Disc Ninja

The environments are beautiful and the atmosphere is nice, but most importantly, the physics are SPOT ON. I honestly can't believe how well they nailed the disc physics and the throwing mechanics. It's been a while since I've played disc golf and I was never very good, but I immediately found myself falling naturally into the same habits/techniques I use in real life (for better and worse), because the disc responds exactly as expected to differences in throwing velocity, timing of release, angle of attack, the angular velocity of your arm at the time of release, etc. I'm super super impressed — there's obviously a lot of content and features yet to come, but the core gameplay mechanics are *way* more polished and tuned than I would have expected from a week-one early access title.

There is throw a disc....That is the entire game. Scenery is neat looking. The tutorial is a single image on how to move your arm. Not even where to throw to get to the "hole"/"net". After that really hard to find where to go for the "hole". Velocity seems incredibly low IE you can throw 15 meters max. And overall just not fun. There is nothing going on here.

disc golfer here! no real physics!! wait till updates !! disc throwing not right!!!!

Oh, there's a lot to like here. The environments are beautiful and varied, there are nice changes in elevation and the path wraps around buildings or natural features to keep things interesting, and there are some fun moving obstacles. There's lots of lovely little interactive bits: A crank handle to scroll through the map, a gong to hit to select the location, and more that I won't spoil but it's these kinds of little touches that really make VR come alive and are so satisfying. As for the disc golf physics well I've only played IRL verrrry casually many years ago but it seems to respond as expected, including changing the angle of the disc to curve throws, although sometimes I have trouble with controlling the distance especially on one level to throw it far enough to get over a deep trench/canyon. However this very well could just be a lack of skill on my part, I also suck at disc golf in real life and other VR games like Rec Room (although I still enjoy it anyway!). Given that, I'd like to see a few more holes in the easy to medium category. As is, the difficultly ramps up pretty quickly to having to land the disc on small islands to progress forward and I just get stuck and frustrated. I'm sure some players will love that challenge but it does limit a more casual "I just want to get a little closer to the target with each throw and enjoy the scenery" play style. I don't think I'm going to sink a lot of time into this one but I suspect I'll come back every now and again for a round, and it's the perfect quick-and-easy-to-play type of game for sharing with friends and family when they visit. I'm happy with the purchase even in the Early Access stage. Played on Valve Index.

My buddy's tried to play on the HTC Vive, which is listed as supported in the steam store, but mentioned as unsupported on game launch. We could launch it anyway, but couldn't press the "A" or "B" button or interact with in-game screens. Not sure what's up. Hope this resolved so we can play

doesnt work with vive controllers

Index controls were not good when I tried it. And it looks from the trailer that it got a graphical downgrade from what it used to be on PC after the Quest update. I can't justify buying it again to do another review.