The Nest (2016)

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The Nest is an Early Access free to play VR shooter game. It worked on my HTC Vive and Index system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. This game was single player only at one time and the players like it then, but the devs changed it to a Multiplayer PVP only format and the old players hated the change. Has 4 steam achievement, unknown if you can complete them. Has walking movement, teleport / grapple on sniper and grapple on slinger. Needs players that like PVP shooter games. Try it, if you like PVP shooter games.

Игра "The Nest" - это атмосферное погружение в жизнь крошечного насекомого, пытающегося выжить в макромире. Визуально игра завораживает: детализированное окружение, реалистичные модели насекомых и восхитительные световые эффекты создают невероятно правдоподобный, хоть и несколько жутковатый, мир. Геймплей, хоть и не инновационный, достаточно увлекателен: нужно собирать ресурсы, избегать хищников и развивать своего персонажа. Однако, игра страдает от некоторых недостатков. Управление иногда кажется немного неуклюжим, а обучение недостаточно полным, из-за чего приходится интуитивно осваивать некоторые механики. Кроме того, не хватает разнообразия в заданиях и событиях: спустя некоторое время геймплей становится немного предсказуемым. Несмотря на это, игра оставляет положительное впечатление. Уникальная перспектива, захватывающая атмосфера и чувство уязвимости делают "The Nest" достойной внимания, особенно для любителей симуляторов выживания и необычных сеттингов. Рекомендую, хотя и с некоторыми оговорками.

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"The Nest" is an abandoned Early Access PvP arena shooter for VR, which is why it failed. When developers decide that PvP is the same thing as content, then they need to have a huge player base to "go viral", and less than 2% of Steam gamers ever bothered with VR. This game was dead before the first line of code got written. This features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and it's clear the developers behind this didn't understand that. You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality product, this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must learn they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I had my cat walk over the keyboard while the EULA was displaying, which fixed that problem for me. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging real cash money for this. Price barriers…

Game is fun if you can find 4 or more players to play with. The locomotion and sniper gameplay is legit, not a fan of slinger. Compare this game to Smashbox Arena which has tons of good reviews, the pvp map in this game is too large for just 2-3 players and there's no bots to fill up the blanket. I can see the love and effort that dev put into this game but they may went to the wrong direction. Multiplayer VR game needs good bots to stay alive, just look at Space Junkies, a well polished vr shooter game developed by Ubisoft, without bots it's already dead when it get released. And it's not a good idea to introduce new class to a game if it doesn't have stable player base. Lack of players will make balancing impossible and it's very important for a pvp game. I didn't play the single player(cooperative) mode too much because it's really not that good, compared to the quest game in Rec Room, which is also free.