Tross

I actually enjoyed it, but that took about a solid 45 minutes of fumbling around with the atrocious controls (which aren't remappable) and figuring out a way to basically ignore most of the level. If the controls were fixed I think this game would actually be pretty good but, as is, this game is barely playable, if that. Difficulty in a game should come from level design, not from you being unable to move properly due to the controls. Tross is a game that tries to capture the feeling of the Death Star level in Star Wars Rogue Squadron and the ship escape level in Saints Row 4. This is a great idea imo and I gotta admit it's not a terrible game. It'd be a pretty damn good game if the person who chose the control scheme wasn't mad. First-off the movement groups make no sense. Pitching up and down is paired with rotating your ship and speeding up and down is paired with turning, this applies to both controller and mouse&keyboard. This makes flying an absurdly awkward thing to do, it ma...

An acrobatic "Cyber Flightsim" so *difficult*, I'd say buyer beware... It's really difficult. Pros: +Cyber-themed flightsim +Has a graphical theme reminiscent of REZ +Developer responsive to fixing any issues Cons: -Extremely unforgiving -Slightly Unpolished Each level is a 3D arena with all sorts of obstacles that you must traverse through without making contact with ANYTHING. The goal is assaulting the large virus unique to each level. Enough hits of the target areas of the virus will destroy the virus and you are supposed return to spawn. I found the following games relative to this one in some way: "REZ" for Playstation 2, and the 1993 PC game "Delta-V" by Bethesda. NOTE to the developers: Thank you for fixing the controller problems. I play fine now using MADMAN & INVERTED control scheme.

I saw 12 evaluations, I thought i would give it a go and give a positive review, but this isn't. This game is very basic, super hard, and doesn't feel good at all. The space is very restreigned, and you end up looping to hit that ennemy, and when you killed him, you die going back at launch pad. This game is awful. That hurts me to say that to an indie game, but it should seriously be free. For me, it's a refund demand. Seriously, I could have done this in one day with Unity.

ok so here it goes. THIS GAME ROCKS. i love the style i love the feel i love the idea and everything about it so far. now that having been said at the current moment there are some bugs that need working out and the controls are not very intuitive. but the game is only a day and a half old as of making this review. so here is something to think on. some people like games like this. other people like to leave hate filled reviews on new games to attempt to sink them. my guess is in the next few weeks the dev will roll out a little better controls and everything will be hunky dory. so if you like the art style get it. but be aware that this game does have some tweeks that need to happen for the future. and yes IT IS HARD. that is why one of the tags is "difficult"

Great Game! The Graphics were NOTHING like I suspected, The controls (Considering your using a mouse and keyboard and choose your preferred options) are great, the MUSIC of all things is absolutely fantastical, and gameplay in general is EXTREMELY ADDICTING.

Very fun. Just takes a few goes at it to get used to flying, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty nice. I'd recommend this game if you want a challenge. The music is also really great.

I'm going to give this one a very, very tentative thumbs up. The aesthetics of Tross are brilliant. Very Tron. Very Battlezone. The music is cool, the graphics are cool, but it is insanely difficult. I mean, really, really, really difficult. It feels a bit like a 6DOF light cycle - you can't stop moving forward, and one hit instantly kills you (this will usually happen in the first couple seconds that you enter a level). The insta-death makes the game tense, but also very frustrating. I got to the fourth level, which is a very tight maze, and couldn't get any further. It's definitely a skill-based game - your deaths are never "cheap" - but i just don't have the patience to practice when there are so many other good games out there. Still, i got a couple hours enjoyment out of the music and graphics. Just don't expect to get much more out of it unless you love punishingly hard twitch games.

controls suck, levels suck, game sucks

The controls in this game are horrendous, and they do not make for a very enjoyable experience. I would have persisted a little longer if I didn't feel like I was just continually fighting these terrible controls. Good music and a nice visual aesthetic were not enough to make we want to carry on playing.

The ship is not really in scale with the obstacle course expected of you, nor is it responsive enough to really do much about it. If you want a decent comparison of size to task I would recommend envisioning trying to pilot the Milenium Falcon on the Deathstar Bombing Run. While it may fit the margin for error is vast. Weapons are tied to motive power so shooting too much results in piloting a brick until you regain motive energy. Shooting too much is incredibly easy to do since the combat boils down to strafing runs and you're only given one weapon. It's a decent idea, if it were retooled it'd be better. 3/10