Abode 2 Reviews

Meh, it’s ok but quite short and relatively easy to complete. There are some buggy bits that make completing tasks harder and a super annoying robot that needs to shut up. Overall it’s ok, nothing special. Worth the low price though for 2 hours of mild entertainment.

6/10 Abode 2, short escape room game. took 80 mins, to finish, playing blind. Didn't get the story, Visit to apt., on elevator, fell from 2nd floor?? Anyway, it's a pretty good, visual, puzzle, escape room game. Better in every way then the 1st Abode game. Works well with quest 2 with virtual desktop streamer. Get it only at sale price.

Works with the HP Reverb G2. Fun game. Good puzzles.

I quite enjoyed this game and didn't find myself running into any of the glitches described in other reviews, my main issues with this game lie with the menu system and the audio. The menu issues for me were with puzzles where the buttons were close together and I had to keep retyping the code. My issue with the audio is that the audio gets really loud if you get to the source of it and really quiet if you're too far.

So I purchased this in a bundle with the original Abode. the original was quirky and such, but in a good way. After finishing the first Abode, I dove right into the Abode 2. There were obvious improvements to graphics and such which was nice at first. I began my search around the apartment and slowly found that I lost the ability to pick up any items(was working at start). At first I thought this was a tracking issue, but nope. I restarted and tried again only to find the same issue would creep up. This issue makes the game unplayable for me. I tried to post on the discussion boards with 0 responses except for another individual having the same problem. It seems hit or miss as I read that other Index owners dont have the issue...atleast from some posts. But nothing from the devs on this which is a bit saddening. TLDR - Make sure you test the game within your return window. I did not and now am stuck with a terd..

Actually this game looks nice and it would be nice, if the programmers had done a good job. The game is full of glitches and bugs i.e. some objects get missing and you can not find them again. Only solution, start from the very beginning, veeery annoying. Sorry, but due to the problems, I can not recommend this game.

Really amazing game. Great interactions with the environment. I would have rated it 10/10 HOWEVER there are a few glitches. First and foremost YOU CANNOT SAVE PROGRESS. Even though I have a slot saved it always takes me to the very start. So until they fix this definitely play when you have the time to finish the whole thing uninterrupted I've noticed that on standing the map tends to move. Sometimes just holding the joystick on the controller still helps this. Other than that really love the aesthetic and puzzles in this game. Highly recommend.

Not going to write up one of my usual "Good, Bad, and Ugly" reviews for this one as the Good (decent graphics and aesthetic, more fleshed out than Abode 1) is completely overshadowed by the Bad and Ugly. Namely, bugs. So many bugs, to the point where this game, as of 2021, is not reliably completeable. [b]Showstopper Bug #1 -- QR Codes --[/b] There's a known, very common bug where one of the QR codes you need to find and scan will reject your attempts to scan it with the message "Already Scanned," even when that's not true. This locks you out from getting the last digit to the safe keycode (you can't brute-force the last digit, all numbers will fail unless you have all 4 QR codes scanned). Without opening the safe, you can't get a critical quest object and complete the game. Tried clipping through the safe to grab said critical quest item, but none of the usual tricks work. Loading your save also doesn't work to jog it, and that leads to... [b]Showstopper Bug #2 -- Saving --[/b] You can save, but you can't load. Or rather, you *can*, but it's not going to help you. Loading a save results in the game objects and state being more or less scrambled from how you left them, usually rendering the game unwinnable. So Abode 2 *must* be completed in one sitting, if you're going to try it. [b]Nerd Stuff:[/b] Played (more accurately, tried to play) on Valve Index + Knuckles at 120hz on Win10 Pro/Intel 10900K/NVidia RTX3090, with all overclocking/RGB control/monitoring processes killed. Performance was inconsistent despite throwing an absurd amount of hardware power at it -- some loads of the game would run ok, others would struggle to reliably hold 120fps. This is apparently another known bug, according to threads on the forum. [b]Bottom Line:[/b] I can't recommend Abode 2 in its current state. It looks fairly nice, but looks aren't everything, especially if every time you launch the game it's a mystery whether or not the playthrough is cursed with the unscannable QR code bug, or whether it'll actually work the way its supposed to. If the showstopper bugs I described are ever fixed, I'll revisit this review, but until then, steer clear unless you feel like gambling on whether you'll need to refund, and go play "The Room VR" or "I Expect You To Die" instead.

I wrote a positive review about Abode 1, this one however I cannot recommend. There are a load of physics bugs which cause all sorts of annoying problems, the most serious being that I accidentally no-clipped into the elevator door and the credits rolled. I hadn't even completed all the puzzles! Other physics issues seem to be when loading the save I was launched through the skybox, and a lot of items I had put into nice places to find them again had been strewn across the room all over the place, various items following me around and moving around depending on where I look even though I wasn't carrying them (the worst being the headset), items disappearing and clipping through various other items [spoiler](the key from the train being one)[/spoiler] Fix all these bad physics problems and I might repurchase.

The original Abode was a nice well polished room escape game. For some reason Abode 2 doesn't have that polish. The sounds effects, voice, and music are so unevenly balanced you'll find yourself constantly changing the volume in an attempt to find something comfortable. Be ready to keep restarting because of game breaking bugs - Items will go missing, buttons randomly stop working, or you'll start floating up through the ceiling and disappear from the room. Really disappointing. I'd wait and see if they fix the bugs before picking this one up.