Разработчик: Phr00t's Software
Описание
Every time you use your warp drive, an important system will likely break down. Hopefully, you'll have a part to fix it! Friendly planets, stations & ships may have spare parts for you, or information on nearby points of interest. Pirates will try to chase you down for your cargo, so hopefully your cloaking & shields systems are available when needed!
Successfully deliver your package to unlock random special challenge modes!
* Frantic Freighter is best enjoyed in virtual reality with tracked controllers. However, it can fully be played without a virtual reality headset. There is no game menu & the game will immediately start (and restart as needed), with or without VR equipment. Press the Escape key to quit.
Trailer Music: Dire Space Emergency by Shane Ivers
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7+
- Processor: i5+ / AMD FX-6300+
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated 3D acceleration
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 350 MB available space
- Sound Card: One that makes sound
- VR Support: SteamVR. Standing or Room Scale
Mac
- OS: OSX 10.9+
- Processor: Probably anything purchased in the last 5 years
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated 3D acceleration
- Storage: 350 MB available space
- Sound Card: One that makes sound
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04+
- Processor: i5+ / AMD FX-6300+
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated 3D acceleration
- Storage: 350 MB available space
- Sound Card: One that makes sound
Отзывы пользователей
Frantic Freighter is a somewhat unambitious tech demo/student project tier effort. It's a simple adventure game where you're on the bridge of a courier ship and you have to complete the delivery. This means running around the small low poly bridge and doing little puzzle tasks in glorious VR (although it's not required to play this, 90% of the game is resting on the premise that it's a VR game).
One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience.
The game is very simplistic, small and limited in scope and ambition. This feels more like a tech demo, proof of concept or student homework assignment rather than a fully fledged product designed for PC gamers. As such it doesn't offer any real value as a serious PC game.
On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers.
The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with.
This was designed primarily for VR (but it will work without a headset, not that anyone would want to try). The VR focus of the game is a major crutch here, because without VR, this compares poorly to professionally developed games. Developers must learn that while VR is great, if the only thing that makes the game great is the VR, then the game isn't great at all.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. Frantic Freighter has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is "Destroyed", for, you know, being destroyed, trivial to achieve, but less than 8 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch.
Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a modest spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, and isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show less than 8 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who didn't bother engaging with this game? Trading cards. People will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game.
That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with little merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam?
Frantic Freighter is relatively cheap at $3 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
I still haven't seen a VR title that really pulls off what Frantic Freighter did. I guess we're getting some titles that have a little more of a likelihood of letting you interact with your ship and such... But this was one of the first games to pull it of successfully.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Phr00t's Software |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 87% положительных (15) |