Elena

Found the game today while looking for some story-driven game for my Vive. Was pleasantly surprised! Although the game is short it's well done and I liked it a lot. In my opinion worth the money. Pros: - Good (multi-layered) story - Interesting setting - Hints at what is going on are well done without spoiling anything; they just get you to think about the possibilities. - Graphics are quite good - Sound is well done (- I like how the letters are projected into the game environment.) Cons: - Short (~1h?) - Some minor bugs (e.g. menu and or game graphics doubled for some reason which led to lags - a quick restart of the level did the trick) - Game mechanics are not explained well enough - or I somehow managed to completely ignore every instruction ever: 1 I only found the projection of the letters by accidentally looking around while reading a letter up close... 2 It was pure chance that I pressed on the sticky notes to connect them... 3 Very irritating despawn of a game item... yo...

The graphics and soundtrack were great. The story telling however is all over the place with a very random ending that had nothing to do with the events prior to it. I still don't really understand the story. The game has quite a few annoying but not game breaking bugs as well. For the price though I still recommend it.

An Ikea browsing simulation with unnerving chick flick overtones featuring a voice cameo by George Takei

Elena is a lovely little walking simulator (not in the pejorative) wherin you walk around a cozy, clean Ikea home and try to figure out what is going on. I wouldn't say it gripped me, the story telling (in English) is about as good as you could expect a media school program somewhere in the Netherlands (I think) to muster. To solve the story, you mostly just pin notes and pictures to a cork board. It is brief, I beat this in about an hour and twenty minutes, and few people have been over to play it. In a year or so (that is by 2018), all of these little experiences will likely be forgotton, but for now, if you have a little free time and want to dive into a small, managable narrative, then you might give this a run. (Side note: I would really think this ought to sell for 4.99, I think the notion of selling this for 8.99 is a bit of a stretch.)

I couldn't get a key item to become useable to progress. The main menu is long and difficult to use. You're stuck while important narration occurs, so every time I restarted the game I had to sit through the same scene. There's physics issues (There was a bowl of fruit that was rolling around. One playthrough an orange was rolling around in the bathroom. How did it get there? One of life's little mysteries.) There's tons of stuff all over the apartment, but it looks like most of it can't be used. On key items, a sticky note appears. On my playthroughs the sticky note became stuck to my controller and wouldn't come off. Overall mildly frustrating. I gave up on it after the third attempt to progress.

oh boy this game was a treat for the eyes and the brain. very interesting. and beautiful art! hope you make a sequel. i want to see Anna again,

Explore your home while rediscovering the truth about a past relationship. It's part "living journal" and part sci-fi. Very immersive. I look forward to seeing more from this developer.

I walked into the game liking all of the art & thinking the home was pretty.. then shit got creepy & the ending was something i was totally not expecting. I'm never dating a Doctor fr.

Great graphics, great intriguing story until the end, the game runs smoothly and interacting with objects is very easy. Length of this game i'd say is about 2 hours really stretching it out. I had a bug where if I tabbed out of the game and back in, I could no longer interact with objects and therefore had to restart leading to save issues as the game only saves during certain check points, which was annoying. The ending is absolute dog shit. Most people will see the end take shape about halfway or three quarters through exploring the home. The ending begins just as you might expect and you are absolutely FULL OF QUESTIONS!!!! The excitement and possibilities had my heart racing only for you to walk through one door and watch a cutscene on one of the walls of the next room play. This scene's narrative can be boiled down to "cuz fuck you thats why" Then the credits roll. At no point do we see any real conclusion of the characters development nor we do we get any information on who the t...

Interesting with a nice twist ending.