System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £1.59
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Adventure
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+
Description: Storm is an atmospheric survival game. This is the first, short introduction to a series of episodes of Storm. You wake up in an intense snowstorm. As you look around for ways to get out of the biting cold, to somehow find shelter, your body gets colder, your hands freeze up, and the storm intensifies. And as you slowly move forward a bigger question rises: who are you? Where are you? How did you get here?
Review: Severe snowstorms feature very cold temperatures, snow blindness and even ice hazards as well. The problem is the “storm” part of its name. With high winds combined with cold temperatures, it speeds the rate of heat loss to the body making serious health problems, such as frostbite or hypothermia more likely. So making sure you don’t spend too long outside in one is pretty essential. That is where Storm VR comes into it. You really are in a fight for your own survival and this game doesn’t make it easy.
Played in a first-person style you teleport around on a snow-covered adventure. What you need to do is get out of the storm and into the warm ASAP. Every moment you are out in the storm your health will start to deteriorate. Using the Oculus Touch controllers you will need to solve some puzzles and find some very well hidden objects. While it might seem easy to play once you know what to do, it is getting to that state that is the hard part.
This game is like the best milkshake you have ever had. It has all the right things in it, but you are not sure what you are drinking and sadly it is over before you realised what was in the glass and how to drink it properly leaving you wanting more, but sadly there isn’t any. Translated I mean this is a great game and it looks fantastic. But once you realise what to do you will be able to get through it in just a few minutes. I would have rather paid more for more game, rather than less for a little demo. But there is a promise of more to come so it does have some good future potential, but I wouldn’t hold your breath. At least it is worth the £1.59 I suppose.
