Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin

If you're expecting a platformer, this isn't it. This is a rather short point and click adventure in VR. If you like Tim Schafer's sense of humor, and you're familiar with Psychonauts, then you'll enjoy this. I thought it was quite good. I enjoyed it. However, I got through it in under three hours, so you'll have to decide for yourself if it's worth the price. I'm going to vote thumbs-up, because if I can afford a VR rig, I can afford the price of a movie ticket for a two hour experience. I can understand that some people won' tfeel that way.

One of the best VR experiences I’ve had! Psychonauts is my personal favorite game of all time, and to see that the VR interlude was a PSVR exclusive was truly heartbreaking. But then, today, when it suddenly (out of nowhere!) released on PC, I immediately made the purchase. I am an Oculus user and the controls were absolutely perfect. Some may tell you they were bad (use you head to pick up objects) but the whole point is that you’re picking up objects with telekinesis (plus it’s fun to quickly move your head to slam a pickle jar against the wall) The puzzles are quite interesting and fun to figure out, the one on the UFO section especially had me stumped. It’s a “be observant of your surroundings” kind of game in terms of puzzles. Only about 2.5 hours to get all achievements, 7/12 are story related and unmissable while the other 5 are little random things throughout the game. Check out

Good epilogue to the original Psychonauts story. The game is very short but very fun while it lasts. I'm leaning more towards thinking of it as a narrative experience than a game. The gameplay is kind of minimal, the puzzles are simple, and just as you get access to all of the psychic abilities that made the original game so unique the experience ends. That's the down side. The game is linear. You go where it wants you to go and can't really experiment with the environments. The good of the game is just how vibrant and well realised the Psychonauts world is in VR. All of the characters look amazing; seeing them to scale standing in front of you is something special. Getting to be in that world is the real treat of this experience. Also, as so much time has passed, this game does something else that I think is important, but not necessarily for us the players, but for Double Fine. T

I think the only problem is I feel like it didn't have to be VR only, which severely limits who can play it since VR is still so pricey, though the VR stuff was pretty fun. Go for it if you actually do have VR and played the first Psychonauts. Watch it on Youtube if you don't have VR.

A brief but fun Psychonauts story to tide people over untill Psyconauts 2 finishes, its not very long, just under 2 hours and thats with some screwing around and not super substantual although that might be due to its origins as a PSVR exclusive but definatly fun and a great story if you got VR and 20 bucks I'd recommend grabbing it, doubly so if you love Psychonauts

This is a game for Psychonauts fans. It's a charming little VR point and click adventure, but I think you need to play and love Psychonauts first to really appreciate this game, which bridges the gap between Psychonauts and the upcoming Psychonauts 2. Having to play Psychonauts first is not a negative, by the way: if you haven't played it, you ABSOLUTELY SHOULD PLAY PSYCHONAUTS RIGHT NOW, and then come back and play this cute little VR experience. I've seen some people moaning about this being VR-only, but honestly, the only reason it exists at all is because Sony was throwing around money to grow their PSVR library. I wasn't sure it would even make it to PC VR, and I'm overjoyed that it did. If you can't invest in VR and are worrying that you'll miss something if you go straight to Psychonauts 2: don't. This brief, fun little story really is nonessential bonus content, and you can quick