For Food Sake! VR

Lucky me has the dubious honour of writing the first review for more Steam shovelware, this time, "For Food Sake!".

For Food Sake! VR is a VR exclusive non-game. You know those activity sets for infants where they have to take an object and make it fit into a hole that matches the shape of the object? This is shallower and more dumbed down than that kind of Fischer-Price toy for infants. You're stationary in front of three conveyors. Food rolls in one bit at a time and you must place the food onto a "Healthy" or "Unhealthy" conveyor. You do have to do this in a certain time frame, or the food is wasted. We can only question what mental state the developer has where they think people put slices of cooked pizza on conveyor belts for people to classify. Tell us you never had a job in the real world without actually saying it!

As an afterthought the dev decided some "fun" should be added to the game so occasionally you get an explosive with a timed detonator on the conveyor belt, and you have to throw it away before it explodes. Health and safety? Not much. What a terrible concept for a game, delivered terribly.

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the mid 2000s. 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 seems to have been made a VR exclusive to prevent any comparison with non-VR 3D games, a comparison that this game would fail very badly at. 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.

The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.

For Food Sake! VR is relatively cheap at $2 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.