The Woods: VR Escape the Room

Unfortunately not as good as other titles from this Dev, starts off great and then loses it a little but still an ok escape the room game in VR. The opening puzzle deserves a whole MP game made out of it with everyone in Cages and each cutting wires till only one survives! Like a battle Royale while being stuck above the ground in cages in VR. The idea above trademarked! See video for my sparkling personality and ferocious good looks. https://youtu.be/26T-J_g_cMY

There isn't much more to say about this game that A Wolf in VR hasn't already said in their review. The beginning of the game when you are in the cage is great and sets a good atmosphere for the game, but doesn't last for very long. I felt the graphics were good but it was a little too dark in some places. There is no settings menu or way to adjust brightness. There isn't a menu so there is no way to quit this game while you are playing (other than forcing Steam to quit the application) nor is there any way to save, but that won't matter because the game is very short. Depending on what you count as a "puzzle", there are about 6-7 "puzzles" to figure out and they are all pretty simple. Some of them involve [spoiler] throwing objects, and if you have played any VR games with throwing you know that if it is done poorly it is frustrating. This isn't done poorly but it also doesn't feel very natural. [/spoiler] My biggest complaint about the puzzles is how linear they are. The game has forced movement so you are basically whisked from one puzzle to the next, so you only ever need to solve the one puzzle in front of you and you have exactly the tools you need to solve just that. Whe…

Very badly designed puzzles that last from 15-20 minutes to solve. This shoud be free. This is a joke not a game. Don't bother.

Played on HTC Vive/GTX1060. Played it twice as I thought one puzzle was bugged and didn't let me do it, but it just turned out I didn't understand what to do the first time. Just like I didn't understand the first major puzzle.. I think I played it through in actually about 15-20 minutes, if you are smarter than me and see through the puzzles you might even make it within 10 minutes.. The puzzles are pretty kinda interesting, but with my system it just didn't seem to run really fluient, looked like some reprojection and sometimes the whole visual just turned 'blue' for a moment. Visually it looks pretty good, but as with a lot of VR games it's still a shame stuff just goes through everything like some paper half through the body/cage etc. I bought the game with a reduction because I also bought submerged and already had some others, I think it came out at about 2,5 euro's.. Even at that price I think it's a bit short, as the last room seems to have been setup to have more puzzles, and the ending is a bit unexpected (as I expected a few more puzzles in that room). But it's still a pretty solid escape room game, so I'll give it a tumbs up, but a marginal thumbs up..

Here's a Totally Objective Review of the Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O2vNXrDdAc 10/10

I'll admit it, I love this VR escape room series, and this has to be up there as one of my favourites (maybe tying with The Cabin). Well worth the £2.99 I paid to extend my game bundle of include this one.