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The Amusement

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61%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization
83% User Score Based on 24 reviews

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About The Amusement

The Amusement is a single player simulation game with mystery and historical themes. It was developed by Curvature Games and was released on April 16, 2026. It received positive reviews from players.

An abandoned amusement park, a tangled memory, a family shattered by the Great War… Discover an intense story in this redirected-walking VR adventure in which every step counts.

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83%Audience ScoreBased on 24 reviews
story9 positive mentions
optimization2 negative mentions
  • Impressive room-scale implementation allowing physical walking in a cleverly designed space, enhancing immersion.
  • Beautiful, stylized art style with solid voice acting and an engaging, if sometimes simple, story.
  • Smooth gameplay mechanics with unique locomotion techniques and well-crafted puzzles suitable for casual VR players.
  • Technical issues and bugs, including progression-blocking glitches and occasional performance drops, hamper the experience.
  • Repetitive and overly simple puzzles, some tedious segments, and limited puzzle variety reduce long-term engagement.
  • Graphics and audio presentation sometimes feel flat or low-quality, particularly reflecting its origins as a Quest port.

  • story

    20 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    45% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 15% negative mentions

    The story is generally praised for being engaging, poignant, and well-integrated with the puzzles and worldbuilding, often regarded as one of the stronger narrative experiences in VR. However, some players found it short, easy, or less personally connecting, though still decent and interesting. Overall, it is considered a solid, story-driven puzzle game with good voice acting and emotional impact.

    • “The amusement's affecting story about a broken family is some of the finest storytelling I've experienced in a VR game.”
    • “The remarkable story and the worldbuilding around it fit perfectly together making it a complete success.”
    • “The story was beautiful and the puzzles and physical interactions were almost perfect.”
    • “I also didn't personally connect with the story, but it's certainly not a bad story.”
    • “I guess that's why I didn't connect with the story.”
    • “Games like The Room VR and even a 2D port like Riven VR are way better than The Amusement - other Quest ports like The 7th Guest VR show how to properly enhance the Quest experience to work acceptably for highest-end VR users.”

  • graphics

    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    54% positive mentions, 23% neutral mentions, 23% negative mentions

    The graphics receive mixed feedback, with praise for the beautiful art style and solid visuals, especially in VR and on high-end hardware, but criticism for limited graphical settings and occasional hardware-related performance issues. Overall, the game features immersive and appealing visuals that complement its artistic design, despite some technical and subjective shortcomings.

    • “It has a lovely art-style and solid level design.”
    • “The graphics look great, the voice acting is strong, the story interesting.”
    • “It's a game with beautiful visuals and solid, immersive movement mechanics.”
    • “The puzzles, if you want to call them that, are lame, the graphics are lame, the room scale thing barely works and I have a sizable play area.”
    • “Using teleport or HMD directed movement, much is lost, and you really notice the PhoneVR graphics restrictions.”
    • “Wish there were more settings such as music control (they're too loud) and graphics controls.”

  • gameplay

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers smooth and immersive VR mechanics with enjoyable puzzles and a pleasing art style, but it is often criticized for being repetitive, overly simplistic for experienced players, and lacking in environmental interaction depth. Technical issues and limited puzzle variety also detract from the overall experience.

    • “Great puzzles, really cool art style and top notch VR mechanics.”
    • “The gameplay was smooth, the sound was pleasant, overall it was a lovely experience for me.”
    • “It's a game with beautiful visuals and solid, immersive movement mechanics.”
    • “Mechanically, the gameplay also gets repetitive fast.”
    • “At times, the gameplay feels more like 'press a button to trigger an action' than truly interacting with the environment.”
    • “Unfortunately, even with a short runtime, its limited number of environmental puzzle mechanics hold it back from being truly exceptional.”

  • music

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    67% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions

    The music is praised for its solid, classic European amusement park-inspired soundtrack and complemented by nice voice acting, though some users wish for more volume control settings. Overall, the audio enhances the early 20th-century atmosphere effectively.

    • “It has nice voice acting, a solid musical soundtrack, a lovely art-style, and solid level design.”
    • “The early 20th century visuals, the classic European amusement park sounding musical score, the voice acting, everything.”
    • “Wish there were more settings such as music control (they're too loud) and graphics controls.”

  • optimization

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Optimization is generally acceptable early on, but performance noticeably declines in the later, more open and vertically complex areas, leading to increasing issues as the game progresses.

    • “However, towards the latter half of the game, performance dropped and kept getting worse.”
    • “I did notice the later areas were more open and had more verticality, so maybe that explains the performance issues.”

  • atmosphere

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The atmosphere is generally considered lacking, as the visual and artistic elements fail to deliver the charm and immersive quality typically expected from VR games of this genre.

    • “Visually and artistically, it just doesn’t have the charm or atmosphere that most VR games of this type usually deliver.”

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is not particularly difficult but is considered tedious, requiring repetitive actions multiple times to progress or solve puzzles.

    • “It’s not difficult, just tedious, and you’re required to repeat it multiple times to solve the 'puzzle'.”
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The Amusement is a simulation game with mystery and historical themes. Common tags for The Amusement include first-person, politics, world war i, female protagonist, linear and others.

The Amusement is available on PC, Virtual Reality and Windows.

The Amusement was released on April 16, 2026.

The Amusement was developed by Curvature Games.

The Amusement has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked The Amusement for its story but disliked it for its gameplay.

The Amusement is a single player game.

Similar games include Red Matter 2, Torn, A Fisherman's Tale, Spellbound Spire, Jusant and others.