Neverout

Made me feel sick. Physically unable to continue playing.

Great VR puzzle game, cool mechanics

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43083373/]Clever games curator review: 5/10[/url]. An ultra-casual 3D puzzle game with movement restricted to a 6x6 grid inside a cube. When you reach the walls of the cube you can keep on moving, which rotates gravity, making the wall the new floor. Your goal is to reach the exit for each cube, with the cube in the proper orientation so that gravity allows you to fall through the exit. I have very mixed feelings about this game. Perhaps the biggest fault is that at least half of the puzzles are just incredibly trivial. Almost always you can solve them by looking for the only thing that you can do, and doing it. For instance many of the puzzles involve rotating gravity so that a single loose cube slides into a location that is fortuitous for jumping into the exit. The only way you can put a cube anywhere other than a corner is by catching it on a ledge, and these puzzles always have one or two of those ledges, all of which must be visited by the cube. Thus, the number of plausible moves is very tiny and those moves are trivial to execute. It pretty much feels like the game is playing itself; you don’t even have to figure out why the mo…

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(game not complete at .1 hours of gameplay at review, part of my review all my games effort) (short version) An interesting 3d puzzle game that makes you think you're in the movie "the cube". I think I'd have fun with this if I were allowed to move the camera in free look however, at least with keyboard/mouse controls you can't maybe with VR you can. As I feel restricted/claustrophobic with the inability to free look I'm not going to play further. However, at $4 this game is absolutely recommended if you're into puzzle games. (no long version needed)

Great concept, but I don't understand why the camera controls are so restrictive. Because of the nature of these puzzles, I get that movement has to be grid-precise like an old school 3D dungeon crawler; there's no positioning half-on-half-off a square. That's fine. But why not allow strafing and backward movement like every other game that anyone has ever played? That wouldn't have conflict with locking the player positioning to a grid. And also, they should have allowed keyboard look as well as mouse look. Pressing WASD is second nature to most gamers, and it is JARRING AS HECK to have your camera snapped to a specific position when you press A or D when you're expecting it to rotate the camera smoothly or else strafe. Not a lot of thought was put into this port's controls, clearly. The only controls being "forward" and "mouse look" felt unnecessarily restrictive and clunky, and sapped my enjoyment. And also - would it have killed them to have written even a barebones plot here? Why are we here? What happened? What can we expect to encounter if we make it out? This game felt more like a "proof-of-concept" essay, around which they perhaps meant to develop a deeper g…