The Atlas Mystery: A VR Puzzle Game

Since this is an honest and reasonably competent indie VR game, I'll refrain from pushing the "Not recommended" button. But in reality, I don't much recommend it. I felt genuine frustration. After playing through this very short game three times (trying and failing to find all the notes), it's clear to me that the developers were mistaken to have The Atlas Mystery be a VR-only game. There aren't many interesting interactions using motion controllers. What's there is clunky as all heck. The player hands have collision. I don't think this adds anything to the game, and the hands sometimes get stuck inside objects. This game should have been released as playable with and without VR. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2674070/The_Atlas_Mystery_PC_Edition/ I found plenty of bugs, including teleporting off the level, and a showstopping glitch that blocked progression: While trying to figure out what to do with the organ, I rotated a pipe after already opening the keyboard cover, and this caused the cover to partially close. Nothing I did could move it again. The top keyboard, with the orange key, was now inaccessible. I had to exit and reload. The puzzles are pretty simple, as long as you know a bit of Latin. The story is basic, too. It's one of those games where nothing happens during the scenario, but we get to learn about past events through documents. After recently playing Control and reading hundreds of documents, I'm annoyed with this disjointed style of storytelling right now. The ending is fine for the fragile sensibilities of "modern audiences" in 2023/2024/2025/etc. I don't know where those last documents I needed are, probably in a drawer somewhere. But do I want to go back and fiddle around with the jankieass hands to find which drawers can be opened? ??

There isnt much to say about this game as there isnt much to the game. Atlas has a neat premise and an interesting idea behind it but the entire experiance was completed in 2 hours and it only took that long because I didnt find the run button until the very last room. I turned all hints off too so there wasnt even any handholding. Atmosphere is fine and controls are functional but audio balance isnt great, the puzzles are very basic, the story is told to you almost entirely through pamplets and the environment is uninspired. I was tempted to refund the product because, even at the discounted $9, I felt kinda disapointed with the purchase. The game felt like a demo or tutorial. Like it was showing you some of the kinds of things you would need to do and now its time to get to the real thing. But, no, that's it, roll credits. Its not a bad or broken game (though I did have some trouble getting out of the first room as the tutorial triggers had trouble recognizing I'd done the requested action already) but that was the total of my woes. However, I cant recommend it for purchase. Buy it to support PC VR devs perhaps but if you're looking for a game to play, this isn't really worth it I'm afraid.

Didnt enjoy it. Got a bit of sickness motion from it. Tracking was not good. Items kept popping into hands unexpectedly, very annoying.

We don't have enough vr puzzle games and this one is a treat. Plenty to investigate and solve with a great story behind it. Here is some gameplay Can I Solve the Atlas Mystery? - VR Puzzle game Meta Quest 2 https://youtu.be/TvEYBzu5HfY

Love the game. The controls on my PICO 4 was spot on. I like that it has all the necessary navigational methods for a proper VR game. I played this game sitting down and mostly had no issue. Puzzles were a little easy for me but not overwhelmingly easy. It's a good stress relief for an hour or two. It's a little short. Wished it was a little longer.

It is a pretty decent VR Escape Room set in atmospheric old cinema. Lasts 2-3 hours, which is reasonable for this genre. Most of its puzzles are original and fit neatly into the game's theme. They are not very difficult, but I've ended up stuck twice, due to not paying enough attention to the surroundings. Item handling is relatively smooth for a fully physics-based interactions, but there are still some minor jank going on. Visuals are slightly below modern standards: some parts look ok, but most are lacking HD textures and proper lighting. Overall I quite enjoyed the game and finished it in one sitting. Works on Reverb G2 with native OpenXR

Overall, I enjoyed the game. The graphics are okay, puzzles are nice and the atmosphere is great, sometimes a bit spooky. There were a few hiccups for me, not bugs, just things that confused me. I got help quickly from the developers in the Steam forum. There are a few things that could be improved, but compared with other escape room style games in VR, this is one of the better ones. Although pretty short. About 2 hours for me and I'm usually on the slower side. There's a short tutorial in the beginning, explaining the controls and there's teleport and smooth movement options, plus crouching by pressing a button.

Probably the best escape room VR game I've played yet, the puzzles were pretty good without feeling like BS nonsense a lot of escape room games suffer from. The only issue is the length, a lot of VR games are just too short and feel as if they end too soon, I get that making VR games is super difficult but I would've liked 1 or 2 more rooms to really feel like it lasted longer. Still a great buy especially on sale.

This game is so good i completed it on the Quest 2 and Steam Version. The Atmosphere and amazingly detailed environment really makes this game stand out from other puzzle/escape room style games. Talking of puzzles the range in difficulty is spot on. Some you will get fairly quickly others will have you scratching your head. regarding game play length, i think most players will complete it between 2-3 hours. Its time to jump in ans solve the Atlas Mysteries. Here is a link to a game play video i recorded on the Quest 2. https://youtu.be/C8_eUXGwizM?si=6N2etBZwQtXlu7nh

was a fun few hours, most of the puzzles were well done, there was one, involving film, that felt like it was to janky, but i enjoyed it, well worth it i think.