Recent reviews by Epxzz

Love the unique graphics style. Reminds me of
Lucas Arts classics from time to time. Really good, thoughtful dialogues immersed me into the story of Care. Definitely a recommendation for horror and story lovers.

addicting on steamdeck.

Touch controls are sometimes strange

Not my game. Fights are too long, complicated and unsatisfying. The same is for exploring and the story.

Riven in VR is a dream come true for many fans, myself included. As a child, I'd switch CDs just to experience the rollercoasters, and now we can explore the entire world in immersive 3D - unbelievable. The graphics are stunningly good, especially in PC-VR.
However, the implementation has some issues that need addressing:

- Object Interaction: Some interactions, like turning book pages, feel clunky and don't always register properly. This is crucial for thios game, as missing a small interaction (like a screw in a door) can lead to unnecessary searching over the whole island before actually retrying. Some interactions, like a wheel in Gehn's house, require counterintuitive gestures (rotating in opposite direction?).
- Ladders can be challenging and are not fun. While they can be turned off in the menu, this reduces immersion.
- Stability: The game occasionally crashes, particularly in the submarine-car section. A workaround is to play that part in non-VR mode, save, and reload in VR. The autosave feature helps mitigate crash-related frustrations relly good. But the non-skippable intro in VR is frustrating.
- There's also a graphics bug causing pixelated, broken shadows on AMD GPUs on all detail levels but off.
- Often you need to take physical notes, when learning numbers and so on. There is a screenshot functionality. I ended up trying to count fingers on the screenshots. But it would be great to include a way to take notes, without taking off the headset. Make drawings, Circle things, etc. ...

Despite these issues, the game is still incredibly engaging. The urge to play is strong, and it's ultimately worth it for the immersive experience.
I chose the PC-VR version over the Meta store version, which I believe was the right choice for best graphics. With some patches to iron out the issues, this could easily become a must-play VR title. I'm hopeful that future updates will allow me to change this review to "positive".

Awesome. This is the only reason for me to have a/boot a windows installation. (please add linux or even steamdeck support)

Echoes than can be duplicated, Books that I need to bring to a big tortoise, talents, golden runes, ... most of that without tutorials/explanations. I killed a quest NPC... oops, please google on how to proceed. I can't even compare my current equipment with one from a store. The reddit solution for it is "make a scrrenshot with your phone". This game has such a nice world, but it's bad on so many aspects imho...

Controls on SteamDeck are really bad if you want to use trackpads. Mouse input would be perfect, but that disables gamepad Input. I spent an hour configuring Joystick deadzones but movement is dampened and imprecise and unplayable for me.

Your contract legally compels you to harvest this artifact.

Game is quite unfinished. No bugs preventing you from playing. Often stuff happens and I don't know where or why, sounds are misleading. Got lost in levels. Enemys spawn too far away or too close.

Run awesome on Steam deck