Esqapes: Voyages

[h1]Experienced on the Meta Quest 3[/h1] You can view my VR gameplay & commentary here: https://youtu.be/9PW26ygx8-k This is a good fantasy travel destination app. The core experience is great. First of all, per the developer, there's over 100 hand-crafted destinations to visit. I thought this must be an exaggeration from the developer. While there is some overlap from some of the destinations as you'll see some familiar assets, each location did feel different enough. Most of the locations were breath-taking. The core experience of being on a luxury yacht and travelling to fantasy exotic locations is great. However, there's several QoL issues that brings down the experience. Unfortunately, you're trapped in one particular spot on the Yacht and you cannot move from that spot. You're also easily off-centered from this location. Secondly, the bloom is over-aggressive in this app. There are no graphical settings whatsoever to fine-tune the experience to your liking. Lastly, the sound mix is not particularly good. There are no sound settings either. I would have preferred the ability to turn off music. Also, the ability to turn off the breathing prompts. Other than those issues, …

If you enjoy immersive relaxing sceneries, you'll enjoy this experience. The hands-off experience for this allows you to sit down and just chill, which I did and would pair well if you had a massage chair in real life too. I've had some issues in the past with motion sickness when trying out VR experiences in VRChat, and have been enjoying locations where you get to just immerse yourself in a unique space which is what this experience highlights. For some QoL things I wish it had, I tried launching it twice and would enjoy if the FTE experience was a one-time thing and didn't need to go through the initial tutorial and controls again. I enjoyed that I didn't know what locations to expect next but a brief itinerary option or how many unique locations there are left might be nice to have. There's also some of the controls on the chair that feel just slightly difficult to tilt to, but you can use your finger anytime to reset center view, which I found out by experimenting.

A bit of a cheat , the first thing they show in the promo video , the full sized yacht, is something you will never see in the real game. Worse , It feels like i am tied to a chair and can't even use my hands/controllers. And once you start noticing it, most views have some annoying sun glare. Also there is no option to turn off the constant bobbing..... makes me seasick. i'm not in a rowboat. A yacht like that does not bob like that on still water.