Great graphics and nice audio, stunning for the first 30 minutes, but it falls short, the game is horribly boring and has unimaginative and repetitive "gameplay".

I thought I would give this game a shot at least for the fancy visuals but the pacing is so slow and the gameplay so simplistic that it is nearly non existent, so much so that the visuals won't save this game.

The gameplay consists of going to point A where you are told something is broken and you need to go to points B C D to repair the broken thing by simply pressing a button in each of those places, yes, that's really all there is to it and getting to each place takes 5 minutes or more of just slowly and painfully floating around while sometimes looking for oxygen canisters to refill your space suit and waiting for doors to slowly open.

There are no puzzles, no problem solving and no thinking involved, no events, no conflicts, the game just drags you from a point to another to press a simple button while finding and playing some audio recordings that tell a bit of the story and systems of the space station re-activate and animate as you repair them, that's it.

Pressing a button is not gameplay and having the player going from point to point to do the same button pressing for hours is not compelling nor fun and its borderline insulting the player's intelligence.
The ambience audio can be pretty repetitive at times and really makes things even more boring and annoying.

To make things worse, interacting with doors or other things requires to hold the F key for a few seconds, for no reason, waiting for an animations to play, waiting extra time to regain control after the door has been wide open for a few seconds... it kills the flow and it could be all in one key press.

The control and movement is slow and touching any wall ceiling or floor at slow speeds damages your suit and punishes the player, why? it would have been much more fun being able to move faster and bouncing off walls with your legs and arms like real astronauts sometimes do, then again if the movement system was faster the game would be very short but at least moving around might have been fun.

The navigation map is a mess and unclear, the game is often confusing as to what the objective is or where it is.



ADR1FT should have either chosen to focus on the experience of exploring and experiencing the environment freely with the backstory playing as you go around OR being a game with actual depth to its mechanics.

Unfortunately it just looks like most of the work went into the visuals and audio and that a button pressing mechanic was slapped into it but its so repetitive and so dull and the controls and movement system so slow that it ruins any chance of enjoying exploring the environment or story after the first 30 minutes.

why the **** is this listed on steam store as - compatible headsets: htc vive, oculus rift, when it only supports oculus rift... waste of money and effort.

Played it with Vive System.
I sure haven't played it that much... I got motion sickness as I've never felt before after a few minutes of gameplay:
you cannot turn you head around because the view is blocked by the helmet, so you have to use the trackpad to move the view and you'll probably feel sick by doing so. Try this while doing a barrel roll (which is often required to adjust the tilt) may lead to imminent barf. The game is visualy quite realistic though, because I was instinctively afraid to barf in my IG Helmet, but I really did not find it as immersive as other VR experiments and games.


This may be due to the controls which are not very friendly. I'm aware that evolving in a newtonian physics space void is quite tricky, but the controls aren't intuitive (on the Vive at least), and going from bottles of 0² to bottles of O² is not as enjoyable as I thought, and becomes even tedious.
Vive controllers are not that useful, you can still punch into flying object which is quite enjoyable, but also breaks the immersion as you still see the hands of your character doing something else.
Not being able to rotate your view properly is a really poor choice in a VR game, even if I understand the realistic approach behind it.

Adr1ft was one of those games who made me buy a VR system, but in fact it looks like it is a Non-VR game that wanted to be VR, but that cumulates too many mistakes to be immersive and pleasant.
Maybe you could give it a try on a flat screen, I guess it would be more enjoyable, but I'm not sure it would have a lot of interest.

I've asked my first steam refund for this game, 'nuf said.

They tacked on HTC Vive controls to make us buy, but it was a trick. The motion controls don't even work with the in-game hands, and the controls are horrible. I never feel motion sickness, but this game was able to make me feel it. I'm returning this, but I'll buy again if they improve the controls and make the hands motion-controlled.

Looks OK, not as pretty as i expected in the Vive. Control scheme is a little frustrating but you get the hang of it.

I floated about for a bit, picking up air canisters, or at least tried to; half the time my hand wouldn't grab them and I'd then have to slowly rotate around to find it again.

Overall, the environment is there for a great game but the game mechanics aren't polished or to a high enough standard for everything to click in to place.

I got a refund after less than an hours play.

2 out of 5 spacewalks

In the near future there is a space station. Obviously it's prepared for pressureloss and astronauts wearing EVAsuits, since there are O2 refill stations all over the place. And astronauts will need them, since the EVAsuit designers decided to implement just a tank for 5 minutes of oxygen: to breath and for thrusters. And guess what a trained astronaut does: she uses those thrusters instead of pushing herself from walls. But she's not to blame entirely since the staion designers decided to leave the walls almost without handles. And what is it with the communications arrays? Why are they built so narrow no one can go through without bruises.
Don't get me wronog, from a gameplay perspective these elements make sense (even so badly executed). But there's no reason for these elements designed this way in universe.
There are more issues like these from start to finish and my rant for the orientation marks by the scanner would guarantee me a permanent steam ban. Design and execution of the game are not two sides of a coin; they are equally bad.

So, what about story and history? They are fragmented and you don't get a feeling for what's going on until being halfway through they game. While gameplay isn't exciting either. Repitition of button pressing and searching for the next waypoint are combined with frustratingly bad level design, which let's you tumble around like a buffoon instead of a trained astronaut.

ADR1FT reminds me of the movie GRAVITY. The asthetics are gorgeous and both create a great feeling for Zero G, but the worldbuilding is illogical. Goodbye space, maybe we'll become friends another time.

Played on the Vive. Was looking forward to this. Unfortunately..

The idea that you would make a VR game with a fixed POV is an anachronism. While I understand that this was originally designed for a terrible control scheme, no attempts have been made to fix the inherant issues with such a scheme, it's only been mapped to less intuitive controllers. Turning your head does not actually change your POV. If you're lucky you get to see your helmet from another angle, the other options are your head clipping outside of your helmet, or the helmet realigning itself in space seemingly at random.

I would like to hope that the developers at some point in the future will rethink how a person should control their experience in VR. This seems like it could be an interesting experience, heck just give me Mark Watney style wrist propellant and the ability to turn my head and I'm good. As it stands, this might be one of the most depressingly poor experiences in VR, depressing because it feels like there's probably a decent game in there somewhere.

The camera movement does not align to your body movements and therefore makes you motion sick.
The movements in scripted animations feel to speedy aswell.
Otherwise It`s okay.

I cannot recommend this game and I have submitted a refund request because even though I have an i7 5930K @ 4.5 GHz with a GTX 980 Ti, the game cannot achieve 90 fps for me on my Vive. With the why you move in this game it is critical to have 90 fps to avoid adding to the potential of nausea. Worse yet is that there are no adjustable video settings to reduce visual quality in order to achieve 90 fps.

I and others have posted about the video settings issue and the developer has indicated no intent to resolve this issue: http://steamcommunity.com/app/300060/discussions/0/353915309344865194/#c353915309345584497

I can get past the issues with the Vive motion controller implementation, but the inability to get 90 fps on my hardware is unacceptable.

Amazing game. Real immersion. Looks stunning. Plays best seated with a gamepad , and I am a Vive user. A masterpiece of VR . So glad they released this on the Vive. Not finished yet but I know I will come back to this game many times.