Разработчик: George Gilbert
Описание
After the great storm, the crystals used by the mages to protect the world shattered and were lost. The Sacred Grove now lies empty. You answer their call for help - your quest; to find and restore the crystals before the next storm arrives. It soon becomes clear however, that all is not quite as simple as it first seems.
RuneSage is an immersive open world Virtual Reality RPG Adventure game for the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift & Touch. As a sage from humble beginnings, you'll search the land for nature's runes of power, then use them to cast spells to solve puzzles that aid you on your quest. Explore mazes in a forest teaming with wildlife, sail across lakes to reach distant shores, delve into dark and ancient caves, and search the ruined castle and its dungeons while menacing vultures circle overhead. Can you find the scrolls of knowledge, recover the lost crystals and protect the world from the gathering storm?
- Experience 10-15 hours of immersive adventuring in one of VR's longest games.
- Interact with NPCs in an engaging story with over 40 quests to find the missing crystals.
- Cast over 35 unique spells to help solve a wide variety of puzzles to complete the shield.
- Explore 20 stunning biomes with over 80 items to find and collect.
- Become the wisest of the magic users and save the world.
Please note that RuneSage is not (yet another) fast paced generic action VR wave shooter. There are no monsters to kill. You are never "in danger". RuneSage is deliberately a more gentle experience; a magical "scavenger hunt" designed for those wanting to explore an immersive open world, discovering its secrets at their own pace.
At the heart of RuneSage are runes and spells.
- Runes echo the forces of nature; wind, water, fire etc and you'll discover their forms as you explore the world.
- Spells channel the power of the runes into physical form - for example, draw the shape of a wind rune, then cast it to create a blast of air.
- The power of runes can also be combined - for example, draw a wind rune followed by a water rune, then cast it to blow water in a powerful jet.
Use your knowledge and wisdom of the natural world to investigate your surroundings, discovering new combinations of runes to solve puzzles to aid you on your quest to find the missing crystals and save the world.
RuneSage is designed from the ground up for Virtual Reality with full support for both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift & Oculus Touch.
- Movement. RuneSage supports a wide range of locomotion styles. For small distances, explore your surroundings in room-scale VR. Over larger distances simply select which style you prefer from the main menu, configure it how you like it, and off you go!
- Teleport (2 variants - left or right handed). Press down the trackpad/thumbstick on the controller to activate a magical beam, point it in the direction you want to go, and release to move there in a blink.
- Dash Teleport (2 variants - left or right handed). Press down the trackpad/thumbstick on the controller to activate a magical beam, point it in the direction you want to go, and release to move there in a straight line. Fully configurable speed / time for the journey.
- Trackpad/Thumbstick (12 variants).
- Activate by pressing down the trackpad / thumbstick, or by just touching it.
- Activate set by the left hand or right hand.
- Direction of travel set by Headset, left hand or right hand.
- Activate by pressing down the trackpad / thumbstick, or by just touching it.
- Armswing (12 variants).
- Activate by pressing down the trackpad / thumbstick, or by just touching it.
- Activate set by the left hand or right hand.
- Direction of travel set by Headset, hands or both.
- Activate by pressing down the trackpad / thumbstick, or by just touching it.
- Teleport (2 variants - left or right handed). Press down the trackpad/thumbstick on the controller to activate a magical beam, point it in the direction you want to go, and release to move there in a blink.
- Rotation. For those playing in a smaller space, or even seated-play, RuneSage supports a number of methods of rotation so you can explore in all directions.
- Free rotate. Press the grip button on either controller to artificially rotate the view in the game world by rotating the controllers. When finished, just release the grip button to continue.
- Walkabout. Press the grip button on either controller to "freeze" the gameworld in place - you can then turn around in the real world and continue walking in the same direction in the game world. When finished, just release the grip button to continue.
- Roomscale. Disables rotation when pressing the grip button on either controller - turn around in the game world by turning around in the real world!
- Free rotate. Press the grip button on either controller to artificially rotate the view in the game world by rotating the controllers. When finished, just release the grip button to continue.
- Rune Shapes. Draw runes with your hands; press the rear trigger button to start drawing, trace the outline of the rune's shape, then release the trigger to finish.
- Spell Casting. Cast spells with your hands; after drawing one or more runes, press the rear trigger button to start casting, move the controller away from your body, then release the trigger to finish. For projectile spells, the way you "throw" the spell when casting, determines its speed and direction.
- Options Menu. Press the menu button on either controller to toggle the options menu.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1 or greater
- 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: 2 GB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR
Отзывы пользователей
If you want good graphics or combat this isn't for you. If you want a simple yet fun little wand waver with basic environmental puzzles then maybe it is... basic but enjoyable.
A lovely magic-based VR game that uses in-air gestures to prime a wand with a spell (or two!).
It has pre-HL:Alyx controls, but it's fine after 5 minutes when you get used to it. It's a shame there isn't a continuous movement mode.
I particularly like that they made a lack of enemies work so well.
There is a lack of guides out there for the later parts of the game, but one of those times I was stuck was resolved by looking at the numbers on the fast travel map more closely.
I rarely get sick but man this game I just couldn't bring myself to keep playing. I put in a request for a refund after 5 minutes of desperately trying to MOVE and only succeeded by making myself nauseated. Great concept but man the controls suck. :/
I played this game because I finally got around to connecting my Quest to my PC and saw it in my Steam library - I had bought it years ago, when I was intending to get a HTC Vive. As in the one released in 2016. (And then I didn't get a VR headset until the Oculus Quest at the start of 2020)
It's a nice, casual, puzzle + treasure hunt game where you cast spells to do, well, everything. Open a door normally? No! You're a mage! Cast a spell to open it for you!
There's no combat, even though there are some spells that could be used for it (including fire balls!) but instead they are used for solving puzzles or otherwise interacting with the environment. Mostly the game is tracking down chests to find pieces of a map that lead you to where you can find the crystal shards you need to finish the game. You don't need to find all the map pieces - often finding 2/3 map segments is enough to know where you have to go and what you have to do once you're there. Sometimes important hints are given by the NPCs that appear near map chests once you open them too. (all NPCs "talk" by having a scroll with what they are saying on it, which is a nice touch I think)
Many of the puzzles can be solved in multiple ways, and often you can use additional spells to make something easier (whether that's solving a puzzle or just exploring).
Something helpful is most places you are looking for crystal shards have how many you've found in different parts of the area on the quick travel map. It's nice so you know whether you've missed something or not.
I really enjoyed the spell casting system. The game detected my gestures properly almost all of the time, better than many games with bigger teams and budgets. The combined spells tend to make sense. And a lot of the spells were quite fun to use.
The "draw the rune" then "cast the spell" steps were things I didn't even think about much after the start, even though they shared a button and many spells are made from two runes.
I got 100% completion in seven hours, and I wasn't exactly trying to fast. But that's still a decent length for a VR game (especially for a non-shooter from 2016).
Another thing to mention is it does have multiple player slots. I have other people that like using my VR and it's annoying to have to tell them not to play a specific game because I haven't finished it yet, so multiple player slots is a definite plus.
Problems...
This game was made in 2016, and it shows. Home VR was still pretty new, and some things this game tries (like using the grip buttons to drag your view around to rotate!) are horrible. Thankfully I could disable the grip buttons to rotate thing in the options by setting rotation to roomscale and just turning around myself without having to worry about accidentally pressing a grip button.
The graphics are, I think, quite good for the time, but the textures are pretty low-res for today's VR systems. Have a look at the screenshots if graphics are important to you.
The game also has some minor bugs. Sometimes levitation seemed to act weird, and once I got stuck in a wall (though pressing the button to open the in-game menu, say to access the quick travel or quests, was enough for it to push me out of the wall and everything to be fine again)
I recommend this one, with a caveat- if you have issues with smooth rotation in VR, this one will likely give you problems.
I have such issues, but the game was good enough that I kept going for nearly an hour before I tapped out. If snap turning was added, this would be one of the best VR games I have played thus far. I like the rune mechanic, the exploration is fun with neutral (neither great nor awful) visuals, and it's engaging enough that it kept me interested.
I'm keeping it in hopes that snap turning will someday be added, or for days when I am super resistant to VRtigo.
Very fun Puzzles and a big world to explore. You will spend a bit of time in mazes though.
A fun and awesome puzzle game where you use gesture-based spellcasting to solve puzzles.
This is absolutely fantastic. Thoroughly recommended. There's about 8 hours of playtime here.
This game looks really interesting, I love the concept of gestures for magic, However, the turning mechanism is a complete show-stopper for me. You turn by holding the grip button and "dragging" the world around you. Firstly, it doesn't move in the direction I expect, secondly, there is no snap turning, and even after having gotten used to smooth movement in other games, this makes me instantly sea sick. So much so that I had to stop playing after about 30 minutes.
Several peoeple in the duscussion forum seem to have the same problem, however there has been no response. Also, there does not seem to have been any update at all recently. It's a shame, as this game seems very promising.
If the smooth turning and the un-intuitive control doesn't bother you, it's worth trying out, I guess
Played on the Oculus Rift S.
Picked up on the summer sale for for £2.79, definitely worth it, I'd say worth the full price too! I enjoyed drawing the runes out and casting them as spells, as well as combining the different runes you can learn throughout the game. Completed in 7.5 hours.
Graphics aren't ground breaking, but the game play is there for me for the price point and and created by a one man band. Few areas where traversing the terrain was a little troublesome using free locomotion, but this didn't bother me at all!
I think there are better games on the market now. I would recommend other narrative games with better gameplay than this.
Initial Review: The game was not for me personally but I do appreciate this game for what it is. I would say this is a good kid friendly game as the mechanics are simple and the game play is straight forward. Kids may get frustrated at some of the puzzles or not knowing where to go. There are also some "scary" portions of the game that usually involve darkness (not being able to see your surroundings and the light spell doesn't illuminate that well).
This game is a puzzle game. You explore the world, combine different spells to get past obstacles, and collect runes. Collect all the runes and you win. runes are hidden all around and there is very little guidance on where to go in the world. if you learn a new spell or collect some runes, you're probably going to the right way. I made it through about half of the main story and lost interest as there was a lot of back tracking (may have been my fault). If I end up finishing the game, I will update my review. Overall not a bad game so I recommend it, just not my type of game.
- Finishing time: about 7 hours
- Some cool puzzles
- Developer took care for the players: motion / handling of controls can be configured to ones liking. Maps and journal make it obvious how many fragments there still are in which sector of the map.
This game is for you if you:
- like to solve some cool puzzles in a 3D world
- want to get all possible achievements without the need of completing some almost impossible feat ;-)
This game is not for you if you:
- expect fighting and killing (not one fight in this game!)
- want to have a lot of dialogues.
Your task is to explore and find some maps and artifacts. You interact with your environment, but not with people. You are the only person (besides the instructing wizards) around in a world with dungeons.
Runesage is an exploration adventure game involving puzzles where you use different spells, drawn by hand with your wand, to discover missing runes. You'll unlock more spells along the way to help you find more runes and solve more puzzles. In terms of visuals, I found the underground and darker parts of the game to be very visually appealing in VR, more than the outside was to me, but the outside does still fit the atmosphere. I personally found the progression with the in game hints to be easy enough not to be frustrating, but hard enough to still pose a challenge, however more hardcore puzzlers might be a bit disappointed with the difficulty. The game took me around 5 hours, so in my opinion it's absolutely worth the price if you think an exploration game with puzzle elements sounds fun.
This is a very fun game for those looking for an adventure of exploration and magic. There are no enemies to fight, which for me was a welcome change to other magic-based games. The dev is amazingly helpful and quick to respond to requests - something we gamers don't always experience. I had a bit of issue working out the mechanics of the game - teleporting and casting the magic - but once I figured it out (the issues were mine, not the game's) it worked very well. Magic casting is completed by releasing the trigger at the farthest point from your body; I do think this is not intuitive as in most games the trigger is pressed, not released, to start the action. If you have trouble spell casting, go back and read the instructions again. My other bit of advice - no spoilers here - is not to linger too long trying to complete a particular quest. As you get more spells and even a second wand, things that are impossible at one point suddenly are easy to complete. This is a game that I will replay at some point in the future, and I would not hesitate purchasing future games from this dev.
I really love this game. It's one of those games I feel a compulsion to keep playing because it's relaxing and engaging (plus I am cursed with being a completionist).
Pros:
-Soundtrack
-Graphics, particularly the unique design of each of the eight mages
-Puzzles, just difficult enough to be challenging but none felt impossible
-Movement options: teleport, trackpad, and arm-swing!
-The developer, he's very helpful to stuck sages like myself and is quick to respond to questions and feedback
-The price, for at least 10-15 hours of interesting gameplay $9.99 is a really decent price (especially for a VR game)
Cons:
-NONE, after all the changes and hard work the developer has put into this game, I can happily say that there are no cons
I had bought this game, just to experience being a mage. It accomplishes that pretty well, though I'll have to wait for fireballs. A couple of days after I bought the game though the developer actually contacted me seeing any improvements. I guess I'm just used to not ever hearing from the developers of games so it took me by surprise. I told him about what few problems I had with it and it didn't take long (I think a day.) for them to get fixed. I recommend the game because not only is it worth it now, but later down the line it will add more things, and only get better.
I'm really enjoying this so far. If you like exploration\puzzle games, you should give it a go. It has a nice atmosphere with a good choice of music. Using the spells you learn to solve puzzles and progress in the game is enjoyable. You also have 3 different options for locomotion, which allows you to choose the method that suits you best (this is always a nice option to have in VR games). I'm impressed in the world that's been created so far and the developer is very active in addressing problems and implementing new ideas the community has. The hard work an passion put into this game is the reason I support emerging VR developers in their creations.
It's a fun adventure game. You travel from place to place gaining spells to overcome obstacles. I was able to make it to the end fairly quickly, but it took me 5 hrs total to get 100% completion. The hidden gemstones took me a while to find. These gemstones once found open up some mini games with leaderboards.
Very cool game with a spell combination system. The developer is extremely active and the game is getting better all the time. Worth the asking price, for sure.
Understand this is early access, so not intended as a criticism, only feedback. I have a GTX 1070 graphics card and this game was *extremely* jittery to the point of being unplayable - much, much more so than any other VR game I've played. Seems as if graphics still need to undergo a lot more optimisation before it can be realistically played. Looking forward to seeing a more complete version though.
UPDATE: Have taken the dev's advice of holding Alt when launching the game from Steam so that graphics settings can be adjusted, and that did the trick. I changed them to the lowest just to make sure it would work and everything was fine. One graphical anomaly which was that trees in the distance (the 2D ones) rotate along with the player's head! Strange effect. But otherwise now perfectly playable and enjoyable. :) Good stuff, and looking forward to playing it some more and seeing where it goes!
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | George Gilbert |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 01.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 89% положительных (38) |