DO NOT BUY Boneworks - Terrible VR game

Hello and welcome back to another video

review of this game called Boneworks,

which is an FPS, first-person shooting

game, and it's currently on Steam on the

front page of the top-selling list, and

it's described as a VR masterpiece physics

and action game. So I thought I would

check it out since I'm recently into VR

gaming and since this This is a

masterpiece. It has to be really good.

Well, unfortunately, I have bad news for

you because Boneworks is probably the

worst ever VR game that I have ever

played, and I've played about six of them

now, and I can honestly say this game is

by far the absolute worst one. So the

biggest problem I have with VR is motion

sickness, and most games don't really give

me motion sickness when I play VR. For

example, Beat Saber or Pistol Whip. I can

play those games perfectly fine without

feeling any kind. Of motion sickness

because you don't really do much

side-to-side movement. You're just moving

forwards in a straight line. So for

example, when I play games like Half-Life:

Alyx, when there's a lot of side-to-side

movement and you have to maneuver yourself

around in a 3D space, that's when I start

to feel really, really motion sick. And

Boneworks makes me motion sick in the same

way Half-Life does, but 100,000

times worse. And the reason for this is

because Boneworks has loads of platforming

and physics-based puzzles where you have

to maneuver some kind of object onto a big

red button to open a door. It's really not

challenging or difficult or fun. It's just

kind of tedious and annoying. It's like an

annoying task you have to complete to move

on to the next stage. So as you can see in

the video, this is actually the beginning

tutorial stage, which is really

irritating. You have to do this tutorial

level which you can't skip and it takes

forever, and they go step by step

explaining to you all of the mechanics of

the game and how to play the game,

hand-holding you. And it's, it's really

obvious stuff. You really don't need a

tutorial to teach you how to do this stuff

if you have any experience playing VR

games. They don't even give you the option

to skip this stupid tutorial level. It

takes for ages, forever. And in

this part of the tutorial, you have to get

up onto this platform by jumping up some

kind of sloped staircase and then wall

climbing along a wall and then jumping

over little gaps. And remember, this is

VR. You have to do all of this jumping

inside of VR, and every time you jump, it

just makes me feel like I want to vomit.

And it's not fun, it's not challenging.

Well, it is kind of challenging because

it's kind of fiddly. Sometimes you press

the jump button and he doesn't jump. In

the way you expect him to, and then he

falls down the hole, and then you have to

start the whole thing again climbing back

up to the top. It's so annoying, and it

took me ages to complete this thing. I

kept falling down to the bottom and then

having to go back up to the top, and I had

to force myself to do it because obviously

I wanted to see what happens next in the

game, but I just felt so sick after

finally completing it. I had to take off

the headset and have a break just from

doing the tutorial level. So the rest of

the game so far that I've played has

mainly involved doing these stupid

physics-based puzzles where you have some

kind of object like a seesaw and you have

to push down on it, or there's a big red

button, you have to find some kind of

heavy object to place on top of it so it

opens a door. None of these puzzles— and I

use the word puzzle very lightly because

even a 2-year-old could complete these

puzzles— they're not difficult or

challenging. And they're just— I don't

know, I feel like they've just randomly

been placed into the game to pad out the

game so you have something to do. Anyway,

I just think that platforming and

physics-based puzzles are just a really

bad combination with VR because it just

makes you feel so sick. Okay, so apart

from platforming and boring physics-based

puzzles, what else do you do in this game?

Well, I guess there's the action part,

and there are quite a lot of weapons that

I've been able to use so far straight from

the beginning, which is a good thing.

There's lots of different melee weapons,

there's a crowbar, lots of different

bladed weapons which are pretty fun

because you can actually stab objects and

then the, the knife or the blade goes into

the objects and penetrates it and then

stays in place, which is pretty cool and

realistic. You've also got a lot of guns,

pistols, machine guns, and you can reload

them in a realistic way by pulling out the

magazine with your hand and then placing

the new one in and then slotting back

this, the sliding slotting thing to reload

it. And all of that's, you know, that's

okay, I guess. It's pretty much the same

as Half-Life: Alyx when it comes to the

shooting mechanics. I quite enjoyed the

gun range part of the tutorial. You get a

load of weapons, loads of weapons prepared

and ready for you on a counter, and then

you can just shoot at the targets, have

fun, mess around like that. I guess that

part of the tutorial was quite good. It

was also quite fun playing around with the

frying pan and the baseball bat and the

various melee weapons you get. There's a

bunch of foam men standing around that you

can use as target practice, and you could

even use things like the knife and you can

stab it into their heads, which is pretty

funny. I've never played a game before

where you could— where you could slowly

penetrate things using a sharp object. I

thought that was a really nice touch. You

can also do weird stuff like grabbing the

heads of the dummies and then bending them

over and penetrating them in any kind of

way that you would like to, which I found

quite satisfying actually. However, the

thing that I did not find satisfying was

the actual gunplay with the enemies.

Shooting the gun is fun, using the guns

and weapons is fun, but the problem is the

enemies they make you fight against are

kind of boring and dull. They're like

these orange AI-generated robot things

which are covered in like a white wire

mesh. I don't really know what they are.

I think they're just generated out of

nowhere by this AI. I don't really

understand what the story is. You're some

guy and you're in some kind of facility

where they make AI. I don't really

understand it. The game really hasn't done

a very good job at explaining what the

story is about. It's kind of like they

just put you into the game and then don't

explain everything, so everything's kind

of like a mystery. And I guess as you

progress in the game, then the story

unravels itself. But I don't have the

patience to keep playing the game. I think

I've already had enough of the game. I

don't really enjoy doing the puzzles. I

don't enjoy fighting the enemies because

they're like these weird AI robots that

don't really have any don't really have

any character. It just feels like you're

fighting against something

soulless. I want to fight against

something that's either scary, like a

zombie or an alien or a monster, or I want

to fight against humans. Fighting other

humans is usually quite fun and

satisfying, but fighting these orange

robot things that have no character, no

personality, it just doesn't really feel

satisfying at all when you engage with

them or take them down. So yeah, the

combat fighting gameplay is kind of

disappointing so far. There's also these

automated machine gun turrets that you

have to find out ways to get past.

There's also this weird little spider

thing, spider robot that jumps onto your

head. So in conclusion, I felt great

disappointment playing this game

considering it's supposed to be a

masterpiece and everyone keeps talking

about how great it is. And I just didn't

get it. I don't understand what's fun

about it. Made me feel really, really

sick, more sick than I've ever felt before

playing a VR game. The shooting just isn't

that great. I'd rather play Half-Life:

Alyx. That's more fun if you want shooting

action. Even Pistol Whip's more fun and

satisfying if you want shooting action. I

don't understand what kind of person would

like physics-based puzzles. They're just

kind of boring. I mean, if you want a

puzzle game, then just play Scrabble or

use your Rubik's Cube. So I give this game

a 2 out of 10, would not recommend. I

would like my money back, but I can't

because I played for more than 2 hours