System: Oculus Rift, Rift S
Price at Time Of Review: £4 ($5)
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: Relaxation and Meditation
Input: Gamepad, Touch (as gamepad)
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Focus on the present – and discover your inner awareness of the now. ZEN SPLASH is a stylized game inspired by the concept of Zen. Various objects will hurtle towards you, which you must continuously dodge. Through extended dodging and intense concentration on the present moment, we hope you will enter a state of flow, and emerge out of the game in a refreshed state. To live life is to keep exposing yourself to stress; how would you confront them? Learning the way how is an important lesson for all of us. The saints from the past have left us the Noble Eightfold Path: the eight ways to live a life of happiness. With this game, you shall trace down those paths.
Review: The only way I can describe Zen Splash VR without sounding like a spaced out hippy is a face paced hole in the wall game with trance music. In truth, this is a powerful meditation app that helps clear you mind and get you back on the right track. With a soft, but direct voice it tells you the advice you need to listen to and follow.
If you are willing to read the words and relax a little this game seem to put you into a strange trance that helps you dodge things you would have thought impossible. But that is the idea of this app, to help clear your mind and concentrate on what really matters.
In the chaos of life, this app is a great way to get your mind back on track. Feeling a little stressed? 30 mins in this app will have your mind clearer than Volvic mineral water. Play this as a game and you will fail. But listen to the voice and let it be your guide you will soon start dodging the impossible and moving through things that are in your way, both in the game and metaphorical things in life. Sure it’s odd, but it can also be a relaxing experience than almost seems to put you in a meditative state…provided you are willing to let it.
