Apollo 11 VR

The game is abandoned which is too bad. You need to alter some security settings in Windows in order to get this thing to run.

This is marketed as an "experience" rather than a "game", and that's accurate -- the whole thing can be finished in less than an hour, and even with zero interaction from the player. That's not necessarily a bad thing, because there are such media as interactive films, where the viewer has some control over the camera. But a person needs to understand what he's buying beforehand (specifically, that this is not a game in the usual sense). On the positive side, this title can be played from start to finish with non-VR hardware now. It was originally VR-only, but it received an update allowing people to play with basic monitor, mouse and keyboard. Some people are leaving comments that they are having display bugs, but I personally haven't seen any problems. As far as the interactive gameplay sequences, they seemed pretty disappointing to me. Some games are "a mile wide and an inch deep" in covering a certain subject. By its very nature, this type of "game" appeals to a technically-minded audience, so the better approach here would have been to make a "foot wide but ten feet deep" simulator. I would have personally enjoyed witnessing crew training on simulators, hearing the theory of operation and other instruction on the procedures which will play out later in the game (docking, lunar descent, etc.). Instead, there is practically no instruction or even useful indicators for these things. For the docking sequence, the game will "fail" the player for things like approaching the target too quickly, but there seems to be no instrument indicating a relative speed, nor a maximum limit which should not be exceeded. The player is forced to fly blind, and yet the game punishes him for doing it "wrong". For the descent to the Moon surface, there is practically no instruction the first run; it's possible to quickly run out of fuel, without even finding a remaining fuel indicator (I did spot a fuel / oxidizer reading in the cabin, but it seemed static, like a simple texture / decoration). After failing once, the game shows a slide offering slightly more instructions, but these are also very difficult to follow, because there is no indicator of the actual and intended attitude / direction of the craft on its way down. It's a sadly-missed opportunity to educate the audience. There is a playable scene on the Moon's surface, but it is done pretty terribly (in my opinion). The graphics are so clunky that it seems that very little effort was put into it -- terrain and rocks on the surface look ridiculous, and there are no shadows cast from the men on the surface. Also, there's an obvious (and, I would say, distasteful) "Easter-egg" which completely ruins any sense of dignity that could have been conveyed here. It seems that this title is something of a proof-of-concept for teaching school children, or anyone interested in this area of technology and history. However, it's done in a very rudimentary way, and it passes very quickly, so it hardly justifies the price that Steam is asking for it.