VR picture on monitor
- Esc - pause and options menu
- F5 - hide or show UI
- F6 - hide or show bathyscaphe
- F1 - graphics for recommended hardware
- F2 - graphics for older hardware
- F3 - decrease rotation speed (highly not recommended, only for experienced VR players)
- F4 - increase rotation speed (highly not recommended, only for experienced VR players)
- F7 - reset rotation speed to default
Known issues
- VR on Linux is not yet implemented
- If you are not using gamepad you may want to plug it off to switch game in mouse/keyboard control mode.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
InCell VR has a funny name.17 found this helpful
[h1] Slide along the pipes while grabbing protein cells, speed boosts and avoiding obstacles. As the game doesn't introduce much it gets repetitive fast. Obviously have some educational value where you learn a bit about cells, still gameplay is pretty much basic. Might be more interesting on VR though. Worth checking out but don't expect something amazing. Take that virus! [/h1]8 found this helpful
"InCell VR" is not to be confused with "incels", a group of unfortunate men who can't get dates so spend their time writing Ren'Py ebooks and RPG Maker asset flips about their imaginary girlfriends and publishing them through Steam Direct. Instead, "InCell VR" is a pointless VR tech demo, a primitive racing game with bad graphics and a loose and lame "science" theme. What do you do in the game? Gameplay involves navigating and racing through the cell's components, and utilizing various strategies, like using organelles' abilities, while clunkily through badly recreated "biology" like environments. All in VR, because the game stood no chance without VR support, which tells us all we need to know. Note: It does work without VR, there's still no reason to play this. The graphics aren't great, very poor quality neon/minimalist cell-like imagery, poor assets and bad optimisation. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve …4 found this helpful
Игра "InCell VR" погружает в микромир клетки, где игрок управляет молекулами, борясь с болезнями. Графика привлекательна, а VR-эффекты добавляют ощущение масштаба. Геймплей интуитивен, но требует времени для освоения. Особенно впечатляет симуляция биологических процессов. Однако сюжет минимальный, а сложность задач иногда несоответствует уровню. Подойдёт любителям научной фантастики и VR-опытов.
Nice Visual, Good concept, Good VR Demo for 2015 standards. Just like inMind VR, I expect more learning than gaming.
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