Annie Amber (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Gold Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £2.09
Comfort Rating: Yellow
Genre: Puzzle, Adventure
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+

 

Description: Annie Amber is a VR puzzle game that leads you on an intense and dreamy journey through the life of a person condensed in a surreal and poetic experience. With innovative controls, AA makes you explore this strange and beautiful scenery that is life itself while using your wit to make your way through different memories.

Review: Annie Amber from the award-winning Carlos Coronado is a journey through the life of a girl called …wait for it…Annie Amber! You start from the crib she was raised in, to her beautiful death, but of course, things are never that simple and you will explore through all her life solving a few puzzles and interacting with a few things along the way. You navigate through the experience via looking points, white circles that are essentially the next waypoint. Each environment looks more beautiful than the last and what you get out of each scene, each location is up to you to interpret for yourself. It’s like a work of digital art that you can explore.

OK, so I never really started to understand what was going on in Annie Amber, but that is OK, I was enjoying not knowing. Keeping that mystery and suspense while I enjoyed travelling through each crazy room or environment, always wondering what I would come across next. This is not for action fans or people who like the faster games, this is for people who are just happy to be in VR and enjoy the sights and sounds around them. Download it, relax and just explore.