The Tale of Onogoro

The Tale of Onogoro

AMATA Games · 2022 · Action, Adventure, VR, Puzzle, Steampunk

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Mostly Positive79% · 48
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About The Tale of Onogoro

✦ AI summary

Team up with Haru, a shrine maiden, to solve intricate puzzles and battle colossal creatures called Kami across a floating island in this VR adventure that emphasizes intimate cooperation between player and AI companion. Its standout appeal lies in truly leveraging VR's potential for meaningful communication and teamwork, where you and Haru must work together using unique perspective-based puzzles that only one of you can solve.

◆Adventure with the Cute Anime Girl.
Portal meets Shadow of the Colossus in this memorable and intimate title.

◆A Tale Tailored to VR
Experience communication with a virtual character in a VR title developed as "an adventure game for the VR age."

◆Unique VR Puzzles
Work with Haru to deactivate the large, puzzle-like barriers blocking your path. Teamwork is key, as some objects can only be used by one of you!

◆Intense Battles With Kami
Together, you will discover how to quell each of the giant "Kami."

Save the world with Haru, a shrine maiden who quells "Kami!"

Haru has summoned you to Onogoro Island, a floating island in a parallel world. Together, you must solve sprawling puzzles and defeat giant beasts called "Kami" that are blocking your path.

A grand adventure depicting the bond between you and Haru awaits in this uniquely Japanese VR action adventure!

Save them. They are in your hands.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Dec 18, 2025
[h1]Experienced on the Meta Quest 3[/h1] You can view my full review here: https://youtu.be/TNLLTRGke7A Solid game overall. However, the pacing is quite slow. The puzzles seem tougher in execution rather than in actually solving them. If you mess up along the way, the boss fights can feel like a marathon. The story further slows down the pace with the heavy exposition. However, there are good production values here. The puzzles are good overall, although towards the latter-half of the game they did start to feel strenuous for me. It doesn't help that you repeat all the boss fights along the way one after another near the end, except with added steps to the fight. Game is running on the Unity Engine. On my RTX 5090, I was getting a steady 90 fps. I did not experience any major issues or bugs. However, the physics were at times inconsistent, especially when having to move objects. You do have full locomotion & teleportation available, along with smooth and snap turning. You can play comfortably seated and there are comfort options. [b]Rate 6.5/10.[/b] [quote]Please note: I received a free Steam key through the Steam Curator Connect program. If you enjoyed my review, please con…
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Not recommended Dec 17, 2025
Works on Reverb G2. Disclaimer: I've received this game for free via Curator Connect. The Tale of Onogoro is a passable physics puzzler/action ruined by the terrible pacing and annoying narration. There was clearly a lot of effort put into the game: there are a lot of visual upgrades from the Quest version and even graphic settings, the campaign is several hours long (I've stopped playing on level 5.3 out of presumably 7 chapters), it's fully voiced and even motion captured. Too bad that the end result is unbearable slog. First person puzzles are overall slow: you have to spend time to move around the level to see it from different points of view. And its even slower here, because puzzles are very light on planning and heavy on execution, often requiring several retries on the latter part. And then it's made even worse by the addition of action elements. Now you also have to dodge slow moving projectiles during the exploration, shoot non-threatening enemies (some of which will infinitely respawn) and restart the whole damn level if you or your sidekick take too much damage. It culminates in insanely repetitive boss "fights", where you have to do the same actions over and over ag…
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Recommended Apr 1, 2025
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Recommended Jan 6, 2026
I love this game. It's a casual puzzle game where you only interact with the puzzle elements, all remotely using two "guns", so it doesn't have the physical VR immersion I usually go for. What it does have is an adventure with a kawaii anime waifu, and it absolutely delivers in this regard. The most emotionally investing game I've played in VR. Incidentally it also justifies lorewise the lack of direct physical VR interaction, even referencing the fact that the player is in VR at the start of the game. The puzzles are not just static problem solving, there are timing elements that get harder as they game goes on, but your two "guns" have laser sights so it is not a test of your skill at FPSes, more just your ability to activate the parts of the puzzle with the right timing. The puzzles start off very easy, everything up to the first boss is basically just a tutorial, but they do improve from there on. There are also enemies, but they are essentially also puzzle elements; they are killed in the same way that puzzle objects are activated, and simply stop you from standing still in certain areas while working on the puzzle. The bosses are basically also puzzles, there is an action e…
Recommended Jun 30, 2025
I can't believe this game slipped past Steam's adult rating system; you literally hold hands with a woman in the first 5 minutes of the game. 10/10 ---- Jokes aside though this is a pretty neat puzzle game, if a bit on the simple side (at least at the time of this wrting). I'm not too deep into the game yet so I'll update the review as I go along, but it appears the game features a scoring system which is tied to how quickly you finish each level as well as how many secret orbs you destroyed. It's an interesting feature, but it's certainly not something I expected when first jumping into the game. The overall graphical presentation is pretty decent too; it won't blow your socks off by any means, but it does the job well enough to make the levels look pretty and fun to navigate. Your companion is very chatty too, which some may love it or hate it depending on how much they like listening to the game's lore and casual banter. All in all, so far it's pretty good game; it's not mind blowing like HLA, Boneworks and the like, but it's still a good time waster if you like calm-ish puzzle games with some action elements.
Recommended Jun 11, 2025
퍼즐갓겜 근데 시간잡아먹는 쓸데없는연출과 불필요한 대사가 너무 많다

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