OceanCraft
OceanCraft is a Virtual Reality game about surviving on a self build vehicle on the ocean.
Survive the dangers of the ocean – alone – or with your friends.
!!! Early-Access Release !!!
Currently you have about one hour of gameplay
Before adding further content we want to make sure – you all enjoy the core game mechanics – crafting – surviving and multiplayering.
There is already a lot to do inside oceancraft
– survive alone or with your friends (cross platform multiplayer)
– collect trash from the ocean
– build your own base
– pallets, walls, tables, chests, etc
– grow and harvest plants
– fish fish with your fishing rod
– grill vegetables or fishes
– crafting
– save games
– public and private games
– voice chat
– food cutting
– hunger, thirst, health
– Balloon drops
– Slingshot
Steam User 40
Pretty good start. Literally Raft 0.01 for VR at the moment. Very relaxing to play with a few friends, but not enough content to be considered a full game (it is still early access).
Steam User 25
Pros
- no bugs
- fleshed out crafting menu
- well put together entities and world
Cons
- Very early access
- once you craft water purification and a slingshot there is no further useful content
- no control walk through (You equip the hook shot by dragging it to your analog stick in the inventory menu)
What I would like to see
- Ability to swim
- Islands you can go onto for resources
- Storyline
Overall a good base for a game. I do recommend purchasing it as it may motivate the devs to work more on it. I don't believe much more needs to be added to add an exponential amount of replayability to the game but right now beyond crafting and using a water purifier and a slingshot there is nothing to strive for.
Steam User 9
Smooth turning please.
Steam User 13
Experienced on the Oculus Quest 2
You can view my review & gameplay here:
So lots of people are complaining this game ripped off from Raft, however, Raft doesn't have VR and this was built from the ground up for VR. So if you don't care either, then I can definitely recommend this game for you, even in this very limited state in Early Access (I'm rating the game as is, not on its potential). It took me about 3 hours to build everything that I wanted (solo). However, I definitely could have been spent more time if I had been inclined to try to build something epic.
Keep in mind the interactions are very basic currently. You only have teleportation (no smooth or snap turning). You have 4 tools that you can use: a grappling hook gun to reel in objects from the ocean, a fishing pole to fish, a slingshot to bring down supplies from hot air balloons, and a hammer to take down structures.
You have a one-button inventory system. Any objects reeled in automatically go there as long as there is space. You have to deal with huger and thirst. One of the first things you should be building is the water purification system plus mug (you need clean water to drink from mug) and the plant pots (you'll need to water them too using the mug). A lot of these interactions are simply point and click. You sort of have magnet hands too, although the range is limited.
There's also online multiplayer coop and servers for different regions. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to test that out. I did host a game online, but nobody joined me. I can say that this game is perfectly fine played solo. Game is running on the Unity Engine. On my RTX 3080, I was getting a steady 90 frames per second (no surprise given the low-polygon art style). I did not come across any serious issues or bugs, although items would disappear at times (when there was no space in the inventory).
Honestly, there isn't a lot to do in this game after about 3 hours. You'll probably have built every possible thing by then, although you can always make it bigger or more epic. It's a chill, relaxing game, especially once you have enough plants growing and at least 2 water purifying systems going. I think the interactions can be improved. The visuals and sounds as well (there isn't a whole lot to look at in the background and there's only a limited, basic sounds available). However, it is easy to build and it does have a nice hook that gets you interested in the core gameplay loop. Three hours went pretty fast for me in this game and I had fun so I definitely recommend getting it, especially at the sale price ($8.49 USD).
Rate 7/10. I got my money's worth already.
Please note: I received a free Steam key through the Steam Curator Connect program. You can join my Steam Curator group here:
Steam User 6
It's VERY Early Access-- boiler plate sounds, no music, a fair amount of content. The good thing is that the devs really nailed the basics and the game is relaxing and enjoyable. Hope that they continue to update it and add new things like materials that spawn deeper and you can only get with a new tool, functional sails, islands or boss battles etc.
Steam User 7
I like the game and it is a good start. I played for 2 hrs and I would play more if just they would add locomotion. DEVs please add locomotion as a movement option. Yes this is just like raft ,but since raft is never going to be in VR this is the best we will get for now. I like it and it could be amazing. I hope the Devs keep building on it.
Steam User 5
Its a good game and a rip off of Raft, but in VR, wich is the thing i like.
However there is still alot of work to be done, like for example:
-when you drink, make it fil up the full bar of thurst
-Official MS Mixed reality support(walking and looking around is a bit of a problem at the moment)
-Better atmospheric lighting
-more enviroment (like islands)
-Less hunger
-difrent types of trash.
-get rid of the balloons( they dont add much extra to the game)
-there are no shark attacks at the moment.
-some wheater would be nice
alaround it stil needs alot of work, but the basis is there.
and the multiplayer works very well.
if they keep updating the game i'l recomend it