FATED: The Silent Oath

I really wanted to like this game and, maybe after a few updates I will but, for now, I can't recommend it to anyone. The experience is short. Very short. You'll be done in a little over an hour. The previews have made the game look like a lot more polished experience than it is. Below are the issues which I have encountered. 1. The Game Doesn't Launch in VR Mode - I was unable to run the game on muy HTC VIVE until I set the executable ("jottun.exe") into Windows 7 compatibility mode, which was extremely frustrating to troubleshoot. 2. Poor Controls - This game begs for touch controls but the developers have made a choice to have it work exclusively with a gamepad, maing the expeience a sitting one. As the result, the movement is unpleasant and turning, regardless of the choice of control you make, is either incredibly nauseating (it takes a -LOT- to make me sick in VR. I pretty much never feel even a bit queasy. Using the "natural turning" ade my stomach swim almost immediately). ...

Is...is that the end? Some of the comments seem to indictate that this is en episodic thing, but I've found nothing from the creators that suggest that. If that is the end of the story, then I'm angry, and I dont get angry easily. And I'm not saying that because it is a relatively pricey game that is only an hour long, I'm saying that because it has one of those endings that is done so poorly that you actually get angry. Absolutely no resolution. [spoiler] You're brought back to life at the beginning of the game to protect someone's life. You fail. The end. You dont know why the person was important enough to warrant reviving the dead to protect them and you dont see any consequences that arise as a result of your failure. They die, end. And they die in a way that is not at all plot-relevant. The game literally ends in the middle of a dungeon.[/spoiler] Aside from that, I found that many of the other reviews were spot-on. The game has its good moments, but the characters all have the...

My issue is the price. If it were $20 for all future episodes it would be a great deal, but from what i understand we paid $20 for what is a 1.5 hour game. If all episodes end up costing the same, then this will end up being a VERY expensive game once they finish every episode, and its clearly not worth that much. I have some other minor complaints like Walking seems a little slower then it should be, but overall i did enjoy the game. It is fairly well polished. Its a bit of a walking simulator, with a few puzzles, but the story keeps flowing. The giant actually makes your heart beat because in VR its legit scary. I can't downvote a game i enjoyed, but i do feel the price is too high for one short episode. As much as i like roomscale games with motion controls I have zero complaints about the lack of motion controls because the game works fine with a Xbox controller while sitting down. Not every game needs to use every feature on the Vive to be good.

It was a fun experience but I beat it in 110 minutes. That should be $10 not $20

Great adventure experiment for VR, the characters came well to life, this shows the potential of what is possible with VR. But still a long way to go where this videogame is still an traditional videogame with sometimes puzzleelements that are in my opinion not needed, ''like push and hold a button to move a vehicle''.. a bit silly. In the end worth playing with some great moments.

--Be Aware-- This game only works with gamepad and has terrible walking mechanics that will make you sick. There is barely any gameplay here....The developers were too focused on making an animation short than an actual game. Your core mechanics are walking very slowly listening and doing some face shooting archery. If you want to know what it is like to play Fated.. Imagine a Skyrim side quest...... that has boring writing ... no monsters to kill.. no loot to collect ... your walk speed is reduced to snail's pace... and just the hint of rotating your character will make your stomach turn.... You got Fated.

Its a short game, but has quite good production values, and I enjoyed it a lot, especially the last half. Like most games this early on its a bit light on content for the price. I still think its worth the purchase. Need more games like this. Not to go in to spoilers it has som nice action sequences with great sense of scale and vertigo. It has standard 1st person controls, but it works great. Using snap turns I didn't get I'll. The walking is slow enough for that not to happen, at least not to me. Recomended. On a side note it wouldn't launch in VR for me at first, playing on Vive. That is a known problem with Unreal games when you also have Oculus Home installed. Uninstalled that and worked flawlessly.

Bought this thinking it would last longer than 90mins but it is very short. Will there be more episodes or is this is it....it says episodic but it is not clear if it means the episodes included in the 90 mins or future episodes. Lot of potential and the fact that they added many ways of combating motion sickness, including snap rotation to a degree of your choice, or fluid rotation with a choice of speed, or on screen comfort markers, is great and i wish all developers would do this as it will eliminate motion sickness for many and is better than teleportation (snap did it for me, or fluid rotation at full speed with tiny taps on the stick also is great as its kind of like snapping but with more control). Sadly, it's very short, so if you are on a budget £14.99 for 90 mins might be to much.

Great story, really immersive and stays with you for a while after playing the game. Also there's loads of comfort / movement options to choose from and you can change them on the fly in the game which is always nice. The only downside is that it's pretty short and it's arguably expensive for such a short story but I guess that's the trend for VR games since it's such a niche market. Other than that, 5/5, would recommend to anyone owning a Rift / Vive.

Controls made me sick, and it's just really weird. Graphics and story is good. But short. Not worth it at it's current state.