Nighttime Terror VR: Dessert Defender

For some reason, I always expect everything to be in first person in VR. Well, this game is more of a 3rd person top down view. Well, maybe not top down, because you can change where you're watching the game at any time. Anyway, so this is sorta like a tower defense game, except It seems like you start out without being able to buy any towers at first. Your character (a wizard type guy) instead runs around trying to protect the cake from being eaten by cute tiny bunnies. He does this by [b]violently killing[/b] all the cute fluffy bunnies...they in turn will try to kill you. Eventually you get enough coins to buy a tower, and the starting tower is pretty weak. You'll still be doing most of the killing, only now while you're in range of your tower you'll have a bit of backup. So anyway, there's several levels and modes and making it through each one unlocks something else. Survive 3 waves of attacks on the cake and you get some kind of upgrade and then you can try to beat the "powerup" mode where it drops powerups on you and you run around trying not to get swarmed by bunnies for as long as possible. The first powerup they give you is a fireball. Sounds like it'll reall…

[H1] I played this on the Oculus Rift with both Touch and Xbox controller and they both worked fine without doing the Steam Beta fix the dev writes on the store page description [/H1] So I got this game on sale for .49 cents in the Steam Winter sale. I think it's definitely worth more than that. Not sure if $4.99 is the right price point, but this is a nice, challenging game. I definitely don't think it merits the negative reviews it is getting so far. I think people have been downvoting this game because they were expecting a pure tower defense game or a top down shooter, instead this is a mix. So you're playing in God mode. Controlling a little wizard, who apparently is on rabbit extermination duty. The rabbits want to get at the dessert you're defending. You can play with either motion controllers or a gamepad. The controls are a bit awkward. With a gamepad (xbox controller), you have to gaze in the area you want to shoot, but it's very easy to lose sight of the reticle. With motion controllers, you're using the motion controller to dictate where you shoot. So even though it's easier to move with a gamepad, it's easier to aim and shoot with tracked motion controller…

Twin stick and tower defense elements. Too bad it starts lagging when 5+ enemies are on screen. I have a GTX 1060 6gb that runs everything with no problem so it's weird that this isn't working well. Also the pause button isn't working for me either. It's a good try and if it worked as intended I would recommend it.

Capsule: Lovely Tower Defense + top-down shooter + god-sized involvement. I, too, would like to be able to manipulate my little avater a little more easily - falling off the table is a heck of a penalty - but that is a quibble. For the price I can recommend it to anyone who is looking for more toy-table style VR games. I note that this game *IS* in first-person - just that as that person you are controlling elements on the playfield that move separately from you. Unlike, say, Legend of Dungeon (which I also very much like), you are directly interacting with the playfield in your 'character' even as you drive your on-field avatar with the touchpad. Other reviewers disliked these things. I found the innovative and a delight to play with.

I've gotten a bit stuck on the difficulty curve, but I still got my money's worth out of the game.

Cute graphics, obvious VR adaptation of the top down shooter tutorial, mixed with a bit of tower defense. It’s very meh, turning to fire is very difficult.