Escape Black Orion VR

The first ten or so times I tried to play this game I fell through the floor and couldn't get out. Had trouble with the menu and couldn't restart so didn't bother with it for a long while. Started up recently and it went, good VR space puzzle game but the earlier bugs left a bad taste in my mouth so it's a neutral review but on the not side. But it is reasonably priced and I've played a lot worse for way more money, see others in the accompanying video review. Video Review: https://youtu.be/aV-BmSMqU2g?t=49

Hard to decide if this review is positive or negative. Took me few minutes to get the hang of the controls (unfortunately, no free movement, your tools are doing the legwork for you), and then around 17 minutes to finish the first room. There is not much to it afterwards - as the game is episodic, and only episode 1 is there, you get the message to wait for episode 2. Curious to see more, but unfortunately too little content right now to encourage getting back to it. Fortunately the price is low, although I would like to get more out of it. For now I will give it a positive, but let's see what future brings. So far it is a so-so experience.

[h1] Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers. Spoiler-free Review. [/h1] Difficult game for me to review only because I wasn't able to finish it. I am stumped. I'm obviously not the best nor the most experienced person with puzzle / escape rooms. I only started playing them because of VR. I do enjoy them. I have played several that I was able to solve, but after two tries in this game I ran out of time. I also ran out of ideas. This escape room is different than most because it's got a fun, narrated story with a voiced character. A little robot comes to your rescue aboard a space station and gives you clues on how to proceed from the brink of disaster ... but is he really helping you? I honestly don't know because I wasn't able to finish the game! I was only able to finish the first part. No idea on the second. I mean I have an idea but have no clue how to get there or I tried looking for a way to do it based on the hint given, but could not figure it out. I know I must be missing something simple. Yes you can press a red button to get a hint after some time. The hint was what I figured I needed to do but have no idea how to get it done. There is no locomotion. Everything is within arm's reach though. Anyways, $8 is pretty steep for a the length of time given in the store description (30 minutes to 1 hour). But there is some quality here that is missing from several escape rooms. And at least, I found it challenging. Maybe you will too ... maybe. Rate 6/10.

I'm afraid I cannot reccommend this as there is very little to it, hand position and object grabbing are all wrong, at least with the vive wands. Also, performance problems. My 1070 was the bottleneck and had immense trouble running it, yielding frame times in excess of 20ms. The game itself is okay for such a low price, but nothing great either.

Aufgrund des Preises negativ! Sehr kurzes Spiel (15min max), aber dennoch gelungen und nicht zu einfach. Man spielt unter Zeitdruck. Hin und wieder hatte ich Probleme die Werkzeuge aufzuheben. Meine Kuratorseite: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30155555 Meine Steamgruppe: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/voodoode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kJA5zUrpL8

I ultimately liked this, but there were a few challenges along the way. 1)Index controllers don't work - leading to me reverting to vive wands. 2) my WMR headset (G2) kept blacking out in the picture every time I entered a wrong code - there's obviously some kind of visual effect that is coded wrongly. 3) Performance was terrible on my 3090 10900k 64gb system. I had to reduce the SS to 60% (which is around 3000 squared pixels). But given that this is the first game that my 3090 has struggled with, there is some problem in there somewhere.

Pretty good escape room. <20 min on the timer in game.

Время этой игры давно прошло. На заре появления "доступного" VR эта игра была прям ВАУ!. Я ждал когда выйдет вторая и последующая части. Но время расставило всё на свои места. Ни второй части, ни каких либо других игр от этой студии. Пройти эту игру можно меньше чем за три минуты. Головоломки почти не рандомятся и вызывают сложность и интерес только первый раз. Лет пять назад эта игра была бы musthave для VR игровух, но сейчас это всего лишь артефакт раннего VR.

Played on Oculus Rift w/ Touch, with only episode 1 available. I don't generally play escape rooms and I've having a tough time reviewing this as I don't have much to compare with. In the end, I think I give it a weak yes but only when on steep sale. Puzzles are decent and the robot companion is kindof cute though doesn't have much to tell story wise in episode 1. And so glad for comparatively cheery environment compared to the glut of horror torture/murder dungeons. Controls are a bit awkward, sometimes it would pick the item right up, others times nothing would happen or it would grab one of the others no where near my hand. And pulling my physical index finger IN to push the trigger button to extend the virtual index finger to point OUT for a couple of the interactions is literally backwards. Screenshots and video are slightly misleading, you're rooted to a single spot for the whole "episode one" The game has the "room-scale" tag but it's not. There is an episode 1 text in the title screenshot (but not the game title) and at the very end of the description. But that really isn't prominent enough nor does it clearly indicate there is on the single room (with 6 or so puzzle elements). Episode 1 has very little plot or dialog (outside the hints) and limited though crisp gfx. Description says "30-50" minutes for episode 1 even though the default timer is 20 minutes. I completed in about 20, though I admit I hit the help button twice for hints rather than stare at the walls hoping for divine inspiration. $8 is steep for 20 minutes, even in VR. $2-4 would be much better aligned. Here's hoping this is one of the few games that actually releases an additional installment (and for free).

Looks like it could be interesting, but feels like a point and click that got converted to VR. I gave it 3 chances. But, frustrating controls, getting put in the wrong place at the start, and having to endure the starting scene each time I all of a sudden died is just too much. Also seems to take zero advantage of being in VR.