LOST EMBER – VR Edition (Steam VR)

System: HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £25.99 ($29.99)
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: Adventure
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Gamepad, Keyboard / Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

Description: Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole, climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, and many more!

Review:Lost Ember is a story driven game that plays on your heartstrings from start to finish with both its beautiful music and variation. Set in a beautiful dream-like world this is a game that has a unique and magical feel to it. Sadly there isn’t really any VR interaction, it is more a “playable in VR” port in which you use a gamepad or the motion controllers as a gamepad. But for me that only made it that bit more magical.

Yes, the game is nauseating at times and there is the occasional bug to deal with, but for a few hours, this game easily takes you away from it all and offers something so many other VR games don’t and that is a death-free, memorable adventure. While some hate it, I think more VR games should use a gamepad. It doesn’t have to be all shoot this, pick up that, it could just be a visually stunning and emotionally devastating game.