VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape) Reviews

I paid £2.89 for this and finished it in just over an hour. It was well worth it and the puzzles were great. Probably took me 30 minutes to finish the final puzzle. Recommended forna fun gaming break if you can get it for £2/3.

Older but solid escape the room experience. Graphics show their age, but performance is excellent. There is no smooth locomotion or teleporting, you have to physically move around the room and search for items and clues. Best thing about this game, is that the puzzles work as intended. There is no "am i doing something wrong or is the game bugged?" feel. If nothing is happening, is because you still need to do something, and really everything is laid in front of us from the start. Took me 20-30 min to finish the game, so a short experience but enteretaining and cheap one (i got it on sale). Puzzles go from finding hidden object and using them where they are needed, to simple logic puzzles. Id say easy to mid difficulty. Recommended even in 2024, understanding that this is an older, cheap (wait for a sale) and short escape the room game that mechanically works as intended, anyone that likes escape the room games should try this just for funsies.

Pretty much just a tech demo. Worth it when it's on sale for a dollar I suppose, but it's probably not worth your time in 2024.

Vacate the Room is pretty much exactly what it looks like. You get a single escape room to escape from, and also a second bonus mode that's more difficult. The room only takes 20 to 30 minutes or so to escape from (maybe more for the second mode), so $5 might seem like a little much, but actual real-world escape rooms usually cost a lot more than that and typically last about an hour so I didn't mind the price since I'm a sucker for this genre. It'd be nice if we could get more rooms in some way, but as-is it's pretty fun if you like escape rooms. If you've ever done an escape room in real life you probably know how different it feels compared to a video game escape room, and while the VR doesn't 100% replicate the feeling it elevates it to a point that I consider pretty close.

Picked this up when it came out, just getting around to reviewing it a bit late. Great little game, well polished and I can't wait for hOSHI to exapand on the game - more room, larger rooms maybe? Hope so :) As someone who loves ETR games and working on my own ETR style project, I love seeing these starting to show up in the VR store. I met hOSHI from his Vacate the Room facebook page after playing the game, very cool guy and I will be helping support his games for sure. Also, congrats on getting a playthrough video from Markiplier, saw that today! :)

For 2022, seamless and playable. Still fun as one of the first vr escape room games from 2016. But, the graphics looked outdated and there were only a few puzzles to solve. I had fun, though it wasn't as good as Belko VR.

I really enjoyed this VR experience, and would definitely like to see more VR puzzles like this, especially if they take things a bit further and add some trickier puzzles - my only criticism of this game is that it is very short (and has zero replayability since once you escape the first time it will be exactly the same the next time). I recommend turning the chaparone bounds to developer mode for this game since it is quite dark, so long as your real room is larger than the virtual one and you have no risk of injury. Remember to turn them back to normal bounds afterwards! Otherwise I'm not going to say much about this - just mentioning what I really liked about it would provide too much of a hint.

If you're a fan of Room Escape games, and have an HTC Vive, then you MUST play this. It won't really challenge you, but the feeling of actually BEING in the room, and looking for the clues and figuring out how to exit, is really amazing. Considering that most real-life Room Escapes can be up to $100 for an hour, this game is ABSOLUTELY worth the $4. I look forward to seeing more of this, and other similar games, from the developer.

Even if the graphics are not as best as they can be, this game for me is what VR is all about. Room scale exploration was invented for these types of games. This is the game I enjoyed most to be honest. I think "quests" and room escapes are much more suitable for VR than timer based, you are in the middle, teleport style FPS games. I really forgot I was not in the room, this was fenomenal. I WANT MORE!

i'm having trouble deciding whether to recommend or not. for a couple of bucks, it's not a bad little experience, but there are a couple of problems: 1- the red note is almost impossible to read. infact, i was convinced i needed to do something other than use the light because all i was seeing was a pure red piece of paper underneath the light. 2- it is literally impossible for me to complete this game because i have a low ceiling in my room. seeing as there is a cane in the room, it would have been cool if there was a way for me to attach the card to the cane so i could complete the game... but i couldn't. 3- most of the clues are more misleading than helpful. i spent a lot of time searching for a clue on the dvds, and looking for time codes in the room based on the clues. that wouldn't be a problem, except that i had solved the puzzle correctly, but i simply could not see that the red note said something, and therefore i was searching around for anything little hint from the clues. beyond that, i just wish it was longer, and that there were more puzzles to solve. but given the price, i don't think it's unreasonable short. ultimately, though, at this point, i can't recommend.