Quell 4D

TL/DR: Quell 4D is a yes from me. If you are a fan of Doom/Duke Nukem style shoot-em-up games, you will love this. PROS: - The art style is very retro. No highres textures here! - The game looks nice and crisp. It runs smoooooth as butter. - Sound/Music are awesome. A throwback to the 80's and 90's style. Nice touch. - The shotgun. I love this effing weapon. It feels/sounds meaty and does what it’s supposed to do. CONS: - Movement system needs to be worked on. My arm got tired pretty quickly. Having to hold your arm out for extended periods of time can tire some people out. Final words: With a few tweaks, this game could be an instant classic. You won’t regret this purchase. Overall 9/10 EDIT (10/18): I removed a con. The developer quickly fixed the sight issues and now my shots are landing cleanly! Thanks!

Highly recommended. Quell 4D might just be the first fully released (non wave) fps on the Vive. The simple colourful graphics work surprisingly well, giving the game a very distinct style that works together with the music and sound effects to pull you into this surreal world. The gameplay is very reminiscint of Doom or Wolfenstein 3D, with a heavy emphasis on moving and dodging over taking cover during combat. The levels are also rather complex, often seeming much larger than they are with clever keycard placement and triggers making the most of the levels. And with the simple graphics as they are, there is a surprising variety in the levels. I do feel the game lost a lot of it's steam towards the end with levels getting longer and more complex, but without a checkpoint system, death becoming far more frustrating, and rage quits more common. The game is not perfect and perhaps this is the biggest issue it has. It aims to be a hardcore shooter like the FPS of yore, but what it seems to forget is that even though you could be killed in seconds towards the end of a level in Wolf3d, you could save whenever you wanted, so this was nowhere near as big an issue. With that said, I stuck through it, and I'm glad I did, it was fun, and so far one of the biggest must have's on Vive. I'm hoping the devs will get some sort of checkpoint or save system in place, it will make it just so much better.

Very stylized Doom-esque shooter, but I can't recommend it. The locomotion system is terrible. You either use a carrot on a stick or use the touch pad, but it's too wonky to move a consistent pace like when you're strafing or backtracking. Overall really cool game, but the controls ruin the entire experience. I'm baffled as to why they just can't do a simple fix to make it like Serious Sam: First Encounter VR... Afterall, it came from the same roots as that game.

This is an absolutely must play game if you like FPSes, especially classic FPSes like Doom. Seriously I love this game as much as Superhot VR and this game seems criminally underrated. You feel like such a badass in this game, and it gives you a stiff challange. If you are looking for a full game rather than a 30 minute tech demo, then this is your game. Watch my hourly count go up as I keep playing this.

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME! that sums it up pretty much. I am very prone to motion sickness so I was concerned that the movment was going to make me sick. The developer did a great job with this and after playing for 30 mins straight I felt fine. If you like the old style wolfenstein 3d or doom this game is definitely for you, you get put into that VR world. I defintely recommend this game and it is definitely worth the pricetag and there arent too many games out there for the VIVE that I can say that about. As you progress the game gets more and more challenging so I see it taking quite a while to beat this game.

Great game, very retro with fantastic atmosphere. Just simple and fun, plus its quite funny in a crass sort of way.

This game is by far my favorite VR title to date. This simple but fun classic FPS is made with simple graphics, but it works well with the Vive's current display limits. The game is also weird, have a great soundtrack and is challenging. Do yourself a favor and buy it.

I'm really enjoying this game so far. It has that classic Wolf3D/Doom feel with great controls and endearing visuals. The game unapoligetically uses 2D art and sprites for everything and it actually looks great! Everything is very polished and bug-free so far. My compliments to the devs! Here is about 5 minutes of gameplay from a few different levels: https://youtu.be/0odXjAoNll8

it's neat but it's not that good, unfortunately. i got through the first zone and i'm over it after a few hours. i found the controls too clumy to keep up with the action once it starts heating up. add tedious level design on top of that and it makes death a real drag. the frame rate drops i got make it feel like it belongs in early access. the motion sickness is real.

I refuse to play this game everytime from the very beginning edit: I'm dumb