Fire from the sky: Cagliari 1943 VR

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Fire from the sky: Cagliari 1943 VR is an Early Access Free VR history experience. It worked on my HTC Vive system, looked ok, played poorly, sounded ok, not understandable. The Voice overs and subtitles are in Italian. Gaze is the control system. Currently, there is only 1 chapter, but there is plans for more chapters over release from Early Access. Has no instructions. Has no menu. Maybe try this only, if you understand Italian spoken and written.

Fire from the sky: Cagliari 1943 VR is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, Fire from the sky: Cagliari 1943 VR is a software application that shows you a VR video/machinima of some of the events in Cagliari in 1943 after the Italians saw what Nazi Germany was doing and said "Oh let us do that too". Not a wise decision, FAFO as they say. Regardless, watching a VR video is not the same thing as playing a game, and I'm pretty sure Steam wasn't intended to compete with Youtube. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop. There's no loop here, no true interactive feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played". This has misleadingly been launched in the "Games" section of Steam instead of the "Software" section. This is a common mistake for developers who are new to Steam, or don't understand the difference between games and software which isn't a game. It seems this software published incorrectly as a game is simply lack of experience/knowledge of the correct process. Here's a link for the process to publish non-game software on Steam: [url=https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithPublishing?issueid=925]Steam Developer Help With Software Publishing[/url] It's unfortunate this process was not known about/followed, resulting in a software application being published in the wrong place. Publishing things which aren't games on Steam in the Games section as games is misleading to gamers and somewhat harmful, because it pollutes the Steam marketplace and takes away visibility and market exposure for genuine game developers who do the right thing and make games for gamers. There are no gameplay loops in this software, no "gameplay", no meaningful game like interaction. It's a software application and as such has no merits as a video game for gamers. Because of this, I cannot recommend this non-game software as a game to gamers.