Babel: Tower to the Gods

In this giant Jenga game set in ancient greek, you play as some kind of tower safety inspector, modifying temples to the gods and making them appear a lot less safe. The game is still in Early Access but is already pretty polished and I encountered almost no bugs. I must have played about 10 to 15 levels, maybe more so far. Unfortunately don't know how many there. Already encountered six different kind of blocks. There are even tiny worshippers for you to smash with the building blocks (that's what safety inspectors do, right?). And before I forget it: The game has excellent voice narration that is genuinely funny! Be aware though that you'll need a playspace of at least 2mx2m! My 2xm3m space felt a bit too small at times.

I initially dismissed this game, as it looked like VR Jenga. I was very wrong. The presence is instant. The "humor" is great. I'm impressed with how many voice lines are in it without hearing much repeat. I also am impressed with the sheer amount of different block types they put into the game to make the puzzles a lot more varried. I will say that with careful precision I think you can cheat a lot of levels (lift totem up with one hand, completely destroy puzzle with other hand, win). Which I hope the figure out a way to prevent. Maybe users aren't supposed to ruin their own fun, but at the same time, who says doing it that way isn't a solution? Pros: Presence Puzzle variety Varried "humorous" dialog Mechanics are solid, the whole thing just works. Cons: Easy to "cheat" the little people running around the ground look poor (hopefully just because it's in early access). For the price, it's a good title if you're looking for VR content

*DISCLAIMER: I won this game in a raffle, so while my game copy was free, I was not given incentive to post a review* First off I want to give a public shout out to the devs for the haptic feedback in this game. This is the first time I've really felt like I was touching something solid, and the haptics increase in strength perfectly as you apply more force. Awesome stuff. This game is like if Jenga came with bombs and a sarcastic narrator. It's really fun and easy to catch on to. And supplies a great way to vent when things aren't going your way: the tower bricks are fun to destroy and the citizens are fun to squish. My wife caught on to this instantly. She loves the little souls that fly to olympus, and requests more detail in the people, textures, ambient city noises and more varied death screams for her immersion pleasure. Such a gentle soul... So anyways, this game is great, I can't wait to continue to enjoy this game as the developers add more content. Keep up the awesome work, guys!

Do you like Jenga, do you like to laugh, well if you do you will like this game.

It's kind of like Jenga, with the added bonus of "accidentally" slaughtering a bunch of tiny mortals. What more could you ask for in a game?

reminds me of a board game from when I was a kid that I played with my family that I can't quite remember the title of, mixed with Jenga. A fun game to just chill and listen to some podcasts to, while casually solving the puzzles. the dialogue is occasionally funny, although a bit tedious over time. It seems like it's been abandoned in early access, but to be honest it's strong enough as is. some of the planned features seem like they would've been nice, but not too concerned without them. All in all, a strong and relatively cheap addition to your VR library if you like puzzle games in general. The greek aesthetic is also one rarely explored in games, and the idea of being a godly city inspector is a fun spin.

Though I haven't had a lot of time to play this game yet due to demoing my vive the past few days (didn't put anyone in this experience because I was having some sound hiccups, though haven't tried since overclocking my cpu), it has been a lot of fun. The tutorial is well done and the game quickly becomes more complex/challenging. I like the sense of humor given by the narrator and the haptics work well with the in game interactions. Physics work how you would expect, giving you the option to balance some of the blocks on your tools or knock out a whole row with one quick swing. I have noticed that when you have the hand tools, some of the blocks swing around wildly unless you grab with both hands. Overall, the game plays like an amped up version of Jenga with an interesting theme. I've only played a few levels so far, but the level design has been pretty varied. I would reccomend this game if you like Puzzles even in the slightest bit, as it is a lot of fun and seems to be great value for the price.

Great puzzle/physics game, it's basically jenga but the narration is fun and its just generally fun to play. you absolutely need the space it says you need though.

The haptic feel of pushing around bricks with your sword, controllers buzzing when you hit something, is extremely well done and fun. The little people walking around your feet are enjoyable too, one can almost imagine strategy games of the future using this view, a god roaming earth to shape to their taste...

While the interface isn't the most accurate the whole concept is good enough to overlook this minor issue. Once I have reduced the scale of the play area so it fit within my 2.1 x 2.1m roomscale it got a lot better. Imagine Jenga if it was a game played by the Gods. The God is you. Don't make the tower fall. Awesome