Raygun Chess

Raygun Chess is a Early Access free VR game that is very bare bones right now. It worked on my HTC Vive, Quest 3 via Steam Link and Index system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. There are only 6 boards at the time of this review and they are part of the tutorial. The tutorial worked. Nothing else you can play at this time. There is no multiplayer at this time. Sort of interesting take on battle chess. Not sure how to play the big board with the 4 players. Looked like a tech demo at this time. Maybe come back to this game sometime Next year.

[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b] "Raygun Chess" is one of literally thousands of creatively bankrupt asset flips infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere.[/quote] This is a collection of assets "borrowed" from various places around the internet, like this [url=https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g2zDz8]Alien[/url] asset from Arthur Kokotov and a few others, kitbashed into a basic turn based strategy game (that has nothing to do with Chess). We're left to wonder if this asset flip is from the same business that made the disastrous Hitman 3 VR Reloaded, or if they're just infringing a trademark. So, "Raygun Chess" is partially or completely made up of stock assets, "borrowed" from asset stores and free asset websites. Little, if anything in this game is the creation of the "developer". While there's no up front price for this asset flip, the other problem with asset flips is that when developers aren't capable of doing their job and creating high quality assets, it's also true they can't do any of the rest of the job of a game developer either. That's definitely true for "Raygun Chess",…

There is a very good reason no-one has come up with a game to take over from chess and that is because chess is the perfect game! But that doesn’t stop ‘Raygun Chess’ from giving it a go. In short, it is chess, but with rayguns. So you have a handful of pieces that move in certain directions and amounts and if they get close enough to an opposing piece they will shoot it down. To be fair the models look good and so does the sparse, but oddly peaceful space setting! But when it comes to gameplay I just couldn’t get into it. The grabbing mechanic of the pieces hardly worked at all and when it did I found that there wasn’t a lot of strategy involved, in fact, you can win all the levels by simply moving your shooters over to the enemy as fast as you can. But hey! Someone might like this and it is at least free, so I will give it the thumbs up with a note that if I could have given it a neutral rating I would have. But it didn't deserve the thumbs down because it is free after all.

[h1]Before I played Raygun Chess, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]