Two Idiots in a Van and a Facility. EDIT TO ADD: There are two tutorial videos on my YT channel to help you get started (@misschiefvr). A Wolf in VR also has a couple videos of his attempt at playing. -PLATFORM: VR headset + smartphone (no, "not" your iPad, Karen).-GENRE: Co-op Puzzle Mayhem.-MY CURRENT STATUS: stuck in a van, shouting at my friend again.Let me just say it: Elsewhere Electric is my favorite panic-inducing, brain-melting, friendship-testing VR puzzler right now. It's not just a game, it's a communication skills exam disguised as a sci-fi escape room. And I’m here for it.SETUP:This is a two-player co-op experience. One player (the Installer) throws on the VR headset and stumbles blindly through a mysterious (very dark) facility, while the other (the Operator) sits safely in a van, tapping furiously on a smartphone like they’re trying to order pizza during a blackout.Note: "Smartphone." Not tablet. Not iPad. Not your cousin’s weird Android phablet. A smartphone. Ask me how I know? (Hint: 45 minutes of confusion and one deeply regretted FaceTime session.) iPhone 12 and newer is needed to use the mobile app. I can’t speak for Android because I enjoy things like software updates, functioning group texts, and not accidentally opening the calculator instead of the camera. GAMEPLAY:There’s no intro cinematic. No long-winded mission briefing. No mysterious narrator with a gravelly voice telling you “everything changed when the lights went out.” You're just... working here now. Congrats! It’s your first day, and corporate has left zero instructions. Classic.From the get-go, you and your partner are surrounded by cryptic symbols, weird machines, and increasingly passive-aggressive equipment that refuses to function without the correct arcane button sequence. There is no hand-holding, unless you count yelling “WHAT DO YOU SEE?” every five seconds.The Operator gets a (ancient) sci-fi dashboard full of buttons, toggles, and obscure data panels that definitely look like they do something. Spoiler: they do. Just maybe not what you "want" them to do. Don’t button mash. Trust me. This isn’t Mario Party. This is a serious workplace. Kind of.The Installer, meanwhile, gets to walk around a maze of rooms, decoding ancient pictographs, reconfiguring doors, and trying not to panic when the ceiling whispers something at them (jk). Oh yeah, there are invisible creatures. They're technically harmless, but emotionally? They’re a lot. They don’t attack “you,” they just loom. And drink. They’re basically terrifying little emotional support cryptids.DIFFICULTY:This game is "hard." Like, “take notes, draw diagrams, question your self-worth” hard. You will need a notebook. Or an actual whiteboard, if you're feeling spicy. Some puzzles rely on pure observation; others are about syncing actions across devices. All of them will make you wonder why you didn’t go into accounting instead.The symbols aren’t fixed. They’re procedurally generated for each profile. So if you rage-delete your profile and start over (no judgment), don’t expect the same symbols. The code changes. The puzzle gods are watching. That said, the moment you and your partner finally figure out what a button does, or decode one of the game’s many weird symbols, you’ll feel like you just invented electricity. Together.FINAL THOUGHTS:Elsewhere Electric is brutal, confusing, and absolutely brilliant. It throws you in the deep end and says, “Figure it out, nerd.” It’s not for the faint of heart or the short of temper, but if you and a friend are up for one of the most clever and genuinely "cooperative" VR games out there, it’s worth every shout, scribble, and scrambled clue.Bring your brain. Bring your buddy. And for the love of the invisible drink demons, "bring a phone, not a tablet."RATING: 4.9/5 — Couldn’t solve the final door, but now my friend and I communicate exclusively in obscure symbols. Worth it.
投稿者：MissChiefVR
★1
DO NOT BUY. For a game that has just released, it feels like it was made 10 years ago.Snap turn only, teleport only, the sliders in the minimal settings did absolutely nothing, sliding both either way and pressing a random button / square next to the slider made no difference whatsoever.Oh I also loaded into the game standing around 8 ft tall and couldnt change the height without reloading the game twice before I was my actual height.There is zero help / tutorial. The person on the phone had no reason to swipe through to see more symbols he just happened to accidently do it.Before leaving the elevator we went back up and back down before I realised I has to teleport across the room, when I did go up and back down it then shifted my height a ft taller (excellent)The fact that this was 19.99 is absolutely mind blowing.I will be refunding it shortly.
投稿者：BeatzCreations
★4
We're idiots. I'm giving this three stars because I think the game is a great game and we're probably just idiots but this game is insanely confusing and I get that that's supposed to be a part of the game and that is kind of fun. But I think they should have at least added a tutorial or something because randomly the lights went out and we didn't know how to fix that and its pretty hard to navigate and I haven't played the game that much yet, but it's just very confusing. So that's why I'm giving it three stars but I do think it has potential if we figure it out. EDIT: we figured out the basics and it's a really fun game. It's much more enjoyable now.
投稿者：Amongese
★5
The Dark Souls of Puzzle Games?. Elsewhere Electric isn’t here to hold your hand – it’s here to test your wits, your patience, and your ability to communicate with someone else under pressure. It throws you into the deep end and expects you and your co-op partner to be able to swim, or at least learn to swim pretty quickly! That might not sound like a selling point, but I love challenging puzzle games like The Witness and Blue Prince, so this game was definitely made for me. When you add in the asymmetric co-op aspect it takes on an entirely different dimension that's essentially like a multi-level escape room set in a liminal, retro-future corporate nightmare. It looks amazing in VR and features some really cool and unsettling environmental storytelling that helps to build out the world.The only other thing I would add is that you really need to choose your co-op partner wisely. This is not a quick pick-up-and-play party game like Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes! The two games are mechanically similar, but that's where the comparison ends. This is a deep and deeply rewarding puzzle game that requires two people to be engaged and on board in the same way that you'd need to be for an advanced escape room.Communication is the most important part of Elsewhere Electric – and if you don't communicate well with your partner you will not have a good time. If you do communicate well with your partner though, the game is a brilliant and beautiful experience akin to learning a new language together – and one that rewards you with increasingly difficult puzzles and mysteries that you now have the skills to can solve together. If that sounds as interesting to you as it was for me, then Elsewhere Electric is absolutely worth your time.
投稿者：RoninKengo
★1
Bad attitude devs forgot about app part. Really dissapointed in this game. The trailer put this game as a collaborative experience but it's more you figure out your part, wait for your partner to figure out theirs. Rinse and repeat...We didn't get very far as the app is incredibly non-intuitive. As the vr user, I just sat in the dark for 30minutes while my phone partner pressed random buttons hoping to get any progress. There was also huuugeee desync issues and wouldn't communicate with the vr game. we had to reload the game to get the game to accept the app inputs. Extremely frustrating boring puzzles and the devs rotten responses to valid critiscm puts a nasty taste in your mouth. Buyers beware, it's not worth it.
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