Rooms: The Unsovable Puzzle To Receive a VR Version in 2016

With VR very close to becoming an everyday reality – no pun intended – the South Korean studio HandMade Game will be releasing the sequel to their award-winning game Rooms: The Main Building in virtual reality.

in virtual reality. The game was first released on the Nintendo DS and Wii back in 2010 and was also released later under a new name for Android and iOS devices, as well as Steam.

In Rooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle , players control a young girl trapped inside a twisted mansion full of rooms. Mixing classic slide puzzles with a bit of platform mechanics, the girl must escape each room by finding a key and placing each block of the room in their correct places to find the exit.

While most games using virtual reality intend to take advantage of the immersive first-person perspective, it’s possible to see from the trailer that Rooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle will maintain its third-person perspective from the original series. “By taking this spectator-view, you can eliminate the cause of motion sickness and still get the feeling of presence. Secondly, we had a game that works in third-person view, so it could easily be converted to VR. Watching the mansion and the character in VR makes it look like a dollhouse right in front of me, which is visually so pleasing,” said Jake Kim, Creative Director at HandMade Games.

Rooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle for VR devices is set to be released on Q1 2016, and a demo of the game will be released mid-October. Jake said, “Currently, we are supporting Oculus VR. We may support additional VR devices such as Steam VR and PlayStation VR in the future. The VR version uses Xbox 360 controller for all controls.” For further information, visit the game’s official websiteor follow the developers on Twitter