Buried Alive VR is a small demo/gimmick game where you are trapped in a coffin, you solve a couple of puzzles, get a couple of jumpscares... there's very little of interest here, with mediocre (possibly uncredited stock/third party assets), generally poor visuals, and very weak gameplay. Not much of a game.
While reviews are about the games, one brief note in case potential buyers are interested in who they're buying from, it seems the developers here, according to many forum posts, tried to scam gamers by pretending "the dog ate their source code" (and other such lame excuses) and therefore they have to remove the game from Steam (huh), which triggered the "risk of removal" game collectors who make a hobby of buying games that get deleted (FOMO extremists I guess). After scamming those gamers the developer miraculously found their source code (which has no bearing on whether a game is listed on Steam or not) and cancelled the removal of the game. Ugh. Anyway, like I said, it's good for prospective customers to know if the developer is unethical or suspicious.
Now, as game reviews are about the game, here's the technical defects and why you shouldn't buy this.
The game is very simplistic, small and limited in scope and ambition. This feels more like a tech demo, proof of concept or student homework assignment rather than a fully fledged product designed for PC gamers. As such it doesn't offer any real value as a serious PC game.
On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers.
This seems to have been made a VR exclusive to prevent any comparison with non-VR 3D games, a comparison that this game would fail very badly at. Developers must learn that while VR is great, if the only thing that makes the game great is the VR, then the game isn't great at all.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game all-time peak player count was only ONE player. That's right, only one person ever played this at a time. When I played this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak player count for the game. OUCH. The only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
Buried Alive VR is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
