Trove
Your dogs have been dognapped by a beaked lunatic named Glorkon who stuffed them into his eye holes and is using their life essence to destroy the universe. You're partnered with Trover, a little purple eye-hole monster who isn’t a huge fan of working or being put in the position of having to save the universe. He’s also not that big a fan of you quite frankly, and neither am I. (Jk, you’re great) Only you and Trover can save everything in this bizarre comedy adventure, created by Justin Roiland! A comedy adventure filled with combat, platforming, puzzles, and morally questionable choices. See how the best intentions can go horribly awry. You control Trover's movements, but not his mouth. He’s got a lot to say about what’s going on in the game. Travel the cosmos to experience a variety of weird alien planets and bizarre characters with big personalities. Upgrade Trover AND YOURSELF with new abilities to (hopefully) defeat Glorkon while evading awkward situations. You'll be immersed in weirdness, no matter which display you use — play on TV, monitor or VR headset displays.
Game Discussion
Steam User 16
Trover Saves The Universe
”Do you guys know what a wall is?”
”Non VR Review”
So I played this without VR just using a gamepad. The game is a fun platformer with combat and light puzzles.
It plays great and is an enjoyable game. Playing it in VR will of course be a more immersive experience
You could speed run the game in probably 5 hours. But if you take your time and do everything and enjoy the dialogue your looking about 10 hours.
If you like Rick & Morty and High on Life and their brand of loose almost improvisational humour, you will enjoy this.
It's a shame what has come out of the woodwork about Justin Roiland in the last couple of years, but if you ever were a fan I would highly recommend.
”VR Review”
Pending, should I ever be bothered to get VR.
Trail-Dave
”Go ahead and try to jump on it, you cant. There is collision detection on every part of this wall“
Steam User 11
This game feels like playing one of the shows from Interdimensional Cable from Rick and Morty.
If that sounds fun to you. Then enjoy the eye holes. If not then... shrugs
Steam User 10
If you're a fan of Rick and Morty, you'll feel right at home. The game includes some light puzzles and a decent amount of platforming, though it's not too difficult. I highly recommend playing it in VR, as it feels like a perfect fit, but it still works well without VR if you don’t have access to it.
Steam User 7
If you like Rick and Morty humor, this is a game you would likely enjoy. The actual gameplay is alright surprisingly, and unlike a lot of comedic games it isn't a buggy mess.
This game did not crash a single time, which is impressive with the current video game scene, and is fully playable with controller so you can just lie back and enjoy it.
For people struggling to open the game, force it out of VR mode. For some reason VR mode will cause it to crash randomly instead of starting even if you specifically select non-vr mode at startup. Just open properties and add this to the opening command field. "-novr"
Minor spoilers for if you haven't played or finished the game yet and would like to skip some tedium and really enjoy the game -
If I were to play it again, I would skip the collectables as they are kind of tedious, and aren't really linked to extra content aside from a single joke at the end. I probably spent double the time playing the game to get all of them for the joke at the end, and it was funny but wasn't worth it. If you are reading this and haven't completed the game to get the joke, I very strongly recommend looking up the joke in question to see it to save you almost 90% of the tedium in the game.
Also, the button puzzle in the first level is in fact, impossible. That is the joke. I spent maybe 20 minutes mapping all the possible combinations to figure this for sure, and some people online say it is possible but it's really just a joke. This is shown later in the game as well but I won't go into details to avoid ruining any jokes in advance.
Steam User 9
Overall a fun and entertaining game. It's not too long which is nice. It stays just long enough to not get annoying. Which it gets on the verge of doing with the long monologues the characters do that completely stops all gameplay until they are finished talking which it does quite a bit.
Worth picking up on sale. Only takes about 7-8 to 100 percent the game with all achievements.
The biggest thing I find funny is that this was originally a VR only game. Yet it plays just awful in VR and is better without it.
Steam User 6
for anyone having trouble launching the game . Game has trouble with newer CPUs input this follow instruction
Open your Steam Library.
Right-click on Trover Saves the Universe.
Select Properties.
In the General tab, look for the Launch Options box at the bottom.
Copy and paste this exact line into that box:
cmd /c "set OPENSSL_ia32cap=:~0x20000000 && %command%"
Close the window and try to launch the game again. and
also very good game. Funny you like Rick and Morty. You'll like this
Steam User 5
So...Trover saves the universe, played right after High On Life, and it didn't disappoint, the humor is still there, which is something i love, The story is fun, and i specially love how Trover comments on things you do (specially if you fall of a cliff for example). I wasnt into the gameplay at first, but when i got used to it i enjoyed it fairly. The gameplay of being in a chair and controlling the character from a real outside perspective is something i didn't expect to enjoy. Props for being able to murder a lot of the NPCs haha. The story is...neat, and as a dog owner I'm 100% with saving them. I can't speak for the VR side of things, but with a controller, it was a fun game. The DLC i didn't enjoy as much but maybe i was just burned out. Overall a nice short game and a fairly easy achievement hunt. 8/10.