The seventh Visitor VR Evaluation (PS5 / PSVR2)

The 7^th Visitor VR is a digital actuality reimagining of 1993’s puzzle title of the identical identify. Mysterious recluse and toy maker, Henry Stauf, has invited six visitors to his gothic, puzzle-filled mansion for a celebration, providing a big sum of prize cash. Taking over the function of an unidentified visitor, you may be exploring Stauf’s premises, fixing puzzles to unravel the mysteries inside. What does Henry need from these individuals? Who’s the seventh visitor? And who will survive to inform the story?

On this concise six-hour marketing campaign, a blue butterfly leads you thru the mansion, from the depths of the basement to the heights of the attic. You may study the backstories of every visitor and their motives to attend this eerie place by way of a bunch of narrated, interactive paperwork and pre-recorded, green-screened movies that play over the atmosphere round you. It is a distinctive concept that, sadly, slightly ruins the VR immersion with the inexperienced glow given off by every character.

Geared up with a magical lantern that may peer into the previous and even return objects to their unique states, you may be fixing all kinds of puzzles. With options based mostly round shining your lantern and selecting up and inserting completely different objects, it may be enjoyably interactive, repairing damaged bridges and mirrors, uncovering previous variations of work, and revealing options scrawled throughout the partitions. The conundrums get progressively more difficult, although by no means really feel unsolvable as a result of helpful addition of hints. There are two free hints per puzzle, and if that does not get the cogs turning, an autocomplete choice can also be out there by spending a collectable coin.

Sadly, we discovered many visible, audio, and puzzle bugs all through our playthrough. Rooms take a short time to load when opening a door, typically leaving you confronted with a black display on entry. Audio can typically get out of sync with the video, or a number of voice strains will play over one another should you proceed to discover whereas listening. Lastly, a few the puzzles did not unlock for us, stopping development with out spending our collectable cash.

The 7^th Visitor VR’s intriguing story and nice number of pleasing conundrums make it a reliable VR reimagining of a basic 90s gothic puzzler. With visible, audio and puzzle bugs aplenty, it is a disgrace Stauf’s mansion is not simply riddled with cockroaches.