System: Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: £11.39
Comfort Rating: Yellow
Genre: Adventure
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
VR Shop Score 1/100: 35
Description: A mining accident resulted in a volcanic eruption. Red hot magma is now pouring into the underground mining complex. You must escape the mine before the magma catches up to you. You are placed in an environment deep underground where you need to be agile and on your feet solving puzzles, opening doors, powering generators, Finding explosives and more. Lava Escape Mine offers unique levels with varying difficulty. Repeated failed attempts may cause negative consequences. Lava Escape Mine is a fully Immersive virtual reality experience that will bring panic to the player as you see the red hot magma catching up to you.
Review: I can see the developer of ‘Lava Escape Mine’ had big dreams for this game. Its an escape room/adventure game in which you are trying to avoid being burnt alive by lava half the time. But sadly the rough storyline is as exciting as the game gets. You will be removing rocks, dunking basketballs and performing mind-numbing simple tasks. In fact, there is almost nothing exciting here at also and it will be all done within the hour quite easily making the rather high £11.39 price tag seem unjustifiable. Unless this game was free or very close to being free it will not be something I will be recommending anytime soon, but with some extra work, it could be worth a revisit in the future.
