Unseen Diplomacy

I love this game, it really shows the immersive power of VR, and particularly 'redirected walking' - I truly felt that I was exploring a large complex, and not just crawling around my living room, and it made me feel very immersed in the world. I hope more developers explore and incorporate the redirected walking concept, because it could be a great alternative to the commonly used teleportation mechanic. I will say that the game is very very very short, but well worth it for $3- I will be showing it to all of my friends.

I feel a bit bad here, dissing [i]Unseen Diplomacy[/i] when I adore its [b]concept[/b] and placed it on my "Must Buy" list as I geared up for the Steam Summer Sale. Alas, it has some issues I think we shouldn't gloss over. First, we need to address the elephant in the room: Triangular Pixels decided to create a VR experience that essentially [b]requires the maximum room dimensions[/b] the HTC Vive can support. This strikes me as a completely bonkers decision. I live in the south of England and am the only one amongst my British friends who was actually prepared to clear out an entire room for the Vive. (For the curious, it's the largest bedroom in the house. Because, you know... [b]priorities[/b].) Pushing furniture back to the walls gives me about 2.6 by 3.5 metres. Guess what... it's *still* not big enough to meet the requirements of Unseen Diplomacy. Let's ignore for a moment my personal frustration at not being able to max out the diagonal between my Lighthouse base stations and ...

While the gameplay may seem repetitive, Unseen Diplomacy is one of my favorite games on Vive right now. Each playthrough is short and take about 5-10 minutes to complete but the randomly generated obstacles keep the game fresh each time you play it. The cherry on top for this game is that it's not only fun to play it; it's fun to watch others play it too! One warning for people looking to purchase this game is that it does require a large play area (4m x 3m / 12ft x 9ft) and you will be crawling around a lot. Due to that this game is best suited for people with large play areas free of any obstruction. That's not to say you can't play it with a smaller space (I'm able to play with a space of 3.5m x 2m) the issue is that you'll have to cheat a bit to get past certain areas.

One of my favorite VR games by far. Procedurally generated, so even though it's pretty short (you can beat it in about 10-15 minutes) there's actually a lot of replayability and variety to it. After playing through it several times, I can honestly say each session was pretty unique (even though they always start and end the same) and more importantly I had fun every time. The best part of course and what sets it apart from the rest of the VR market right now, is that there's no teleporting or any other type of virtual movement, you literally just walk/tip toe/crawl around your play space (which needs to be quite large, those with small rooms are out of luck unfortunately.) As far as gameplay, think Mission Impossible. Your job is to sneak past lasers, crawl through air ducts, find key cards and push buttons, making your way to the control room, where you must hack/blog the internet back into existence, or all the cat memes will be lost forever. Even though it's so short, I think it'...

The concept is amazing and I'd love to see more games use redirected walking. The only immersion killer I encountered was the cable that got tangled up all the time, and at one point I accidentally pulled the power cable out of the breakout box when crawling on the floor. But other than that, really cool!

Great concept! Fantastic pricing! If you nearly meet the area requirements like me (about 3.8mX3.8m) , you should give it a go - I didn't seem to have any issues with the game itself (Vive tracking can be annoying though, if you don't have the base stations perfectly set up). Gets repetitive. If the devs continued to flesh this out it could be one hell of a game, but in the mean time, it's great for what it is. Funny to watch your friends crawl around on the floor.

If you have the room scale setup for this game, it is a pleasure to play! Its the first VR game that I found myself crawling around on the floor and smooshing my body up against nothing in order to get though the puzzle. The game is a nice short package that mixes it up each time. Would love to see some new mechanisms added to the mix, but still a winner in my book!!!

TAKE THE SIZE RESTRICTION SERIOUSLY. I was only able to play through a small portion of the game because my play size is smaller than 3mx4m. What I was able to play was very cool, though.

Short Review: Buy this game right now! Long Review: Unseen Diplomacy does a great job of showing you how your 4m x 3m room can feel much larger in VR. Instead of teleporting all over the place, you walk in circles in your play area, but you don't feel like you're walking in circles. You feel like you're crawling through vents, opening doors, and dashing through a large building. I recorded myself while I played through the game, and it blew my mind how I had just been going in circles. Brilliant use of room scale. Well worth the $3. While there isn't much replayability, it's worth the $3 just to get your mind blown and show your friends how cool VR is. This is a must play for ANYONE with a 4m x 3m play area!

It is a short, yet fun game that lets you go through a small obstacle course that features randomized rooms for every playthrough. Please take that into consideration that this game has a rather large space requirement of 4x3m. I was able to play it with 3.3x2.4m but I had to leave the chaperone borders here and there (which should work if you planned in an arm length of buffer around your playarea). Works well with the HTC Vive on a GTX970/i5-2500k setup.