vr gaming is pain in the ass, exhausting and puke inducing, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ unbearable
BUT MAN this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ oogood and makes it worth it

I just want to support a VR game dev studio that's doing a game that's not a tech demo.

It's a rougelite mech fighting game, you swap out your arms, upgrade "fists" (saws, hooks, maces, blades - whatever you can get your hands on) - and in classic rougelite fashion, all of the aforementioned have a plethora of positive buffs and sidegrades, so it doesn't get stale.

The core gameplay loop is really good fun, and they've added endless mode, the one thing this game still needed basically.
BUT, on top of that, they're apparently cooking multiplayer.
That was just another reason for me to pull the trigger on it. Can't wait to see what it looks like!

This is fresh, cool, feels really nice.
It has a unique art style that literally puts you in a comic book panel mid-cutscenes, that was super interesting to see - sometimes they'd play around with perspective and block your view with parts of the panel, but you can always step to the side to peek at the "full" picture. It's pretty immersive due to that, despite the style obviously not being realism (which, again, good.)

The OST works, it's jungle. B... Because you're a gorilla.
The mech suit is a gorilla, did I mention that?
You don't move with your analog sticks, you have to knuckle-drag yourself around, it's pretty fun.
Until you lose one of your arms, and you're stuck in a tense one-armed fight, handling movement with one arm to flick yourself away from enemies to avoid damage, and towards them to punch them with the same arm.
And even then - fun! You got yourself in this position, dig yourself out.

Also you're in the POV of the actual person inside of the mech, so you're seeing the cockpit of this mech.
Which is to say, you see the actual arms of your character actively get his movements translated to mech movements, and it's not 1:1, as the 'rilla is obviously way larger.
It just caught my eye. Cool little detail to see, really makes it feel larger than life in VR.

Greatly recommended!

Wow, what an incredible game. Plenty of style, in a very well thought out and designed world. Soundtrack is intense and engaging. Gameplay is endlessly fun and addicting, and with so many ways to mix things up and keep it feeling completely new with each playthrough. Short enough story mode to get a good sweat and upper body workout in without realizing. The roguelike elements paces the game between fights perfectly. Underdogs has quickly become one of my favorite top shelf games that I think truly makes VR shine as a platform showing what it can be capable of. Even over a year after release is still getting major updates with new features. Can't wait to see what multiplayer will bring to this experience. THANK YOU ONE HAMSA