Into the Radius VR

This was one of my favorite VR games ever and then suddenly on the bomb mission, the bomb just disappeared. How could you make me love this game so much and then just rip away my ability to progress the story because it broke? I would leave positive review anyways but I have to leave a negative review because I am sad.

A must-have if you like the STALKER games and can tolerate running around in VR.

It's intense even when it's quiet. It's scary but in a way that eases off as you get familiar with the world. There's a lot to explore and loot and the looting and inventory are done well. There is an air of realism to it: as you search through drawers and cupboards, you'll want to keep your bag organized to find what you need in an emergency. You fill your magazines with the appropriate ammo and separate them in a way that makes sense. You maintain your weapons and plan your excursions and hope you make it back alive. And every time you do, trudging back into base safe and victorious feels great.

The only thing really disappointing is the loneliness. The base is empty of people; only computers and vending machines. But that only makes me not stick around for long—the world is big and there's so much more to see.

Really immersive game. The intensity of finding new enemies and scenarios that quickly kill you is amazing. I wish the mimics had more features so you can distinguish them from a distance. Countless times I have thought they were a police mimic only to get destroyed by a VAL. Highly recommend this if you have VR.

A S.T.A.L.K.E.R inspired VR game that is quite fun to play and is well made.

my only issue with this game is how annoying the gun cleaning system is. outside of that it is fantastic 10/10

Hella cool mechanics, very spoki.

Not the greatest on the Quest 2, but ig that is to expected, even then it is still very nice.

Abandoned, empty ruzzian game—just download it elsewhere. Imagine doing a price bump for a single-player game for Ukrainians during the war. Disgusting

Definitely different. Kind of has a cool idea behind it but I experienced bugs and the game play just didn't keep me.

It's quite unforgiving but if you love the Stalker games like i do, it's a must play

Great VR game.
Cleaning guns not that great.
Looking forward playing the next one :)

Love this game
Can't wait to play the sequal with a friend
Also, mods PLEASE

Great game! Looking forward to when number two leaves early access.

Quite a fun game. If you're into survival looter shooters then I absolutely recommend the game. The weapon system is fun, the enemies are designed really well and are fun to play against, the missions are great, and I think the story is great as well.

Probably the second best vr game I played and Half-Life: Alyx only beats it because of the better optimization and overall polish.
There is some junk and graphicaly it's not the best (though it definitely has its moments) but the gamepley is absolutely phenomenal.

It's not a realistic game by any stretch of the imagination, but it's fun and very immersive. Things simple as weapon cleaning and organization of your base are oddly enjoyable and break up the oftentimes hectic missions really nicely. I can't wait to see what they can do with ITR 2 after steady updates, but in the meantime this game is 100% worth picking up.

Additionally with the steam version you can choose to install the 1.0 version of the game by going to the beta tab. 1.0 may as well be its own separate game; a completely different map with different gameplay mechanics and its own missions. 100% worth trying if you finish the current build and want to tackle the zone in a whole new way (and don't mind less polish than the current build).

In short it's my favorite VR game at the time of review probably only to be surpassed by it's own sequel, I fully recommend.

ts too scary i didnt evne make it past the tutorial man

Has a nice story and is probably the best FPS VR game at the time of writing this

Recommendation to elevate the mood of the game: search up some 1940's Russian music and put it on while playing this game. Nothing like listening to some old Soviet Union tunes while walking through a Chernobyl-esque environment, a rifle slinged across your back, and a cigarette in your mouth in VR.

I've spent a lot of time in this game and I enjoyed all of it. One of the better VR games I've played.

That said, I didn't really like the ending. It was an interesting twist I suppose, but its implications just didn't sit well with me. That's just personal preference, though.

Incredible gun controls and a good story. easily one of the best vr games

this is in my top 3 vr games of all time the gameplay and gun mechanics are great and i really hope the second game is just as good if not better than this

I'm not a die hard vr fan. I enjoy it, but I never really loved it. This game really changed my perspective on vr, I LOVE playing this game, its my favorite experience on vr by far. I recommend any player of any experience level in vr give this game a try.

i realized i beat the whole game like two times and never wrote a review

its cool ig

This is my current favorite VR shooter and it has been for some time now!

My first and most prominent reason I like this game is the difficulty options. That may sound really boring but hear me out. You can change the base difficulty or you can tweak the individual smaller options for a custom experience. You can increase the number of enemies, decrease their health, and increase their damage, making a hardcore mode where you and your enemies die in a few rounds (or in any other combo you wanted from those). You can change the amount of money rewarded from missions, from selling gear, how much gear you loose when you die, how maintenance your weapons require, the number of anomalies and their damage, and the list goes on. I love this because I was able to tweak the settings to create an experience more perfect for me.

I loved the weapons and being able to manipulate them. The firefights were tense as my slide locked to the rear, I began muttering obscenities while ducking into cover, grabbing a new mag, slamming it home, and hitting the slide release lever. Or I just stupidly forgot the weapon had a safety and left it on to got gunned down wondering why my gun would not fire.

Looting in this game tickled that Fallout, Skyrim, etc, loot goblin part of my brain as I opened cupboards, grabbed everything in sight, and shoved it into my pack to sell later.

The gun play just felt good most of the time. I did have some occasional issues with rifle sized weapons getting hung up or shifting when I was not moving (I believe it had something to do with the weapon clipping with the player model but I cannot say for certain).

I really enjoyed being able to explore the maps and find all the different vistas placed there. I just wish there was more!

The atmosphere was superb and lonely. It was a unique feel and with the setting established even the glitches seemed to just blend in with the apocalyptic background.

I cannot currently think of more to say. Grab this game on a good sale if you enjoy looting, shooting, and trying out different cold war era(ish) firearms against anomalies bent on killing you in a strange lonely wasteland.

Gripes:
I wish the game had better placed weapons/weapon caches that encouraged the use of weapons you found. As it stands there is no reason to acquire the SKS (only found I believe in the 4th area (the game is open world so you can go here anytime) but in the 3rd area you can find AK-47s, AK-74s, etc, which are just outright better in all respects.

Overall I really like this game and would highly encourage others to try it out. My biggest problem is that the game ended, I just wanted to keep playing. Grab it on a good sale if you are not too sure, but otherwise I would say its worth the current full price of $30.

Into The Radius is the best 'exclusion zone' game, ultimately surpassing any of the STALKER games, official or community-made.

It is one of the top five VR games yet made.

Very immersive and fun. 12/10

first thing i did when i got my first gun was go "can i shoot myself?" youre never gonna guess what happened next. i died to death. i havent even finished the game i just loot goblin everything into my safe house. Been taking my sweet time cuz theres a lot of replay-ability in this game i HIGHLY recommend getting this game if youre into survival looter shooters 10/10 game.

It is also mod supported and i recommend getting the scavenger and bullet lighter mods!

i can confirm that this game is good

Slept on this game for way too long, only gets better the longer you go.

One of the best VR games.

A mixed bag that I recommend for the gun play, world building, and STALKER vibe but the ending left a rancid taste in my mouse.

There's a lot of things to like: progressive difficulty, weapon progression, better than average world building, great weapon handling, great bullet physics, the best inventory system ever conceived, and a mystery to get immersed in. The stalker elements consist of: hunger, bullet drop, a large selection of mostly soviet-era weapons, dangerous enemies, a dead landscape, artifacts and anomalies, scary noises, and a recurring global event that strongly encourages you to GTFO of the zone and into safety. I should also mention that the weapon cleaning might not be for everyone, but I thought it was better than the alternatives. In any case, it can be skipped entirely by purchasing weapon repairs. I do with that weapon maintenance more closely resembled real life, rather than just "brushing its teeth."

Unfortunately, the game is marred by questionable decisions and laziness. Take the enemy design for example: this is a dark game and every single enemy without exception is completely black or translucent-ish black. This is very boring. Another example is the rate of weapon progression, where you unlike up to 5 tiers of weapons for purchase. I found there to be 1 or 2 tiers too many, and I frequently found myself barely able to pay off a purchase before already unlocking the next tier of weapons. This leads to min-maxing weapon selection, resulting in only a few weapons that can be justified. Finally, where STALKER has the awesome emissions which were dramatic events with high stakes, this game has essentially has no visual impact and is more inconvenient than dangerous. Moving on to laziness, the developer did not bother to ensure all weapons aligned with the controllers in such a way so as to be compatible with players using a gun stock. A fair number of the weapons, including many of the late-game weapons you will need to use, will simply not work without radical adjustments to your stock. This necessarily makes it impossible to select two of those weapons for your load out. This kind of thing shouldn't be happening.

Then there is the ending. It is among the worst I've ever encountered. You will not find out what the radius is, why it is, or your relationship to it. You won't even be given enough information to make a guess. What little information you are given, about Katya--the white girl--comes from an unreliable source, leaving who she is and why she is there strongly in question. It makes the mistake of offering you multiple endings, but of the variety where you "push a button" for the ending you want. The choices you need to make lacks any logical explanation. The consequences of each choice are arbitrary, having no logical connection with the action you choose to do. Worst of all, it is strongly implied that all of your actions and choices from the beginning of the game through the ending have no meaning or consequence. This is anathema to immersion--I can't even fathom why this creative choice would be made. The best I can reason is that the develop doesn't even know what the radius is or why anything happens. The concept never developed past the "wouldn't it be cool if" stage of thought. It really makes me question if I want to get invested in the still-in-progress sequel.

Despite my complaints, the journey was worth the price of admission and the miserable ending. Shooting guns in VR seldom feels this good and worlds are seldom this interesting to explore. For every misstep, the game does 5 things right.

I played this one the most out of my VR games library and I must say this is the best game that was made for VR so far. Better than Halflife Alyx in every way except for the optimization.
The lore, the visual design, sound design and gameplay mechanics everything provides unique experience and works well together. The level of spook is spot on. Not shitting my pants but still. The only time you can truly relax are when you in a safehouse.
Shooting and gun handling is very realistic and satisfying.
If it weren't for the sometimes horrendous performance with huge frame drops and stuttering, I would have given it 10/10, but as it is, I'll have to give it 9/10.

super fun game, also traumatized me so thats cool

Yes, it really is a VR STALKER! But with its own story of the zone, anomalies and enemies. Masterpiece

Needed more time in the oven, game is still good. One of the most panic inducing vr games I've played

i wanted to like it , but noooo , your gear on the body keeps moving around , trying to paw at a mag is sooo bad ,

good for autistic stalkers
you can decorate your shelves real good

Played Stalker? Looking for a VR equivalent? Enjoy spending more time prepping for than actually doing missions? Then this is the game for you! 10\10 had the tar scared out of me many times and spend many hours hand sorting loot.
Shockingly no major crashes or glitches in any of the hours Ive played it.

The game does lead you to the ending without telling you so be aware of that.
Also if you're having issues with performance I recommend turning down "geometry" at the bottom of the list.

The only thing I never did try was subsonic ammo. Later in the game only high power ammo can kill the enemies which makes Subsonic pointless and thus full stealth pointless (unless your hands are steady enough to shoot a suppressed rifle long range)

Worst gamplay machanics.

I mean... I am a S.T.A.L.K.E.R fan to the bone cheeky breeky.
I know that this game is not S.T.A.L.K.E.R i v damki, but this is besides the point.

I like this game. I liked it more before the multi-map update and before the release of standalone ITR2.0.
I like it because it scared the shit out of me, when I first encountered a spawn, or when I first encountered a slider (that one was a 9/10 jumpscare)... or when i first encountered the harvester... (don't-turn-around out of 10 horror moment) or when you suddenly hear gunshots (probably aimed at you) and drop to the floor.

I do not like the game for its ... uncompleteness. That being:
- The locations are empty. So far (up to kolhoz) the coolest was the factory building. All other places seem too large for what they are. Even compared to the previous map. The one where you had to traverse ALL the map to get to the new places, before the tide, when there was still the harvester.
- I get the open-map idea and I like the concept, but there is just... nothing to guide you. The missions exist. Yes. But they are repetitive and have no story at all.
- The bugs, which get an extra section.

Bugs:

- The worst offender is the inventory-sorting-reset bug. The bagpack is the coolest inventory system EVER, but its broken. You can define the layout yourself, it is responsive, it is customizeable, easy to, use easy to understand, but all that is thrown out the window, because 9/10 times after meticulously organizing your stuff it just randomly loses its position inside the bagpack and gets reset to some other, probably 0/0/0 coordinate with reset rotation. This is so annoying.

Imagine hauling a boatload of habar to a safe place through the night, wasting your last bullets on some black spawn, and duelling it out with knives, hearing mimics in the dark. Climbing into the safe space and sorting through all the bullets you've collected and refilling your mags, choosing what weapon to wield the next day and whether you should continue looting or get back to the safety of the home base... Then packing all the loot back into the bagpack, grabbing a last bite of tushyonka and going to bed, just to wake up to an immersion-breaking bug that reset the positions of most of the stuff in your bag. Why even bother then, just stuff it in there and just maybe you'll find whatever you're looking for during a gunfight, or maybe you won't, but unfortunately that's not even on You, that's on the game. And worst of all - that's a regression bug. The inventory system was nearly flawless before! Currently it's borderline unusable. Infuriating, I would say.

- Map-bugs. Remember scaling mountains in Skyrim where you were not supposed to, well forget that, here you'll have difficulties in the most unexpected of places - stepping onto planks, makeshift bridges and climbing mounds that are just 1% too inclined for poor old me. Remember how we laughed at "modern" games for getting their asset-placement wrong, allowing entrance to "the other side of the map"? There's loads of that here, but without the other-side part. Just the misplaced assets, hovering in mid-air.

- Item physics. When spawned as a pickup, items are often also hovering mid-air. Alternatively they are stuck inside the surface they are lying on, and their presence can only be detected through the item-highlighter-brackets. Some objects and surfaces have physics-bodies wildly differing from their visual models, making dropped bullets either hover above ground or drop through it, never to be seen again.

- Dovetailing into that - often shots are not connecting because an enemy is hiding behind a railing, which you can't shoot through.

- Picking up large weapons first rotates/translates the weapon to match your grabbing hand's position/orientation, often getting it stuck in the surface it was lying on. A similar, but different bug with the cleaning paper - when holding that with your left hand, the hand itself is offset.

- Ah, right, weapong cleaning. This brings me to game balance, which is not a bug, it's like that by design. I dislike the direction they went with having the store be the primary source of equipment. It is way too cheap. Same goes for the repair feature. There is no penalty to mistreating your equipment. There is no reason to go looting. Just do some missions, get some artifacts, sell them and voila, you have enough money to buy everything in top quality. There is no reason to clean your weapon with a toothbrush. Just repair for $ at the base. About the cleaning: nice mechanic, but terribly inconsistent. Sometimes the toothbrush connects with dirt, sometimes it doesn't. The ramrod introduces its own set of bugs.

- Audio. Sometimes the tape-playback at home base randomly stops, even though you did not move an inch from the terminal.

- Last, but not least - lighting. The light system is not to be underestimated, or understated, but the system that we have is far from pleasant/complete. During dusk and dawn you're effectively blind, even though the sky is still/already well-illuminated. Enemies are all black (except for armored ones), so good luck spotting them agains a black backdrop on black ground. It's fine at night though, when it's supposed to be pitch black.

TL;DR
I am kinda sad that the focus of the studio is now on ITR2.0, which is a full standalone game with basically all the same, but improved stuff, while 1.0 is not even close to being "done". So even though I haven't played 2.0 yet, I'd recommend starting with that, in the hopes that it has less bugs and is polished more.

great game only complaint is how scary it was for me ik im a wimp lol

havent gotten past shooting range yet but really fun game you should buy it if you like realistic vr games

Easily the most immersive VR experience I've played. The gun play and equipment is fantastic, and the backpack is still my favorite item management in any vr game. The atmosphere is fantastic, exploring feels lonely but exciting and as soon as you start to hear noises it becomes a terrifying experience. Can you pop in and shoot through the game in a few hours? Probably but I think the best experience is giving yourself to the game:
Packing up magazines and food and taking the time to plan out your journey in the zone. Taking your time exploring each point of interest and slowly skulking through the trees with an eye on the horizon knowing a mimic could be waiting for you. Grabbing the artifact you needed after an intense fight pondering if you should gamble on staying and looting through the night knowing the horrors it might bring. Eating a can of food while you sit in your sleeping bag before bed. Finally getting back to base and smoking a victory cigarette as you take the time to sort out your new found treasures and equipment. Every venture out into the zone is exciting and getting back and unloading always feels like a victory. I have also never found a game that I enjoy chain smoking in quite like this one. Is it perfect? No but its an unmatched experience well worth the price if think you might enjoy it.

One of the best VR games ever made, it's like an actual video game (unlike most other VR games which are just tech demos) and actually has really cool and interesting worldbuilding. This game should be one of the reasons why you'd buy a VR headset.
(9/10)

Absolutely the best VR game I have ever played.

Very S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ish kind of game.

Very very spooky to play when it gets dark and late in-game.

Very good stalker like game!
Heavy on the gpu but very fun!

it works well on steam link with the quest 2 game is fun af you can smoke play guitar shoot stuff loot got all the essentials story is cool and the world and atmospher is a 10/10

Be prepared to struggle with the controls ALOT. It's not a matter of being complex, its more an issue that they don't register half of the time, especially if you try to eject a mag. Sadly this is what caused me to stop playing.
But it is fun otherwise.

7/10

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☑ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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The Most Bullshit VR Game Ever Made, and the Best VR Game Ever Made.

I Finally Decided 100% the Game
Def Worth 260€ for Quest 2 and 30€ for the Game