"Galaxy Forces VR" is a pointless VR tech demo, basically the purpose of this, as far as I could tell, was to demonstrate that the developer doesn't know what VR is supposed to be used for. See, this game is a basic ripoff of Atari's Lunar Lander (so we're already creatively bankrupt). But all it does is show a 3D VR version of the pretty much completely flat 2D Lunar Lander game. That you look at in VR. VR is supposed to be used for immersive, first person "put you in the experience" games... a point that the devs here apparently couldn't get their head around.
What do you do in the game? It's Lunar Lander. You're playing an Atari game from the 1980's that the developers ripped off.
The technical execution of this game is shallow and simplistic, just enough to tick the boxes required to get something (anything) published on Steam, rather than investing the huge amount of effort and budget needed to create a fully fledged, comprehensive, high quality product. This feels like a tech demo more than a full game.
In terms of visuals, this features fairly low quality low poly 3D graphics which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and while some developers struggle with creating high quality visuals, failing to do so is a disservice to gamers. It's very difficult to recommend bad looking games.
It's VR exclusive, and that shows the developer failed to understand the most basic axiom of VR game design... if the only cool thing about your product is VR support, your product is not cool.
This game is fairly dated at 7 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now.
Now on to pricing and value for gamers.
There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $7 USD for this.
Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded.
Even as a free product, this couldn't find an audience. With a peak of [b]only 3 users[/b], it's clear the Steam community took one look and walked away. They literally couldn't pay people to spend time with this.
This "free" game won't count toward your game collection count on your profile. With that in mind, is it something you should still download?
Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.
There are over 140,000 games on Steam, not every one of them is a hidden gem. I'm here to help gamers find the ones that actually matter in that sea of Steam Direct self-published mess. If you don't agree with my findings in this review, you should definitely download it and play it to see for yourself. I'm happy to have helped you make an informed choice, regardless of the outcome.
