Разработчик: Lucas Rizzotto
Описание
In this award-winning social experience, sleeping creatures & float toward you awakened by a gentle touch to reveal the voice messages of others who have previously visited. These unscripted and anonymous stories reveal and inspire, encouraging you to share your own for others to discover.
Visually beautiful and wholly transformative, Where Thoughts Go: Prologue thematically explores the course of a lifetime through light, environmental design and five simple questions. The voice recordings you hear are unique and unidentifiable, left by individuals from every walk of life, every age and every background. Participants have no way to discern who they are hearing from, only how considerate and sensitive each and every person is.
In a time of great division the experience shows how we much we have in common; we all dream, have hopes, and share human connection.
Available for Arcades on SpringboardVR
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 8.1 or newer
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 (AMD FX 8350) or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 970 (AMD Radeon R9 290) or better
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 527 MB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR
- Additional Notes: Microphone & Internet Connectivity
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i7
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 1060
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 527 MB available space
Mac
Linux
Отзывы пользователей
its a decent experience..
There are better VR experiences than this which is free..
One can easily skip this
The game is really well done and relaxing. It helps you open your mind up and think about things when you play,
This is the emotionally heaviest thing that's ever happened to me in three decades of playing video games. It's such a weird experiment but it's wild to think that so many of these recorded answers are statements that people would never make to their own family and/or friends. It's also interesting that in about an hour of listening to the recorded answers, there was never a "bad" one. Simply absolute strangers peeling back their psyche and explaining deep failures and thoughts to someone they'll never hear from themselves. This isn't a fun experience but it's an intensely insightful one.
Really fascinating concept. Wish that this wasn't just the prologue.
I don't write much reviews, but this is one that I feel I have to for a most underrated and beautiful game. It was a very therapeutic experience to be able to listen to others about their passions, struggles, and their ability to adapt and overcome. It was a definite reminder, at least for me, for being grateful for what you have in life, even in times of bad. Its a short game, its pretty much the only con I can give. For those that left their thoughts, thank you so much for sharing, and I really hope you find what you are all looking for.
I think developers such as Lucas Rizzotto are onto something in the therapeutic gaming world and I truly hope to see more games like this. Games like Kind Words is all I could think of being remotely close to this.
For those that have a lot on their mind, I feel this game would benefit you. Be prepared to cry, I know I did, but I ended up feeling better.
Really disappointed with this. So much, if not all of the audio seemed so forced and did not seem genuine. It all came across as such scripted answers, and because of that I in no way felt like I was part of something special, personal, or meaningful. It felt like listening to an array of voice actors reading from a script. For £7 I really can not recommend anyone get this. Very disappointing.
Where Thoughts Go is a beautiful, vulnerable game experience. It is a particularly hard VR game to capture/'sell' in words, because not only is it hard to communicate the experience of VR games in general, but in particular a game like this is filled with emotion and sensitivity, things that are somewhat esoteric until the moment we are actually feeling them.
And that is exactly why Where Thoughts Go is so wonderful. It facilitates a journey into emotion, sensitivity, vulnerability. It facilitates FEELING, it leaves you IMPACTED.
The premise is simple when described bluntly. You will be presented with a question, and be able to hear - without names to the voices - the answers of others. Then, you will have the opportunity to provide your own answer.
Where Thoughts Go is is generally a very personal kind of experience that most will want to experience alone, in fact if you are feeling brave it can also be a wonderful, intimate, shared experience. If I may pat myself on the back for a moment, I was quite brave! After trying the beginning ('first question') to see what it was like, I decided I would play through Where Thoughts Go when a budding close friend visited. He agreed to my idea, and we played Where Thoughts Go in each others' company, trading off 'questions' (ie. he engaged in the 'first question', I engaged in the 'second question', back to him for the 3rd, etc.). It was a really lovely experience and we got to know each other a little better through it as we shared personal stories and listened to others'.
I very highly recommend Where Thoughts Go!
This is one of the best VR programs i have ever had.
i can not recommend it enough. if you are alone with a VR setup you should play this
it is very cathartic
It made me confront a lot about myself and really pulled some serious emotions out of me, the soundtrack was beautiful and compelling and the game design while simple makes you feel extremely connected to the people who came before you.
If a game can make me cry this easily - it's worth buying to experience for yourself.
This game a peaceful work of art. I would recommend this to anyone in the world. Its is such a calm and amazing environment, the stories range from one sentence to a few paragraphs. It is truly a wonderful experience!
Incredibly affecting and powerful.
Little can be said without giving things away, but it was incredibly emotional to receive the thoughts of others who had gone through the experience before me.
This is a truly beautiful experience that shows VR's ability to create experiences that completely change your mood and open you up. absolutely recommended.
This is a great example of a very interesting, creative concept that is poorly executed. And, unfortunately, an app which really doesn't properly exploit VR. The graphics are about as low-resolution as possible. The system is very user un-friendly. The software is buggy (I completed all the chapters and then was stuck on some final screen with my pre-recorded messages playing back to me, with no indication on how to continue, get to a menu or quit). If this was a free program, I'd be more accepting of these faux pas, but not in a pay app.
This game poses a question and then lets you listen to (presumably highly-curated) responses from other people on the question. You have to record your own answer to the question to continue to the next "chapter" (question).
Unfortunately the questions are very cliched, almost like something you'd hear at a beauty contest, "What was your childhood dream?" "What would you tell your younger self?" And elicit predictable cliched answers ("I wanted to be a super hero." "Do what you love" *yawn*)
The idea of hearing other people talk about random subjects is very cool, but I fail to see how this being in VR enhances the experience? You just click on a very low res smiley face and hear a message? It's almost a travesty in how this app's use of VR is an afterthought. It lends virtually nothing to the experience.. You get to hear disembodied voices in an abstract, pixelated wasteland? C'mon.
This concept has a lot of potential. I don't think the developers of this game have executed it well, unfortunately. However, I do think this app will serve to inspire others who have more skills to take it to the next level, so that's a good thing.
Intensely personal and interesting psychological exercise. I would highly recommomed this to any one. This isn't a game as much as it is a therapy session perhaps.
"Can you imagine venting in VR?"
"No but I can imagine crying in VR"
ten out of ten, would do again
Small cute game. Is it worth the 8€? For people which like to hear personal stories from others, for people which like to dream or just want to share thoughts of their mind? Propably yes. For people which want to play a game? No, this is not a game.
Beautiful, heart-opening game. I love listening to the personal sharing, and found answering the questions myself to be an intense experience. I like the gorgeous, surreal environments; they are visually simple, but well suited to the experience. Very highly recommended!
Quibbles:
- I didn't see a way to re-record my answers; unfortunate because:
- To record, you have to hold the Vive wand triggers, and as soon as you release them, the recording stops. I did this twice by mistake because I'm not used to holding the triggers continuously.
- Also, this seems to be a one-player experience. Once I recorded my answers I'm in listen-only mode (until future questions are added). I would really like to be able to share this with other members of my family and for them to be able to record their own answers. Unless I'm missing something (entirely possible) this would seem to require another copy to be purchased
Quibbles aside I love this experience and highly recommend it. It is a creative and very positive use of VR, a new kind of social application. I will be following this developer with interest, very curious to see what he does in the future.
This is a really cool thing and I highly recommend it. I wouldn't call it a game so much as an experience, which would normally make me stop reading a review right away, but this one is worth it.
You're seated in an absolutely beautiful area (different every level) while very peaceful music plays around you. Then a question is asked. Very simple, but important life questions. Then you'll see hundreds of small spirits around you. Tap a spirit and hear a real persons answer to it. Then add your voice to the collection.
This is like getting to hear a page from someones diary and it became oddly personal. I didn't think I'd want to leave a message, but I found myself wanting to be a part of this collection somehow. I really really recommend it. I can see myself returning to this often to hear new stories.
I'm not crying, you're crying.
I went back to the game after a year or so and re-did all the questions and answer. I know it's coming, but I still can't stop the waterfalls. Cheapest therapy of 2020.
What is the game about? Basically a set of personal questions. You should aim for a vulnerable and honest answer. That is the point. To have a safe space to be you, free of judgement. You have a set of orbs floating around that contain the recorded replies of previous players. They vary from login to login.
It seems I can only echo the other reveiws, this is brilliant, and very moving, emotional WILD(Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming) experiance you share with fellow humans. This really touched me and made me dig deep. Thank you all. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
An amazing idea for a VR game. It's one of the few games I can say that I cried in. I've only completed the first chapter so far and there are 4 others that will come soon. Definitely get it at any price, I wouldn't mind paying full price either, this is something you have got to experience. Amazing job.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Lucas Rizzotto |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 86% положительных (21) |