Reviews

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  Sawnoff

  Jun 15, 2016

  I only played the first round using a chair back for the window as was recommended (TY) and managed to freeze it taking a screenshot but i got to say i Love it!!! after playing pc FPS for almost 20 years this is the first time i really felt like a sniper, VR is Amazing!! The scope worked great for me, and the in game graphics were pretty damn good considering im running a 6 year old i7 with a gtx970 thrown in. I am looking forward to see how this game evolves, Great Job Dev's Thank You ;}
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  Xlikk

  Jun 15, 2016

  'The Nest' by Invrse Studios places you in the shoes of a tactical sniper. Your living room is now a sniper nest with a single window. Sound awesome? It is. It's been a while since we've had a decent sniper game on any platform (Silent Scope, anyone?). I played with a large box in front of me that I could rest/lean on. This aided in immersion and, of course, steadied my aiming. I had an absolute blast! Headshots are so damn satisfying. Judging from the placeholder text in the menus, it seems that Invrse is committed to adding a full campaign and even multiplayer. While light on content right now (Early Access), at only $8.99 this game is well worth the price of admission! GET THIS NOW! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgrwuN9nnIo
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  Shagatron

  Jun 15, 2016

  I truly hope I can recommend this game further down the road. As it is, The Nest is a cool concept that's fun for about 10 minutes, but like a lot of these VR games, is a one trick pony. The sniping is fun, the zooming in is cool, playing at night is awesome, but you see all of it and do all of it before you can even really get into it. I know the game is Early Access. I hope the devs keep working on it and add new locations and a campaign and everything we could ever want. But a score should not be based on hopes and dreams. I will definitely keep checking in on this every time there's an update, eager to give that thumbs up.
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  Dolemout

  Jun 22, 2016

  As games with gameplay features go, this has exactly one. But it's a good one. A very, very good one. Hopefully someday, there will be as many as two gameplay features.
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  VR Critic

  Jul 12, 2016

  The Nest is the first VR game to come out with a heavy and primary focus of sniping, and it's a good thing that it is because it does so very well. The Nest is very immersive right off the bat, especially so on the night map variant currently available. At $10 I would say this is [i] nearly [/i] worth the full cost, but it will no doubt be 100% worth it as more content is added. You can get my full thoughts on the game from my [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMmN1C8zrGc] first impressions video [/url]. In the current build of the game, there seems to be an issue with firing shots on every trigger-press. If I pull the trigger down slightly to ready a shot, and then click the trigger to fire the shot, sometimes nothing will happen. This can really screw you up in a game of this nature and I assume it will be fixed soon. [i]Note that my playtime isn't indicative of how much time I've actually spent playing since this isn't my primary account for enjoying my games.[/i]
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  Kingdud

  Jul 29, 2016

  This game isn't bad. But I don't reccomend it for the following reasons: 1. If you're used to shooting real rifles (I am) you'll find the position of the scope on the gun, while accurate to an RL gun, makes it very difficult to see through in the vive because you'll be looking at the edge of the lens, thus making everything blurry. This leaves you with two options: 1) move your head. 2) move your body. Both throw off years of muscle memory. :( Putting in a method to move the scope to the right or left of center would fix this problem...i'd rather my gun look weird and work/feel right, than my gun look right and work weird. 2. The AI is...really simple. As long as you kill your target with the first shot, none of the other enemies will notice you. "Cool! A reward for precision!" Yea...but...they don't react *at all*. They don't seek cover, they don't dip and dodge, they don't try to find you. Nothing. They just wander around like braindead robots. 3. The hardest difficult just puts armor plates you have to shoot off on, so that it takes two headshots to kill. Sure, I have to dodge a shot everytime i try to kill something, but...that feels like a downgrade. Its just irritating that the way they make it harder is to make it take two headshots. I'd rather it be harder by the AI having better reflexes, or actively trying to find me, requiring me to be sneaky.
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  number9maggotmaster

  Aug 1, 2016

  I REALLY like this game! This game offers a player the chance to be active in the game without being OVERLY active. I have some VR games that get me running around and sweating within the first minutes of game play. The developers of this game came up with a cool concept to take advantage of the full space that the Vive sensors offer by creating the nest the sniper stands in. The only thing that I could ask for would be extended game play. Gameplay for me looses my attention after maybe four plays through the game. I would like to see the sniper continually advance from one nest to another after the robots are destroyed at the current nest. Maybe the sniper could have a cool holographic map that shows nests that unlock after a particular nest is destroyed. There could be a myriad of goals for the sniper to accomplish. He could be making his way out of an area to maybe a base station where the robots are landing. He could snipe enemy robot ships before they land. Shoot, he could even steal a ship and make his way into the mother ship that invades earth. He could then snipe his way around, take out the facility that is creating the robots. The robots could be bigger and meaner with each advance. Just my thoughts, I am sure there is going to be more levels to come. I guess I just have to be patient.
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  o_O

  Sep 22, 2016

  This game definitely has potential. As of now, it's just a simple shooting game that lacks story, realistic guns, enemy diversity, enemy AI, varied weapons, and different scenes. Worst of all, it doesn't get frequent updates. I'd hold off on purchasing this game until the developers make some progress on improving it and demonstrate that they are still working on this. Honestly not sure where all the positive votes are coming in considering the game gets boring and repetitive after 10 minutes.
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  Corrie

  Dec 22, 2016

  I can't recommend this game at this time. It has very little content and has not been updated in a long time. Last I heard they were working on multiplayer but that's the last thing I want to see in a game like this. There are a million other multiplayer shooters on Vive, stick to what made this game interesting in the first place. This game seems dead in the water.
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  Lurkz

  Jan 17, 2017

  Cool concept but hasn't really made any real progress since it launched in EA. 1 map + 1 gun = fun for 15mins (play time was mostly from an evening where I left it running while AFK) There has been updates, but these are holiday related 'fun' updates, with no real updates to the core game, it's still very much a demo.
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  ¡ byteframe 🤓 is economic !

  Mar 6, 2017

  An overpriced wave sniper. This was an early promise. It looked alright at the time (it's fairly aliased, and the contrast is harsh), but it has not aged well. Maybe it received too much press at the time. Now that I've complained about how half the Unreal Engine VR games look like crap, I will note that the game remains the very simple demo it was when I bought it. One sniper nest, facing one direction, facing the same environment, shooting the same robots, with the same (singular) weapon, in either morning or night configuration. The developer or the potential customer reading this can do better. [spoiler]I believe they added Christmas lights during a holiday update, that's positive.[/spoiler]
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  soapdodger

  Apr 30, 2017

  This seemed so promising when it first came out, but except for some holiday gimics (like putting chrismas hats on the robots) there has been no advancement on this overpriced, single level demo. This is a clear example of abusing the early access system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, ~6 months since I wrote the above review, and since then the dev has been constantly promising that new content is imminent and trying to get people to keep buying the game, but still has not put out anything whatsoever.
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  MrSauce

  May 9, 2017

  The game has been in early access mode for almost a year and from the looks of it, they haven't been working on it at all. It's basically a demo, 1 gun (that reloads itself, yawn) and one level. The enemies are dumb... and honestly, I'd have more fun shooting action figures with an air-soft gun. I initially expected these jerks to keep working on it, and release more content over time, but nope, they pretty much just took the money and ran. If they don't post any significant updates soon, I'm gonna write these guys off as scammers.
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  Marcasus

  Dec 23, 2017

  Hey Developers, can you please add-in access to the original game? Honestly, I'm hating this one. It's not the game I got on board for. Why is the finished product a 100% completely different game? I don't know weather to recommend it or not, I think its up to the individual as to which game they prefer. if they had the early access one. For me, I'd rather still have access to the original.
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  stumpf

  Dec 29, 2017

  Bought this game as a single player game. After the last update the single player was removed, now there is only multiplayer. This is not what I bought. As if it wasn't bad enough there are no servers, which makes it unplayable. This feels like a fraud. Sadly I cannot refund because I own it for more than 2 weeks.
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  spudsta87

  Dec 30, 2017

  i bought what was advertised as a sniper game, this is no longer a sniper game. skip it. devs used the early access to turn this into a fast action pvp game.
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  Eldanon

  Jan 1, 2018

  The Nest was a promising single player sniper title when it came out... now it's a dead multiplayer game. I wish the devs stuck to what they said their plan was in the EA disclosures - single player sniper game with additional levels.
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  Deet Doot Skiddly Booty

  Apr 17, 2019

  The concept is amazing and if they do ever work on this again I hope they can make it work. However, I got this game when it was purchasable for $1.04 (taxes included) and I was full of hope to play an amazing game filled with grappling hooks and shooting. I then discovered that it was not what it was made out to be. It says it is compatible with HTC Vive but whenever I try to load in the tutorial it brings me to a dark map which i presume to be the tutorial map. When I looked at the news to see that they have basically abandoned the project and made it free without paying attention to all the people who bought this game I was furious.\ Concept = 10/10 Execution = 0/10
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  DrWhoFan

  Nov 12, 2019

  Please reinstate the original, one player, wave shooter that The Nest was. That's what I payed for and it worked fine. To replace it with something that doesn't function and is on-line only, then make it free, is absurd. Call this The Nest on-line and make it separate, instead of taking the original title I paid for away. Here at "The Nest" put back the original tower defense wave shooter. Call the other "thing" The Nest on-line. Just give me back my game...
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  EvidencePlz

  May 1, 2020

  I paid real money for this trash, and now devs made it 'free-to-play' and left it to rot. Disgraceful behaviour!