Controls
Headset controls and gestures, plus the keyboard and mouse controls for the PC version.
Headset controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Grip | Grab anything, including your human |
| Trigger while holding something | Use it (run the vacuum, use the syringe or memory wiper, pop a vial's cap) |
| Trigger while touching the capsule | Open or close its lid |
| Point at a floor hatch, the delivery spot or the floor tube, then trigger | Open it |
| Point at the console screen, then trigger | Pick a reply, a planet, or Fly there |
| Touch (or point at) COMMS, STORE, MAP or MUTATE | Switch what the console shows |
| Right A | Open the store of the planet you are at |
| Right B | Reset: everything outside the habitat goes back to its spot |
| Left X | Move mode |
| Left menu button | Game menu |
Gestures
| Gesture | What happens |
|---|---|
| Lower your hand onto their head | A pat. Slow is gentle, quicker is firm, and too fast is too hard |
| Throw both hands up fast | Scare them |
| Hit the glass fast | Bang on the glass (a slow touch is just a tap) |
| Swipe fast through them | Knock them over |
| Hold them over your head and look up | They have something to say about it |
| Shake a held flask | Mix its colors |
Picking things up
Most things stay at whatever angle you grab them. Things with a handle or a grip turn into your hand the way they are meant to be held: the water pitcher and the beaker by their handles, the vials, flask and powder boxes upright, the golf club by its grip, and the vacuum, syringe, Reversal Serum and memory wiper pointing ahead.
Where you grab your human matters. Grab the top of them and you have their head. Grab either side for an arm, or the bottom for a leg. Grab anywhere else and you have them by the scruff.
Move mode
Press Left X and an orange laser comes out of your hand. Hold the trigger for 3 seconds on any of these and it comes loose so you can move it:
- the habitat itself (everything in and on it comes along)
- the space window (it snaps onto any real wall)
- the storage shelf, the stats tablet, the delivery post
- the console's hatch, the event hatch and the mutation station's hatch
On the PC
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Left mouse drag | Grab and carry. Let go while moving to toss |
| Mouse wheel | Raise or lower what you hold (zooms when your hand is empty) |
| Q / Z | Tip what you hold. W straightens it |
| E (hold) | Use the held item, or open the capsule you are touching |
| Right click | Pat (Shift for firm, Ctrl for too hard) |
| Middle drag / arrow keys | Orbit and pan the camera |
| A | Store |
| R | Reset |
| V | Move mode |
| 7 / 8 / 9 / 0 | Console: Mutate / Comms / Store / Map |
| Tab / Enter | Next human or planet / the console's blue button |
| L | Start the event at this planet |
| Esc or M | Menu |
| F1 | Hide or show help text |