VR Among Us: a review of the iconic virtual reality deduction

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Social inference is a category of board games that has always had some success. From Secret Hitler to Obscurio to games that leverage third-party intellectual property like Battlestar Galactica, a game where the goal is to find the group’s impostor is a lot of fun. Between Us, in 2018 developer Innersloth turned this simple board game mechanic into a video game, creating a simple yet exciting product. However, what made this title truly iconic was the strange combination of the global pandemic and the fame on Twitch. From then on, it became a real phenomenon Among Us, so much so that many VR Chat players created mods that can move their colored green cores from 2D to virtual reality. Four years after its main release, VR among Us has officially arrived on Meta Quest, Oculus Rift and Rift S, and Steam VR thanks to a collaboration between the original development studio and Shell Games, the team behind Until You Fall and the amazing I Expect You. to die. Will the transfer to virtual reality succeed in fitting into the classic experience? find out in ours VR review among us, tested on Meta Quest 2.

Mechanic and playgroup

Between us VR rules are same as 2D game

Between us VR rules are same as 2D game

Let’s start by examining the game rules of Among Us VR, which is the same as the 2D version. The game begins by gathering players together in a spaceship cafeteria. Each participant plays a highly stylized astronaut, choosing a color and different objects to characterize him. The game can be played with a minimum of 4 to a maximum of 10 participants and depending on the number of players in the lobby there will be one or two hidden crooks. In fact, at the beginning of each game, the game randomly assigns roles to players: astronauts one or more saboteurs are in hiding, but each crew member’s mission is confidential. Only in the case of two crooks can they mutually know who their accomplices are. Astronauts survive and win by completing various missions in the spaceship’s areas, collaborating and deductively identifying hidden fraudsters; the impostors instead, they win the game by destroying the rest of the team. To do this, they have different tools at their disposal: they can kill a crew member with their bare hands or sabotage different areas of the map. Rogues cannot perform their astronaut duties, but they can disable sabotage and hide in vents to hunt down their victims. Finally, there is the role of the ghost or dead player: this remains for the rest of the game, witnessing what the rest of the team is up to, and clearly losing the possibility of communicating with them.

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The game is actually all here. The game begins, the roles are determined and everyone tries to complete their task. Anyone who finds a body can report it and immediately call an emergency meeting or use the button in the middle of the cafeteria. Before we continue with the review, let’s make an important point at this point that sets the point of view of All Among Us VR evaluation. Just as with social inference, any game that puts a strong interaction component at the center of the experience has a big Achilles heel: group wrong becomes unsustainable. However, this is not an issue with the game itself, and although we did attend some really unpleasant sessions during our testing, it cannot and should not be an element of negative judgment in our opinion. First of all, you can fix the problem as voice chat can be disabled and you can only call text sign-in lobbies. problem harassing players, but losing a truly characteristic element of the gaming experience. Secondly, the inappropriate use of the game by some users cannot be attributed to the developers and is always statement Who does not behave properly. If you don’t have enough friends in your contacts and don’t know who to play with, on the developer’s page you can find the link to the official Discord server where you can connect to find other players.

VR experience

The gestures of the astronauts in VR among us are hilarious

The gestures of the astronauts in VR among us are hilarious

So, what’s it like playing a VR game among us? Considering the correct playgroup suggestion, it’s a lot of fun in our opinion, much more than a 2D version. There proximity voice chat it really makes a difference and becomes an integral part of the gaming experience. Other crew members will hear your voice and you will hear theirs, but only if you are nearby. This makes the immersion even more powerful, invigorating the astronauts’ movements. In fact, avatars don’t have expressions, but players can use their spectators’ pads to move their hands using gestures and thumbs up/down to point. Seeing an astronaut defend himself against accusations by making jarring movements with those little hands, we admit, is always a great laugh. But proximity chat also comes in handy for: Gameplay: For example, if you pay attention, you can even hear the crook hiding in the corner breathing. It happened to us while we were calmly completing a task: When you hear heavy breathing behind you and it’s not you, it’s not a good sign!

VR makes everything more immersive, including emergency meetings

VR makes everything more immersive, including emergency meetings

If you play as an astronaut, the different missions you have to complete are scattered around the ship. this is a cute series mini games making the astronauts’ mission fun and sometimes even distracting, again thanks to the vastness of virtual reality. Often we are so busy with our tasks that we do not remember who we were with or the sequence of events. Shell Games’ mindset has been to focus on small mini-games that require a certain type of skill. Attention: some are precision games, others ask you to complete strings of numbers or symbols, others engage reflexes or memory. Any activity that engulfs the player loses some awareness of the environment at that moment, as he cannot return while completing a mission at the same time. tasks. While they’re all distracted, scammers are on the loose and, as mentioned earlier, can strategize using some of the tools at their disposal.

Technical aspect and comfort

This is what the VR map between us looks like

This is what the VR map between us looks like

from perspective technicianThe VR among us is very linear and clean. The gameplay is stable, as are the online lobbies, and the controls are nice and responsive. Given the graphic minimalism of the title, it must be said that it is really difficult to go wrong in this respect. The game implements various accessibility solutions, such as the ability to play with one hand only. Solutions are also different to alleviate VR discomfort, with an interesting selection of motion related. in addition to its functions blow up (in VR jargon, it is the movement where you rotate the image without moving your head) fast or smooth and manual adjustment of different movement speeds, VR Among Us, tunneling. It’s a trick to increase. player comfortconsists of shrinking the visual part: when you move, a gray grid appears on the screen that covers the peripheral parts of the shot, leaving only the front part of the image visible. alternative to reduce motion sickness In VR games it’s teleporting, and the choice between that and tunneling should always be made based on the type of game. Although the author prefers the teleportation system, the tunnel preference for Among Us VR is actually the most accurate as it is less confusing.

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Although the virtual reality version came to the stores a little late, Among Us is one of the games that will never go out of style thanks to its simple mechanics as well as fun. But Among Us VR is even more convincing, elevating all the elements of its 2D version thanks to its inclusion of virtual reality. It’s fun and fascinating to attend an emergency meeting, watch all the crew members, and listen to the avatars’ arguments in defense as their little hands struggle. Mini-games designed for astronauts’ missions are fun and can distract players from the surrounding environment, while crooks will have to calculate their moves very well. Technically dry but deep enough for accessibility and comfort, VR Among Us is an experience everyone should have, and in our opinion the best way to enjoy Innersloth’s game. The hope is that the success of this VR port will prompt developers to add more maps and cosmetic items.

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  • Perfect proximity voice chat
  • Effective comfort solutions
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  • Not all content of the 2D version is available
  • Graphically very minimalistic, expandable

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