
Behind Border Zone is a PC VR game with Oculus support, in which the player has the opportunity to receive an immersive experience in three different worlds.
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[h1]Experienced on the Oculus Quest 2[/h1] You can view my initial impressions review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/b2nJZEkd_WU Another Oculus Rift Exclusive on the Steam store! We love those /s. This game consists of 3 different mini-game experiences: Island (T-rex chasing you a pirate as you search for treasure), Burial (a horror, haunted house mini-puzzle type experience), and Replicant (a cyberpunk mess of a game). I will say that the Burial one is an okay experience and I was able to beat it in about 30 minutes. However, the other two experiences are just plain bad and barely functional as games. I got stuck on the terrain very often in those games. Locomotion is terrible. It is teleport only and snap turning only. There are no options or settings. Game is running on the Unreal Engine. The visuals aren't bad per se, but I did notice several graphical glitches including clipping & sort of a double image when the sun rays hit some of the mountain sides. Interactions are very basic and glitchy. Sound mix overall was terrible. I honestly think my video shows why I can't recommend this game better than my words ever could. So just watch that. [b]Rate 3.5/10.[/b] [quote]Please note: I received a free Steam key through the Steam Curator Connect program. You can join my Steam Curator group here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Oculus_WMR [/quote]
'Behind Border Zone' is a collection of nonsensical scenes that each have some slight interactions. They are all low-poly, all uninteresting and the "gameplay" if you can call it that is as bare-bones as they come. There is a small amount of text basic storyline, but nothing that is going to hold your interest and movement is snap-turning with teleport only. Now if this was free (or pretty close to it) I would have recommended you have a look if you are bored one day, but full price it costs £11.39 which I promise you this experience will never be worth that unless it was completely remade. I paid just £6.83 in a sale and I felt totally ripped off! - Do watch my short gameplay video in which you get to see all there is to see in less than 15 minutes. - https://youtu.be/7bpD2ojMXsE
[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b] Behind Border Zone is a Digital Homicide style asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unreal Marketplace packs, dumped them all in a blender, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers.[/quote] Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware. In this case, the asset flipper took a bunch of asset packs from the Unreal Marketplace and arranged them into three short first person VR demos. Of course, none of the asset pack creators are credited, we're expected to think the asset flippers at Soergame created them all, when we all know that isn't true. It has no value or merit as a real game. This seems to have been made a VR exclusive to prevent any comparison with non-VR 3D games, a comparison that this game would fail very badly at. Developers must learn that while VR is great, if the only thing that makes the game great is the VR, then the game isn't great at all. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. It's also important to note the "developer" here has connections to a number of shady Russian asset flippers and review manipulators who show an organised pattern to scam and defraud gamers with fake reviews and asset flipping the work of others for profit. While reviews are about the games, gamers should be informed when developers act unethically. Whether these connections are the same developer using multiple accounts, or just working closely with other unethical developers, gamers should be warned about the harm to gamers by this developer and their associates. Buying games from unethical developers puts your money at risk. This kind of asset flipping isn't harmless. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games from ethical developers. It makes it harder for genuine indie developers, who put hard work into trying to make real games, to find an audience for their products. It gives indie developers a bad name. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? Behind Border Zone is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]
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