Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual!

As a Sam & Max addict, I knew I had to play this game. I played it on Occulus and loved it, but I only recently got to play it on Steam. I'll admit it plays a bit better on Occulus, but I still enjoy the game overall - the visuals, music, and voice acting are on point as usual, getting to interact with Sam & Max's world is great, and the minigames are pretty fun... though I have a bit of a skill issue with some of them (ESPECIALLY Fizzball)

Too much jank and the puzzles don't make a lot of sense. There's fun to be had here, and I love the sense of humour.

I went into this expecting an adventure game like previous Sam & Max games. What I got instead was a collection of mini-games. OK, it could be my fault for buying the game without really looking into it, so let's judge the game for what it is rather than bemoan what I wanted it to be. And what it is... is adequate at best. Shooting and throwing games were difficult to be accurate with. Climbing was all right, but getting onto the ledge you're climbing to was tricky, and I fell through the map on one attempt. I'm not convinced the ski-ball game was even working. And the batting game wouldn't let me move to a left-handed position until I tried all the buttons and found a teleport button I didn't know I had. But eventually you reach a "story" section, which is just the same mini-games but with a bit more talking between them. During the first such story section, I was told to wave my hand. So I waved my hand. Nothing happened. No matter how I waved or what I waved at, nothing happened. I wandered around for what must've been ten minutes before the scene suddenly moved on while my back was turned, and I'll never know whether I finally waved in a way the game recognised, or whether it just timed out and moved on by its own. During the second story section, I was similarly stuck for a while because a mechanic didn't seem to be working, when the game crashed. I didn't bother reloading to see if it auto-saved, because I just wasn't having fun. The writing is fine, and I did get a few chuckles out of it, but that's the best I can say about this game. Actually playing it is pretty boring when it's not being annoyingly janky.

It has a ton of potential but it falls flat. Why not focus more on puzzle solving rather than horrible boring mini games ? No way worth 30 bucks. So glad I bought it on sale. The graphics and sound are nice, true to the S&M artwork. The dialogue between them is funny but the story, game controls and mechanics suck. Feels more like a proof of concept rather than a full game. 5/10 A proper old school interactive graphic adventure in VR would be a dream come true. Maybe one day......

if you are a big sam and max fan you will love this. unfortunately there isnt a button to kiss max.

The game has good graphics, good animation, decent story, decent writing and very fun mini games. Seems like a lot of achievements too so there's some replayability. Probably doesn't help many people, but it reminds me of Mickey Mouse Magical Mirror for Gamecube.

sam and max this time it's soft locked