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Transpose - highest ranked current VR game on Metacritic - reviews and impressions

RuneSR2
Grand Champion
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I searched but couldn't find a unique thread covering this game, so I made this thread - Transpose is a great VR game and deserves all the attention it can get. Also it's currently the only VR game on Metacritic's list of best current PC games - it's better than Battlefield V  😉

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reQPwK774O0

https://youtu.be/hpjiKfNtBTE

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1365103133543739/

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I was pleasantly surprised by Transpose, it's definitely a keeper, even though puzzle games aren't my favorite genre. Transpose is rather unique - and fun - although it's far from puzzle games like Obduction. Then again I'm assuming Obduction had a much higher budget due to 2D support. Compared to Obduction, Transpose is made for VR - you even got real arms like in Marvel Powers United and Lone Echo! 

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According to the devs, the game's content can be described like this:


The universe renews, refreshes and repeats, infinitely folding in on itself. I am made of its energy. My past and future selves are always with me. We work together to generate the infinite cycle of creation and destruction. I exist within and without time, I am inevitable, I am eternal. Time and gravity are my tools to manipulate the world. I don't recognize this world, but I know I have been here before. Transpose is a dreamlike VR puzzle game set in a universe where time and gravity are used as tools to manipulate the world. By creating and working with looped recordings of their actions, players must solve increasingly complex physics puzzles in a mysterious setting where notions of space and time no longer apply. 



Player Echoes 
Transpose features real time player recording, allowing you to play back your actions one to one in real time while interacting with your past selves. You must create echoes of your self, rewind time, and work with these echoes to solve puzzles. Go ahead, give yourself a high five.



Time and Gravity 
Set in a mesmerizingly surreal world, Transpose allows players to control time and gravity. Rotate the environment around you to walk on walls and ceilings, experience perspective shifts and multifaceted puzzles in ways only possible in VR. 



Worlds 
Travel across 3 distinct worlds solving gravity defying physics puzzles in over 35 unique levels featuring impossible, otherworldly architecture.

There's full locomotion with the ability to teleport when needed - several options are available for turning, including smooth HMD-directed turning, in short you won't miss any Touch option in this game. Actually the game feels a bit like being inside the Matrix, but that's a good thing in my book. The music is nice too - quite soothing and relaxing (and in total contrast to the music in Polybius 😉  

I started the game using my default super sampling (ss) 2.0 setting (Oculus Tray Tool global ss setting), and to my amazement the game performed quite solid at 90 fps. I then discovered that graphics settings were set to "low". In transpose you can only select "Low", "Med" or "High" graphics settings (and it's not explained what changes these settings provide). I then selected Med and fps went down - and of course same goes for "High". But I really couldn't see any difference - textures and more looked exactly the same using "Low" or "High" - but fps definitely weren't the same. I found out that graphics settings only seem to affect shadow quality, like:

Low = no shadows
Med = very pixelated (low-res) shadows that look horribly close-up
High = pixelated shadows (medium res) that look a bit better than Med shadows

Shadows look like the devs pasted them on the finished game without doing much optimization. Seen far away, shadows do look good though and add some depth. For now I ended up using "High" and ss 1.8 (OTT profile), this often yielded 90 fps on my rig (see my sig), but I may have to go down to ss 1.6 to get solid 90 fps. SS isn't extremely important in this game, many textures are low-res by default and don't gain that much, and the game is quite dark. SS-o-holics may just set 2.0 from the start and never - ever - change graphics settings - then you'll truly enjoy this game and never know what you're missing  B)  

I'd be surprised if owners of GTX 970 cards can't greatly enjoy this game using low graphics setting and ss 1.0 (remember that low settings look awesome in this game).

Within its genre, I'd rated this game 9/10. 

Game reviews:

 https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/transpose/critic-reviews

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Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

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Zenbane
MVP
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Adding this to my library!

RuneSR2
Grand Champion

Zenbane said:

Adding this to my library!



Looking forward to hear if you like Transpose - although the two games are quite different, in some ways Transpose reminds me of Form. 

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

Digikid1
Consultant
This would be great with multiplayer.

RuneSR2
Grand Champion

 In the level "Crossroads" shadows are completely deactivated - thus in that particular level there's no performance difference between "low" or "high" graphics settings, quite strange. I really suspect that the shadows were a late add-on and not part of the original design. And with deactivated shadows all Rift users should be able to enjoy this game (as long as you've got a rig corresponding to Rift's minimum system requirements).  

So I've decided to go with "low" and crank up super sampling to the max - it feels good B)

And the game grows on me - getting increasingly awesome each day (there are many levels and no I have not completed them all - maybe I never will).

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

RuneSR2
Grand Champion
A new review has just been made:

https://youtu.be/wPGS4gk7PtE

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

RuneSR2
Grand Champion
Transpose is 40 % off on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/835950/Transpose/

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

RuneSR2
Grand Champion
This awesome game is - free(?) - if you get if on Steam before April 13?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/835950/Transpose/

It does say 100% off - but I already got the Oculus version, and it perfectly Revives with the Index. 

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

RuneSR2
Grand Champion

RuneSR2 said:

This awesome game is - free(?) - if you get if on Steam before April 13?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/835950/Transpose/

It does say 100% off - but I already got the Oculus version, and it perfectly Revives with the Index. 


Ok, there are no strings attached - if you get Transpose this weekend for free, you can keep it forever - doesn't sound like a great deal for the devs though - I hope this isn't that start of devs abandoning the game like Merry Snowballs...

More info here:

https://www.vrfocus.com/2020/04/download-transpose-for-free-on-steam-this-weekend-keep-it-forever/

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

Protocol7
Heroic Explorer

RuneSR2 said: if you get Transpose this weekend for free, you can keep it forever


This is the greatest deal in the history of virtual reality