I was waiting for a good VR dungeon crawler for a while, unfortunately this game (in it's current state) is not it. All in all the game still feels like an rough early access title.
The review might be updated if significant changes happen and I'll give it another try.
Precursor
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Unlike some other negative reviews I did not have any performance issues nor problems playing with a Rift S. My Hardware looks like this, if you have similar specs then you shouldn't have any issues with performance.
Ryzen 3800X
GTX 1080
Rift S
There's a setting room - no real menu in the main game itself - that allows you to change keybindings such as grip buttons and so on that some oculus users seem to have problems with
Graphics / Atmosphere / World Building
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Don't be fooled by the store page, the game looks a lot worse. Especially in the first basement dungeon tileset.
Most textures are really low resolution and non creature models for props are really boxy. The basement suffers from flat brick wall textures that make it really jarring to look at.
You can also just walk through some world props (i.e. sacks of grain) as they seem to have no collision which doesn't help with immersion.
Loot system
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One of the deal breakers for me, the main game loop seems to consists of explore, find recipe, craft weapon, continue.
Enemies drop generic tiered resources like steal bars that are used for crafting. Weapons enemies drop can't be wielded but instead convert to this generic resource.
Crafting might sound neat at first but It's useless fluff, there's no impact from the player, fill progress bar and you are done.
Nothing to do with your old weapons, no kind of reward or failure for how you handle the metal while crafting. The weapons themselves seem generic beatstick upgrades with no major difference between weapons - granted I've only got to craft swords so far.
There's also no interaction with the world at large, no throwing objects at your enemies, no breaking pots or bottles, can't hit enemies with the torch and so on.
Combat
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There's no possibility to sneak attack enemies, if you get within a certain range they'll just rotate and engage you.
While in combat enemies will move at their regular pace but the movement of the player is severly hampered, it's possible that multiple enemies engage at the same time.
I get that this is a design choice so the player can't retreat, but it raises a slew of other problems.
In general enemies will continue their attack animation even if you block - this allows them to go through their whole combo attack which forces you to block through it. Often enemies will then take a step back, the perfect opportunity to strike - but no, in fact you are slowed down so much you can't follow up at all.
So what's the next logical choice? Stabbing! But no, the damage calculation seems to rely greatly on how far your controllers travel, poking ends up with 0 dmg most of the times.
It's posible to stagger or even ragdoll enemies in combat, which is great but again often the in-combat movespeed won't let you take advantage of this:
I really hope the dev will change how this system works, less movement speed loss and restricted to an area around the enemy or higher scaling (slower while near / higher while further away) would really imrpove things in my opinion.
All in all the combat system felt very inconsistent, often enemies will strike at you and there's no clear indication (animation wise, physical, audio) that the enemy missed you. There is an indication when you get hit, as you can set bloody screen edges in the option - but the combat just feels very off in it's current state.
What I did like in combat with armored enemies that you can actually destroy the individual pieces of armor as well as the shield the enemy is wielding.
I hope the dev doesn't abandon the project and polishes and tweaks the hell out of it, but in it's current state I just can't recommend buying and I can't help to feel that this should've stayed in early access.
