System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR Price at Time Of Review: Free Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement) Genre: Strategy Input: Tracked Motion Controllers Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing, Room-Scale Multi-Player: No Age Rating: PG
Description: A VR-first, real-time, chess-family strategy board game for 2 to 4 players (AIs included). With very simple and elegant rules, move your pieces, shoot enemies, and the last Leader standing wins.
Review: There is a very good reason no-one has come up with a game to take over from chess and that is because chess is the perfect game! But that doesn’t stop ‘Raygun Chess’ from giving it a go. In short, it is chess, but with rayguns. So you have a handful of pieces that move in certain directions and amounts and if they get close enough to an opposing piece they will shoot it down. To be fair the models look good and so does the sparse, but oddly peaceful space setting! But when it comes to gameplay I just couldn’t get into it. The grabbing mechanic of the pieces hardly worked at all and when it did I found that there wasn’t a lot of strategy involved, in fact, you can win all the levels by simply moving your shooters over to the enemy as fast as you can. But hey! Someone might like this and it is at least free, so I will give it a healthy “meh” rating for now, but I will keep an eye on future updates for the game.
