Sense of Darkness

[h1]Experienced on the Meta Quest 3[/h1] You can view my gameplay & early impressions here: https://youtu.be/pCbC9bul0Js This game was a very pleasant surprise. I honestly wasn't expecting much from a $5 game ($3 on release sale). I couldn't tell much from the store page but it looked interesting enough and the price was right. This game is difficult to describe other than it's a puzzle adventure game with some similarities to echo location / lidar / blindness type VR experiences. This game is aptly named. You really are in the dark, literally and figuratively. You also have to use your senses to figure out what to do and where to go next. Those are really the puzzles. You use your senses to figure out what the puzzle is and how to get around it. You'll use your sense of touch and sound. You'll use your brain to put together the pieces of the puzzle. The game's atmosphere is eery and dark. It's not a horror game by any stretch of the imagination, but it was horrifying none the less. You get a sense of how difficult things are when you're blind. You're basically navigating this game blind and trying to make sense of the world. Game is running on the Unity Engine. On my RTX 3080, I was getting a steady 90 fps. I did notice a slight sutter when new scenes were loading in though. You have full locomotion along with smooth turning available. I don't think I experienced any serious issues or bugs, but at some point the game turned completely black and I had these red lasers shooting out of my hand and I wasn't sure if it was part of a puzzle or a bug. I guess I'll find out later. [b]Rate 7.5/10.[/b] [quote]Please note: I received a free Steam key through the Steam Curator Connect program. If you enjoyed my review, please consider joining my Steam Curator group [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Oculus_WMR]Oculus Rift Reviews.[/url][/quote]

I played this on the quest 2 and it ran great, and was a super fun puzzle game i do recommend considering its super cheap.

A pretty decent game for its price. If you've played Scanner Sombre, you'll probably like this one too. There are some bugs, but it's already playable. The puzzles and mechanics are interesting, I especially liked something similar to marble maze.

Works on Reverb G2. Disclaimer: I've received this game for free via Curator Connect. Sense of Darkness is an adventure/exploration VR game inspired by Scanner Sombre. It is not nearly as good as the latter and ends with unavoidable game breaking bug. It is not a horrible game, but it lacks a direction. Scanner Sombre was fully focused on its lidar, it felt like there is a real place represented by the dots, and it made the game immersive even on flat screen. SoD, on the other hand, feels like a collection of random videogamey levels: from a crypt and an eastern house to some abstract tunnels and labyrinths. Steam game description and trailer imply that there is a deeper meaning behind it all, but in-game hidden scrolls, background scenes and AI generated images are completely incoherent. Environments lack details to be fun to explore, and most puzzles boil down to "find a hidden interactable item". It's not too bad, but not exciting either. And all of this ends with a bug that turns the screen completely black.

As cool as the game seemed to be.. I sadly cant recommend it. I played it for around 2~ hours and somewhere around the time of being inside the house and needing to turn on the lights, i started feeling very motion sick, even a friend of mine who was watching me play it, claimed to feel sick of looking at the game. And its straight up broken and bugged too, the section where you walk up a tunnel, where a red bird flies above you, if you press the button to open a passage way behind you, the game ALWAYS freezes for me there and everything glitches out, you cant leave to the main menu.. its a permanent softlock and you cant continue with the game no matter what. Otherwise the game slowly reveals everything around you as you walk or touch things, you can change the color of your hands and draw on walls some lines made out of dots. You can sprint, walk, crouch, jump and even push objects with your hands, you get a few tools like bows or hammers through the game, climbing is a thing but game wise i wouldnt really recommend it since the ? chapter is bugged and i wasnt able to continue the game from there. So i just cant recommend it because of that, and if you do decide to buy it, then get it at a discount.. For me it at least was cheap when i bought it, so i cant feel to bad about loosing my whole money for a product thats broken and cant be finished but its still pretty annoying.

[h2]Is a Scanner Senseless❔[/h2] Overall, this is a great game. I haven't gone too far in it yet. But I already like it. It's very much like Scanner game you are thinking of... but without a scanner. The dots just show up based on proximity and activity. Overall, such a cool way to use VR. I was surprised to see an actually REASONABLE priced game. 🔥►Meet SENSELESS people playing now (in group CHAT link below) 💬►Cool game that's as unique as 2 in a million. 🏆►VR Giveaways and CHAT 🏆 If you got more questions, or you just want to play some VR, stop by our steam group. I'll put the link below. We play all games in a toxic free CHAT area. https://steamcommunity.com/groups/joinusinvr

Ngl game is boring as ♥♥♥♥