System: Oculus Rift, Rift S
Price at Time Of Review: £3.99 ($5)
Comfort Rating: Red (Extreme Movement)
Genre: Horror
Input: Gamepad, Keyboard & mouse, Touch (as gamepad)
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+
Description: Euclidean; a game of geometric horror; a slow descent into the dark, into madness, futility, and despair, where Things greater than you watch and wait and dream. Struggle for every second of life you have left… Even knowing you’re better off dead.
Review: Euclidean is a game I would imagine is very much like depression. The feeling of forever falling into a pit of despair with no hope of ever seeing the light again. That might sound like a dark and grim description of a game, but that is exactly what Euclidean is. You are falling into some strange dark nightmare and you just have to survive by moving your character out of the way of falling objects.
Of course, it is not as simple as that, there are scary creatures and obstacles to navigate through. Then at the end of each level, you need to find the hole through to the next set of them (which is sometimes easier said than done depending where you are when you get near the bottom). With a scary voice throughout this is a weird trip that is an oddly fun experience. I was never really sure what was going on, but I kind of enjoyed it.
Have you ever had that nightmare where you are constantly falling through a surreal world of geometric shapes? No, me neither, but that is pretty much what this game is all about. It’s unique, odd, strange and all sorts of other words that will make it sound rubbish, but it really isn’t! This is a game of marmite, you will either love it or hate it and I personally loved it. It’s not something you can be told about, you have to experience it yourself to know if it was worth downloading.
