UNBINARY

Unbinary is a VR puzzle game where you are guided through a series of test chambers by an advanced AI, akin to Portal. In the game you are given access to 3 masks which when equipped change which objects you are able to interact with, as well as how NPCs will interact with you. I really enjoyed this mechanic and it allowed for some unique puzzles. Speaking of puzzles, they were enjoyable throughout the entire game. The first half of the game was maybe a little too easy, I wouldn't have minded if the difficulty began to ramp up a little earlier. The latter half had puzzles with a more satisfying difficulty, where a couple of times I did have to stop and think before proceeding. The game was never frustratingly difficult at any point. Unbinary also features a hand-painted art style that was just lovely to be immersed in. Objects and characters looked great in this style, and I even found myself saying hello back to every robot that greeted me. Some aspects of the environment such as w...

New Review now that i have played the full version... Game was supposed to be cheaper for the people that buy it early, but price didnt go up, while great for new players, early supporters got kinda shafted, we did get a $15 game we just paid full price from the start. Beautiful game original and great looking design, great performance with a 1080, nice voice acting... But the wait wasnt worth it :/ The game i felt was really basic in most, if not all aspects. The awesome great visual assets become repetitive fast, the puzzles are very simple, i didnt feel any challenge other than finding the next button or lever to push so it opened the next area so i pushed the button in there, sure there is a bit more to it, but in the end i didnt feel clever or satisfied after completing them. Interaction is very limited, Mechanics dont feel smooth, level design was very basic, very short enclosed levels. And i found annoying bugs and glitches that really lowered my enjoyment of the game. ...

This game might be fun, but using the index controllers the fingers are used in reverse which makes no sense. There doesnt seem to be an option to use free locomotion only teleport which I find immersion breaking.

[i]<I wrote this incomplete review two months ago, intending to finish it by commenting on the allegory at the heart of this game. I didn't have time to do it, and now it has been too long since I played Unbinary and I don't remember the details to do it properly. The first part of the review about the gameplay is complete, so I will post the review as it was on March 2, 2022.>[/i] Unbinary is a puzzle and narrative adventure game for virtual reality that distinguishes itself from the abundance of similar games with a unique art style and a theme that is entirely an allegory. I'll comment on Unibinary at the allegorical level later, but for now let's look at Unbinary as a VR game. "Autonomous User" is your role as player character, and your job is to solve puzzles to advance through areas and collect the data cube at the end. "Webby" is the artificial intellegence the Autonomous User is operating within, and she is undergoing tests to ensure her perfection. Webby is there every ...

Let's start this review of 'Unbinary' by talking about the main selling point of it which is the handpainted environments. While still quite low-poly the game does indeed look great, it as if you are stepping into the pages of a graphical novel. Sadly not as much effort has gone into the gameplay and this is a fairly easy puzzle room style game in which you will be finding keys and switching things on and off. The puzzles do indeed get a little more complex as time goes on, but most escape room fans won't have much trouble here at all. While I do appreciate how much effort has gone into making this game I would have liked it to be a bit cheaper than it currently is. If you rush through this game you will be done in less than an hour, but most people will take a little while longer first time trying. I do recommend it and I did enjoy it, but there isn't quite enough of it for my liking. But it is one of the best Oculus Rift only games on the Steam store so kudos for that.

the game looks super nice and a good story like portal, but i fear that that the full release will but too short and too easy.

Good puzzles with a unique art style that is compelling.

Wonderful environments with very nice model work and style. The voice actors were a little on the overdramatic side, with a bit of the "You... need... to... do... the... thing..." type of speak near the end, but it was more on the cheesy side than the annoying side. Sometimes I encountered puzzle-breaking glitches, such as bots losing track of their current location after moving around, but level restarts are easy enough and levels are short enough that I didn't lose much progress. [spoiler]I think the game was sort of trying to make a racism/prejudice allegory, which I found interesting in that they actually tied it into the puzzles rather than being only part of the dialogue. The yellow mask causes green bots to loathe you and actually shove you around if you get close (may be disorientating for some) which I found to actually be a little bit threatening as you'd walk near one, swap masks to climb a ladder, and hear the hate sounds start up; I found myself climbing ladders a little ...

Played the early access version...its ok. The sound design is generally really annoying, the movement and grab mechanics are pretty buggy. The art style is certainly cool, but like, what is the point of the game? The puzzles are pretty straight forward, and then robots get mad for some reason...? Interested to see what, or if, this ever goes to full release.