Puzzle Island VR

Had a lot of fun with this game, graphics and physics are awesome. The puzzles are challenging and confusing but with the surf and sound, its relaxing. Maybe some background music would be good. Good game to demo with friends, the price may be a bit high though to get that sort of following. Great idea/implementation though, can't wait to see what comes next!

My Puzzle Island strarts up in level 20 and there is no way to enter level 1 to begin the game! How do I fix this ?

Played this game while it was a demo and then bought a copy too. Fun little game! I enjoy it as an adult and all of my kids love it too (7-13).

Thanks to the developer for the opportunity to test this game. I really like the setting and the meditative environment, which seems fitting for resolving puzzles. The resolving of the puzzels unfortunately was not intuitive for me. The jigsaws are hard to read and trial-and-error is difficulty due to some constraints in movement and control. Especially the approach to use a rope for interaction with all objects is, at least for me, inconvenient to a certain degree.

I would like the ability to manually invite friends.

Great game, though it would be better if the puzzles were more difficult and the physics engine were better. A lot of time is spent grappling with the physics rather than actually figuring out how to solve the puzzles.

Thuis is a neat puzzle game! The levels become increasingly challenging. It is a first of its kind. I found myself headscratching many times which led to a bigger reward once I was able to solve the puzzle. Very simple but good.

[h1]Experienced on the Oculus Rift[/h1] You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/wOT5YdjFIzo I actually bought this physics puzzler back in October of 2017 and back when it was meant for coop play. I paid $4.99 on sale from the normal $9.99 retail price. Well, now this game is out of Early Access and it's normal price is $4.99 USD and it is now meant for single player only (ignore all the old reviews). Yeah, I paid too much. This game isn't that good. It's not that bad either though, as long as you can look past several issues. The biggest issue for me was the low frame rates. So this is a physics puzzler game. The problem is that when you try to do the physics part ... by using the rope or bringing several objects together, the frame rate takes a big drop. I went from a steady 90 fps to 45 fps whenever I tried to do the puzzles. You're in an island environment. It looks nice, for a 2017 game (just okay for 2020). However, it's probably causing the frame rate dips with all the waves in the water, the palm trees swaying in the wind, and the bird flying up in the air. I'd rather have a vanilla background if it would mean I could do the puzzles without these frame rate dips that effect gameplay. I found most of the puzzles to be super easy and I was able to solve most of them instantly in my mind. However, executing the solution was another matter. There were this one puzzle in particular that took me multiple attempts and many minutes before I was finally able to get a lucky throw to knock off a suspended crate that was up in the air. It was more frustrating than anything else. A few puzzles maybe took me a few seconds to solve. Those were generally satisfying to complete. In all, this game took me about 2 hours to complete. It can probably be completed in 30 minutes or less if it was a smooth & polished experience though. You have teleportation only for locomotion. You only have snap turning. There are no settings to adjust. I did experience a few bugs. There were some collision detection issues and clipping through objects. Sometimes the physics would just go haywire and the objects would go flying. I would also teleport suddenly back to the starting area. [b]Rate 5/10. Do not buy if you don't like physics puzzle. Even if you love physics puzzle, I would say wait for a deep, deep sale or just completely pass unless you want to deal with all the issues the game has. [/b]

Beautiful graphics and atmosphere. Great game if you want to demo the your VR headset to your friends/family. Reletively smooth controls. Things it could use: 1. An option for background music. A simple and relaxing island style instrumental that just repeats would be good enough. 2. Hints! After spending 20/30min or more on a puzzle, an optional hint should be available. I definitely appreciate that the puzzles are hard but it can get frustrating to not see a solution. This can turn people away from the game for good or worse make them regret spending money on it. 3. Replayablility. A challenge for puzzle games it replay value. Once you finish it there's little reason to go back. Portal solves this with humor and a good story. Maybe add a mode where players can create their own puzzles using various materials and share them?

If you like puzzles you get here the kind that is based on real physics. Excellent and varied mechanisms, good use of the controllers, and nice puzzles. The question is more "how to move these boxes in that position by using what I can", and not "what should the final position be"---but the authors did a great job of making this question interesting in each level. A bit too short for now in Early Access (finished in one hour), though definitely longer and more varied than other VR games.