World of Diving (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Silver Award

System: HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £14.99
Comfort Rating: Red
Genre: Adventure
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Gamepad, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: PG

 

Description: World of Diving is the VR-enabled online diving game that brings you an exhilarating multiplayer diving adventure, all without getting wet. access the game via Early Access and start playing straight away! An uncharted world awaits. World of Diving is the multiplayer online game that brings you an exhilarating underwater adventure.

Review: Billed as a “randomly generated, open-world diving simulator” this undersea mission and adventure game is much more a fantasy game than a real simulation, but I think it I better for being so. Featuring several large areas to explore, each one filled with its own mysterious places and sea life. While you are free to explore whatever and wherever you want there are missions that you are given. But when you are bored of them you can always make your own missions or play some the games community has made.

The multiplay support is pretty impressive and you can set up team dives with friends or explore each other’s maps that you have made, this gives you almost endless replay opportunities and once you get into the most colourful sea life adventures you will want to keep coming back for more.  There is a certain, relaxing charm about this game, enough to make you want to play for hours on end, but the VR sickness will prevent most people from doing just that. But the good news is that there are lots of missions filled with all sorts of challenges to keep you coming back to it. While it looks great, sounds great and has a lot of depth to it, it is not the easiest of games to get the hang of.