Forbidden Art

I love the horror aspect of this escape room type of game. I’m thoroughly enjoying what I have played so far. And for the price? I feel like I robbed the dev. This game was recommended to me on the Horror Gaming subreddit. I’m glad I took a chance on it. The puzzles are pretty challenging. There’s been a few so far that I got lucky on, some that I can’t believe I figured out. One or two have been easy so far, and I’m guessing that’s just to help push you thru. This appears to be a niche game, so finding solutions online might be difficult. Graphically, it isn’t anything stellar. It’s good, especially for the price; but don’t be expecting Cyberpunk here. Performance has great so far. No complaints there. The voice acting is surprisingly good, too. So many games opt to just have text on screen to tell the story, but, at least in the intro, it was fully voiced. Can’t wait to play more and update my review as I beat it. Edit after game completion: Excellent game, my initial opinion of the game stands true. But man, some of the later puzzles are a challenge lol. The chemistry puzzle? My god, I had to look that one up. I would have never figured it out. The game has a perfect mix …

Love it. Made it to the study, tons of cool stuff to look at.

It must be said that a game about a serial killer artist being made using AI generated art and stolen assets is pretty depressing, but that aside the game itself is well made, creepy and has pretty difficult and engaging puzzles. The amount of content is impressive as well without dragging on too long. I'm gonna recommend as there aren't that many VR escape puzzle games, but I disapprove of the use of AI.

Great horror theme. Puzzles are pretty straight forward. The one thing that killed it was the poor optimization. It stuttered/froze like every three seconds even though all the performance stats were perfect. That makes it really annoying and potentially unplayable (I leave some room that this is a Steam issue because since the last update it has worked horribly). I am about half way through and trying to work through the issues.

A well-made escape room game. The puzzles are logical, visually well-executed, and the object handling is also well done. However, the German translation is clearly machine-generated and poor, with terms like "options" being incorrectly translated as "Möglichkeiten" ("possibilities"). Switched the language back to english instantly. The theme—escaping the dungeon of a psychopath—is, of course, ideal for an escape room game. That said, I hope the developers will also explore games outside the horror genre in the future. Personally, I have no issues with horror movies or books—in fact, I enjoy them—but VR horror is on a whole different level and tends to limit the audience somewhat.

The puzzles are not logical. What you need to do doesn't make much sense. You need to apply escape room/video game "logic". I don't find that satisfactory. Also two puzzles are almost impossible to solve, if you have color blindness. That being said, the game is not bad. It's fine if you enjoy escape room games. The atmosphere is great.