Sushi Ben

Despite this being a rather short VR game, I find myself struggling to complete it. According to the game's last achievement completion rate, this seems to be a common issue. I feel like there were a lot of missed opportunities. Some of the best characters we only see a handful of times. There are a few bugs here and there, related to achievements and gameplay. The most common one I've encountered was while eating in the sushiya and having a conversation with a character who actually failed to enter the room and got stuck outside. Something about the game really gives me motion sickness. I am used to games in which I move a lot, both physically and in-game, but this one was problematic for a reason I havent put my finger on. I tried playing it once on "PC", but the game feels very very bland without the VR experience.

MUST BE PLAYED IN VR Very fun VR game overall. It took me a little less than ten hours to finish and introduces some really cool VR mechanics I’ve never seen before anywhere else. It kind of feels like a tech demo with a fun story to follow, similar to Half-Life: Alyx, but with a smaller budget and maybe a bit too much ambition. To this day, it still contains some really annoying bugs, like one that froze me in place multiple times, and some pathfinding issues that prevent certain characters from entering the sushi shop. The ending is pretty straightforward, and a message tells us that there is more to come, but I highly doubt that, because I'm pretty sure they’re done with this one honestly. The French translation is a mess, and it’s probably the same in any language other than English and Japanese. Also, don’t bother too much with the collectibles as I couldn’t find them all because one of them is locked behind a buggy side quest. So I completely understand the negative reviews, but personally, I still had a great experience with this game. Just enjoy as it is, beware of the bugs, and that's it.

I really hate to leave a negative review for this game because I can tell that effort clearly went into this game and it's a small indie outfit but had I known ahead of time the experience I was gonna have with this game I wouldn't have bought it. For reference, I've attempted to play this game across Steam Deck & on my Windows desktop PC (neither were in VR). The story, characters and art seemed fun and for that reason I tried really hard to persevere with the issues but they have completely ruined the time I've been spending on the game. As other reviews mention, the game is quite buggy, but for whatever reason when I've played it it's REALLY buggy. I frequently get movement soft-locked when giving items to Hyakumaru. This often leads me to having to restart checkpoint, but restarting checkpoint will frequently reset much more progress than I would like. Many sections of the game I have played over and over again because of this. I thought the soft-lock was related to me trying to do any controller input outside of just the confirm button - but no - it just seems to happen regardless of what I attempt to do or not do. I couldn't progress the game at one point because a trigger for one of the story quests REFUSED to happen no matter what I attempted (this was the net tool needing to break). I had to go online, find a savefile editor, locate the savefile on my desktop PC, guess from the naming convention at what I should add to the .sav file to progress, re-import the savefile and then go look up a walkthrough on YouTube to see the scene that I missed by manually forcing progression on the save. I've now had to do this TWICE to progress through the game. I genuinely can't think of a time I've had to mess with a save file in a game just to progress past progression blocking bugs. It's pretty much only through my own stubbornness that I'm still trying to plough through this game but I can't in good conscience recommend it to anybody in its current state. As far as I can see from the News section, this game was last updated in October 2025, so I suspect it's very unlikely that it will see much improvement in terms of bug fixes. Could be a nice chill game without the immensely frustrating bugs, but sadly I have very much not enjoyed my time with this game. Had I not already passed the 2 hour playtime window I would've refunded this.

Having played both in VR and without it, I can confidently say that playing without VR is far easier. Still, this is not the main focus of the game. The art and presentation is fantastic, the characters full of life thanks to the manga panels. The game captures a cozy picture of a rural town with a funny set of characters. While it is very linear, exploring the town looking for collectibles is enjoyable, as there are many way to go about it. I personally liked the story, silly as it is, which drives from minigame to minigame. Expect around 5-7 hours for the main stories depending on how much you explore, but around 10 hours for everything.

Unfinished

Super charming short game. I played on steam deck and I wish I could have played in VR... The characters & visuals are the absolute highlight. The manga panelling is really fun. Unfortunately there were some glitches (characters not appearing in scenes when they should be there, mostly) but nothing game breaking. Overall I found this was an experience worth the price of admission, even more if you can play VR.

Amazing art style cool devs and you can play it without a vr headset. Absolutely perfect.

A game that is artistically beautiful, and full of passion, but the PERFECT example of why gameplay design can so easily be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up in VR games. The gameplay is a bunch of disconnected minigames that like...catching bugs? Fishing? Walking around an empty town? The actual game part of this game is more chore then game. I'm also not alone on this. According to the global achievements roughly half of players stop playing where I did; right around the 2 hour mark. It seems like a pitiful 5% actually end up finishing the entire game.

С одной стороны, игру купил всего за 250 рублей. С другой, потраченного времени жаль.

Chill story, good characters, amusing scenarios This is a game that I 10/10 recommend. It really feels like you can relate to a good number of people in the story, and the setting gives a small-town vibe I'm sure many can cozy with.