STRAYLIGHT

This game is amazing! Grappling myself through outer space has given me happy lucky feeling. I am prone to motion sickness so I'm always concerned trying out new VR games, but this game didn't give me any issues. I am excited to see what the devs do from here! Note: I played this game at a conference before the early access release.

While I find myself taking a chance on fewer and fewer titles lately, this game is a good example of why it can pay off to take some risks. This game is unashamedly evil.. Some part of me wants to catch the developers in a dark alley and smite them, twisted and evil they are. If you can't handle a good bit of negative reinforcement and a punishingly challenging game, then this game is not for you. Graphically the style is very simplistic, low polygon content, but extremely well animated and fx driven. The physics aspects are quite strong, slinging yourself around some of the obsticals at neck breaking speed actually managed to make me feel a little shaky on my balance and I am a hardened VR player. I found the mildly passive aggressive "host" to be quite entertaining. No wait, there is no passive and no mildly. Seething undertones with a desire to see you suffer to a an otherwise polite and meek sounding entity is what you get. If you like physics based games, and you like fast frantic...

Despite ugly looking UI (and Steam store page for that matter), Straylight is a great grappling hook VR game, up there with Windlands series and Jet Island, and even better than Yupitergrad. Although technically you are not using a grappling hook: Straylight has different more arcadey physics that allows extremely high movement speed and mobility. And levels are designed for that: they are huge and full of obstacles, yet still can be beaten in a minute or two by an experienced player moving at full speed. This is what sets the game above Yupitergrad for me: the difficulty of courses here still allows constant fast movement without a need to stop and wait for the opening in deadly traps. The campaign seems to have only 11 levels on Normal and Zen difficulty, but after you beat 11th level you will be thrown and the biggest and toughest 12th level and the whole Hard mode with another 11 levels will open. And unlike Zen difficulty, that uses the same layouts as Normal, Hard provides comp...

A complete gem of a game. Addictive, challenging gameplay. Very few other games utliize the VR capabilities the way this game does.

Edit: After some more playtime and updates I'm changing my opinion on some things and mentioning things that were changed. TL;DR: Going from a somewhat positive review to a very positive review. The game ran very smooth and I didn't notice any bugs at all in my short time of playing. Which is very nice to see for an early access VR title. Some things I would like to see changed: [strike] The physics in this game aren't very intuitive. While you're grappled on a star, There is no gravity whatsoever. But when you're not grappled to anything, the gravity suddenly comes back on full force and you very quickly lose most of your forward/upward momentum. This threw me off a number of times and I feel like there should be some universal gravity in the game rather than zero g when grappled and super strong gravity while falling. [/strike] ----Okay so I'm not sure if the physics were tweaked or I just had some weird expectations but the physics feel great and intuitive to me. Maybe it just tak...

The heart of this game is its locomotion. It is intuitive in the beginning, yet has some intricacies you can learn to use later in the game. I am somewhat sensitive to other types of VR movement, but this one did not affect me at all. Would be a good introductory game to folks new to VR. I quite enjoy the aesthetic of the game. You do feel quite alone and you can lose yourself in the visuals and music while casually hopping around the orbs. The level design is nice in that you can either slowly navigate while enjoying the sites, or try to rocket through it as fast as possible, if that's your thing. Overall, I'd recommend this, and given that it's in early access, should get better as well.

You want to go fast? You want to swing through space in a crazy-smooth way and hold your breath to see if you can make it through a glowing hoop? You want to listen to a super-chill, synthy, analog-powered soundtrack? If these things are appealing, then STRAYLIGHT might be your thing. STRAYLIGHT is probably best described as a platformer where you're swinging off of glowing nodes to try to swing yourself through hoops. You activate the hoops in pretty much linear order and then you toss yourself through the final portal and you're done. There are a few really exhilarating things about this game: THE MOVEMENT is exhilarating. The movement in this game just feels nuts, and you feel like you can throw yourself into crazy stunts. It feels REALLY good. There must've been a lot of time spent on making this motion smooth, because it's so good. This is something that is really difficult to describe, and it's a great demonstration of doing something in VR that you could NEVER do in real life...

[b]TLDR: Straylight is a great platforming-esque game with fluid movement that is easy to pick up and very hard to master.[/b] The soundtrack is absolutely phenomenal and fits whether your just vibing or pushing for a speedrun. The game could be a little short for those that only want to clear each level, but is otherwise very replayable. And the gameplay WILL keep you coming back. Note: I'm reviewing this 3 days before its release. A lot of the other early access reviews are from 2020 when it first entered early access. (I have a beta code from the devs for their live build to test WMR controls. Seems like the early access build from 2020 is a bit different) [b]VR Movement as advertised[/b] If you read the store page description and you want to know if it is [i]actually[/i] any good, it is. I have long played vr driving sim and space sims, but wasn't as interested in Straylight. I bought early access a few days ago and was instantly hooked. The movement is just really satisfying. ...

I'm fairly new to VR and I had no trouble getting the hang of the very few controls you need to learn. The game does a good job at easing you into the experience with each level getting more and more challenging. Somehow falling to your doom is fun, and it makes you want to try again! I enjoyed the music, it definitely fits the look-and-feel of the game. This is a nice, casual VR experience - would recommend!

Absolutely fantastic little VR motion game. Which, going by leaderboard progress and the number of reviews, isn't seeing a lot of traction on Steam at this writing. Compared to other VR movement games (Sairento, To The Top, and exercise-focused titles like PowerBeats or Beat Saber), Straylight feels comfortable to play and fun to move around in. The UI is well-presented in VR, all of the levels are fun to play, and the moderate level of exercise feels good between more intense experiences. Special shoutout to the narrator who clearly had way too much fun with the lines of this game, invoking a sadistic glee reminiscent of Portal's GLaDOS. I found the early levels a little on the easy end, but felt very satisfied by the postgame challenge levels. Half the game is contained in those levels, so be aware that you have plenty to go once you've seen the credits. Overall, even at the full price of $20, this game is worth it if you enjoy nyooming around in VR.