Yon Paradox (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Silver Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £1.99
Comfort Rating: Yellow
Genre: Puzzle
Input: Gamepad, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+

 

Description: What happens when a time machine goes crazy? Avoiding dangerous time paradoxes, your only hope is to repair the machine between the time rewinds. The antimatter instability causes a black wave of time-distortion, bringing you back in time: each time the cyber world will be populated by yourself and your past alter-egos.

They will replicate all the actions you previously did, and being seen by them will cause a mortal time paradox. You will have to solve mini puzzles to retrieve the gears to repair the time machine, and to survive to your past-egos in a puzzle game with yourself and your own mind.

Review: While Yon Paradox doesn’t make a good VR game, it is a good game in general. The game seems to be pretty easy at first, but then soon turns into chaos as more “time clones” of yourself are around and need to be avoided. Maybe it is just the concept of the game that I love rather than the game itself. But even in VR, I did enjoy playing it (although it is nauseating in VR). This is a game that requires a lot of trial and error and that is not going to be for everyone, but personally, I did enjoy it, especially for its low asking price. While I did have fun playing it I can also understand why a lot of people will hate it as well. But at least it is cheap enough to try for yourself.