Brainland (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Bronze Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: Free
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Interactive Experience
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing, Room-Scale
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

 

Description: Designed for the rehabilitation training of the elderly and people with disabilities, this VR game provides a simulated learning environment for players to develop their motor, cognitive and life skills as well as express through artmaking within the playful experience. There are a lot of six rooms in BrainLand, each of them comes with different activities targeting the development of the aforesaid attributes.

Review: At its core, there is a good reason ‘Brainland’ exists. It is designed to be an app that helps people with dementia and other things to get their lives back on track, by remembering what certain things are and how to do things. But it is all so fiddly and hard to navigate that even I struggled to perform its basic tasks let alone someone with learning disabilities or dementia. While it might be free this is not something I would recommend you put Granddad in. A good cause I suppose, but it needs some serious improvement.