Trover Saves the Universe - reviews and impressions - an amazing VR experience!

[RuneSR2]

Trailer:

Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1051200/Trover_Saves_the_Universe/

ABOUT THIS GAME

From the co-creator of Rick and Morty comes Trover Saves the Universe.

Your dogs have been dognapped by a beaked lunatic named Glorkon who stuffed them into his eye holes and is using their life essence to destroy the universe. You're partnered with Trover, a little purple eye-hole monster who isn’t a huge fan of working or being put in the position of having to save the universe. He’s also not that big a fan of you quite frankly, and neither am I. (Jk, you’re great)

Only you and Trover can save everything in this bizarre comedy adventure, created by Justin Roiland!

• A comedy adventure filled with combat, platforming, puzzles, and morally questionable choices. See how the best intentions can go horribly awry.
  
  
• You control Trover's movements, but not his mouth. He’s got a lot to say about what’s going on in the game.
  
  
• Travel the cosmos to experience a variety of weird alien planets and bizarre characters with big personalities.
  
  
• Upgrade Trover AND YOURSELF with new abilities to (hopefully) defeat Glorkon while evading awkward situations.
  
  
• You'll be immersed in weirdness, no matter which display you use. Switch between TV, monitor or VR headset displays* whenever you want.

*Additional hardware required.

MATURE CONTENT DESCRIPTION

The developers describe the content like this:

Blood and Gore
Drug Reference
Mature Humor
Strong Language
Violence

[RuneSR2]

JeremyC85 said:

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Arock387 said:

So I love this game and everything but am I the only one experiencing a shit ton of freezing during this game?  Im not having issues with any other games.  Just this one.  and its freezing a lot.  I have tried uninstalling the game and also oculus completely and reinstalling

I haven't experienced any freezes during the game at all. And I push the game to the limit, all settings maxed out. I'm using Forceware 417.xx, not the newest driver. Win10 64 bit, not updated to the latest version either (if it works don't fix it...). 

Whta GPU do you have? 

See my sig below - GTX 1080. 

Weird, I don't see signatures on the mobile? I have a 1080ti and will try to push the game a little harder.. Right now I'm doing high settings and 125% resolution without a problem. 

Unless you want solid 90 fps, I'd just max out all settings and then try it out - then you can always consider lowering ss or antialiasing - or post processing effects.

[RuneSR2]

Trover just received a 480MB patch, doesn't seem to change performance, but if some experienced crashes maybe these are cured? 

[RuneSR2]

For those considering buying the game in the Epic Store - be careful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/c00jo9/trover_saves_the_universe_from_epic_store_no/

Quote:

Trover Saves the Universe from Epic Store No Longer Working in VR

In a moment of weakness, I bought Trover Saves the Universe from the Epic Store. I know, I know, shame on me. I'm having a terrible experience with it so I've learned my lesson, but maybe someone can help me get it running in VR?

When I first tried to get it running on my Rift, the game just launched in a 2D window, no matter what VR Options I chose in the game's settings menu on the Epic launcher. Then I noticed the Epic Launcher updating. When that finished, I tried to run the game again and it ran great in VR.

That was last week. I came home from vacation and tried to fire it up again. Now it's back to 2D. I have options in the Epic Launcher to launch in Steam VR, Oculus VR, and OSVR modes. Only OSVR mode will show a hover state for my mouse. None of them work in VR anymore, just goes to a 2D screen. I've added the game to my Steam library too, and added the -vr to the run parameters. Nothing works, it keeps displaying on a 2D screen.

Anyone have any ideas?

[MowTin]

I bought this at 29.99. So far I regret it. 

I really enjoyed Rick and Morty VR and Accounting+ but so far I don't like the 3rd person platform gameplay and the jokes aren't as funny. It's just a lot of cursing. 

I'll keep playing. Maybe it gets better. 

[RuneSR2]

Best guess is that even though Trover is one of the highest-rated VR games ever, it may not have sold well enough, the studio will focus on pancakes first moving forward:

"Trover Saves the Universe felt safer as a dual game, with the main problem being marketing and messaging. Although the game released in May, there are still those who don’t know that it can be played on a normal television. So, in addition to overcoming misconceptions about Trover, Squanch will be focusing on making more traditional games moving forward.

The studio won’t eschew virtual reality entirely, but Squanch is no longer limited to making VR games.

“We have some really amazing stuff coming that I’m so fucking excited about,” said Roiland. “It’s all across different genres and types of games, but none of them are going to be VR first. At best, they’ll be VR second.”

https://www.pcinvasion.com/justin-roiland-squanch-games-future/ 

Maybe the problem was that Trover without full locomotion, smooth turning and real hand interactions never felt like a true VR game (or it was PSVR at best, which was their primary target - in PCVR you play Trover using a PS4 controller, which may put some hardcore PCVR enthusiasts off) - and it could be played in 2D too indicating that the game wasn't fully committed to neither 2D nor VR. 

[Wildt]

Just tried it for the first time tonight - very entertaining! I love the theme and the humor.

[RuneSR2]

BTW, Jopo just arrived 😉

https://youtu.be/PUXNqbInDLI

[RuneSR2]

Trover is today's Daily Deal 😮  Even though there's limited support for Touch, this game is among the best VR experiences ever made - if you can handle the black humor 😉

Get it here: 

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1769388509760051

[Wildt]

Y'know what a wall is?!

[RuneSR2]

Wildt said:

Y'know what a wall is?!

Not sure I follow you, I think I have a pretty good idea "what a wall is", but I'm fond of expanding my horizon... A Trover quote coming up?  😮