Trove

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“

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

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.

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.

I just finished High on Life 2 and decided to play through Trover again. Love this game. It made me laugh more than a few times and the gameplay is very easy to master. They should add sex though.

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

If you like season 1 of Rick & Morty, season 1 in particular. Then this is your dream game.
It's got that signature ad lib and crude humor all throughout.
I didn't play this in VR and I never really felt like VR was in any way required to get more out of the game, it works well on a controller.
The gameplay is a bit strange as you're playing the camera guy and the titular character Trover at the same time. You can move up and down and pick up and throw stuff as the camera guy.
But your actual movement and combat is done with Trover who controls like a traditional video game character.
The only way to move the camera guy around is to activate pads on the ground you teleport to.
The actual combat is pretty braindead easy and the only time it's slightly challenging is the final boss, but only because the game swarms a bunch of enemies on you and you can easily stunlock yourself hitting the wrong enemy and getting hit during the recovery animation.
The highlight of the game is that it all feels completely ad libbed, just the like intergalactic cable episodes in Rick & Morty. Just about every single dialogue section in this game has 1-2 minute of required listening before you can progress but about 6+ minutes total if you just stick around and listen to them talk.
It's a lot of talking and you will sit and listen a lot more than you'll actually be playing.
Not all the dialogue is amazing and sometimes they really couldn't come up with anything interesting to say, so a few times it just devolves into them repeating themselves in different ways or screaming ♥♥♥ and AIDS over and over again for a few minutes.
If you like Justin Roiland's brand of humor then this is a gold mine of jokes and silly scenarios.
But if you can't stand the humor then this game has literally nothing to offer you.