Pro tip for oculus users: Launch through Steam VR interface. (Top right VR icon in steam.) Got VR? Want to go on exciting missions as a space fighter pilot? Want to immerse yourself in a fantastically rendered, battle hardened universe, where you are a member of a topflight squad? Then this game is for you! This may be indie, but the immersion and the gameplay are top notch! Works great with my H.O.T.A.S and I got totally lost in the CDF Database, looking through all the ships and space stations. Clearly a lot of thought and love has gone into the lore and backstory for this game. The dev is approachable and is open to feedback and suggestions from the community. I’m having fun with the game and eagerly awaiting updates - I can see myself losing many hours in the CDF universe as it moves towards a full release title. Be warned Pilot! Combat is challenging! o7

This games controls are just broken. The gamepad sticks are swapped - pitch and roll on left stick, thrust controls on right stick. Which would make sense for HOTAS, but not gamepad. I tried changing this, but after 6 months this game still has issues remapping buttons and sticks. Invert Y axis does NOT work if you swapped your sticks. It ALWAYS inverts the right stick....so my forward thrust is now pushing back on the stick. Boost still doesn't work unless you hold down forward thrust....but it plays an animation of dust particles flying past your window faster. You need 2 thumbs on each hand to control this game has intendend. The menu screens are nice, but try navigating between option screens (and the various rooms you're in) you quickly get bored of the slow fade to black and wait states between each room. Put the menu on one screen.

Very Good so far .. its a bit similar to Eve: Valkyrie in the sense that for single player, only simple modes are supported. However the single player scramble missions are more immersive than Eve: Valk as there is more wingman "chatter". The graphics style is not as high quality and the style isnt quite to my taste but it is close enough and the feelings you get when blowing up enemy ships is great. I cant wait for the single player campaign though .. I hope that gets finished soon. I recommend it at least for the experience (and if you dont want to or cant buy Eve: Valkyrie, this is currently the next best thing), but it also shows a lot of promise for future implementations.

The game is rough at the moment but there are some solid bones there. It's not as polished as other, similar games that it has been compared to but many of those games are not in early access.

Seems the Dev has had our cash and ran off with it. No updates, promises broke, promised deadlines passed. And the nail in the coffin? Looks like any topic that questions the devs antics, all the replies have been deleted. Really not looking good for this Dev, or game. Shame, because it was (back then) looking like a stunner!.

I wanted to like this, I really did. I was an early supporter of it and spent money on it early on when there were just a few levels. I flew around them, shot up stuff, had a good time with the game. The first time I looked out my window and saw my cannons on the wing was one of my coolest VR moments thus far. That said.. The controls are just a mess in the most recent update. I don't know how you can neglect support for an Xbox 360 controller which much of the population still owns. When I first purchased it played fine with a 360 controller, but 6 months later things have gone all to hell. For some reason the game wants to default to keyboard buttons for my ship controls (my 360 controller works fine on every other VR game I have) instead of my 360 gamepad. I had to go into custom controls to fix, and when back in the game, my ship spins like a damn top and the controls are all out of whack. Left is right, right is left, up is down, down is up, and then I puke. I have no ...

After two weeks owning the Vive and kind of getting tired of the better known games i finally found a game that's really a classic game and not some "go there, do this, pick up this, bring it there" tutorial. This definitely has a nice 90s space sim feel to it. Really nice, especially since i'm not into learning a plethora of controls. The immersion is great, scaling is good, the vive gives it a nice helmet feel by itself. Just flying around looking out of the side window and seeing one of the larger ships pass by feels awesome. No problems with motion sickness so far, and positioning of the head is correct on my setup. It's definitely work in progress, some glitches. The spacecrafts turn to fast for my taste, shields are missing. But there's definitely already a lot of content in there, more than in some of the higher priced titles. I hope it goes a little more to the simulation side, considering the aerodynamics and the whole setting up your ship thing. Choosing weapons, manag...

Im writing this review after the latest recent update 0.57 and its definitly getting in a good shape now. A crosshair was added for the menus and many bugs were fixed. Of course its still in a very early state, but it gets frequent updates. And it has huge potential. The game itself is an arcade Sci-fi shooter which mostly concentrates on Action. It can cause nausea but its awesome to feel like your in space, and the sense of scale is very good! the Planets are gigantic and the scenery has some great variety so you wont get bored to soon. Graphics would need some more polish but keep in mind that this is a one-man game, give him credit for that. In conclusion if you need a quick fix for space shooting in VR, this is a good game to start.

I am not the type to write reviews, though I feel I must warn everyone about this game. The programmers of this game have really botched the controls and mechanics of this game. The default controls on a gamepad do not make any sense at all and are not user-friendly to anyone who is used to flight sims. When attempting to map the controls to my hotas joystick/throttle, I wasted 2 hours trying to make changes that the game would honor. Horrifically, the controls sometimes remap themselves. For example, I mapped a button to "menu interaction' (basically the "ok" button), and somehow in the middle of navigating menus, the button would stop working... >.< other times, you'd specifically map something to one button, and in-game it would be swapped with another button. Completely unplayable. Devs, if you're reading this. Don't bother making excuses and just fix the game. P.S. When replying to reviews, check your grammar for crying out loud.

Gigantic piece of crap. Unless you like games that have horrible menu set-ups, un-intuitive controls, no HOTAS support even though it says it has HOTAS support.. I'd like to tell you about the game play, but I can't play the stupid game because it isn't recognizing my HOTAS, even though I have an X53 pro and it's listed in the menu, still isn't enough to actually work. Waste your money on Farmsimulator or something, at least that game works as advertised.