The Road to Hades

[h1] Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers [/h1] This is one of the better VR deals on the Steam Summer sale. This is a horror walking simulator. There are some light puzzles to solve, but they are almost all pretty easy and don't really feel like puzzles. In fact, only one of them stumped me. The rest of the puzzles just felt natural. Somehow I knew the solution even though logically it didn't always make sense. You do have a guiding hand in the butterfly animations. Those will tell you that you're on the right path. You usually know where to go even though it's not a straight path. The graphics are above average. There's some really nice details. It felt like most of the assets were original. The path didn't always make sense, but it was always interesting. The sounds were also well done. There isn't any dialogue. The story is vague. There's a surprise ending. In fact, the game went on after it should have ended. The last portion has a very tedious puzzle that is mostly trial and error and frustrating. Just moments earlier there was this epic crescendo to the cadence of the game that led me to believe the game had ended, instead it dragged on a moment too long. So instead of feeling great having finished the game, I felt a little aggravation of that last puzzle which left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. The ending credits was worth it though. It even has a nice little Korean song. That singer is amazing. It is possible to speedrun the game and finish in 30 minutes. However, more than likely you'll take at least an hour. The horror adventure is pretty unique. This game definitely got the atmosphere correct. My biggest gripe, besides that last puzzle, is the slow walking. I get it. You're supposed to walk slow as you're tip toeing around in a scary place. But it's just too slow. And I did lose an item, but a quick restart and I was back at the last checkpoint. I enjoyed the journey. I think I got $4.49 of my money's worth. Not sure it would be worth $14.99, that would be a close call. Sale Price Rating 7/10. Yeah, I recommend this for any horror VR fan. This is one of the better ones.