Written in part by Justin Roiland (of Adventure Time & Rick and Morty fame) the game is top-notch with its comedy at almost all times. I considered Job Simulator, but it’s been around so long that the joke’s a bit played out and I think most people are at least aware of it, so I went for Accounting VR instead. I only wanted to include one of these “comedic adventure experiences” in this list and I ummed and erred over which one to include. Then I threw the TARDIS at it and played pool with Jupiter’s moons. When I first started looking at stuff like that it was genuinely a bit unsettling to look at just because of how bloody massive it was, my tiny human brain almost couldn’t comprehend the scale of the thing. ![]() You can have an Earth spinning in front of you that’s the size of a basketball, or you can push it all the way up until it’s a planet-sized planet sitting right in front of you for you to just stare in awe at and when I saw awe here, I really mean it. What absolutely puts me in awe with this game though is when you zoom in and out to scale the planets up and down. You want to create a teapot the size of the Earth and throw it into Jupiter? Come right this way. You want to overflow the Earth’s oceans and then crash it into the moon? Not a problem. You want to delete the Sun from the centre of the solar system to see what happens? Easy. The tools are very in-depth but quite simple to get your head around as long as you’re familiar with how gaming menus work. This is a game that lets you mess with planets, solar system and even galaxies in pretty much whatever way you want. One of the biggest things that VR can achieve that regular gaming can’t is to create an incredible sense of scale and Universe Sandbox is easily the game that shows that the best. VR in games is something unique and wonderful, so I thought now would be a great time to celebrate that by running down some of my favourite VR games that I’ve played over the past few years.īefore I start, I just want to mention Boneworks, it looks amazing, but I haven’t had the chance to play it yet so I can’t give it anything more than an honourable mention. While VR is far from being the future of gaming as a whole for a myriad of reasons, developers have been able to create some absolutely incredible games for the platform that simply wouldn’t be possible without Virtual Reality technology. ![]() People and companies are using VR technology for all sorts of things and it’s still not entirely clear just how permanent of a fixture they’ll become, however, one area where VR has been undeniably successful, is in games. It seems like the debate surrounding whether or not Virtual Reality is a passing fad or the future of everything isn’t going to end anytime soon (which ironically kind of answers that debate, but let’s not go there).
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