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Lavender

Lavender is a community-driven social sandbox. There are no limits on performance, physics or scripting. If you want to make it, you can. Come imagine with us.

All Reviews:

Mostly Negative (36) - 30% of the 36 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Dec 11, 2019

Developer:

Take Over Games

Publisher:

Take Over Games

	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
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Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

Leaving Early Access: 2027

Note: The last update made by the developers was over 3 years ago. The information and timeline described by the developers here may no longer be up to date.

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“We chose to do Early access to be able to get community feedback on Lavender before full release.
Come chat with us on discord!”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“The planned 1.0 release date is Late 2027.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“Currently Lavender is in a closed beta state. In addition to what is already included in Lavender, we also are planning to add the following:

* Game Mode system
* Official content with open source releases for users to build off of and utilize as examples
* Polished user experience with phenomenal performance
* Full game server manager with admin access
* Full Ingame content creation
”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“We're currently in the middle of a full custom engine replacement for our previous Unity version of the game. Its been built from the ground up for VR, physical interaction and network latency. Come check out the beta branch of the game in the next few weeks as we go first release on the new engine.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“After we take Lavender out of Early Access we will decrease the price on release.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Currently Lavender has an active Discord that allows us to have community discussions and one on one feedback from you. On Discord we post everything from test announcements to what we are currently working on. Having this platform allows us to be in active communication with our community and be as transparent as possible with our development process.”

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About This Game

What is Lavender

Lavender is a community driven social sandbox centered around users expressing themselves and having a great time. We want our users to be able to create and share their ideas in an easy and intuitive manner. We support both VR and Desktop players together on the same server. We are working hard to make sure you can create exactly what you imagine with ease. Personal expression is one of the cornerstones of VR. In order to satisfy this requirement, we pack a full customizable avatar system with outfits, physics, gestures and visemes.

We want you to be whatever you want to create.

One of our goals with Lavender was to make the smoothest possible VR experience for our users. To accomplish this Lavender is built on the newest version of Unity: Unity 2019.3.0b12, using Unity's newest ECS and DOTS technology. This gives us amazing performance, while also pushing what's possible in a video game like this. We provide an experience that can scale from a few players to hundreds in a single server, VR 'Full-body' and Desktop players alike.

Current key Features

Full body tracked expressive avatars with eye tracking and lip sync
Steam audio integration providing a rich complex experience that immerses you into the soundscape of the game
Physical bodies and movement that allows you to experience everything from zero gravity to climbing up a cliff and swimming underwater
User supplied custom worlds and avatars with minimal restrictions on expression
Full content management system through a modern web interface that allows users to upload and track their content
A rich scripting experience with a fully featured API that allows content creators to make crazy contraptions and surreal worlds
A powerful but user friendly SDK experience to aid new content creators
Create and customise your entire games UI though HTML, CSS, JS. (Check the games folder, BrowserAssets)

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains users created content that may contain mature content. We do have a content filtering and flagging system that allows you to only see what you want to. Most of the mature content should be behind an age gate but because the system is automated there may be some things that slip through. To remedy this we have a flagging system in place for users to flag content that is not labeled as mature but really is.

System Requirements

Windows

SteamOS + Linux

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or later, Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i5-4590/AMD FX 8350 equivalent or better
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or better
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 20 GB available space
VR Support: SteamVR

Recommended:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, AMD Radeon RX 480 equivalent or better
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 10 GB available space

* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.