Temple of Aluxes

A short game that might be worth the price tag if you're desperate. The puzzles aren't bad, nothing revolutionary, especially considering Silver Machine's other games (which can be purchased in a bundle). Find four symbols and enter them; is's a safe code with pictograms. That said, the mechanic of the 'scanner' is infuriating. Once you introduce 'invisible puzzles', you add agrivation, because you've put into the player's head "there's something I'm missing, because I LITERALLY CAN'T SEE IT!" It makes you doubt if you're not solving a puzzle due to not having the right solution, or if there's something you're being denied. So you wave your hands around like a spastic, examining every wall like you're trying to avoid eye contact at a work party. Three times I resorted to brute forcing puzzles (two pillars due to twisting my wrists, and the 3X3 in the lava by literally slamming my hands on the blocks until i apparently hit the correct combination.) since I didn't understand what it wanted from me. Was i supposed to line up the pieces to the glowing bits, were they invisible parts I had to account for? On the 3x3 all i found was an arrow pointing up. What finally made me quit was after the lava when i finished a 'pipe game' style puzzle, i found a rock with four symbols, and no place to put them. My thought process went as follows. "Do I have to backtrack? There's a door over there, but it doesn't have a keypad or anything? Do I need to keep searching the walls?" and as I stared at the glowing orb in my hands, I asked myself "Do I really want to play where's waldo with the walls just to MAYBE get a clue?" and the answer was "No, I don't." So I shut it off, and uninstalled it. TLDR; not a bad game, from a good VR puzzle studio, but one mechanic that could have been interesting muddies the whole experience. Buy in the bundle, but don't bother on its own.