Asteroid Blaster VR

I love the idea, but it's poorly executed. The thrust buttons do nothing meaning you'll never get any powerups and your a sitting duck AND your emergency "get out of the way" button is almost instant suicide. Good idea, terrible balance. All it would need is for the thrust to actually have some noticeable effect and for the "oh ♥♥♥♥" button to not hurt quite SO much. Edit: I didn't give this enough of a chance. At first it was slightly unintuitive, but it's really not that bad. I was only thrusting backwards, to be honest I feel a bit silly now.

This game is really close to being really good. There's only one thing it's lacking IMO, but unfortunately it's a big one for me, and that's the ability to rotate your ship with the thumb controllers. I really was hoping this could be a game I could play sitting down, but right now the only way to rotate is to stand up and pivot around, which makes it pretty hard to play sitting down. I'll give this a thumbs up for now and 3 stars, but if they do this change then I'll give it 5 stars (for the price, and for what it is. Don't expect this to be No Man's Sky or anything, it's an asteroids game).

Attempting to get into the "Options" menu does not work. Is there a fix? This game has been out for 2 years now, and it seems that you've had plenty of time to work out any bugs. I wouldn't recommend this game in its' current form.

I've had this for years and don't pull it out much, but like it as a VR demo for the uninitiated. Yikes!

The best VR/3d asteroids option i've seen so far.

So I finally got to play this game, and sadly, I cannot recommend it. Graphics: billboard sprites that face you, and if you look at them at extreme angles and turn your head, you can watch them twist. Dev, go watch the dev comments on Alyx how Valve solved that. Controls: - You accelerate or decelerate in the direction of your view. You don't sit in a cockpit, your head has no neck to look around, nothing. Your head is your ship, deal with it. Even making the hand-slash-gun you're using for thrusting be the director would be loads better than this strict look-to-steer scheme. Catching items becomes a chore as course corrections require you to look AWAY from it while trying to hit it … how dumb is that?? - On Index, acceleration and deceleration are bound (by default) to grip. Enjoy unwanted thrusting and depleting your thruster fuel because in the heat of the action you grip a little tighter. While Ac and Dec are also mapped to buttons, the default grip assignment still sours things. It can probably be unmapped, but by now I've lost interest to look. Tutorials: - That's not a tutorial, that's just a manual reading simulator. It's text floating in space the player must read and also look around to learn what's shown. It could hardly be any worse if it was a print-out manual the player had to have open while donning the headset. GUI: - Just an ugly 2D-plane-style radar smack in the middle of your vision, nothing in the periphery. Also, big, ugly spidery button explanations on your guns (at least during tutorial) that you don't really look at unless you keep holding up your arms. The gauges often flicker unless looked at properly. Not sure why, can't be arsed to investigate. It's a nice and simple premise, I wish it wasn't left so terribly wanting.

Cool lil game I keep coming back to

Hard, Classic, Asteroids. Takes you back to time immemorial... The 70's! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nvth-kGtQ8

Remember the game Asteroids? That game sucked pockets of quarters from me. This spiritual successor puts you in a 360 environment floating in space. You fly by jet pack and have the famous hyperspace. It sounds really simple right? Throw in gigantic asteroids sometimes flying at breakneck speed and you are in for a frantic experience. Beware those pesky aliens.

Played the demo for a long time and purchased it once it went on sale. You can play waves which end after you destroy a predetermined number of asteroids or an arcade mode with endless asteroids. Using thrusters as your form of locomotion takes getting used to, but it's possible to master. In summary, it is super fun and well worth the retail price.