Water Bears VR
- January 27, 2016
- Schell Games
Get on Steam"Water Bears VR" is a charming puzzler where you reroute water flows to rescue trapped water bears. With an increasing variety of pipes and challenging puzzles, view the 3D puzzles from all angles and test your spatial reasoning. This family-friendly VR experience is the evolved version of the award-winning mobile game, Water Bears.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game is cute, fun, and well-polished, making it a great experience for both kids and adults.
- It offers a relaxing and enjoyable puzzle-solving experience with charming graphics and intuitive VR controls.
- The challenge levels provide some thought-provoking puzzles, and the interactions with the water bears are delightful.
- The game is quite short, with many players completing it in under 3 hours, leading to concerns about its value for money.
- Most puzzles are overly simplistic, making it feel more like a tutorial than a challenging game.
- There are issues with height adjustment for younger players, making it difficult for them to reach certain puzzles.
- graphics22 mentions
- 45 % positive mentions
- 41 % neutral mentions
- 14 % negative mentions
The graphics of the game are generally praised for their high quality, cohesive art style, and pleasant aesthetics, with many describing them as cute and well-suited to the game's feel. However, some users have reported technical issues, such as freezing, which detracts from the overall experience. Overall, the graphics and controls are well-executed, contributing positively to gameplay.
“High quality graphics, interface and controls.”
“The graphics fit the feel of the game wonderfully.”
“Environment and art style is cutesy, but very pleasant and cohesive.”
“Game keeps freezing all the time even though graphics are from the PS One generation.”
“A lot of the infrastructure is already in place - graphics, mechanics, etc., all that's really missing is more challenging puzzles.”
“Cute graphics.”
- gameplay16 mentions
- 38 % positive mentions
- 44 % neutral mentions
- 19 % negative mentions
The gameplay revolves around routing colored water streams to their corresponding goals, offering a humorous yet simplistic experience. While the mechanics and graphics are well-developed, players express a desire for more challenging puzzles and additional content, as the current levels primarily serve to introduce new mechanics. The VR aspect enhances the experience, but some users note that the lack of a teleportation feature can hinder navigation and enjoyment.
“The gameplay is a high-quality pipe-mania puzzle, and man does the VR add to the experience.”
“The navigation to pick the puzzle to play is nice, and the mechanic of getting into a teleporter to go to the next level is clever.”
“Don't understand this lack of content since gameplay is good; it's just a matter of missing levels.”
“A lot of the infrastructure is already in place - graphics, mechanics, etc., all that's really missing is more challenging puzzles.”
“Other than the game basically forcing you to see a blue grid every single level because of no teleporting, yet the level complete area is right up against your boundary, the game is really enjoyable. There are basically 4 worlds where about 9 puzzles are more to teach you new mechanics and then 3-6 puzzles that are actual somewhat challenging but not too difficult puzzles.”
“This has some serious room space requirements that I think could be mitigated with a teleporting mechanic similar to what you find in the lab or in the gallery.”
- humor2 mentions
- 150 % positive mentions
- -50 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The humor in the game is characterized as simplistic yet effective, providing players with amusing gameplay experiences that enhance enjoyment.
“The gameplay is very simplistic, but it delivers a lot of laughs.”
“The humor in the game is charming and adds a delightful twist to the experience.”
“I love how the game combines simple mechanics with hilarious moments.”
- story2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The game lacks a significant narrative, focusing primarily on puzzles rather than a developed storyline.
“There's no big story, just puzzles.”
