Overload

Basically what my toddler brain thought Descent 1 looked like back in the day. Perfect modern D1/D2 style game, and beautiful VR

It feels like Descent, plays like Descent, even sounds a lot like Descent.

Is it a Descent clone, or "Spiritual Successor"?

Don't know. But I do know I'm having too much fun to care which it is!

It's Doom, in zero gravity!
When I saw the trailer for Overload, my immediate thought was "They are gong to get sued by the creators of Descent!" I was glad to find out it was the folks from Descent that made this game. All of the fun, full 3D, vertigo, shooting, is here and then some. Fully voices mission briefings, inventive ship designs, and gorgeous graphics. AND it works in VR.

I'm an old man, this is just like the old game from 1995 called DESCENT . I loved that game ,it was my first time PVP other players. this game changed my life many years ago!

It's basically Descent 1-2 updated for modern systems. If you liked those, you'll like this game too. If you haven't played them, Overload is a 3D shooter compensating slower movement with full usage of three dimensions. Easily playable on mouse+keyboard.

After the sheer disappointment and fiasco that became of the copyright holders of the Descent IP trying to re-boot the game, this re-imagining by the actual programmers of the old game is a worthy tribute to the groundbreaking (at the time) release of Descent. Descent was a game that various PC manufacturers used to include on CD-ROMs with their PCs to showcase the power of (at the time) cutting edge Intel processors, leaving competitors like the Commodore Amiga, Atari and Apple Mac in the dust. I was 5 years old when Descent was released, and back then I only had access to the shareware version bundled with a Packard Bell Windows 95 PC, I have since re-played a bit of the full version and its successor, Descent 2, and experiencing them as an adult and being able to understand the story has made memories come flooding back. Overload is just about perfection in re-imagining what Descent was intended to be back in the day, my only gripe is that when a reactor blows, it makes a weird alien sound telling you so, and not similar to the announcement in Descent which put the sense of doom into you. The story is good and it genuinely feels like something out of the Descent universe, if dumbed down slightly. I have been able to experience it thanks to an invincibility cheat, but even then it is a welcome challenge to work out how to blow a reactor, and I always find the hostages, or as they are now called "cryopods". I highly recommend this game.

We need Overload 2 and Overload 3 and Descent 1 -3 Remasters, ASAP!