It made me unhappy
I just received a Steam notice that Into the Radius 2 is out of early access and up for sale. I shall not be buying it.
It’s a VR game. I played ItR1 and it was excellent. It takes place after some sort of…cataclysmic event. The landscape is a bizarre welter of floating cars and electrical hotspots and giant, crushing footprints from some invisible beast. I died a lot.
You have a home base and are sent out daily to retrieve items and hunt…entities. It’s very well done, but I realized after a while it was making me jumpy, even when I wasn’t playing. I guess it was the combination of VR and monsters that can sneak up on you fast. Plus, you had to find food and maintain your equipment. Plus, the whole landscape reset itself every…I want to say 24 hours. I don’t remember.
The best bit was the shooting range. You could try any of the very realistic guns and attachments on offer in the game for free and it was neutral territory – nothing could get you. I spent a lot of time in there. I honestly think it might’ve improved my marksmanship – except, of course, no recoil. Also I live in a place where I can’t have guns.
If you’re made of sterner stuff than I, this is probably a really great game. Maybe I’ll watch a playthrough.
April 23, 2026 — 6:38 pm
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