Lonelyland VR

Lonelyland VR is a sandbox survival game set after aliens manipulate Earth’s plants and destroy civilization. You collect resources, build, hunt and fight to survive. It can be played with or without a VR device; free locomotion is not available. The game’s design takes VR play into account so you can sit and play for long periods while wearing a headset.

Combat and creatures

You encounter nearly 20 kinds of creeps, whose trophies can be used to craft items. Your weapons include a pistol, revolver, rifle, crossbow, shotgun, MP5 and sniper rifle, and you can choose from many kinds of clothing. You can shoot creeps in the legs to slow and weaken them, target vital parts for greater damage, or attack from their blind side. Sneaking duration depends on your hide value, while your perception value affects how easily you find a creep’s blind side. A higher sneak value also makes creeps take longer to discover you.

Bullet time begins when a fight starts or when you are badly hurt. During it, you can target vital parts and blind sides, and reload more quickly. You can fight from a distance with a high sneak value, or face creeps directly with high perception and good armor. Some creeps attack from a distance, so you can shoot their missiles before they reach you.

Weather and seasons

The weather includes sun, rain, snow, fog and hail; you need to watch your sanity and warmth. Time moves through daytime, dusk and night, and some creeps behave differently at each stage. At night, lighting a fire or another light source can help keep danger away and reveal things that are hard to see during the day. The game has about four seasons, with substantial changes between them.

Crafting and growing

You gather materials such as wood fiber, resin, tinder, iron, lead, titanium, crystal, chips, oil, batteries and salt. A 3D printer can make items including pans, microwave ovens, lamps, glass gardens and weapons. You can use a sewing machine to craft about 10 kinds of clothing, each with its own characteristics.

Pans and microwave ovens let you cook over 20 kinds of food from ingredients such as starch, vegetables, meat, eggs, sugar, salt, oil and batteries. Varying your diet affects how you feel. Glass gardens let you grow several kinds of plants to provide different resources.

Changing terrain

Roguelike generation shapes areas such as forests, prairies, towns, cities, snowy lands, deserts, alien-infected zones and dead zones, along with their contents. Terrain can affect your attributes.

Plants and survival

Dangerous plants include bomb trees, which hurt you when they explode; rafflesia, which makes you feel sick; cicuta, which hurts you if you stay near it too long; datura, which makes you sleepy; and Chomper, which can attack from anywhere. Creeps infected by plants are more dangerous than usual, and creeps can be infected during summer.

Survival activities and discoveries include:

• Using wind, solar power or generators to produce electricity, and charging a fridge to keep food from spoiling as quickly.
• Finding batteries in vehicles or making them from lead; using a battery to extract oil at an oil station.
• Building greenhouses, and using a bathtub after rain to produce more fertilizer.
• Stealing eggs from dodos or food from boars, which can provoke them; boars may eat feces.
• Working for apes, who may give you useful items.
• Defusing missiles for tinder, though defusing does not always succeed.
• Finding elf fire at night in dead zones and crystals at night in deserts.
• Collecting toys and playing with them to feel better, and playing VR glasses in the game’s VR games.
• Calling a satellite back from the sky for crafting materials, and using a grinder to make iron powder for the 3D printer.
• Searching different buildings for different resources, including money and gold in banks and weapons in areas where the army was destroyed by plants.
• Collecting resin for use as plastic, and finding out how to identify poisonous mushrooms.
• Exploring cities that have been entirely destroyed by plants, and a very tall building that may be unsettling if you fear heights.