Cosmic Trip

Great, except for lack of win conditions, gamemodes, and overall content. There is a very tiny tech tree for the enemies, and a slightly larger one for you. Gameplay itself is great, just wish it had more substance, but this game is basically abandonware. Thankfully far, far better than most, but still....

Fun for a couple hours, but overall light on content. I recommend getting it when it goes on sale.

this is the most "maybe" game i've ever seen. but there's no maybe option, so i'm leaning towards yes.

the core loop feels really good, making little dudes to gather crystals, making other little dudes to shoot baddies, flinging frisbees at baddies, ... everything feels good in isolation. you can even buy little hats for your dudes which is 10/10.

but moving beyond the basic interaction, it feels really hollow. your dudes suck at pushing or holding ground so regardless of your strategamatizing, you're still going to kill 70% of all baddies with your own 2 frisbees.

enemies seem to be able to spawn infinitely and manifest wherever, so tactically cornering the map is also ... pretty pointless.

you have 4 dudes you can make, (worker, melee, ranged, and healer) so there's also no reacting or composition.


there's obviously a lot of love put into it, the core loop feels great, the design is consistently good, i *feel* the heart put into it, but i think this could've done with a bit more time in the oven.

The game seems unbalaced, I barely get anything done and get swarmed by enemies. If you don't know exactly the menu layouts and what everything does you can't really make progress. The games mechanics seem to cause more uneeded steps and movements than you would expect to do.

Beautiful, but repetitive and a bit shallow VR action-strategy. It's fun for one or two runs, but after that you will see everything the games has to offer.

Works on Reverb G2

This game is so close to actually being viable, but it has too many problems.

The biggest problem: there is actually no win condition.
You are told to win you destroy the enemy core, but there is actually no way to kill it.

The second biggest problem: you have to mine finite resources, but the opponent can spontaneously generate anywhere, which is annoying, and then begin to create very large, hard to kill enemies at no cost, forever, and you lose when you run out of money, which happens very fast.

The third biggest problem: your bots can't attack enemy structures at all, while the opponent can easily kill your buildings very quickly, which forces you to have to micromanage with your shit guns, which have mediocre upgrades and take forever to kill anything.

There are also pathing problems, enemies come out of the ground in piles in the center of your base, and if you shoot enemies in transit, they increase speed by 10x.

Friendly fire is also on, which is a problem because your bots are dumb and stand in the way of your gunfire half the time, and resources float around your face, which actually eat your bullets, and then continue eating all subsequent bullets for quite a long time even after they are gone.

Also, the tutorial is missing most topics, and it took a really long time and multiple losses before figuring out the structures need batteries, and even longer to figure out where to find batteries.

Additionally, having to move around and physically move through portals sucks, and the only way to learn about sticking your hands through a portal and clicking is by reading negative steam reviews, which is also dumb.

Making things worse, it looks like this game has been dead for about 4 years, so none of these things will ever get fixed.

This is still one of the best concepts in VR. The gameplay is fantastic. I wish the developers would revisit this. I would be eager to buy an expansion with more maps, multiplayer, and settings that allowed you to tweak the difficulty level. I would play that game A LOT.

neat game, really well made VR. 8/10.
tho once done with tutorial and beating a lv. in strategy mode,
I can't find my self to re-play.
i'd recommend buying it on sale, it really is a must experience on VR.

I really wanted to like this, as it looked to have a lot of potential. The graphics style and execution is awesome, controls good, gameplay is smooth..... but behind the pretty facade is a lack of depth unforgivable for an RTS.

The core gameplay is reduced to: spawn as many units as possible, as fast as possible, point them to the next node on the map, kill everything, repeat.

You feel like a worker on an assembly line, instead of a general commanding the troops.
NO strategy involved whatsoever beyond which node to take first, which is a no-brainer most of the time.

Even basic rock-paper-scissors mechanics seem to be missing for unit types.

What a shame. Had great potential.

Can't really recommend this game it's way too small of a game. had high hopes but it's one map same thing every time. you have different modes that slightly change the rules. it's a cool visual asthetic but it wears out quickly when you realize that there is no depth to the game at all. I was having a good time and it is that at least. but 75 minutes of gameplay is all I got out of this before I felt like I had done everything I wanted to do with it. not worth 20 bucks. 5 or 10 maybe. worth 20 if it had multiplayer. but it doesn't...which for an rts is pretty unforgivable in general.

This game is well produced. It features some amazing mechanics and is a huge leap in the right direction to make an RTS in VR. However, I can't reccomend it because the amount of content is lacking. There is no campaign or multiplayer. It is one level you play over and over again, and there are a few different modes. This game would be incredible if it featured at least a few different levels or difficulty progression. If you are content with little replay value you may dig this game, but if you are wanting to play for more than a few hours this is not for you. Fingers crossed this developer takes the experience and makes a full fledged VR RTS game!

Reading some of the older reviews of this game, I feel like I have to say that, if you are coming back to this game after a while, either to consider purshasing it or because you are trying to decide which of your Steam Sale impulse buys you should try or get back into, you HAVE to play this again. It's the real deal. It feels great in VR, it's intense and difficult without being stressful or impossible (unless you go up against the boss without using the map, ahem) and it's surprisingly expansive without feeling like you have to turn over every rock. All the mechanics feel great, there are enough options to personalize play style a little without enough to overwhelm you, and just enough cuteness and funk (as in the 70's style) to be enjoyable without it being a parady of itself. In short: this game is 100% worth the full price, and if you haven't dug it out and tried it, now is the time!

Oh wow! I went into this game not sure what to expect, and totally fell in love with it.

I've played pretty much all the Strategy VR like Tethered, Skyworld, etc, and this one is by far my favorite.

I've had the Vive since launch and great Single player experiences are few and far between, but this game is a winner.

Pros: Smooth gameplay, no bugs, awesome soundtrack and sound effects, creative designs, intense immersion!

Cons: I can't really think of any at the moment, though I'd love a way to give individual units instructions without throwing them at stuff. Like sending one unit to a location instead of having to play the drag/quantity game in the map.

I'm going to be putting a lot more time into this, totally worth a buy!

Cosmic Trip will take you by surprise. I can't say I have ever played a game quite like Cosmic Trip.

Cosmic Trip isn't a shooter but a real time strategy where the commander / hero has a physical presence upon the field of play. You command a squadron of drone buddies that you may fight along side, not from afar. You can die, and when you die you lose.

So just like many RTS you're building bases, managing resources, and micromanaging your troops and throwing in your personal firepower when needed. The game has a very different feel than any other RTS, not just because you are on the field of battle but also because all base building and combat takes place around a sequence of nodes (in part due to the nature of VR).

I really appreciate the sound and visuals in Cosmic Trip. Seeing the strange life forms floating around in these alien worlds is far more satisfying than I'd have imagined. The sound effects are also very informative and enjoyable, reminding me more of classic games where all the sounds needed to be clearly distinct.

Cosmic Trip is one of the most _different_ things I've played in VR. I highly recommend it if you're looking for just that.

For an early access game, this is really well polished. I've been looking for a resource management/pet simulator kinda game and this met all my expectations.

You basically build up your little robot army and collect crystals. When you defeat aliens they drop ectoplasm you can use to get better upgrades. Right now there's only about 4 upgrades and 4 alien types.

The biggest highlight is your little robot pals. When the aliens attack you feel compelled to protect your little guys. You have your one main robot pal who responds really well to being petted. My favorite experience, besides alien battling, was when I built a turret and was about to buy a battery for it but one of my harvester robots fetched me a battery I must've dropped somewhere earlier. It was a really endearing action on its part. :D

Cosmic Trip is a strategy game in room-scale VR. It's very similar to a tower defense game; as a player you build structures and bots, and you can assist your autonomous forces with turrets, frisbee lasers, etc.

The game is very intuitive, the art design is cute, and the mechanics are very fun. What's in the game is very polished, and aside from some performance issues when there's a lot of robots flying around there's not a lot I can fault it on.

Basic gameplay loop boils down to fighting off waves of enemies with your bots and some of your weapons at your disposal, such as a turret or a slingshot that traps enemies for your bots to kill. While this is going on, the player collects resources (minerals and gas) to build more defenses and structures. The game is true room-scale; there is no locomotion mechanic outside of opening portals to different locations. That's about it.

Gather resources, kill enemies, build, rinse, repeat.

Now, this is by no means a mark of a bad game, just a simple one. Cosmic Trip is definitely one of those games that will be gauged based on how much you paid at admission and your enjoyment of the concept.

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Likely the only game right now that's as polished as The Lab, which is crazy considering it's very early acces and developed by a small team. VR needs more games that have this AAA level of polish to them. Gameplay is fun even in such an early stage of development, even if it's too easy. Game looks like it has a LOT of potential to be really awesome, and I love how devs plan to turn this from a tiny wave based experience into a full blown RTS, drawing inspiration from SC2 / C&C.

There's not too much of the game so far, but what is there is amazing. The game has a very chill tone to it. Even if you're firing on a machine gun you have a bit of a serene joy going on. Friend bot also has a special place in my heart as one of the cutest game mascots in existance.

OMG this is excellent! There is not much content right now, but that is fine because the core game mechanics and control schema is well thought out and executed. I am so tired of developers trying to sell me bad VR alpha and beta tech demos so they can get a piece of the cut. If you are an early VR adopter looking for compelling use cases, this is one of them. Buy this game and support the devs!

It's definitely early and light on content, but stands next to Fantastic Contraption, Job Simulator, and Budget Cuts as a lovely taste of what "full games" in VR can be like.

The amount of thought and polish that has gone into the interactions in the game is astounding. Unbelievable intuitive and just feels amazing to "conjure" a workbench, make a couple quick decisions, and go.

This Gem only 86mb download? How?

Haptics use 10/10
Music choice 10/10
Fun 15/10
Cleverness 10/10

Whatever you do vive owners: GET THIS GAME

This game is awesome and I could end it right here.

Can't complain about the lack of content, it's not finished and the devs warn you there's only Survival right now. It's currently not particularly hard, eventually you end up with so many bots at every expansion that you just don't care and only teleport to replenish batteries in refineries and maybe build some new bots for good measure. But content will come! I look forward to more enemy types, attacks on different bases (especially not the ones you're currently at) etc.

As it stands right now the game looks and sounds great, the building menu is really intuitive and I love that I an queue a bot cartridge in each hand for rapid double bot factory building. There are some bugs and quirks, but it's too early to critisize.

...my only problem was that cute friend bot. Quite early on he stopped floating and just lay on the ground, ocassionally waving his little cutesy robot hand at me. I picked him up and tried to feed him a battery, but he just wouldn't take it! It was breaking my heart, so I made sure to take him in my hand every time I teleported so he wouldn't have to move on his own.