Blade & Sorcery: Nomad (Oculus Quest)

VR Shop – Silver Award

Price at Time Of Review: £14.99
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: Action
Supported Controllers: Oculus Touch
Best Playing Position: Standing, Roomscale
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+

 

Description: The era of the VR weightless, wiggle-sword combat is over. Blade & Sorcery: Nomad is a medieval fantasy sandbox like no other, focusing on melee, ranged and magic combat that fully utilizes a unique and realistic physics driven interaction and combat system. Built exclusively for VR, collisions are dictated by fine hitboxes, objects have weight and follow the laws of physics, creatures have full body physics and presence, and blades can be used to penetrate soft materials or deflect magic. In Blade & Sorcery: Nomad, the combat is limited only by your own creativity. Choose your weapon, choose your stance, choose your fighting style; Be the powerful warrior, ranger or sorcerer you always dreamed of becoming!

Review: ‘Blade & Sorcery: Nomad’ isn’t so much a game, it is more a sandbox of ideas for you to play around with and some very questionable physics to have a few laughs with. You can indeed have a good amount of fun here and once you turn on the gore on the settings it becomes a much better game. But the sheer number of bugs and glitches does make it a little difficult to play long-term and the more you play the more issues you will find with the game. The good news is that I do still have high hopes for this game because I know the developers worked tirelessly on the Steam VR version, so I have no doubt they will do the same thing for the Quest version.