System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £5.79
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Virtual Job
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Sink your teeth into the first VR offering from well-known PixelJunk series developer Q-Games! In Dead Hungry, you are a fearless food-truck chef sent to save the zombified citizens of a slightly off-kilter version of Kyoto, Japan. Armed with burgers, soda, and much more, your mission is to sate their hunger and restore their humanity. Feed hordes of ravenous zombie schoolgirls, office workers, and sumo wrestlers to turn them back into productive members of society!
Review: Job simulators are a fast-growing genre of VR games…but why? Why would you want to come home from work and unwind by going into VR and doing yet another job? The reason is they are fun! Your own job might be working in a fast-food chain making burgers, but play this game in VR doing the same thing and you are serving a load of brain dead zombies! ..Oh, wait…that is the same thing. But either way, whatever job you do it wouldn’t be as much fun as working in Dead Hungry.
Working in a burger van you need to feed wave after wave of brain dead zombies as fast as you can. There are even some boss zombies to deal with! This ‘diner dash’ type game sees you trying to serve burgers in a burger van/food truck as fast as you can. The zombies come, you feed them and they turn back into real people again. You need to cook the burgers, decorate them with lettuce, tomatoes and cheese and then put the bun on the top. There is also pizza, fried and shrimps to cook not to mention the drinks. This is a game that is fast from start to finish, feed them as fast as you can with just about whatever you can.
If I had to pick holes I would moan about the minimal storyline, the poor character animations and maybe the particularly unimaginative backgrounds. But then again who cares about the storyline and to be honest you will be spending so much time making the food you won’t notice the sparseness of the surroundings. While the learning curve is also pretty steep, if you can make it through the first few levels you will be able to do the rest of them. This game is fast, fun and makes great use of the Touch controllers. While there aren’t that many levels you will want to keep challenging yourself all the time and of course, getting family and friends to try it gives it just enough value for money. I just wish flipping burgers was this much fun in real life, I would have signed up to work in McDonald’s years ago!
