Mechanical Growth is a story-driven VR experience; The story will take you on an adventure through Mine 3384. The game was designed for a standing experience, but can be played sitting down and/or in first person without a VR headset.

Contracts: As you progress through the story, contracts will become available to you via the contract terminal. This is side related content and not needed to complete the story itself.

Hands Free?: Interact with your environment, operate equipment, craft, store and retrieve items with your hands, using the motion controllers in VR. Pick items up by pressing the grip button on your motion controller, or use the distance grab button to interact with items that are not in your immediate vicinity, and then grab to snap the item to your hand location. Release the grip button to drop the item.

Gathering and Crafting: The experience has a light gathering and crafting system. Use your hands, via the motion controllers in VR, to collect resources and interact with the work station to craft needed items for your journey.

Items: As you advance the story, items can be located along the way. A robot will follow along behind you as you move around the play-space, you can drop items directly onto the robot to temporarily store them; drop items into store locations placed around the map for a more permanent option.

There Be Monsters!: The mine is crawling with critters. Shoot and loot along the way. Use your hands, via the motion controllers in VR, to take aim against the darkness that awaits. Pickup a weapon the same as any other item, aim and press the trigger to shoot. To reload just pick up some ammunition in your other hand and drop it near the weapons location.

Information: You have access to an in-game data pad, this will allow you to access your inventory, journal, contract details, help information, location map, inventory and anything else you may wish to know while you adventure in Mine 3384. Hold the data pad in your hand, via the motion controllers in VR, and control input with your other hand by pointing directly at what you want to interact with on the data pad, press the trigger button on the motion controllers to tap on the buttons in the game itself.

Save/Load: The game is a linear story, you have the option of side content, this is not required to complete the tale itself, the game has one save slot, you can start a new game, load, save and delete your save slot, via the menu option.

Back Story: Unit Union is the largest natural resource gathering company in the world; over 50 years ago, they lost contact with their largest mine, 3384, Gaeyar Summit; after sending a team to investigate, communication was lost once again, and no one who went to mine 3384 has come back. However, that means their raw resource is untouched, ready for the taking.

Maintaining a crew and airship is hard work; the world is drained almost fully of its resources, the air is toxic, demand for everything is at its highest, and brave captains venture to the harvest reachers in search of the scraps left.

Your crew is down to you and a small unhelpful group of misfits. To keep the power on and you in the sky, you must make a complex decision, take the mine 3384 contract, or give up your seat as a captain and find a new job.

• PAC - Personal Assigned Carrier: This unit will follow you to the ends of the earth, helpfully carrying anything you ask it to, always has your back, is not significant in a fight, does not have a lot of carry space, and uses a high amount of resources to keep running, slow, a bit glitchy, not the smartest of automation, apart from that, everything you could ever ask for in a companion?
• Jimmy Jim: The last of your faithful crew to stick around, no idea why, he’s not that good at anything, he runs communications, when he can be bothered, “well at least it’s better than nothing!” Nothing would be better in this case, but you can’t be in two places simultaneously, and the automation can’t fly the ship, so you are stuck with him.
• Bird!? You don’t recall hiring him, and you have no idea where they came from, but they are helpful and, by doing Jimmy’s work for him, keep you in the air, ask no questions, and everything will work out just fine.

• OS: Windows 10
  
• Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 / AMD FX 8350
  
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1080
  
• Storage: 2 GB available space
  
• VR Support: Meta Quest 2

• OS: Windows 10
  
• Processor: 8-16 Core 4GHz
  
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2080
  
• Storage: 2 GB available space
  
• VR Support: Meta Quest Pro