Escape Room VR: Stories Reviews

Enjoy these escape room games a lot and this is good example of such games APART FROM the really frustrating teleport implementation. Can see what was intended .on the VIVE at least, its a case of use the thumbpad to both teleport and choose your facing direction on landing. However the default direction means you end up having to turn yourself every time and i's not an easy task, more tricky than some of the puzzles even. Feels like it should be an easy fix which would make it so much nicer to play ...That aside it'll get a thumbs up as it has outweighing good points in my view. Fairly atmospheric, a supporting storyline , creative puzzles with a reasonable level of difficult to suit a wide audience.

1 easyish room and 2 more difficult ones. Few things that could be highlighed (especially climbing) and a few technical issues (turning the safe) get annoying quickly. Nicely woven story in each 'room', which was a nice touch. Took me over 2 hours to complete all 3 rooms, which for a game of this nature is actually pretty long.

5 minutes into the first room I attempted an animation of a padlock being unlocked wouldn't complete which immediately halted my progress. I've seen this same issue brought up on the steam forum with no solution being submitted.

Teleport movement changes your rotation so you'll have to physically spin yourself EVERY TIME you teleport. The in-game hands are also rotated 90 degrees compared to your real hands so interacting with in-game objects is difficult.

Very enjoyable so far! I was hesitant because of the negative reviews about movement controls, but I can see this control scheme becoming normal for VR titles. The touchpad controls the direction you face, so if you always press down you will turn around, press up to look forward, same right an left. It works great, you can control the direction you will face. I play standing, but if you had a sitting setup or small area, these controls are especially helpful. There is even an arrow showing what direction you will end up facing. The tutorial gives you everything you need to know. I use WMR. The rooms are interesting, I haven't finished them yet. This is my first VR title from this developer, and after trying it out I picked up more.

This is a collection of three low-budget unpolished and buggy indie developed VR escape rooms. There are no options, no save system, and they are all timed to be completed in under thirty minutes each. I found the physics janky, the puzzles to be illogical, tedious, and dull, and the endings anti-climactic. The bugs I encountered were keys not opening what they were supposed to and teleportation switching to auto-locomotion, which causes me a great deal of nausea. The auto-locomotion became so bad in the apartment office story that I had to restart in order to get teleportation back. You will also spend a great deal of time trying to teleport to the right spot because the game will not allow you to teleport to anything where you are too close to any object. You will also need a larger play area because of this. Seeing the time left countdown on the in-game watch also made the experience unenjoyable for me. Overall, I would not recommend this game for playing more than once.

The game would be good if the controls weren't so bad. The free movement is all wrong and the teleport button is weird. these can't be changed so movement is hard.

It seems like they had some nice ideas for puzzles but unfortunately, really infuriating movement and object handling gets in the way of me enjoying it. In addition, every so often you'll pick an item up and get a narrated comic strip - attempting to inject story in to the escape room isn't terrible but breaking your flow and immersion for these comic strips was not a good choice. I also didn't feel the stories presented were well written which didn't help.

Honestly, I like the game so far, the puzzles are interesting and I like that they wrote a story for each room. But my biggest issue is that turning around is a real pain in this game, If you teleport somewhere, you WILL be facing the exact opposite direction from where you started. This doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but it made me so frustrated I had to quit after only a few minutes of play. You guys really need to fix this. I had to take off my headset to fix the cord every few ports. I play on the Vive, by the way.

A very nice escape room game. Three locations with a lot of different puzzles. What I especially liked is the star system (you are awarded 1, 2 or 3 stars when you finish a room). Basically, you can finish a room without finding all the clues and puzzles but then you will be awarded fewer stars. It gives a game replayability which is unusual for escape rooms. Big plus here! As for the riddles, they are quite diverse. From a typical "find a code" (maybe slightly too many of those) to some really cool ones like mechanical related or a fun little poem puzzle. Plenty of thinking but nothing unsolvable. As for minuses, the story seems a little confusing, especially if you're not doing the room in order. It lacks any graphical settings so if you have a beast of a PC you won't benefit. Overall, very solid!