The Amusement

Was really liking this game up until the rollercoaster chapter, then it started throwing up bugs, when trying to climb ladders it would go black and stay black, had to go back to main menu and start again, but same thing happens, really disappointed I can't finish this, I've played more then 2 hours so that's money down the drain

Great game where you can actually move around in the virtual environment. It is cleavely done to make you feel like you walk even though you actually only need a 2 by 2 meter space. The puzzle are well thought and the story is engaging. The game took me about 3 hours to complete which is the sweet spot for this type of games.

An absolutely positive experience, good graphics and story (funded by ARTE, which is an indication for quality over here in Germany/France), without encountering any bugs as mentioned by others. The most notable fun feature of this game is that it allows you to use room scale locomotion with redirected walking (no stick movement), which ups the immersion pretty well, to use it you need a 2m x 2m playspace.

I want to like this game. I really do. It's clear that a lot of love went into it, the visuals are great, and the story, while a bit odd for the setting, is presented well. But the gameplay and the bugs let it down. There are only about 4 different types of puzzles, all of them too easy, and they repeat over and over throughout the game, with very little variation. It starts to feel like a chore, but not even a fulfilling chore, because there is so little challenge. Every time I got to a new challenge, I already knew it was going to be solution A, solution B, or solution C. The incessant use of controller vibration whenever the player touches anything is very distracting, and really needs to be toned down or removed. At one point in the game I was unable to put one of my tools into my inventory. When dropping it (which should return it to inventory), it just kept falling to the ground in slow motion. Knowing I needed this tool, I had to perform various acrobatics to keep holding it while climbing ladders and moving between rooms. Luckily when I took a break in the middle of the game and started it again later, the tool was in my inventory and didn't have to be lugged aroun…

There is a spark of an idea here, but sadly, I find it lands totally flat. 30 minutes in and I just don't care about anything that's going on there so far. The only word that springs to mind is "lame." The voice acting is lame. The puzzles, if you want to call them that, are lame, the graphics are lame, the room scale thing barely works and I have a sizable play area. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance, but if I don't feel intrigued within the first 30 minutes, I'm out.

I really wanted to like this game, but in its current state I can’t recommend it. The biggest issue is that it *screams* “Quest port.” Low-quality cardboard textures and simplified environments constantly break immersion. Visually and artistically, it just doesn’t have the charm or atmosphere that most VR games of this type usually deliver. The audio-visual presentation feels very flat overall. Mechanically, the gameplay also gets repetitive fast. You find a yo-yo early on and then spend a huge portion of the game throwing it at things to unlock progression. That’s basically the core interaction for hours. It gets old pretty quickly and feels underdeveloped. There are also bugs here and there, but the one that finally killed my motivation happened in Chapter V. Whenever I stop using the grappling hook, it no longer returns automatically to my inventory like it did in previous chapters. Instead, it just hangs in the air and slowly falls downward, making it impossible to continue because the hook is required to progress. At that point I simply gave up. That said, I *do* want to give credit where it’s due: the room-scale implementation is genuinely impressive. The game lets you ph…