Realms of Reverie

I mean for being free, it's not bad. It's a promising demo to a magical VR experience. Unfortunately, performance / optimization was not good. I was getting anywhere from 30-90 fps on my RTX 3080. It was teleport only, with snap turning, so that's pretty out-dated. The game ends rather abruptly and the puzzles were meant for children I think. However, it's free. If these students put more time into this project, it could be rather special. Tested on the Meta Quest 3 using link cable.

"Realms of Reverie" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from Ringling Collect of Art and Design in Florida. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. The students made a short VR tech demo for their thesis. It's a bit Myst like, you solve a couple of simple puzzles (by waving your hands around just right in VR) and then it's over. The game is quite short, and can be run through in just 10 minutes. The lack of content here makes it hard to suggest it's worth spending the time to add to your library and…

Free neat demo. Looks nice. Baby's first puzzles. Kind of just stops.

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