Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Jun 10, 2022

  This is a great game, I already bought and played Meta quest 2 version. That version also a wonderful game. But This PC version is not 100% better version. it has cons and pros than standalone version. I hope the developer see this review and fix them. Now I tell you what is the cons of pros of the game. Pro- -Overall graphic is absolutely stunning though there are few minus than Quest version. -We have Legs! -Feel game is huge, the environment scale is amazing -No loading area. It makes game is even bigger and feel very immersive. -It has more items and building options and a lots of additional props than standalone version which makes game rich. -Facing enemies is much challenging. -Overall play style is much realistic than quest. -The bag is free space which is very cool and nice But it's different than Into the radius. You have manage empty space like Diablo as well as weight of the bag. Cons- -Walking speed is fixed. I mean it's not transition between walk and sprint. It has only one 'walking' speed. Many VR titles have linear walking speed depend on Thumb-stick rotation. The fixed walking speed makes feel difficult to control very small movement. Also it's a big minus for Omni VR Treadmill and Natural Locomotion users. it's very simple thing. I hope devs fix it. - Rain graphic is really BAD. You did really well in the Quest version. the raining feels very real in it. but rain in this version, it's like an overlay on screen, not 3D at all very flat. it ruins whole game graphic fidelity. - Crafting is NOT good. Quest version is 300% better. it's very immersive and intuitive in that version. but This one has much detail option to craft but process is worse than Quest version... Please make crafting like quest version. You did really well on it. -Frustrating Target point. its target point feels slightly off for both index and quest2 controllers. Also You cannot grip them directly. it was a bad design for VR. ========================= I know you did really well on quest so I have to say you could do better in this version. There are few minus but I cannot deny the game is wonderful. there is no reason why I don't recommend this game for survivor game fans and VR enthusiasts. ========================== https://youtu.be/VrvPgII2QFo This is the Video review Link, Check it out!
• gamedeal user

  Jun 10, 2022

  By VR standards this game is AMAZING! Easily one of the best VR ports to date. Incuvo has done an INCREDIBLE job at taking a game made for desktop and making it feel like a real VR game. So many developers don't understand what people want to do in VR. Incuvo "gets it". From manually rubbing sticks together to start a fire, to literally throwing a grapple hook up a cliff to manually climb, to inspecting your arms and legs to see how and why you are injured, to manually wrapping your wounds with bandages, to having a real backpack you take off and manage your inventory in, to pulling leeches off your skin... Green Hell does VR better than most made for VR games do VR. If you are a fan of survival games and own PCVR, this is a must buy 100%. As far as performance goes, which seems to be the main concern for some of the bad reviews...I played on low settings with a GTX1080 i7 6700k 3.6 on Valve Index and hovered around 80 fps, which for some folks might be a no go, but for myself i managed just fine and barely noticed the sub-90 fps. The game STILL looks great by VR standards even on low. One thing they do well that most VR games do not is limiting aliasing (shimmering edges). There is minimal "shimmering" and it still looks fairly cripsy. Most VR ports have really bad blur and/or aliasing. This game does not. It looks great and performed well enough for me to recommend it. But if you are an FPS andy with a low end PC, maybe wait for optimizations? UPDATE: So i just did some tests on performance on low settings and 1.0 SS on a GTX1080 i7 6700k 3.6 i would hover around 80 fps which is sufficient for my liking. I still really enjoyed it but if you must have 90 fps you gonna need the starship enterprise under your desk lol. Here is a screenshot on lowest graphic settings... Idk how these bad reviews are saying it looks bad on low, it's literally one of the best looking VR games out there, EVEN ON LOW. https://imgur.com/6RnWwGu The devs wouldve been better off only having 2 settings, very low and low but just call them "LOW and ULTRA" and the people who are refusing to lower graphic settings would be happy af right now. I've been playing VR since 2016 and the number of VR games with a world this scale, that looks this good, with such great ambiance, sound design and overall presentation is rare. Not to mention the superb VR implementation by VR port standards... I can't wait to play more! HIGHLY recommend as this is probably the best VR survival game to date, up there with Vivecraft! Here is my first successful few days after like 8 hours of learning lol https://youtu.be/aVcOSZMtuJA
• gamedeal user

  Jun 11, 2022

  If you like the forest then I highly recommend Green Hell Vr. Looks amazing and runs better then I expected. Not sure why some of the 20 or 30 series gpus in the reviews are having problems but its working great on my rtx 2080. All it needs is a little more optimization and multiplayer and it would be a solid survival vr title. Edit: Now that I've played even longer...you guys who left a bad review should be ashamed of yourselves. This is currently the best survival game in pcvr. This is better then The Forest.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 15, 2022

  First off, I want to mention that I never post reviews, especially negative ones, but the reason i'm doing that here is because I want to see this game grow and evolve into a perfect game. I will not be going over any pros of this game, only the cons. Right now I have two glaring issues with the game, the performance, and the parity between the Quest and Steam VR version. I'll tackle these in two different sections. First I'll tackle performance because I don't really think that much has to be said here. It just feels like the game is poorly optimized, getting constant frame stutters (mainly when turning using the joystick) that make it difficult to play for long periods of time. No matter how I tweaked the in-game settings, I couldn't seem to fix this issue. Secondly, the parity between the Quest and PCVR versions. My main issue is the crafting and building systems in the PCVR version. These two systems seem to be much less intuitive than in their Quest counterparts. Although I've personally never played the quest version, watching videos of it makes the PC version's crafting and construction systems seem much less immersive and sort of lackluster compared to the Quest. It feels as if the PCVR version was neglected when it came to adding features and instead, the Quest was prioritized. Can I recommend this game right now? No. Am I hopeful that this game will grow into something great if these two issues are solved? Yes. I am optimistic that the devs will see these issues and outcries from the community, and help turn this game into the great game I know it could be.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 17, 2022

  Let Me first start off with the issues, since that's what everyone will read, including the devs and they'll have more motivation to address them, since I will remove them when they're fixed. I'll add things to this and my wishlist as I play the game so that others can reference them. Following that, I will post a wishlist of improvements that I don't consider bugs, but are quality of life. Followed by my impressions of the game. Issues/Bugs------------------- 1. The smooth turning mechanic only seems to apply to the midline into the southern quadrants of the control stick. about midway and higher you do not turn, even if your stick is all the way to the edge. The way the index controllers are held, this feels like the controllers are not picking up input, especially when turning the direction of "inward" on the controller. this is extremely frustrating, and I would ask that you change it so that input in the northern quadrants of the control stick, also register as turns left or right when past a certain value on the x axis. 2. Occasionally, the walkie talkie will duplicate on your chest at roughly a 90 degree angle. 3. Swapping to and from performance mode crashes the game without a warning. If a restart is needed, a prompt should show. 4. Swinging the machete too quickly passes through objects you intend to cut. 5. vignette settings seem to not save sometimes. Wishlist of improvements---------- 1. Make turn speed a clamped float with a max value about 1.5-2x that of your current fastest setting, rather than 3 discrete options. Since it is both a movement and vision controlling option and these are key to the game, I would like to fine tune my turn speed. 2. Make the machete able to attach to the side of the backpack, over the shoulder, or at least face downwards. having it face back is awkward, and truth be told, I'd rather store it over one of my shoulders to be grabbed. 3. Make the subtitles or walkie talkie dialogue attach to the walkie talkie, in a grey box similar to how you pick dialogue options. That way if I want to read the subtitles, I can, against a nice contrast background instead of watching it jitter all over the place as I look around. 4. Allow index users to select dialogue options with the walkie talkie hand thumb trackpad and press trigger to confirm. Walkie talkies are one handed for a reason. 5. Index individual finger tracking. I want to flip off the natives and post to reddit to harvest butthurt. 6. Add option menu to tutorial. It took me 5 minutes of fumbling to figure out that tapping the position button would bring up the menu, which I needed to increase turn speed because medium was slow, slow was turtle, and fast is not fast enough. Opinion/Review-------------- Now that that's out of the way, let me get on with my opinion of the game. Right off the bat there was solid effort put into this port, which is extremely encouraging. It features: - Drop over shoulder looting and storage - a grabbable backpack - IK driven arms - Picked up objects have physics and collide with other objects, and seem to somewhat simulate weight. - custom player driven mechanics for items (i.e, a handheld fireplow that you grab the stick and work back and forth to make an ember) very cool. - swing the machete at small trees to chop them down, and again at large sticks to break into smaller sticks - Release crafting items over schematics to add to recipe - hold food to mouth to eat - touch watch to change display (awesome) - draw on a whiteboard and erase The Graphics are good, but poorly optimized, which I don't blame the devs of the port for, or really, the original devs all that much for. It was made to look beautiful on regular flat screen, the tall and dense canopies of a rain-forest is taxing given the expansive nature of the map. That said, I have a 5900x and a 3080 FE running on the index, and I have the resolution on high, the quality on the lowest setting, and the textures at medium, and it still stutters occasionally. Any improvements to this would be greatly appreciated, as many don't have the stomach I have for VR and stuttering is EXTREMELY disruptive to enjoying an experience. The environment and ambiance are amazing. It makes me excited for what can be possible when hardware can render much more complicated scenes in VR. The tutorial is nice and well needed. The dialogue isn't the best, and there are some spelling and grammar mistakes on some of the notebook entries, but that's minor. I am very excited for the multiplayer to this and additional polish and optimization, if it's within the devs abilities. I have noticed devs are reading reviews, responding and have noticed patches releasing. Because of all of this, I am endorsing the game.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 18, 2022

  Green Hell VR is easily the best flat-to-VR port money can buy. In this review, I will go over the gameplay, visuals, and physics. Beginning with physics, I must admit I am very impressed. I would put the physics here juuuuust below saints and sinners, for the simple reason that objects become almost weightless when you aren’t holding them, and when you force grab an object it can send objects near it into the stratosphere (for example, if I grab a stick that is behind another stick, the other stick will be sent far, far away). However, the game has a very impressive weight system for objects in your hands, in which they really do feel heavy. Obviously I have to mention the thing that either sells or doesn’t sell a game to me: hand collision. I’m going to keep it simple. Hand collision is there, and it’s good. Visuals: demanding. Very much so. Thankfully, I use Virtual Desktop’s extrapolation, so I can basically ‘cheat’ my way into 120 fps with my 1060. Still, I have to have most of my settings at medium with performance mode enabled. Devs, you could either try to optimize the game, or lower all of the settings so ultra is medium (it’s a stupid idea but would result in a lot less complaining) aside from the performance side, the visuals are fantastic and immersive. You really notice how good the visuals are when you are constantly paying attention to see danger. That sort of thing in games is my favourite, when you aren’t just staring at a map. My one issue is some rocks have holes in them that causes the renderer to act strange. Gameplay-wise the game really shines. The original game was difficult and had a really good difficulty curve, but VR really makes you feel like you are learning how to survive in the jungle. The interactions with the items like throwing a spear, crafting, and especially starting a fire feel great. A few other things I should mention are the remarkable sound design and really good menu music. Overall, if you can run it you have to play it. It’s a lot of fun.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 20, 2022

  Almost broke my hand punching a wall after getting randomly jumped by a leopard 10/10
• gamedeal user

  Jun 24, 2022

  PLEASE ADD INDEX FINGER TRACKING PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! I CANT BE IMMERSED IF I CANT FLIP OFF THE CAPYBARAS!!! otherwise, 9.5/10, really fun
• gamedeal user

  Jun 24, 2022

  I really want to recommend this game but I can not. Incuvo, if you are reading this I am sorry for the negative review as I'm sure you guys have put a lot of effort into this! But I have to be honest here. The game is awesome, but the performance is the problem. Let me start by saying I absolutely love survival games and I love VR games. This game looks to have wonderful VR mechanics and a great story. (which I find many survival games lacking) The only real problem is the performance. I am lucky to have a really good setup. 32 gb ram, 3080ti, and a 10700k cpu. At first I was sad to see that I was getting sub par performance in this game but let it slide for a while because I was enjoying the game. After a while the hitching and re-projection started getting to me and I started to play with the settings to see if I could optimize the performance. This is where things get weird.. My steam settings were 100% scale resolution (like 2000 by 2000ish) at 90hz. I was getting my best performance with some hitching and regular reprojection. So I tried lowering in-game graphics settings. Basically no matter how low I put the settings the game was always reprojecting and hitching. Even with the lowest render scale ingame witch made it look like a PS1 game! I'n fact the lower settings performed worse in some scenarios then the more demanding graphics! I promise if there's an update that fixes and optimizes performance I will absolutely be recommending this game! But at this moment it seems that you need to have a 3090 or better to play this. Despite the devs recommending a 3060! There is no way 3060's are having a good time here. Anyways I hope to see performance updates in the near future, I will be looking out!
• gamedeal user

  Jun 28, 2022

  Ahhhh don't you love it when a boar takes off with your spear in its leg and you go home to find a bunch of natives sitting around your fire...