System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR Price at Time Of Review: £15.49 Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement) Genre: Interactive Experience Input: Tracked Motion Controllers Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing, Room-Scale Multi-Player: No Age Rating: PG
Description: vrkshop is a VR woodworking game. You are challenged to build projects with hand tools without snap-to-guides or limits on how to cut or fasten the lumber. The precision of your project is left entirely up to you. Have fun. Be productive.
Review: ‘vrkshop’ is a virtual wood-cutting app that lets you build furniture and anything else you might want to make as well as some tasks to perform if you don’t have the imagination to build whatever you want. This is not the first time we have seen a sandbox wood building game and it probably won’t be the last, but this one is surprisingly polished. Not so much when it comes to the graphics as they are OK, but nothing special, but the gameplay physics of the wood cutting and the range of tools and other items you get to play around with. While I get for some this will be a highly enjoyable experience I personally hate DIY and woodcutting in real life so I hated it even more here as I couldn’t do the simplest of tasks, especially the nailing which is awful. I wouldn’t want anyone to pay £15.49 for this, but if you do like the sound of it I would wait for a sale before giving it a go.
