Wet Dog Corp

Could be fun, especially for children, but it's incredibly difficult. We didn't manage to finish the first level after tutorial.

[b]ಠ_ಠ TL;DC (Too Long; Don't Care): It's well-polished and free, but difficulty is poorly tuned.[/b] [spoiler]Internal Monologue: ಠ_ಠ, are you really going to bash on a student project? Really? LOOK AT THE CUTE CORGI DOGGO AND ITS PUPPY-DOG EYES! (❍ᴥ❍ʋ)[/spoiler] To be fair, I love the overall aesthetic of Wet Dog Corp. The art direction is well executed, the VR integration is seamless, and the music is upbeat and cheery. Your console and environment are built like a giant pokemon clamshell that opens and closes as you switch areas, which is an [i]excellent[/i] way of handling transitions. This would be a great kids game, save for one problem: The difficulty of this upbeat and cheery kid's game is exceedingly high and its tools are unbalanced. From what I can tell, the overall meta-strategy for this game is that you need to be cleaning doggos as they move along the conveyor belt, not simply when they reach the end. If you don't do this, you have mere seconds to clean them up before they're sucked away and counted as a failure. This isn't bad, but your tools to accomplish it are atrocious. The game has three soap/water/air blasters that it implies are your primary weapons their placement in the center of the user interface. The problem is that you can only use two of them at once, so you have to frantically and continuously swap between them. Worse, their range is fairly poor, where you'll have trouble hitting doggos at mid and long ranges, and you'll need to keep a stream on them for a few seconds to properly clean them. On top of that, each blaster has a limited amount of charge before you have to pick up a new one... which seems awfully arbitrary when they could have just as easily been connected by hoses. If you ignore the blasters entirely and focus on the 'bath bombs' - little spheres that you can hurl at doggos to clean them, the game becomes possible, if still a little frantic. The physics of throwing seem [i]okay[/i], but I never truly got the hang of them. Something about it seems slightly off, but it's playable. Playing it in this style is like practicing baseball pitching, and impressively burns a fair bit of calories. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1188920/YUR/]YUR.fit[/url] clocked my 30 minute run at 260 kcals, which puts it in the same class as Pistol Whip or Beat Saber. I cannot recommend this game, even with it being free, due to its glaring issues. However, I commend the students for the amount of polish and design work that went into this project. With a bit of tuning and more than 30 minutes of content, it would be a solid game. [b]For more VR reviews like this one, follow the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38513044-%25E0%25B2%25A0_%25E0%25B2%25A0-Reviews/]ಠ_ಠ Reviews Curator page.[/url][/b]

"Wet Dog Corp" is a student project from the Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida. This is really just a glorified VR tech demo, unfortunately. What do you do in the game? The cute premise of the game is your clean up dirty dogs in a production line environment, which might work if someone made a Cook, Serve, Delicious type dog cleaning business sim, but unfortunately this is more shallow as you just stand there and wave your arms around in VR to lob various "cleaners" at the dogs. Shame, really. The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. 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. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable, or something you might want to spend your time on. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 6 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? 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.

Genialna gra

A cute casual game for the whole family. Fairly simple premise of washing, rinsing and drying as many dogs as you can before time runs out. Interface: 7/10 Played on an Oculus Rift S. The controls are basic. Grab sprayer and depress trigger to shoot either foam, water or air "bullets" for a moderate amount of time before it runs out. I say "bullets" because just like the foam and water the air bullets drops over distance rather than dispersing. It takes a few seconds of spray to complete each phase of the wash. Or you can grab and toss wash, rinse, or dry bombs which completes each phase if you can hit. Neither of which gets blocked by the nicely designed environments. Gameplay: 5/10 Each level has a goal of so many dogs washed to advance. Each level also has a limit on how many dogs can be missed before game over. Difficulty ramps up with more conveyor belts delivering dogs to be washed. Some have long belts so you have time to plan and carry out each wash. I felt the game missed a big step as there's no sense of progress except passing a level. For example, a score for accuracy, time, etc. Especially if the game provided for hotseat multiplayer. Or payment for each pooch polished that could be used to upgrade your tools. It also would have been interesting if your sprayer could short out electrics or the dryer could blow over boxes and ruffle papers. It might be a big ask for an interactive environment but it would have provided nice little surprises with the occasional level. Graphics & Audio: 6/10 The variety of "dogs" are all rather cute and well made though with little color variation. They do little but serve as targets. The music gets repetitive pretty quickly. The warning bells when your sprayer runs out are helpful. Overall nothing great or terrible. Conclusion: 6/10 It's kind of meh but free. It's a nice little distraction for a less than 1gb download. Next time I play it... might make for a fun drinking game for each dog missed.

I played this game along with my two daughters, ages 10 and 6. I didn't have any problems with the controls, and was able to progress through the levels fairly easily (but not too easily; difficulty seemed appropriate FOR AN ADULT). The problem is this game is most likely going to be played by children, and the controls are not conducive to use by children. Their smaller, weaker hands just aren't able to get/maintain a grip on the guns/bombs, so they either have trouble picking them up in the first place or end up dropping them too early. Gripping the "weapons" needs to be a toggle, and needs to be moved to something more appropriate for little hands, like a trackpad click for instance. A configurable difficulty would also be nice; as again this game in its current state seems more tuned for adult play.

Simple, silly, short tower defense disguised as a dog-washing game. The throwing physics and explosion radius on the balls are generous enough to keep it challenging but fun. The dog variants are cute. About the only criticism I have is that the difficulty is a bit much right at the start, but once you figure it out it's a fun challenge trying to keep up with the multiple queues of muddy mutts. If you are looking for some quick, challenging single player fun that's family friendly, this game is for you!