VERY BAD DREAMS - FREE DIVE

Couldn't even play. I was always in the floor

VERY BAD DREAMS - FREE DIVE is a compact VR horror experience that tries to make fear feel physical rather than simply something witnessed on a screen. Developed and published by CREATIVE VR3D, it serves as a free introduction to the ideas behind the larger Very Bad Dreams experience. Instead of relying on complex progression systems or an elaborate inventory, it concentrates on immersion, movement, psychological tension, and physical interactions that take advantage of virtual reality. The opening is surprisingly peaceful for a horror game. You find yourself on a beautiful beach surrounded by white sand and a calming sunset, creating the impression that you have awakened somewhere pleasant. That sense of security does not last. The environment gradually becomes more disturbing as the dream deteriorates into a nightmare. The contrast works particularly well in VR because the player experiences the changing surroundings at human scale. What initially feels inviting slowly becomes hostile, creating tension before the more obvious horror elements even appear. Physical interaction is the feature that gives the experience most of its personality. Rather than reducing every action to a…

"VERY BAD DREAMS - FREE DIVE" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "VERY BAD DREAMS". VERY BAD DREAMS is a console (Playstation) ported VR tech demo with quality levels approaching some of the "better" Unity asset flips out there... which is to say, atrocious, but at least it looks like some professional development took place (Sony has a QA department to qualify games, Valve has Steam Direct turnstile). It's a VR tech demo about Unity zombie assets, from what I can tell. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not VERY BAD DREAMS, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "VERY BAD DREAMS - FREE DIVE" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $12 USD on buying VERY…

Works and looks great on PSVR2 through PC!

Pretty janky. There are some good ideas, but they're often poorly executed. Like the vent section should've been a super tense conclusion for the demo, but the sill movement style they chose is so distracting that it wrecked that whole section of the demo. Also, the inventory system is very rough and i never figured out how to reliably summon my lighter, which is vital when using the Molotov.

unbelievable, it's such a great game yet free. but it's super scary.