Morels: Homestead (Oculus Quest)

VR Shop – Silver Award

Price at Time Of Review: £14.99
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: Interactive Experience
Supported Controllers: Oculus Touch
Best Playing Position: Standing, Sitting, Roomscale
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

Description: In this sandbox VR adventure you’ll start with a blank canvas of empty land. Explore levels from many environments and find hundreds of unique items to keep for yourself or trade to grow your homestead into whatever you wish. Grow and harvest crops, hunt for the elusive Morel mushroom, and find rarities to give you valuable commodities for trade. Use your metal detector and trusty shovel to find and secure many different treasures. Let out your inner nature enthusiast and photograph beautiful and sometimes rare animals. The path you take is yours to choose. Every homestead will be unique. What will you create?

Review: ‘Morels: Homestead is a virtual farming style game with side-quests and missions attached to mix things up a bit. While it doesn’t have the most amount of content you can build your own little world here and it is one of those games you can grow to love. But it is the monetary system in the game that sucks the most. Everything costs 100 times what you make from growing and selling things and then sometimes the item you buy simply vanishes meaning all your hard-earned work goes for nothing. This game feels broken and unfinished which is not the sort of thing you expect to see in the Oculus store. But give it a few updates and I could easily see this being worthy of your time.