Antidote (2020)

Science themed VR escape room with codes that change each playthrough. You must cure yourself from a virus before perishing in the laboratory. It's a little more difficult than others of the genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb73BK3JRBk&t=18s

It's a pretty good VR escape the room game with puzzles a little harder than others in this category. I'd buy it, see video for some gameplay. Game received from ViveVR groups curator program see bottom of review to join. Video Review and gameplay: https://youtu.be/6OWD2ZEBexU Follow the VR curator group: Steam Curator group: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/23133713/ Join The Steam VR group: Steam Group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/HTCVIVEVR ************************************ Subscribe to my VR gameplay videos: https://goo.gl/YhYn7y Most recent uploads click here: https://goo.gl/R41Hfk

I bought this game at 6:45am and had installed and solved it at 9:38am, so just under 3 hours and maybe 2 1/2 hours of game play after it had installed. Overall I liked this game and is better than the other 6 or 7 escape room games i have. Really the only bad thing I had was moving around, I tried both modes and it was just not easy to get the blue teleport to come up all the time. I would move a bit or use the other hand and it would finally show back up and i could move. Not sure if its with my Vive pro setup or not but out of my over 100 VR games i've never had that much trouble moving around in VR. I paid the full price of $15, so thats not crazy but with it only being a 3 hour game for me i'm thinking i should of put it on my wish list and waited until Steam emailed me that it was at least 50% off. They did a really nice job and the art work was great and the puzzles were good.

On balance, I don't think I'm going to recommend this. The puzzles are sometimes quite obscure and there are not enough clues in your environment. Coupled with this, on two play-throughs when I was given a particular safe code, the code didn't work, whereas after consulting a walkthrough I found that this was a bug. There is too many things that betray the mechanism of solving puzzles here (like this). I ended up not trusting the game to be fair with its solutions. Also, it's really difficult to grab things. Without a walkthrough you'll miss loads of items because you'll assume you can't pick them up after trying 2 or 3 times.

This game was almost unplayable for me. In VR, kept dropping things and couldn't pick them up. Once I dropped the notebook and went through the counter, never to be seen again. In VR holy smokes the controls are bad. You have to hover at least an inch above the object you are trying to select. Refund requested.

Very fun. Very "Escape-room"-esque. I've played a few rounds on Easy, and There is still a bit of replayability it seems. I assume that there are more puzzles on the more difficult skills, as there seem to be signs of puzzles that are not really used in easy. I'll probably play this a few more times at least. Worth regular price, but absolutely a steal if it's on sale.