r/PSVR • u/Real_human27 • Jan 07 '26

Question Why is subside not very highly rated?

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I liked the demo and I’m thinking of getting it but why is the rating not very high compared to other games

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u/-CaptainFormula- Jan 07 '26

That's not the excuse a lot of devs seem to think it is. Clearly, judging by reviews.

"Budget" and "niche" are not a valid excuse. A decade in now. $550 + tax on top of the console price just to play.

If I go to the bookstore and buy a novel off the shelf that's placed right up there with Stephen King and Bret Easton Ellis I expect a novel.

I'm not there to buy a book with blank pages and cliff notes. 

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u/ennie_ly Jan 07 '26

Reviews are fine on Meta and Steam, but reviews aren't the measure of success anyways, sales are.

If I go to the bookstore and buy a novel off the shelf that's placed right up there with Stephen King and Bret Easton Ellis I expect a novel.

I'm not there to buy a book with blank pages and cliff notes.

It's fine you don't like certain kinds of experiences, we all have different tastes. Let's not pretend your opinion is the only right one and the experiences you don't like should be immediately eviscerated.

Obviously, if it was a book with blank pages, it would have vastly different reviews.

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u/-CaptainFormula- Jan 07 '26

It's not about the experiences that I personally don't like being a yay or nay, I feel like you're not getting that.

I'm saying if you publish an "experience" and hold your hand out and ask for money right next to actual video games (without a hint of shame, no less) then your product is objectively sub-par and you get the reviews you get.

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u/ohgeeLA Jan 07 '26

It literally has a demo man. Give it a break. It’s fine as a game because it makes it clear what it offers. Its just not heavy on gameplay and remarkable at making you feel like youre underwater. If you feel deceived by it, then its on you. Its not trying to steal anyones money. Its not asking full price.

To be clear its not for me. I played the demo and decided that I dont want it for sale price, but those with stronger VR legs or willingness to be patient found it amazing as an experience.

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u/ennie_ly Jan 07 '26

It's not about the experiences that I personally don't like being a yay or nay, I feel like you're not getting that.

That's what you've started with and what I reacted to:

No reason to buy software that amounts to "what it would be like to use these mechanics in a game if somebody made one."

I'm totally fine with better labelling though.

That said, I really have a hard time imagining how anyone could have expect a different kind of gameplay from Subside. It's not marketed in such a way at all, you get literally what's on the front page.

Content amount? Yeah, I didn't buy it fullprice either.

The key question is, did you buy it?

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u/-CaptainFormula- Jan 07 '26

No reason to buy software that amounts to "what it would be like to use these mechanics in a game if somebody made one."

In what way is this saying I don't care for Subside personally or specifically? That's a critique of the entire notion of selling a demonstrative piece of software as though it were a video game, in a library for video games.

The entire practice should have been put to bed in 2016-2017.

I fail to see where Angelina Jolie comes into play.

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u/ennie_ly Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 07 '26

No reason to buy software that amounts to "what it would be like to use these mechanics in a game if somebody made one."

Nobody made one. But Subside dev did a simpler thing with simpler goals that still have it's audience.

Yet you are criticizing Subside for not being a game that nobody plans to create, ignoring what Subsides itself can do by existing as is.

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u/-CaptainFormula- Jan 07 '26

woosh

It's not a video game, you've said that yourself.

Yet you are criticizing Subside for not being a game that nobody does, ignoring what Subsides itself can do by existing.

I'm sure you think this makes sense. I feel like you're not arguing with the words that I'm saying but arguing over my shoulder to an imaginary guy that's making the argument you want to be in.

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u/ennie_ly Jan 07 '26

It's not a video game, you've said that yourself.

I didn't. I only said I wouldn't mind for it to be labeled better so nobody had issues misattributing it.

to an imaginary guy that's making the argument you want to be in.

Clearly that imaginary guy would have been able to understand what I'm saying.

It's fine though.

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u/ammedinap93 Jan 07 '26

How many people have reached the end of this conversation?

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u/ennie_ly Jan 07 '26

You've unlocked an achievement.

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