When you feel like you’re present in the environment, the game is enhanced on many levels.
For puzzle-bang out games, the mechanics of VR connect you to the puzzle elements.
The live-action escape room experience has inspired the creation of VR escape room game counterparts.
Cloudhead Games Ltd.
Check out these VR puzzle games and escape room games to discover how immersive VR gaming can be.
Cool “blink” teleportation mode.
Spooky, intriguing storyline and atmosphere.
Schnell Games
Genius backpack solution for storing tools.
Puzzles have obvious solutions if you look around.
Holding items feels awkward due to limited hand positions.
Cyan Inc.
InCall of the Star Seed, your quest is to find your missing sister.
The developers call the game a “built-for-VR game inspired by dark ’80s fantasy films.”
This game is reminiscent of the television showLost, with its eerie island-based science lab theme.
Northway Games, Radial Games Corp
Logic puzzles abound throughout.
The whole game feels well planned and polished.
The VR teleportation mechanics are excellent, especially for people who only have small VR play spaces available.
SVRVIVE Studios
This game is a must-have title if you’re into VR puzzle and adventure games.
Multiple solutions and hidden content increase replay value.
Played from a seated position, so nausea-free.
Overflow
Lots of trial and error.
You play as a secret agent with telekinetic abilities.
Your mission is to stop a nefarious weapons and pharmaceutical company.
Tarsier Studios
One of the scenarios has you in a fancy Bond-esque gadget-filled car that is in an airplane.
Your goal is to escape the airplane by starting the car and somehow getting it out of the airplane.
Bonus (or spoiler): missiles are involved.
Overflow
VR Platforms:HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve Index
Obduction
Cyan Inc.
EvokesMystandRivennostalgia.
Beautiful, engaging worlds.
Cerebral puzzles with attention to details.
GexagonVR
Longer than similar games.
Escape from a planet instead of a room sacrifices the claustrophobic vibe.
Backer Reward items don’t add to the game or puzzles.
Top Right Corner, Yarvo Productions, Paper Crane Games
The team was working onObduction.
This game is an escape room game on a grand scale with puzzles throughout.
You’re not trying to escape only a room but an entire planet to find your way home.
Some reviewers said it took them two and a half days or so to complete.
Addictive puzzles with lots of replay value.
Level editor for user-designed levels.
Colorful, cartoonish style.
Some devices/puzzles are too challenging and frustrating.
Only three objects to work with.
Fantastic Contraptionis a whimsical puzzle game with many characters and tons of levels to keep you busy.
You must build a simple machine to move your puzzle piece through the terrain obstacle.
You combine these parts in VR by virtually snapping them together.
When you think you’ve built the perfect machine, press the play button and see if it works.
If it does, great; move on to the next level.
This puzzle game is definitely for creative types of all ages.
The developer added a level editor for creating user-generated content.
Users can download and play levels built by other users, which increases the replay value for this game.
Adds narrative to the escape room plot.
Environments are too dark.
If alien-themed puzzles are your thing,SVRVIVEis a title worth your consideration.
Solve all the puzzles, and the aliens say they’ll give you your life back.
Fail to solve them, and you’ll be… well… try not to fail.
Conductor
Overflow
Each train station has unique puzzles and challenges.
Rudimentary graphics work well for this game.
Puzzles are too easy.
Short game with abrupt ending.
Conductoris from the makers ofAbode, another puzzle game on this list.
WhileAbodeis a good but short escape room game,Conductoris more of a puzzle-adventure game.
Conductorfeatures multiple locations and has the unique game mechanic operating a train to transport you to the next location.
Conductoroperates with lo-fi graphics rather than flashy photorealism.
Puzzle boxes are simpler than they look.
Only eight puzzles in this short game.
Statikis a must-have if you own PlayStation VR and love puzzle games.
VR Platform:PlayStation VR
Abode
Classic escape room scenario in a cool futuristic apartment.
Almost everything in the room can be interacted with.
Less than an hour of gameplay for most players.
Imaginative ending doesn’t fit futuristic setting.
Abodeis an indie puzzle title that has character.
It’s a short title, having only one room to escape from, but its price reflects this.
Abodeis a classic escape room title.
The graphics are lo-fi, but the game is all about the puzzles, andAbodedelivers on those.
The game is a short experience, but a fun one.
Nevrosa: Prelude
GexagonVR
5-minute free teaser game.
Most puzzles aren’t terribly difficult.
This game is a creepy experience.
It is reminiscent of theSawmovies.
Nevrosa: Preludeis a free-to-play game.
As the title implies, this is an intro and not a full-fledged game.
The free experience is designed to whet your appetite for the full game.
DownloadNevrosa: Preludeif you dare.
Timer that adds urgency.
Scary, high-pressure escape room.
Annoying guy in the background.
Typically, movie tie-in games are terrible.
Surprisingly, TheBelko VRgame is pretty good for a movie tie-in game.
This escape room game comes with a 15-minute timer.
If you fail to complete the goal in that time, you die.
The price is right: The game is free because it was created to promoteThe Belko Experimentmovie.
If you think you’re free to handle the stress, give this game a try.
Players may experience different endings depending on the choice they make toward the end.
