Rhythm of the Universe: Ionia (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Silver Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: £11.39
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: Adventure
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing, Room-Scale
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

 

Description: IONIA is a single-player fantasy-adventure puzzle VR game for all ages. Get up close with music-inspired creatures in a lush forest teeming with life. Discover music-based magic on your quest to save the Harpa, a mythical creature whose habitat is on the brink of destruction.

Review: ‘Rhythm of the Universe: Ionia’ is a cinematic style adventure game in which you will be exploring the alien jungle world, completing puzzles and generally trying not to compare this game to the Avatar movie. The good news is the game does look good most of the time, but the movement inside the game is a little restritive. However, it is the story that will keep you going, the mystery of not knowing what you might see around the next corner and to be fair this game is as magical as they come.

The biggest issue here is that there is less than a single hours worth of gameplay. And it was not like I rushed through it at all. The good news is if you can grab it in a sale you will enjoy this game a lot more than I did. It is well worth a play that is for sure and I enjoyed what little time I had in the Ionia world. But that time was far too short to get value for money.