Submerged: VR Escape the Room

Played on HTC Vive Pro/RTX2060Super. Well, it's an OK escaperoom (pretty short, about 4 puzzles). I'm not the best puzzler so I definitely had some problems with the puzzles. For me the first real puzzle only partially made sense as the second part I could not connect it to the visuals and for me it was more on luck, at least that's what it seemed to me. The current price of 3.99 is well, it all depends on how much you spend on longer games. As I can remember, I bought it OR part of a cheap bundle on indiegala OR in a sale, but then it would probably have been about 1 euro max. Blue Entropy Studios make the same type of escaperoom games, so if you didn't like the others you won't like this, if you did, you also might like this one.

Meh. Beat in 23m.

The atmosphere of this game was enjoyable. I liked being able to fight for my life in a limited amount of time as water slowly filled up in the area that I was in. The game itself however is somewhat frustrating to play do to the mechanics of touch interaction on the puzzle buttons / levers. The game doesn't seem to check for a safe zone on touch areas. So if you hand is near the keypad and you try and input a digit, you may get repeated presses for that digit because the game is detecting the hand still inside of the button. Solving the puzzles was not a difficult task for me, and there were only like 3 that I can recall. I have played through the game several times now and on multiple devices. The graphics quality is really nice, but the game itself can be buggy. I've had issues with the last puzzle not giving the blue cogwheel. I've had issues with an achievement "Houdini - Escape without losing any oxygen"; I felt that I had adequately followed the steps necessary to unlock this particular achievement, never going into the water and never losing any percentage of oxygen (Shown on your wristwatch), It remaining at 100% at all times. One more small issue, there is a key in this …

Very buggy game. On several occasions, actions that were supposed to happen did not trigger. Reviewed with a walkthrough later to confirm.

I love the idea of this game but in its current state it is literally unplayable. I had issues with the first puzzle and after finally getting through that one the second puzzle was broken. I tried uninstalling the game multiple times but never could get passed the second puzzle. Once again love the concept but this game sucks. Also, I bought this originally because it got pretty good reviews but on further inspection at least half of the good reviews were given the game for free which kind of bugs me.

5/10 Game is broken. Tried three times repeatedly pressing certain buttons. Nothing working. Watched a walkthrough, and when they pressed a button something happened that didn't happen with me. Bugged puzzle games are utter rubbish. Encourage use of walkthroughs to solve to "check" that the devs have put things together right.