Sansar's Steam Reviews Decidedly "Mixed" One Month After Publication

Since Sansar hit Steam almost exactly a month ago, we now have a better picture of how it's perceived by Steam's established userbase of core gamers. Based on most recent reviews, their reaction is distinctly Mixed. Here's a sample of reviews from people who are not evidently from Sansar's early beta, pre-Steam period, but discovering the platform for the first time:

It certainly has potential. The engine is absolutely gorgeous, and runs decently. Some of the worlds blew me away with how nice they looked. But I cannot enjoy them. Sansar has horrible controls in VR. It is very uncomfortable to use. The feeling of embodiment that I can get in other social VR platforms does not happen here...

Weird game with nothing to do. The executable itself acts suspicious and never shuts down.

Sansar could still use some work, but has a lot of potential. The game looks amazing, and the people I've met are friendly and helpful. I attended a live comedy event this past week and it was hilarious when one of the comics started wandering out into the crowd to interact with people.

I'll try it again once it's more optimized because it seems as if it has potential. I couldn't really read the descriptions of the "worlds" as the font is too small and burry in VR and they're a set distance away so you can't move forward to look closer which was a bad start. Also it annoyingly pushed me out of VR for passwords then T&C updates. I think the recommended spec of a 970 GTX doesn't cut it, it needs something way more powerful to run it properly.

Much more here. Overall, there's a stark difference between users who got into Sansar during its closed beta period (and by definition, are more dedicated to the ultimate vision for Sansar imparted by Linden Lab), and those coming across it now -- perhaps after trying other social VR experiences on Steam. By contrast, current social VR leader VRChat has very positive reviews on Steam, as does runner-up RecRoom.

Is there another social VR platform on Steam that is getting Mixed reviews more similar to Sansar? Yes:

That would be High Fidelity:

First things first, i was told about this game in vrchat by some people that started a conversation about how the unity engine is a terrible engine for performance, and brought up High Fidelity that is running on the Unreal Engine 4 [No, it's a proprietary engine - ed] which on first listen sounds like a nice idea and would be the next social vr game. 

So far, it seems to me that you need more then 10mbps on your internet speed to even consider playing this. Worlds, models, menus etc don't load on my end after a reinstall and a restart.

It's a chat game, without other people to chat with. Really can't recommend it on that basis. May revisit later as it has potential and with a bit of promotion could have a larger user base.

Steam reviews can be super volatile, especially before major updates, so let's check back in a few months!

Comments

[gfcprogramer]

The grafics and grafics performance in Sansar is much better in comparison to the much moree limited limited performance and grafics performance I get in highfidelity for its grafics.
Vrchat seems lighter and polished in many aspects in relation to both for a good chat.
But not as powerfull as Sansar.

I really would desire a respect toward low end machines, even coming from the next generation.
Vrchat is not really that fine.
But sansar is far ahead in these requirements for the quality grafics it brings to the table!

The limits on sansar are overhelming in many places untill now, but they are opening-up "much slower than I ever imagined."
Finally we can sit. But not pose ball?

I see many good points on new release this year.

The comunity is yet all over Vrchat because they can let you play and explore the fun caotic aspects of human nature, and the growing moe fun with anime characteres.

The bug fixing and scripting seems much more limited in Sansar.
Sansar is so limited and hard to get the Avatar Right, that feels like aa conspiration and abuse.

Being so much real, a caotic grow like in VRchat would probably give headaches in Sansar.
But the hard limits does not avoid people from getting trolled.
With hard limits and enterprises name behind, many people that desire some caotic fun feels not welcome.
And this really sucks.
And people clearly does prefer the poor moderated things on Vrchat and Secondlife.

And please No.

Vr devices is not what is bringing more people in VRchat.
Otherwise, seems the free/fun/caotic comunity in VRchat is creating the interest in adquiring those Full body track VR devices.

[Gamer 4 ever]

Sansar sucks period.

[jonny]

sansar run like daycare and for babies and users there are in little popular groups who get mollycoddled by owners. new people come and go because special cliques want it to stay small so they can rule with iron fist.
no talking ingame at hub and nothing to do snobs aplenty
vrchat more fun because less rules and mommy and daddy is not watch all time.
angel guy always hovering around like babysitter scolding people
events are for children not adults
second life 2.0 with the way existing group of friends there
yes sansar sucks only for aaa developers to make money and snobby

[Patrick Whitley]

Sansar is all about their events its been like that for about a month and a half now once again with no growth. The events that are thrown are by a group of chosen members called comets who couldnt make an engaging event if their life depended on it. its mostly events where people sit around campfires and listen to Lacie play her banjo or hang out in the dark emoting to bad EDM music. Even in events everyone is afk, just there to show their loyalty but its boring as hell. who cares if vrchat doesn't look as good, its way more fun at the end of the day for everyoen involved.
I heard some glowing angel winged retard talking about how he wanted it to be the best place for VR events on the webs then i go to next event and they're all running around like two year olds playing hopscotch and cards for humanity and stuff. I mean wow. platform is for babies and I believe it because everyoen there whines and blocks everyone in 2 seconds.

[marg]

its a bit like a game but you only get the demo but not a lot to do the chat is like the popular crowd at school you just walk away from the in crowd. sorry don't like it