Various VR Puzzle and Escape Room Games
Live-action escape rooms offer a real experience where you, as a player, try to escape from a room filled with hidden puzzles. This provides a fun experience for team building or parties as you work together with your team to escape from a room. This requires collaboration and thoughtful consideration of the puzzles and secret hints found in the room. However, the downside of a physical escape room is that constructing one is quite a task
The 'virtual' room
That's why in recent years, many Virtual Reality Escape Rooms have emerged. The advantage of a VR Escape Room is that you no longer need a physical space to provide a player with an exciting experience; you simply need to put on the headset. The player can then escape from the 'virtual' room. Whether it's from a dungeon in the Middle Ages or during a space mission in the future: with VR, there are no limits to how crazy it can get
Escape Room VR games don't just have to be about the traditional 'escape' from a room. There are plenty of puzzle games that utilize virtual reality in a fun way, such as by defusing a bomb together. To give you some tips, we have compiled a list of our recommended VR puzzle and Escape Room games
1. The Gallery
The Gallery is a puzzle game with escape room elements. In the first part (Episode 1: Call of the Starseed), you have to find your missing sister. You start on a mysterious island and follow clues from your sister via a series of old-fashioned cassette tapes. The developers call the game a 'build-for-VR-game', inspired by dark fantasy movies from the 80s
2. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
In Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, one player is trapped in a room with a ticking time bomb that they need to defuse. The other players are the 'experts' who must provide the instructions to defuse the bomb by deciphering the information in the Bomb Defusal Manual. But there's a catch: only the 'experts' can see the bomb on the television screen... So keep communicating with the player who needs to defuse the bomb!
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3. I Expect You To Die
Ever pretended to be James Bond as a kid? The secret agent is always placed in dire situations that seem to guarantee his imminent death, but he always survives due to his unique ingenuity
I Expect You To Die is a VR puzzle game that captures the James Bond theme and makes it into a fun game
4. Please, Don't Touch Anything
Please, Don't Touch Anything is a cryptic, brain-busting puzzle game with a single red button. In the game, you take over for a colleague who has stepped away for a brief bathroom break. In front of you is a mysterious console with a large green screen, displaying live images of a mysterious city. Right in front of you is a red button that you absolutely should not touch...
5. Obduction
This game is an open-world escape room game. You're not just trying to escape from a room, but an entire planet to find your way home!
Unlike many other puzzle titles that can be completed in an hour or two, Obduction is intended to be played for a longer time. Some players even claim that it took them nearly 3 days to escape from the planet. Obduction is therefore a fun and challenging puzzle game that guarantees hours of puzzle enjoyment
6. Abode
Abode is an indie puzzle game with character. It's a short title, with only one room to escape.