Разработчик: Aaron Matthies
Описание
PlanetFate is being built from the ground up for virtual reality. Being able to manipulate defense units' orbits using Vive's controllers and move around your playspace to identify incoming threats makes this a tense and action filled game.
The fate of your planet rests on your quick thinking, strategic skills and spatial awareness.
Current Game Modes
Time Challenge: Think you can keep your planet safe for a mere five minutes? We'll see...Endless: How long can you hold off the inevitable?
Saturn Supply Run (early build): See below
First mission (early build)
A very early build of PlanetFate's first mission is now available. Take a cargoship on a delivery run to Saturn and push your way past enemy weapon platforms and asteroid fields. Manage your ship's power between weapons, shields and engines while trying to keep your cargo in one piece.This is an early build of the mission to gather feedback from players. You will likely encounter bugs along the way so please report any on the PlanetFate website or in the community forum.
Tips and instructions on how to play the mission:
- When the ship is ready after leaving the shipyard, push your controller's trackpad to engage engines.
- Swipe your thumb across the trackpad to shift power between shields, weapons and engines.
- To aim a turret at an enemy, select the turret with the trigger. Hold the trigger down and move your controller to point towards an enemy. When you feel the controller rumble, you can release the trigger. The turret will lock on and automatically fire when in range. (known bug: sometimes the laser pointer will not display. This is a known UE4 issue and is a high priority)
- Turrets are blue when inactive, yellow when you select one and green while locked on to a target
- If a turret or shield is disabled, diverting power to that system will speed up repairs
- Asteroids permanently disable turrets and shields, so watch out for them
Current Features
- Full HTC Vive Support: Room scale with full motion controller support
- Highscores for arcade game modes
- Adjustable planet height: Whether you're 4ft, 7ft or anything in-between, we've got you covered
- Optional standing platform: Float in space or give yourself the comfort of some firm footing
- Variety of weapons: Orbital lasers, torpedoes and mines are only the beginning...
Future Mission Modes in Development
In addition to the arcade style game modes currently available, PlanetFate will offer players more game modes focused on strategy and longer gameplay. Here's a sneak peek at what's currently in development and how the game will expand over time:- Escort Missions: defend ships against pirates, through asteroid fields and other hazards
- Battlecruiser Missions: control a massive battlecruiser's turrents, shields and fighters in various scenarios
- Defense Building: build and manage stations, mines, shields and more from invasions
- Skirmish: build and manage your fleet and engage in room scale battles
The type of missions created will be based on the support PlanetFate receives during Early Access. So while the current version only offers arcade-style modes, if you are interested in longer form missions, consider supporting PlanetFate.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1 or newer 64bit
- Processor: Intel® i5-4590 / AMD FX 8350 equivalent or greater
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 970 / AMD Radeon™ R9 290 equivalent or greater
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 650 MB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR. Standing or Room Scale
- Additional Notes: HTC Vive Required
Отзывы пользователей
I've always been a fan of Planet Fate's unique style of gameplay. Single tower defense in space. Holds up still, after all this time. Always fun to play. I even like it, when after your planet is smashed, the way it looks lit from within, and that you can bat the bits about.
A true arcade classic, that should be in all VR enthusiasts collections.
Rock On!
Interesting game and looks purdy. Weapons firing arcs are invisible and rediculously small which requires re-aiming after every single asteroid. Turret aiming is poop due to spread unless it is the laser. I had more success holding two laser turrets like guns with the Earth in my chest. You feel under powered and each time you leave a turret in place you cannot trust it.
This game is basically the ultimate game of Asteroids combined with Missile command. The only difference is, you're not in a spaceship shooting at asteroids, and you don't have missiles, but instead you have mines and lasers. The idea is to defend planet Earth (literally, it's Earth floating in front of your face) for as long as possible. You have the option of having a platform to stand on in space or if you don't mind looking down and seeing the void of space beneath your feet, you can remove the platform. I don't know if any asteroids are supposed to come from beneath the planet or not. I mostly kept the platform visible and didn't see any asteroids coming from below.
On the easiest difficulty, they give you 4 lasers that you can reposition around the planet. Two of those are beam lasers and two are "pew pew" lasers. Each one occupies a "shell" layer over the earth so they'll never collide with one another, but if you block one laser with the other, then only one will ever fire. Obviously the beam lasers are more effective at destroying asteroids so you want those for the big asteroids or anything that's particularly close.
Now if this was the only thing you had to worry about, you could just take those four lasers and keep swinging them around the planet to destroy various asteroids as they make their way for Earth. Unfortunately there's also the matter of an alien drone (maybe more than one) that will show up to take potshots at your lasers, or any mines you might have placed. I don't know what has these Aliens so mad at us that they'd be willing to sabotage our attempts at salvation but screw those guys.... so I always make sure to get a beam laser focused on them as soon as possible. They tend to move too fast for the "pew pew" laser to take em out.
Mines are in limited supply though you earn more as you destroy asteroids, They're pretty much a last ditch effort against incoming asteroids though so I wouldn't try to set up a mine field and hope that you will be safe...especially since as I said, the aliens will show up and take shots at them. Basically if you see that you're overwhelmed and you need to destroy an asteroid while all your lasers are busy, you can put a mine in the path of the asteroid instead.
In real life, destroying these asteroids would just make a bunch of smaller asteroids that would hit the earth like a shotgun instead of like a cannon, but from what I've seen they don't do that in this game. However, if you have a laser positioned so that debris from an exploded asteroid would fly in front of it, the laser will still shoot at the pieces.
Ultimately though your planet DOES get destroyed, and most of the time you're left wondering "Where the fuck did that come from?" In most of my games it seemed like the shot that took out the Earth came out of nowhere...possibly from overhead. It would be nice if there was a replay mode so I could see how the Earth was lost.
Things I liked:
- The graphics are OK. The Earth is decently detailed though it's not going to blow you away as you shout "I can see my house from here!".
- It benefits from having VR since you need to be able to easily look in all directions to detect incoming threats
- You don't need a ton of space to play this. Probably the standard 2m x 1.5m size would be enough. However, if you DO have more space, you can use it to place mines further away
Things I didn't like:
Overall it's not a bad game, but it's Early access... It really needs more game modes.... online co-op would be awesome, some kind of game mode where the action comes in waves would be nice...Maybe add the option to throw mines so that you can destroy asteroids that way. Make some cool in game music (I don't remember any music in the game, so if it's there it doesn't stick with you at all). It's a cool "demo" for VR at the moment though.
I look forward to the continued development of this game.
As a 49 years old old-school arcade gamer I really like the mix of "missile command" and asteroids. Graphics are great, immersion is great. It´s well worth the money in it`s current state. Well done!
graphics are great, however the controllers cant seem to pick up the guns in a staight forward angle, so very difficult to manouver the shooting and aiming. received some great feedback on the controllers from the creator. worked again using the tips, and it worked out much better. Grphics are still awsome and the controls once you get the hang of them work great.
Very fun polished title. The graphics are great, and standing next to earth defending it from asteroids is like playing missile command on steroids. Just imagine you are Ender Wiggin and protect the earth! :)
Definitely a good solid arcade game that is different enough from the deluge of wave shooters to make it interesting to jump in for a few rounds as part of my regular play cycle.
Has potential but needs a lot of fixes before I could recomend it.
Asteroids still spawn very close to the planet at the start, can die within 5 seconds randomly if you dont check 360 immediately.
The fixed layering of the satelites makes controling and aiming them annoying.
This isnt a gun simulator where you are aiming down precision sights, please give these satelites a targeting cone instead of them all being laser precise.
The precision required combined with the poor interface for moving the satelites makes this game more frustrating than anything else. Exampled by the fact that the biggest challenge is to survive for 5 whole minutes. Also Easy mode is just boring slow mode that doesnt make the game much easier, just longer. The asteroids spawn father away, making them harder to aim at so if you need easy mode you are just waiting around mostly.
IIts a fun concept but lacks actual game design and mechanics.
for 6 bucks this a fun tower defense. I made a two minute video review of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lejy4SdZB0&feature=youtu.be
A simple game and although only early access it is difficult to see how it could develop much further, so I doubt it will hold long term apeal BUT what it does it does very well. The graphics are beautiful and the game polished and bug free.
As long as the developer keeps the price down it is hard to fault. Well worth a try.
P.S. I just read the developer does have plans to take it much further with some interesting sounding ideas. I look forward to seeing how it evolves.
Has potential. Enjoyable, if difficult and short, game.
Funny game, but not worth the few coins it costs.
I enjoy playing this. The controls worked nicely and graphics are very nice as well as the sound. The explosions are also impressive.
I'm Sorry for Killing Us All! - PlanetFate - HTC Vive - Let's Play and Review: https://youtu.be/tq8Vyxxldfc
Fun little arcade experience. Definitely room for expansion but worth giving a shot.
Very well done if simplistic VR game. The graphics are passable, don't really need much for flying space rocks, and the controls work flawlessly. You move around turrets on a sphere a fixed distance from the planet and aim that at hunks of red glowing rocks flying at you from all angles (except directly below you). It's simple, there doesn't appear to be much more mechanics yet besides a flying ufo that will screw you over royally if you don't laser it immediately.
My main gripes are the rocks seem to pop in fairly close by sometimes. I'm constantly scanning the 360 view and sometimes one is right next to me less than a second later and boom.
I hope the dev can add a few more gameplay mechanics, but I still feel it's well worth $5. One thing I instinctly tried to do and was more dissapointed then I have any right to be was after the planet explodes, I really wanted to be able to swing my controllers through the pieces, grab nearby asteroids and hurtle them into the remnants and scatter the pieces to the void in my frustration...alas there is no clipping in this game.
Other nice to haves would be powerups, ability to choose which satellites to build, and some sort of tower defense style resource system to build new or upgrade existing ones.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Aaron Matthies |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 24.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 86% положительных (14) |