Abode 2

The original Abode was a nice well polished room escape game. For some reason Abode 2 doesn't have that polish. The sounds effects, voice, and music are so unevenly balanced you'll find yourself constantly changing the volume in an attempt to find something comfortable. Be ready to keep restarting because of game breaking bugs - Items will go missing, buttons randomly stop working, or you'll start floating up through the ceiling and disappear from the room. Really disappointing. I'd wait and see if they fix the bugs before picking this one up.

I wrote a positive review about Abode 1, this one however I cannot recommend. There are a load of physics bugs which cause all sorts of annoying problems, the most serious being that I accidentally no-clipped into the elevator door and the credits rolled. I hadn't even completed all the puzzles! Other physics issues seem to be when loading the save I was launched through the skybox, and a lot of items I had put into nice places to find them again had been strewn across the room all over the place, various items following me around and moving around depending on where I look even though I wasn't carrying them (the worst being the headset), items disappearing and clipping through various other items [spoiler](the key from the train being one)[/spoiler] Fix all these bad physics problems and I might repurchase.

30 mins in and already the best Escape Room style VR experiance I've had. Attention to detail in making the environment feel authentic and the puzzles are obvious. Wonderful job!

My new Abode... Just find that gramophone. From there, the mood is set to uncover all the interesting little puzzles the devs have laboured over. I really like these games. It's not 'escape the room', quite. It's more 'discover the room' and all it has to offer. But perhaps most importantly, we can wear the hat this time around. :)

Not going to write up one of my usual "Good, Bad, and Ugly" reviews for this one as the Good (decent graphics and aesthetic, more fleshed out than Abode 1) is completely overshadowed by the Bad and Ugly. Namely, bugs. So many bugs, to the point where this game, as of 2021, is not reliably completeable. [b]Showstopper Bug #1 -- QR Codes --[/b] There's a known, very common bug where one of the QR codes you need to find and scan will reject your attempts to scan it with the message "Already Scanned," even when that's not true. This locks you out from getting the last digit to the safe keycode (you can't brute-force the last digit, all numbers will fail unless you have all 4 QR codes scanned). Without opening the safe, you can't get a critical quest object and complete the game. Tried clipping through the safe to grab said critical quest item, but none of the usual tricks work. Loading your save also doesn't work to jog it, and that leads to... [b]Showstopper Bug #2 -- Saving --[/b...

I didn't have high hopes for this after disliking the first game, but I bought them together so I'm at least giving it a go. After playing this I thought it was a student project, based on some of the content and humour, but it's not. There are grammatical & spelling mistakes all over the place, objects and physics are buggy and it's just really not enjoyable to play. - In the first game, interacting with objects was done with a trigger click, which is immersion breaking but at least reliable. They've implemented the grip function on the index controllers to pick things up this time, but it's so wonky you have to try half a dozen times before you connect with the thing you're trying to pick up. Sometimes you pick up the container the object is in and end up throwing a table around. - Locomotion is nauseating, but targeting a teleport location is equally wonky and there are lots of areas you can't teleport to, even though you can locomotion straight through them - There's a small ledge...

Really amazing game. Great interactions with the environment. I would have rated it 10/10 HOWEVER there are a few glitches. First and foremost YOU CANNOT SAVE PROGRESS. Even though I have a slot saved it always takes me to the very start. So until they fix this definitely play when you have the time to finish the whole thing uninterrupted I've noticed that on standing the map tends to move. Sometimes just holding the joystick on the controller still helps this. Other than that really love the aesthetic and puzzles in this game. Highly recommend.

Great. THis is how to do an escape room game. The puzzles are just right and the hints are perfect.

So I purchased this in a bundle with the original Abode. the original was quirky and such, but in a good way. After finishing the first Abode, I dove right into the Abode 2. There were obvious improvements to graphics and such which was nice at first. I began my search around the apartment and slowly found that I lost the ability to pick up any items(was working at start). At first I thought this was a tracking issue, but nope. I restarted and tried again only to find the same issue would creep up. This issue makes the game unplayable for me. I tried to post on the discussion boards with 0 responses except for another individual having the same problem. It seems hit or miss as I read that other Index owners dont have the issue...atleast from some posts. But nothing from the devs on this which is a bit saddening. TLDR - Make sure you test the game within your return window. I did not and now am stuck with a terd..

Abode 2 is an escape room adventure set in a cyberpunk-like world. You are in an apartment and have to restore power to a whole city district. There is no time limit for the task. A drone accompanies you and carries things and provides useful hints when you are stuck. The puzzles aren´t too difficult whereas some things took me a while to figure out. I mastered the whole experience in 80 minutes. The physics are quite good even if things get stuck from time to time but that´s no dealbreaker. There is free locomotion and teleport controls, both can be combined. Index controllers with fingertracking are supported but the fingertracking is useless. One thing might be a little frustrating: in the beginning it is very dark in most corners of the apartment so that you can barely see anything. It takes a while to restore electrical power and to be able to turn the lights on. Until then you are stumbling through dark corners, half blind, and hoping you don´t miss something. All in all it is...