Diorama No.1 : Blocked In Reviews

Very awesome VR environment. It's nice having small areas like this where you can actually use your phyiscal playspace to really walk around it. It is super detailed and looks amazing in the Vive! Definitely worth the small asking price.

you just sit in the room you see in the picture cant do anything no controllers in game just sit there bored, can download big screen beta for free and be sitting overlooking cities, in space, different planets, grand canyon etc while using your desktop instead of not being able to do nothing. only cheap but defiently getting a refund

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I remember playing the original Blocked In when it was a demo for the Oculus Rift DK1 and it was a really cool experience back then. Now that I can play it with HTC Vive it feels so much better since I can move around, look close at objects, and it has more view points. I think for the low price it is a cool little experience to try out. They have also made it so you can move between view points at your leisure.

Parodic environment of Tetris's author living environment. Still wish buttons can be pressed by Vive controllers. Would like to see more environments from this author, but interactive, so you can take every vintage object of interest in your hand like in pilot episode of FOO show.

Great title from DK1 days! Lovely to be able to get up and walk around. Recomended to anybody with a Vive.

Kind of like an interactive painting, but without much interacting except for moving around the space. It's nice to just boot up and sit and listen to the radio or the game music as blocks slowly fall in and out of frame, casting shadows into the room. $1.99 isn't too bad for all the love and care you can see went into this Diorama. Curious where #2 is though. May look into buying #3. Keep up the good work! Loved the little box diorama that came before the actual Blocked In room.

These VR micro experiences are actually priced accordingly compared to a lot in the marketplace. Both Blocked in and Marchland are essentially just single rooms with different views, but I have been waiting to play them for 2 years since never being able to get them to work on our Oculus DK2! Both experiences are overflowing with prescence, even if for only a few minutes of your time.

This Tetris styled diorama was my first ever VR experience back in the days of the DK1. It blew my mind. I'm very happy to see that it still is an amazing experience for the Vive and that the positional tracking has made the experience even more immersive. A very unnerving part of this experience is the fact that there is a disaster going on of possibly apocalyptic proportions and there is nothing you can do. Very realistic, but also very un-Hollywood like. It is even worse: you may very well have caused this disaster. In the meantime the radio keeps playing, the camera keeps recording, life keeps going on as though nothing is wrong. Except that it is.

The previous timer based progression system is now gone, so I can take out my previous complaints! :) This diorama (and the others in the series) do a nice job of giving you a scene to experience. The miniature diorama menu itself is great, a really unique way of doing a level select in VR.