Puzzle 360° (Oculus Rift)

Price at Time Of Review: £1.49 ($2)
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: Match 3
Supported Platforms: Oculus Rift, Rift S
Supported Controllers: Oculus Remote, Gamepad
Best Playing Position: Standing, Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

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Description: Shoot balls to fill in the horizontal voids! Rotate the block and shoot it! Look around and act quick. The goal is to reduce as many blocks as possible before the game ends. Experience dreamy puzzles enjoy on Oculus rift!

Review: With a constantly growing list of puzzle games in VR it is getting harder and harder to stand out from the crowd. So can Puzzle 360° really offer something new? The gameplay itself is certainly unique. With 3 blocks or less, you need to rotate them in order to fit them into the constantly rotating puzzle board in front of you. You can place them anywhere you can, but to make them disappear you need to match the colours. It’s just like playing Tetris in a washing machine! While you do get a few lives to start the game, you can grow them by matching 2 whole lines of the same colour, but other than the loss of those lives this game is endless.

I liked that you can collect coins to have a different style of blocks. From rock style blocks to barrels and even treasure chests, there is a nice little selection that is sure to please the completionists. Controls are also pretty simple using just the Oculus Remote to play the game. Just the middle clicker and top and bottom directions are needed to rotate and place the blocks on to the puzzle board.

Graphicly wise this is pretty much on par with most other Tetris style puzzle games, it looks basic but bright and colourful at the same time. With its spinning central chamber, you might have thought the constantly spinning game blocks would give you terrible nausea, but a lot of the time you are too busy concentrating on the game in hand, rather than what is going on around you. Overall I think you get what you pay for and that is not a lot. Anyone who loves their puzzle games will enjoy this and its cheap price will make it that little bit more appealing.