Tethered

I know I can't be the only person that wants a VR version "Black & White". This game seems very much like an RTS Survival. You meticulously collect "Spirit Energy" one at a time from dead enemies or at random. (Just think of it as sunshine in PvZ.) The first level requires 320 Spirit Energy or something like that. That's when you have to survive the night. I put up a defense tower that uses Stone resource as ammo. This game is very well-made. The tutorial and everything is easy to read. The tutorial takes 30-40 minutes. About 80% through the tutorial they said, "That's it, that's all you need to know." (or something along those lines.) So I quit to menu expecting Level 1 to be unlocked. NOPE!! LOL I had to do the tutorial TWICE. (FML) I can comfortably play this game seated with motion controls. (They allow you to use Xbox controller too.) It's definitely worth the pricepoint. When the "Peeps" build a house. There's this sort of "Pixel Magic" that comes down from ...

Beautiful VR strategy game! If you loved God games of yore like Black & White, Populous, Cultures, or some of the early Settlers games, you will feel at home. The controls are quite simple. (On HTC Vive) You use grips to move the world around and triggers/ thumbpad to "tether" your Norn-like peeps to resources and buildings. The weather plays an important part in controlling production, access, defense, and healing. In order to complete each world, you need to gather Spirit Essence to wake the island's guardian. This requires reeling in floating orbs before they expire, which you will do whenever you are not managing your peep's orders. The game is somewhat slow-paced, but I found I had little down time as there was always something to attend to. Game runs smoothly on my i7-6700k and GTX 970. There were a couple framerate issues on load or when the building triangles are swirling around the camera, but during normal play I did not have any stuttering or issues. Overall a wonderful...

This is a really polished game visually, which is what initially drew me. However after playing it for several hours I haven't found much enjoyment, but much tedium. This is a very casual RTS with most of its gameplay revolving around mechanics like resource collection and management and unit micromanagement. All of these mechanics are implemented here in a very rudimentary manner, to its detriment. The game is based around fulfiling objectives in which a day night cycle exists. By day you have your units engage in productive behaviour, but at night enemies spawn and attack and you must fend them off. The controls and UI are atrocious, with every task requiring far too many clicks. I say clicks because though the game was supposedly designed around VR, the controllers are used as little more than a pointer emulating traditional mouse control. Here are a few examples of simple UI problems that plague the game: -You cannot order a unit to move to an arbitrary area. Instead you must t...

Pro: -Game is beautifully designed -The peeps might be the most damn adorable things to ever exist -Not to hard to get the hang of the game -Lots of situational towers making you having to always change strategies Con: -Peeps don't go back to what they were doing after fighting a critter (requires so much pointless work during night time) -Eggs end up turning bad too often, even if I put a sun/peep on it instantly -Sucking in spirit energy sometimes takes too long causing you to fall behind on assigning tasks This game is overall amazing. Besides these little inconveniences I think the game has a ton of potential and is probably one of the best visual VR games I've played (and I've played too many)

9/10 Finally, a VR strategy game that I want to play! I enjoyed the Black & White games in their time, and I'd strongly encourage other fans of the series (or any similar) to give Tethered a try. The movement controls seemed a bit strange at first, but felt very smooth and natural after only a few minutes of messing around. Otherwise, this game is beautiful and well-polished...easily one of the best looking games on the Vive at the moment, and the "peeps" are absolutely adorable! The game runs smoothly on my i7-3770k/gtx 980 system, with no apparent glitches or dropped frames. One minor issue for me was that the hand assignment (right/left) seems to be reversed from the Vive controllers' expectations. It threw me off at first, but swapping the controllers physically was a simple enough workaround.

Some people are going to love this game. I did not, but I did feel a bit of a heel in refunding it. First of, graphically it's gorgeous. One of the best in terms of VR graphics. I cannot criticise the graphics whatsoever. In fact I would like a game similar to Tethered, but not actually Tethered. So what's wrong with it from my perspective. 1) Camera movement. Teleportation zones (clouds) are easily the most accessible way to move around. Moving around by grabbing and pulling, or changing zoom by pulling apart or pushing your hands together seemed clumsily implemented. Perhaps I needed more experience, but it didn't handle well for me. Perhaps the cloud based movement was incorporated because to counteract this style. 2) Micro-managment If I send a little one off to a quarry, no problem. If it then gets into a fight with a slug, no problem. However, after the fight the little peep will just stand there. I'd rather they resumed their task and from an icon I can see if they need ...

Very fun VR game, sadly probably one the only I would consider a full game release. Ya, short time playing so far, but thats VR. Point being there are tons of islands and I have only touch 2 of them so far! Great God Game and as mentioned a full game, kudos to the devs on this one! If you like the genre BUY IT NOW! that's if you have VR of course ;) Oh this is on Vive, OCR is being supported it seems by the devs, look to the forums, but for Vive it was easy as pie ;) Things I liked... 1. The creatures are cute as a button! 2. Graphics are very nice 3. Sound and music are just great! 4. Game play is solid and I love building up my villages on the islands 5. Weather control is fun stuff ! 6. Feeling like a god is pretty cool in this game , even the little guys look at you when you get close 7. There is combat for your little ones (night monsters) 8. Allot of building options 9. Allot of promotional options for your peeps. 10. Just overall a great experiance. What I didn't really ...

This is the kind of VR god game that everyone expected to come around and it's great! Lovely art and audio, simple intuitive interface, and thoughtful strategy design. I only played through the tutorial, but it looks like there's hours of content to chew on. You can freely scale and move the floating island. This is awesome because you can perfectly fit it inside you room bounds and then playing it as a roomscale model without needing to change viewpoints. However, sometimes the viewpoint autochanges and I had to reposition the island for roomscale again. There's also cloud hotspots that you quickly hop between if you're playing with a standing only setup. It looks like there's also gamepad controls if you're playing seated, but I didn't try them.

I couldn't wait for Tethered to be playable without VR because it looked like such and amazing game, and I had seen all the reviews online and metacritic scores. It is as good as I was expecting, if not better. It looks really stunning and I dont have a very good graphics card. It's a really fun strategy game that just eats up your time - I can't stop playing it. The music is really cool as well - I kind of wish I had bought the deluxe pack now so I had the soundtrack. I think it is really clever how they have used the 'look at' pointing mechanic even in the non-VR version - it totally makes sense when you play the game, and I think it would not have had quite the same direct fun feeling if they had changed the controls to something different. I would definitely recommend this game, and I was really lucky that at the same time it got the patch to make it playable without a VR headset it was also in the sale!! Very happy!

26 hours played atm. Yep, it's that good. And I'll be back for more. You have to push through the 2 or 3 starting levels when learning the game and you'll get hooked. One of the best VR games. One to actually have fun instead of just showcasing VR to friends.