Lavender

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Lavender is a single player and multiplayer casual role playing game. It was developed by Take Over Games and was released on December 11, 2019. It received neutral reviews from players.

What is LavenderLavender is a community driven social sandbox centered around users expressing themselves and having a great time. We want our users to be able to create and share their ideas in an easy and intuitive manner. We support both VR and Desktop players together on the same server. We are working hard to make sure you can create exactly what you imagine with ease. Personal expression is …

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Audience ScoreBased on 65 reviews

humor1 positive mentions

stability4 negative mentions

Lavender is highly optimized, running smoothly with support for large numbers of players and props without significant performance drops.
The developers are passionate, responsive, and actively engage with the community, frequently fixing bugs and implementing requested features.
Lavender offers advanced features like full player-body interaction, scripting support, and hosting personal servers, aiming to be a creative sandbox platform.

The game is in a very early, unfinished state with many bugs, missing features, and poor user interface, making it difficult to recommend for casual players right now.
Lavender has a very small and inactive player base, with many reviews calling it abandoned or dead, and last significant updates happening years ago.
Several core functions are broken or incomplete, including social features like voice chat, joining worlds, and avatar controls, causing a frustrating user experience.

optimization
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Lavender is highly optimized, leveraging modern Unity technologies like DOTS and ECS to deliver smooth performance and scalability, especially compared to VRChat's outdated engine. Despite being early access and developed by a small team, it offers excellent full-body tracking and multi-threaded support, resulting in significantly better physics, cloth, and player optimization. Users praise its performance, noting worlds that run poorly on VRChat run smoothly on Lavender.
- “Lavender itself is highly optimized, thanks to the wonderful developers and multi-threaded support.”
- “I've ported and created worlds for Lavender that wouldn't perform well on VRChat, yet run buttery smooth here thanks to how optimized this game is.”
- “Lavender is based on the very latest Unity engine version and uses DOTS and ECS (modern Unity coding styles) that allow huge scalability and performance.”
- “Meanwhile, VRChat is based on a very outdated Unity version and approach, resulting in massive resource usage and poor performance, limiting the game content to something close to unplayable and leaving little room for evolution.”
- “Lavender is based on the very latest Unity engine version, utilizing DOTS and ECS (modern Unity coding styles) that allow huge scalability and performance improvements.”
- “Lavender is much more optimized than VRChat; cloth, physics, and player optimization are significantly better.”
stability
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game suffers from significant stability issues, being buggy and incomplete, especially at launch. While some features show potential, the overall experience is marred by frequent bugs typical of early access titles.
- “Save your money or you will be greeted with a buggy, unfinished, and empty world.”
- “Therefore, it is buggy and not 100% working.”
- “It has a couple of good features, but is a buggy mess, had a bad launch, and I want a refund.”
humor
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The humor is light and playful, mainly serving as a fun element within a tech demo. It provides some amusement but is not a major focus of the experience.
emotional
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users feel welcomed and included emotionally, even if they are not Patreon supporters, indicating a positive and inclusive community atmosphere.
gameplay
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay is currently imperfect and does not live up to expectations as a VRChat successor. Players seeking a polished experience may be disappointed at this stage.