Escape rooms are an excellent match for VR. You’ll be able to craft fantastical situations and obtain extra convincing environments, all whereas permitting the expertise to happen at residence. And that is an concept developer Fireproof Video games has taken to coronary heart, because the fifth title in The Room sequence is VR-only. The Room VR: A Darkish Matter was beforehand launched on PSVR, but it surely’s higher than ever on Sony’s new headset.
As a detective on the lookout for a lacking Egyptologist within the early 1900s, you’ll go to quite a few places throughout the title’s 5 ranges. The title begins you off sluggish, with a barebones chapter that takes place in your workplace, earlier than introducing the sport’s biggest asset: its problem curve.
The complexity of puzzles from degree to degree ratchets up on the excellent price, by no means overstepping or falling into the trimmings of classical point-and-click journey titles with obtuse, nonsensical options. As an alternative, you might be handled to puzzles with logical options, a lot of which embody dozens of steps to finish. And for those who do get caught, the sport has a sturdy clue system, nice for pointing you in the appropriate path with out fixing puzzles for you.
The puzzles growing in complexity additionally affords the chance to point out off unbelievable environments. Textures look good all through, some environments are large, and in VR, the dimensions is introduced in a really convincing manner. You’ll often be capable of see different clues or steps within the puzzles throughout the room, which will help jog your reminiscence about the place to go or what to do subsequent in a compelling manner.
Every degree being self-contained permits the crew to dabble with totally different tones, too. An early degree coping with an historic Sarcophagus is especially adept at splicing horror into the expertise, whereas a degree going down in a church makes use of an organ to include musical parts into the sport. It’s all dealt with flawlessly, and tremendously enhances the worth of the product, by providing diversified, distinctive experiences level-to-level.
That being stated, in the case of the worth of the product, the value is without doubt one of the solely actual gripes we’ve with the expertise. It merely doesn’t have sufficient content material to match its £24.99/ $29.99 price ticket. When you can abdomen the associated fee, although — or make the most of the free improve from PS4 to PS5 — there’s lots to love right here.
