Farpoint is Sci-fi VR survival adventure game developed by Impulse Gear and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment and made for the PlayStation 4.
Aboard the Space Station USS Pilgrim orbiting around Jupiter, you're an escort to Dr. Eva Tyson and her colleague, Dr. Grant Moon, and are amongst three of 230 astronauts and researchers tasked with the investigation of a radiation anomaly near the planet and retrieval of a couple of scientists from Jupiter's surface. But owing to a wormhole unexpectedly opening and sucking your vessel in, you, alongside Eva and Grant, are inevitably stranded on an unknown, deserted alien planet.
Obtaining a high-tech assault rifle in the opening stage, you managed to locate various holographic logs scattered over the planet's landscape, and use them to summon a distress beacon while fighting off the legions of giant monsters infesting the planet's surface. Meanwhile, you remain an observer to the two scientists, Eva and Grant, who stays in the sidelines...
A co-op mode is available if you have two VR headsets and wants to invite a friend to survive together.
"Hello Planet Earth! I'm Dr. Eva Tyson, and today... I'm going home!"
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The stage where you search through burning wreckage have you unexpectedly attacked by robots from the debris, having survived the crash and activating to destroy everything in sight. A self-activating Chicken Walker serves as a reasonably difficult Mini-Boss, and later you're swarmed by flying attack drones.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Most of the larger monsters have a blatant, glowing organ which is where you'll need to target to cause damage, including the Giant Spider boss. Just feed it via Rocket Launcher.
- Babies Ever After: Grant and Eva assumed they're well on their way back to earth after their brief Jupiter assignment. They didn't expect to be dragged into a wormhole and be stranded on an alien planet 3 billion years away from earth, where they'll inevitably spend a decade on and eventually have a child...
- Battle Amongst the Flames: There's a stage where you're searching for parts in the flaming wreckage of a crashed spaceship, still alight, when giant insects starts appearing. The heat doesn't really affect gameplay, being in a space suit - the difficulty comes from poor visibility thanks to burning flames.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: If the hostile alien lifeforms aren't giant arachnids, they're some sort of oversized insects.
- Book Ends: The game begins with it's characters getting dragged into a wormhole that displaces them to the alien planet, and ends with them entering another wormhole to leave.
- Chicken Walker: A malfunctioning one serves as a Mini-Boss when you explore the wreckage. And then other alien colonists decides to drop their own walking mecha into the planet…
- Coming in Hot: In the opening prologue, when the player character, Grant and Eva crashes on the alien planet's surface. They survive, but the ship is heavily damaged and they have to spend the remaining game scavenging supplies for repair.
- Creepy Cave: There's a subterranean cave underneath the alien world, where everything seems quiet at first... until giant insects starts digging from beneath the soil.
- Death World: The entire planet you, Grant and Eva are trapped in. Barren and devoid of vegetation, and infested with assorted giant arachnids, and 800,000 lightyears away from earth.
- Deadly Dust Storm: After crashing, the first thing you need to survive against is a sandstorm. Being a VR game, you can experience how it's like stranded in a sandstorm from the comfort of your bedroom!
- Derelict Graveyard: One of the stages, the remains of a previously-crashed space station who probably got onto the hostile planet with circumstances similar to you and the main characters, but they didn't quite make it alive.
- Despair Event Horizon: This is Eva's reaction, after a moment of Heroic BSoD, when Grant reveals to her that earth is 3 billion years away.Eva: Get away from me!
- Destructible Projectiles: One of the alien insect variety (and the only one with a ranged attack) can shoot a glowing green poisonous glob from a distance, but the globs can be shot from a distance before it hits. The giant spider boss uses this attack, but three globs at a time.
- Distress Call: Grant and Eva spend most of the game's first half trying to obtain parts in order to trigger one of these and be rescued from the alien world, but then Grant reveals the futility of their mission when it turns out the planet is too far away from earth anyways.
- Gameplay Protagonist, Story Protagonist: The main plotline revolves around the efforts of two astronauts, Dr. Grant Moon and Dr. Eva Tyson, dragged into a portal near Jupiter and stranded on a distant alien world and their efforts to locate a beacon for rescue which turns out fruitless because Earth is actually 3 billion years away. Meanwhile, the player character is their pilot who spends the whole game observing Moon and Tyson while never interacting with them, instead fighting giant alien monsters and malfunctioning robots on his / her own.
- Giant Spider: Most of the monsters on the hostile world Grant and Eva are stranded in resembles oversized arachnids, including a King Mook spider larger than a ship fought in a valley.
- Grenade Launcher: One of the better weapons for clearing an area of giant insects.
- He Who Must Not Be Seen: The pilot and escort to Eva and Grant, who's always clad in a spacesuit that conceals his identity so we never even know his (?) gender, ethnicity, and relevant information. He is in fact the Player Character.
- Heavily Armored Mook: The beetle-spider hybrid enemies, who tanks far more hits than regular bugs and keeps coming, even after being blasted with the rockets or grenade launcher. This enemy type tends to appear in dark areas, like subterranean levels, though a good idea is to aim for it's head behind it's huge legs.
- Heroic Mime: The pilot, who's also the player character.
- Hologram: When Grant and Eva communicate with each other, they manifest as life-sized holograms.
- Killed Offscreen: After the purple energy vortex hits where Grant, Eva and their toddler daughter is, the game leaves it ambiguous on what happened... until the second Time Skip, where you encounter their now-teenaged daughter. It turns out she survived, but her parents doesn't.
- Laser Sight: On the futuristic rocket launcher, allowing you to target enemies from a distance easier.
- No Name Given: Your character isn't given a name, despite plenty of focus on the two NPC Grant and Eva. Neither does their daughter have a name, at least not onscreen.
- One-Person Birthday Party: Well, two, but Eva decides to celebrate Grant's b-day (with a cake from out of nowhere), with just the duo on a deserted alien world after realizing they'll likely never see planet Earth forever.
- Pillar of Light: A purple energy pillar unexpectedly occurs (after the decade-long skip two-thirds into the game), appearing right next to where Grant and Eva have decided to settle down. It's noticed first by their young daughter, and then they have to make a run for it as the energy beam thickens and starts swallowing everything…
- Plasma Cannon: One of the weapons you can use, which blasts green plasma at enemies. It's simply called "Plasma Rifle" in-game.
- Spike Shooter: The Spike Launcher, one of the last weapons available.
- Supporting Protagonist: In a way - you're the main POV character the game follows, but Grant and Eva's interaction and subsequent relationship is what forms the main plot of the game.
- Swirly Energy Thingy: One appears in the middle of the cosmos, and sucks the ship everyone were onboard in, sending them to a monster-infested alien world. One more appears near the end of the game, in the skies of the same alien planet, heralding the arrival of a new alien species…
- Time Skip: The game somehow managed to throw two lengthy, decade-long one. First skip occurs two-third through the game, after Eva accepts that she will never be able to see earth, ever after. She then settles down with Grant, and after the skip they're raising their young toddler daughter on the alien planet. And then Eva and Grant were unceremoniously vaporized by an energy field, with a second skip leading to meeting their now-teenaged daughter.
- Transplanted Humans: Grant and Eva, two humans stranded on an unspecified alien planet for over a decade, eventually have a daughter after deciding to settle down right there.
- White Void Room: The final scene: you enter a new wormhole, and reemerge into a white void with nothing in sight. And then you meet Eva and Grant…Eva: It's the pilot…
- You Can't Go Home Again: More than halfway into the game, Grant reveals to Eva - with a sad, depressed, hopeless tone in his voice - that the alien world is one of the farthest known stars from Earth, located some 800,000 lightyears away. And the journey back home would take 3 billion years, where even if they do make it back to Earth, humans would be long extinct.
