Reflections (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Gold Award

System: Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £7.19
Comfort Rating: Red
Genre: Adventure
Input: Gamepad, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

 

Description: Reflections is a real-world adventure game where every action you take has meaningful consequences that radically shape the experience. The game takes a new approach to the story, where everything you do can be woven into a narrative that drastically changes, thanks to our Storyteller engine. Each action you take is punctuated by flushing the black and white environment with colour, illustrating your progress and providing clues to what your future might hold.

Review: You start off in a house that you seem to be moving out of. With lots of things to interact with you start to realise you are going to college and you are looking for memories and reflections of things, you have done before. After a quick chat with a friend you soon start to adventure outside and when you start to fill the world with colour by interacting/remembering things, it is a beautiful looking game.

All the things you interact with or look at is about making decisions and choices that will determine where your life takes you. With several different ways, your character’s life pans out it can be played again and again with different results (depending on your choices). Reflections is an oddly beautiful game where the black and white style then filling with colour captures the idea of memories perfectly. The music and atmosphere are also worthy of note. While it isn’t the biggest of games, this is only an Early Access at the moment and it doesn’t cost the earth. While not perfect by any means the idea of this game is amazing and I for one would love to see more or it.