The Station VR

I hate giving this a thumbs down because it's a really excellent game of exploration, discovery and storytelling. I'm sure the devs put a lot of work into it. And yet, it was badly broken when I played this on an Oculus Quest 2 over Link, and judging from the discussion forums I am certainly not alone. Default controller mapping was terrible, and the updated version suggested by the devs was an improvement but still only borderline playable. Picking objects up was an exercise in frustration, often launching themselves across the room. Reading notes was extremely hard, and pressing buttons was a lottery. It's a shame because this is a genuinely great game that probably works just great in VR for some (and when it works, it's awesome) but be aware of these issues if you have an Oculus device. But if if doesn't work, refund it and instead buy the flatscreen version, because it's great.

Nice short story based game with a lot of optional puzzles and inventive ways to solve them. The game is definitely in the same vein as "Gone Home" as you explore The Station with the ominous sounds of conflict and mystery emanating through the walls. Walking around, solving puzzles, listening to audio logs, and reading notes. No crazy action gameplay but an interesting theme and exploration of a scifi topic. For the price I'd say its worth it!

[h1]Experienced on the Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality[/h1] You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/uV21vcS1BRc This is better than your average VR game, but it was still a bit disappointing for me. Even though I owned The Station (Non-VR), I hadn't played it and was excited to hear it was getting a VR port. Just upon starting this game, that excitement soon faded away. The visuals are not the best. There's poor lighting and the 3D environments and objects / models just aren't the highest quality, certainly not AAA quality. It definitely feels like an indie game made by a small studio with a shoe-string budget and it shows. When a game is not beautiful in 2D, it looks even less so in VR. The gameplay is also pretty barebones. This game involves a lot of object hunting. The puzzles are of uneven difficulty; some are easy and then some are brutally difficult. I still have no idea how to solve some of the puzzles (how to arrive at the solution) even after seeing the solutions online. I tried my best not to cheat, but after a while of wandering back and forth and backtracking, I finally decided to look online for solutions. I saw a 100% walkthrough that's done in less than 17 minutes on normal speed. It took me 2.5 hours to complete this game. I think it can be finished in less than an hour if you're good at puzzles or even longer than me if you're bad at them I suppose. The story, what there is of it, is actually pretty good even if it's not exactly new material. I don't want to give away spoilers but basically you're investigating what happened at a stealth space station that was investigating a warring alien civilization. You find empty halls and rooms and piece together the pieces of the mystery. There is a lot of atmosphere and creepy stuff happens at times around you. You find audio logs and texts strewn about to find out the story along with the environmental clues. I was intrigued to find out what happened. However, the story was very minimal and there just wasn't a whole lot of depth here, either to the story or to the characters involved. Plus, it's been done better in other games (including Tacoma). You have full locomotion, along with smooth and snap turning options (and teleportation). Unfortunately, there is a vignette effect that happens anytime you turn that can't be turned off. Interactions are pretty bad. Most of them are point and click (point at the item then just hit grab to get the item in your avatar hand), except for the doors or drawers that you have to highlight with your avatar hand and then pull away. You have your blue avatar hands just floating around while you walk around. Some cinematic scenes happen throughout of varying quality. [b]Rate 6/10. Overall, I was disappointed. I liked the atmosphere, but I didn't exactly like the game itself ... at least it was only $10 USD. [/b] [i]p.s. Please note that the default controller bindings for this game do not work on Windows Mixed Reality. However, I did upload a binding to the Steam Workshop that does work, but it does have some issues, including that the character drifts on its own. Please see the Steam discussions for more information on my custom binding under WMR.[/i]

The Station VR von The Station und Vitro Entertainment, die vor Jahren mal ein nicht erwähnenswerten Rhythmus-Spiel veröffentlicht haben, ist ein Puzzleabenteuer mit Story auf einer … Raumstation. Auch The Station ist nun nicht mehr da Neuste am Markt und war bis 2019 nur ein Flatgameabenteuer, mal sehen wie es sich nun in 2021 macht. In The Station stellen wir uns mal wieder die alles bewegende Frage: „Sind wir allein im Universum?“ Diesmal befindet sich aber der Mensch in der beobachtenden Situation, denn unsere Station namens Espial ist eine Raumstation, die zur Beobachtung einer außerirdischen Zivilisation eingerichtet wurde. Als die Station plötzlich ausfällt und jeglicher Kontakt verloren geht, werden wir ausgesandt, um herauszufinden, was genau passiert ist... https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2680382880 Wir sind also mal wieder allein und müssen uns auf der scheinbar verlassenen Raumstation zurechtfinden. Auf der Suche nach Antworten finden wir immer mehr Details über die drei vorherigen Besatzungsmitglieder heraus. Wir entdecken Audioprotokolle, lesen e-mails und andere Notizen. So wird auch die Geschichte im Spiel erzählt, anhand dieser Notizen. Leider ist das auch eine Menge Lesestoff und ermüdent so viel zu lesen, ist es auch. Dafür bietet die Story nicht genug Spannung. Das ist enttäuschend. Die Idee einer Mission zur Beobachtung einer außerirdischen Rasse, die in einen Bürgerkrieg verwickelt ist, um festzustellen, ob der erste Kontakt hergestellt werden sollte, hat eigentlich Potenzial. Tragischer Weise kommt noch hinzu, dass das Herumwandern in den schummrigen Korridoren der Station auch schummrig von der Grafik ist. Die Weitsicht ist sehr verschwommen, obwohl die Grafik selbst nicht besonders viele Details bietet. Die meisten Objekte bieten wenige Polygone und sehen daher sehr kantig aus. Auch stimmen die Proportionen zwischen Spieler und Objekten nicht wirklich. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2680383414 Die Steuerung ist ein weiterer Knackpunkt. Mittlerweile gibt es zwar die Möglichkeit einer freien Bewegung und wir sind nicht mehr auf Teleportation angewiesen, aber der Rest der Steuerung ist Käse. Wir können Gegenstände nur ähnlich einem Point and Click Adventure auswählen. Ausgenommen sind Türen, da müssen wir nur unsere lahme Hand in das Öffnenholo halten. Immersion entsteht so trotz der guten Atmosphäre nicht. In VR braucht es richtiges physisches Greifen. The Station ist aber auch ein Port eines Flatgames. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2680384070 Die wenigen Rätsel, die wir lösen müssen sind logisch und wir haben alles was wir brauchen in der Nähe. Wir müssen z.B. einen Wartungsroboters reparieren oder Türen per Kombination öffnen usw. Mit unserem tollen AR-Dings am Arm, können wir auf eine gute Karte unser Inventar sehen und der aktuellen Mission folgen. Das hört sich beeindruckender an, als es tatsächlich ist, aber es sorgt zusammen mit den einfachen Rätseln dafür, dass wir schnell vorankommen. The Station ist nicht wirklich schlecht, aber auch kein Knaller denn man unbedingt gespielt haben muss und nicht gut gealtert. Die unglückliche Steuerung macht es zudem schwer, sich auf der Station wohl zufühlen. Für Genrefans im Sale evtl. okay. 👀[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32170554/]Beobachtungen der anderen Art[/url] auf meiner Kurator Seite. 👑 Powered by HoI 4 Deu Curators group in German / English 👑 [list][*] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30388691/] Follow Main group [/url][*] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40282064/] Follow Second group [/url][/list] [u]English:[/u] ---------------------------------------> The Station VR from The Station and Vitro Entertainment, which once released a rhythm game not worth mentioning years ago, is a puzzle adventure with story on a ... space station. The Station is also no longer the newest on the market and was only a flat game adventure until 2019, so let's see how it does in 2021. In The Station, we once again ask ourselves the all-moving question: "Are we alone in the universe?" This time, however, humans find themselves in the observing situation, as our station called Espial is a space station set up to observe an alien civilization. When the station suddenly fails and all contact is lost, we are sent out to find out exactly what happened.... So once again we are alone and have to find our way around the seemingly abandoned space station. As we search for answers, we find out more and more details about the three previous crew members. We discover audio logs, read e-mails and other notes. This is also how the story is told in the game, based on these notes. Unfortunately, this is also a lot of reading, and tiring to read so much, it is. The story doesn't offer enough suspense for that. This is disappointing. The idea of a mission to observe an alien race involved in a civil war to determine if first contact should be made actually has potential. Tragically, wandering around the dim corridors of the station is also dim from the graphics. The foresight is very blurry, although the graphics themselves don't offer much detail. Most objects offer few polygons and therefore look very angular. Also, the proportions between player and objects aren't really right. The controls are another sticking point. Meanwhile, there is the option of free movement and we no longer have to rely on teleportation, but the rest of the controls are cheese. We can only select items similar to a point and click adventure game. Except for doors, where we just have to hold our lame hand in the opening holo. This does not create immersion, despite the good atmosphere. In VR, real physical grasping is needed. But The Station is also a port of a flat game. The few puzzles we have to solve are logical and we have everything we need nearby. For example, we have to repair a maintenance robot or open doors by combination, etc. With our great AR thing on our arm, we can see our inventory on a good map and follow the current mission. This sounds more impressive than it actually is, but it, along with the simple puzzles, keeps us moving quickly. The Station isn't really bad, but it's also not a must-play smash hit and hasn't aged well. The unfortunate controls also make it difficult to feel comfortable on the station. For genre fans in the sale possibly okay. 👀[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32170554/]Observations of a different kind[/url] on my curator page. 👑 Powered by HoI 4 Deu Curators group in German / English 👑 [list][*] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30388691/] Follow Main group [/url][*] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40282064/] Follow Second group [/url][/list]

Took my time and looked at everything in this and was finished in about 2 hours, Very detailed and smooth graphics rendering definately had a lot of time put into it.It has great atmosphere and interesting story that gets fed to you slowly through voice clips but don`t ever scare you fully ( [spoiler] apart from one jump that got me good, that damn droid in the chair haha [/spoiler] ). the game might seem a little pricey for the amount of content to some but you have to invest a little extra in these early VR titles or the tech will die before its even got of the ground .So buy it and enjoy the scenery and the story its only the price of a large whisky and lasts a good while longer

Das Spiel selber ist sehr gelungen, die Atmosphäre, die Story, die Grafik und die Rätsel sind sehr gut rübergebracht. Allerdings ist mir ein Rätsel, wie man die VR-Steuerung so verhunzen kann! No-Go! Meine Kuratorseite: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30155555 Meine Steamgruppe: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/voodoode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbtfB0wjmUk

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This feels like a very early VR game. I wouldn't waste your money after experiencing the interactivity of a game like Half Life. Grabbing things is clunky, proportions of in game models are off as well. Story doesn't seem to be anything new either.

A well-done sci-fi VR adventure. Enjoyable and with pretty space design. I have never really played the non-VR version so I cannot compare both, but what I played for now is definitely worth a look for fans of the sci-fi, space-setting. I will definitely try to finish it and hence see how the story develops. Motion controller are nicely implemented. Recommended.

I bought this game long time ago, I was new to VR and I was looking for fighting, fast pace missions and action. I wasn't ready for this type of games. I finally made the time to go through this. It was not a race, so I enjoy investigating all corners and reading all messages, the story makes sense if you read everything you find, the answers are in front of you, just pay attention. The music is the typical suspense movie music and a couple times I was so relaxed reading clues I got scared.... but not like horror scare, more like suspense. The details on the station makes you feel like you were in a livable place, you also start to understand the dynamic between characters and even profiling them by the details on their room or the way they communicate with each other. It's a good entertaining story if you want to take a break from the monotonous shooting games. I use index controllers and everything works great. The only thing I didn't like and I checked on the settings was to to remove the black out every time I teleport. So I use walking most of the time.