After Dark VR (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Silver Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £11.39
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: Horror
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: 15+

Description: After Dark is the first VR online co-op survival horror where you play as either a Hunter on the hunt to strike down your next victim or as Survivors working together to stay alive and escape. 5 Hunters in 5 Maps

Review: ‘After Dark VR’ is a multiplayer-only co-op survival horror in which you play as a Hunter trying to kill people or a Survivor simply trying to survive. As with all multiplayer online games if you get the right people to play against it is a great laugh with some good scares thrown in to keep those screams coming and I really did enjoy playing it. While a little sparse in the graphical department it is good enough to easily become immersed in.

I have two main issues with ‘After Dark VR’. The first is the lack of other players even in these early launch days and with no single-player mode to speak of it spells doom for the game even now. The 2nd is all the bugs I experienced, many of which were game-breaking. It is clear a lot of time and effort has gone into this game and I do think it has/had potential. But by the time all the little issues are fixed, I can easily see this game sinking into obscurity, but I do hope I am wrong. While I do recommend it now, I doubt it will be worth owning in just a few weeks due to the lack of other players.