ISS Simulator, a fetching freebie made by a Japanese outfit called SpaceData, is one brainstorming session and a few weeks of coding away from being one of Steam’s most unusual hidden object games.
Right now there’s nothing to do but float about admiring the fastidious way in which the devs have recreated the International Space Station’s myriad nooks and crannies, and glorious clutter.
In the version I found myself picturing while stooging about inside and out, the player’s weightless wandering would have purpose. Find this coil of cable, this sticker, this pair of scissors, this mysterious blue box…
3D find-em-ups are surprisingly rare on Steam. Surely, me and Roman can’t be the only gamers who’d happily WASD around the intricate interiors of historic/iconic aircraft, AFVs, ships, submarines, and locos in search of distinctive minutiae.
Mission:ISS did this quite well in the VR world – there were a number of activities to do as well as videos to find regarding the station. It was a bit of an eye-opener to find the toilet just “above” the cupola pod – imagine looking at the most amazing view of the planet there has ever been and having someone grunting out a space-poo in a cupboard just behind you.