Trover Saves the Universe

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Release date

June 18, 2020

Publisher

Squanch Games, Inc.

Your dogs have been dognapped by a beaked lunatic who stuffed them into his eye holes and is using their life essence to destroy the universe. You're partnered with Trover, a little purple eye-hole monster who isn’t a huge fan of working or being put in the position of having to save the universe. Only you and Trover can save everything in this bizarre comedy adventure filled with combat, platforming, puzzles, and morally questionable choices – created by Squanch Games! -Control Trover's movements, but not his mouth. He’s got a lot to say about what’s going on in the game. -Travel the cosmos to experience a variety of weird alien planets and characters with big personalities. -Upgrade Trover AND YOURSELF with new abilities while evading awkward situations. -Immerse yourself in weirdness.

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4.75

2,600 ratings

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JUNGL1ST

April 8, 2022

1/5

Not for quest

This game might be good for PSVR or maybe even PCVR but it is not good on quest. I really wanted to like this but this is the first game on Quest that I have had a real negative reaction to from the very beginning. Firstly and most importantly there is no smooth motion. I cannot play with jerky movements in VR, I want smooth locomotion. This kind of jerky movement might help alleviate motion sickness in VR for some people but personally it makes it worse for me. Having to turn at 45 degree angles and not be able to face the direction I want is a definite no for me and I think this is the first game I’ve played that doesn’t have the option for smooth locomotion. Even with that, it gets worse. There is no (or very little) controller tracking. You play as a character sitting in a chair who is holding a controller in his hands. Your character uses this controller to move another character. Regardless of where you move your hands, your character will always keep his two hands on his controller. This kills immersion and I’m really surprised something like this is even allowed to exist in the oculus store. You would be better just playing with a normal console controller. I see no reason or advantage as to why this is on VR. It is essentially a flat screen game. You move a character around in 3rd person as you would in a regular 3rd person game, except that the camera angle is fixed to your character who cannot move only teleport to fixed locations on the map. Sure the voices are great if you’re a fan of Rick and morty and their style, for me, it’s hit and miss and this is a bit more of a miss than a hit.

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Unicornsquad33

March 11, 2025

2/5

New version of meta quest may not work

This game started off funny and worked well. As I got to the second world, the game started acting weird on my 3s. I restarted the game and the main menu stopped showing up. It still worked as if it was there tho so if you press a twice it gets you to the game where you left off and can see it. When you try to pause and and see the little green babies or any menu the entire screen goes black and you can’t see anything. I wouldn’t recommend this for a newer version of the quest.

61 found this helpful

UNCLE_RICO_83

November 30, 2024

5/5

Game is fun & hilarious

If you happen to be a fan of Rick & Morty,this game is a must have. The story and comedy style is everything you would expect from the creators of Rick & Morty. Not only is it hilarious but it’s a solid platformer as well. The enemies will make fun of you and taunt you. Trover will give you sh*t about some of your decisions and complains about puzzles. You decisions can change certain aspects of the story and I often hang around to hear the different characters random dialogue. At one part in the game I stumbled across two enemies who were arguing,I wanted to listen to them argue and to my surprise,they ended up fighting each other. I’m around 2 hours into the game and I have enjoyed every minute of it. In other words,I highly recommend this game

47 found this helpful

TheWelsh

March 9, 2025

5/5

Absolutely hilarious, but black screen

I wanna say first of all that the game is absolutely hilarious, it's that weird kind of humour from Rick and Morty that works really well for VR (the characters making me out as the worst person in the universe when all I did was own two dogs never gets old), however I've come across a recent problem that I can't actually fix. The main menu is stuck on a black screen that doesn't go away. The menu music will still play, and pressing the buttons makes the sounds they should when pressing options or new game for example, but aside from that I literally can't play the game because of this issue. I've restarted the headset and even uninstalled and reinstalled the game but that hasn't worked. Any help to sort this out would be great since I wanna continue playing and see what other kind of mess and chaos I can cause.

44 found this helpful

0neEyedSnake

October 1, 2020

1/5

Must buy for R&M fans, but not for Quest

Edit: Everything I said about this game previously still stands, but people should know the Quest version does not get the free DLCs that every other platform has been getting. This means you should by on Steam if you can. I wish I would not have bought the Quest version.... I was holding off on this because I do not care for platformers, but I bought it on sale, and I am so glad I did. The game instantly had me lmao with tears running down my face, plus the gameplay mechanic makes especially good use of VR. It is so much better than I expected, and I really didn't want to put it down to go to sleep. It is almost like being in a Rick and Morty episode. I highly recommend this game as long as you have a tolerance for a more twisted sense of humor, because if not your head might explode...I mean your mind might be blown ;-)

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