The Cabin: VR Escape the Room

I really wanted to like this game.... but I spent more time trying to get the game area to match my play area by re-centering from the steam menu before starting. I have more than enough space but it just didn't want to line up. The play area also drifted a little bit and in the attic and the room with the fire exceeded the play area, but this was less of an issue in the attic.

The lighting is absolutely terrible, you need to hold a candle most of the time, which if it gets to close to you it is too bright to see much else. Several of the tasks require you to stand in or reach through objects there is a box on the fireplace which was too high for me to reach so had to put my head in it. Several of the challenges make zero sense as to why they would advance you to the next stage i.e. placing books on a shelf shouldn't in specific places doesn't justify triggering something, but even more odd is installing a radio antenna not only turns it on but activates the phone. Also no real reason to need to turn on a winch to lift up the attic hatch, but not need to actually activate the winch. then again no real reason you couldn't climb out the many windows you see.

Over all, the game is poorly thought out. Frustrating to play. Regularly has you reach through objects and/or fire. With very few really basic puzzles per "room" where sometimes the most difficult part is finding the key because it blends in with the surroundings or can only be viewed from a specific angle because it has no thickness. Add to that the gripping hands kept getting stuck in the closes position was more just annoying.

Bottom line there are several more engaging escape rooms, with or without teleport. Most of which look better.

The game is relatively short and even though the description says that there are multiple endings, there are only two endings. You either escape or die. When I did escape the final room, the game was just over and you see the credits. During the game, you heard some things, so I was expecting a little more of an ending then just "boom" finished, "You Escaped".

I have been to numerous escape rooms in real life and there are always multiple keys that need to be found. The keys for this game are not really hidden but easily accessible and, for a VR version of an escape room and for a single person playing, you use the key and then whatever the next step is. Even though the game is really short in duration, it was worth the money I spent on it.

As in real life escape rooms where you have to duck and move around objects, the space is small in this game but you have to do this as well. I was on the floor and I even had to duck under some beams. Although you probably could walk through them, the graphics made you feel like you need to duck under them. Someone came in when I was getting one of the keys from the floor and was like "What are you doing on the floor?" They had thought I had tripped and fell or something. So being able to be immersed in the game or have the feeling like you needed to get down on the floor was really enjoyable.

The only issue I had was when I died, which I did die on my first play through, when I selected to restart the game, I ended up looking up towards the cabin. So the restart option in the game was bugged. But other than that, I really enjoyed the game. It was fun and I would recommend the game.

Around a 20 minute experience of puzzles, nothing jump scary. You can die and I did on my first go. Room to play is definitely a MUST, I think I ran into my microphone and desk a couple of times. Unfortunately when i hit "retry" it threw me outside into the snow and I could see the bottoms of all the maps. I did NOT plan to go back and do this all over again.

Played on the Oculus Rift S.

Short puzzle game with not very difficult puzzles, more find the key to leave the room. Buggy, game crashed once, retry spawned me under the world every time and no check points, not that the game is very long, no in game settings or anything.

Wouldn't bother trying.

I am only recommending this game if you can get it for a lower price. This game is a definite improvement on Blue Entropy's other escape rooms, but there is still some ways to go. While this was longer than previous games, it's still relatively short at about 15-20 minutes.

Some of the puzzles are behind locks but most of the time the key is just laying around, so you don't need to solve anything to get the key. Overall puzzle difficulty is pretty low on this one. Most of the time you're just hunting around for components and then using them in the only single obvious spot.

The game has a good atmosphere and I was pleased to see multiple rooms this time around. The graphics are passable (but not amazing) but there is a noticeable problem with the lighting. There is some sparse voice acting but it's pretty good, so no points taken off there.

An okay 15-20 minutes if the game is on sale but I can't recommend it at full price.

I couldnt get past the code in the first room. It was kind of strange that random rumbers popped up instead of the digits I was pressing. I spent about 20 minutes trying to figure it out and then gave up. I liked where it was going though so I will let my friend play and see if they can figure it out. The other game in this series, Ruins, was great though so for that reason I will give this a thumbs up because I bought them together in a bundle. Im guessing I just missed something and escape room games should be challenging.

Experienced on the Oculus Rift using touch controllers in a smaller than suggested play space.

The crowbar was unreachable for me, so I decided to just burn to death. Crawling through the holes in this game was a real struggle due to my play slightly smaller than suggested play environment, but I made it work in the end by using the reset view feature (Oculus) and turning.

5 Different rooms or areas are in this Escape the Room game. It's slightly longer and a little bit better than the first VR Escape the Room game by Blue Entropy Studios, "The Gleam". It's worth buying on sale and I reccomend giving it a try if you enjoy escape room games like I do, but only if you have the suggested play area.

I think this is is a good escape room puzzle game. It has a nice atmosphere and nice graphics. The only thing unrealistic is the small micro cabin out in the woods. I don't think anybody would make a cabin so small, but it makes sense for VR to be full roomscale.

The puzzles are pretty easy except for 2 of them which will make you think. There's just enough story to keep you going forward and keeping you in suspense. Even the voice-acting was pretty good considering the price. If you can find it on sale for half off, then definitely it's a must get for 20 minutes of entertainment.

Rate 7/10 this is a good escape room VR experience to introduce friends or family to the concept, advanced escape artists will probably not enjoy as much

5/10 - Just barely.
$ / H : 20 min at 5.49 CDN = 16.47 CDN / Hour.
Tested on an HTC Vive at 2.5m x 2.5m, no issue.

I really like room escape games and I did enjoy my time with this.

The primary issue is that it's over in 20 minutes and the whole find a key thing is one of the 3-4 puzzles in each room :s.
I liked parts of it enough to say it's worth it for an escape the room fan but I have a hard time warranting the price tag or any price tag really. If it was a free to play demo that would be fine but there are just too many things you could buy over this and get a LOT more of your monies worth.

bottom line: If you just can't get enough room escape and have 5 bucks kicking around this will take up about 20 minutes of your time. However, if you are looking for something deep or something that will be worth more than 20 minutes look elsewhere.
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Make up your own mind.
DanielJMWaters.

Unfortunately, I can't give the game a positive recommendation. The use of roomscale was mostly nice, but it caused some annoyances, particularly in the third room, which was a pain to navigate through. Of the five rooms in the Cabin, only two of them had much in the way of real puzzles (the others were mostly scavenger hunts, one of which was only challenging because the lighting wasn't great and as a result it wasn't clear what items can be interacted with and which cannot). I did like that the game had more of a plot than some other escape rooms I've played, and the voice acting was a welcome addition. But the story never really amounts to much, so story alone isn't enough to recommend the game.

Additionally, something felt "off" with the visual representation of the hand controllers in the game. My hands looked like they were a few inches away from where they actually were, if that makes any sense. It didn't really affect my ability to grab anything in the game, so I don't think it was a tracking problem, but it did hurt immersion some.

The game wasn't too long--I got the "good" ending on my first play through in about a half an hour--but I wouldn't have minded if the experience had been more engaging. For the same price point, I would recommend VR: Vacate the Room instead.

Oculus Rift with 3 sensors -- bought it on sale for $3.

PROS
Very fun and realistic game for escaping several rooms in a cabin. It felt like a real escape room. I like how the devs implemented a true room-size room scale experience.

CONS
I had lots of framerate issues before an update. After the update, it was better, but the image still stuttered if I moved too quickly. Ruins the experience a bit, but the game is still worth playing.

The game includes foul language. At the time of this review, there was no ESRB rating. I wouldn't have purchased this had I known.

OVERALL
I wish Steam had a neutral button for recommendations. I recommend this game for gameplay and an immersive experience due to the room-size room scale implementation. I do not recommend it due to the delayed graphics and foul language. It's playable, but can be nauseating at times. UPDATE: I purchased a new PC with a newer processor. There is no lag in the video anymore.

The developer has been very helpful and provided another game key for beta testing. I recommend you try "The Ruins". Interesting story, and new puzzles!

The puzzles in The Cabin are pretty basic, and revolves around finding the right pieces instead of thinking about complex solutions. I’d say the main focus here is the story telling, and it’s delivered mainly through inner dialog with great voice acting, but also with set pieces in the game.

There’s no locomotion nor teleportation, instead you’ll use your real space to walk around the rooms. And the 4 rooms are designed in such a way that they feel varied and spacious, even though they’ll fit into small play areas (2.1m x 1.8m and upwards).

I really love how the forest looks in this game, and it’s a pity that not more was done with it. Inside of the cabin itself the graphics looks ok. There’s some rough textures and sharp edges, but good enough to keep a high level of emersion.

All in all this sums up to a great experience that I highly recommend to try out. Unfortunately it’s extremely short, and it took me less than 30 minutes to complete it. And even though the game is really cheap, I’m feeling almost like a hypocrite giving a recommendation for a paid game with such short duration. But dammit it was worth it!

+ Room scale games with no telporting are great because you do no have that worry about banging into things in your play area - which adds to the immersion massively.
+ Looks great
+ Price point is spot on for a short, but quality game (£3.99)
+ The first VR game to make me duck cause I thought I was going to bang my head

- Okay the puzzles are quite simple, this is not Myst, but they are not as simple as some make out. I had to use the help forum twice.
- I wish this was an early access with more to come; a story, more puzzles,

Summary - great job by the developers, I could lose myself in a game like this - isn't that what VR is about?

The only thing I can give it credit for is the use of utilizing a full play space, but that's the only remotely positive thing to say. This game is a complete piece of garbage.

The graphics are lackluster with awful lighting, there's missing textures, broken post processing and ghosting shaders. It doesn't help that there's only 15 mins of playtime tops and the puzzles are just lazy; How many times can you pick up the same key? Finding a billion keys in your shitty enviroment isn't a puzzle.

You can tell the developer is either inexperienced or just incredibly lazy. So many corners are obviously cut and feels like a game jam title, not a something you pay money for.

Don't waste your money.

A good small and short escape room (multiple small rooms), with only a time limit in the last room.

The puzzles are a bit repetitive. It's mostly just find a key, which is not really hidden and easy to spot, open/activate something with it and one small puzzle combined with it.

It even works with smaller rooms. The description says 2.1m x 1.8m. My room is 3m x 1.6m and it would probably also work with a with of only 1.5m. Before you start you are in a room that shows you the required size, so you can see if your room fits before playing.

In the last room I've got some performance issues. When solving the first puzzle and the fire starts, including the smoke, the game starts to lag and I get bellow 90FPS, which makes it quite hard to get the crowbar and escape. My system has an Intel Core i7 4930k clocked around 4.3GHz, an overclocked nvidia GeForce GTX 1080, 64GB RAM and the game was running from an SSD, so no hardware problem.

All in all the game is worth it's money.

The game is a little shorter than I would like, but for the cost, it’s not bad. The rooms are well laid out and provide a sense of realism. The puzzles are a little too straightforward for my own tastes, but they worked well and were consistent.

I enjoyed the room scale, and had no issues navigating around my own space while within the room. Kudos for being able to create a good-sized space without blink or other locomotion.

My only complaint is that on my mid-range VR rig (i7-4970k, R9 390X), it was losing frames consistently. The initial title screen outdoors was very painful. The game itself was playable, but the last room was almost frame for frame after the first few seconds of the event.

So the $4 price is what ultimately decided for me to recommend it.

It has a great use of room scale. Definitely made me feel like I was there. I wish they include some hallways or something that connect the rooms to make you feel like you are moving throughout the house. The outside looks great. It's too bad it's not part of the game. Inside I found the textures to be a bit muddy. The puzzles were okay. Some I found to be confusing and found it relies too heavily on simply finding a key in each room. The story is also not really needed since it doesn't go anywhere. The last room also killed the frame rate for me. It would also be cool to have some hands instead of controllers with a peg on it.

I guess this all seems kind of nitpicky. In the end though, it was a fun experience for the price of a cup of coffee. I really look forward to seeing what the developers create in the future. Hopefully they are able to expand on the good ideas and create something more complete and polished.

This is a short, yet solid experience. My total playing time does not reflect how long it took to complete the game. I did encounter a bug that let me complete the second room, without actually completing it. But, I went back and played through again. If you have claustrophobia, it might not be your thing. I'm 6'7" and I felt like I was practically in a phone booth, if anyone remembers what those are.

The experience was quite consistent. There were a few nit-picky things I would have done differently, but I can't gripe or I will give away some of the secrets. I do recceomend The Cabin. it is a well done example of what can be done simply with VR, and watching your firends try to get out will probably be almost as enjoyable as your effort to do the same.

Great atmosphere and the game's pacing went well.
Puzzles were logical and seemed numerous enough for the playspace.
Multiple rooms made for good progression when compared to some other, similar escape rooms.
Room layout and progression made good use of roomscale.
Gameplay is resonable for the asking price (25-30ish minutes).

Fun little game for the price.

A bit simple and a little glitchy, but makes great use of room scale.

This game is extremely short, but well worth $5