Does It Stack? is a brand new physics-based puzzle recreation in combined actuality, and we went hands-on at Gamescom. Listed below are our full impressions.
Beforehand featured in our final UploadVR Summer season Showcase, Does It Stack? from Belgian studio Cybernetic Walrus challenges you to stack on a regular basis objects to a sure top with out toppling the pile. That includes 60 ranges with three challenges every and 150 unlockable objects, it instances your runs and uploads your scores to a web based leaderboard. This is the earlier trailer.
It is harking back to Supermassive Video games’ Tumble VR, the PSVR port for the PS3 puzzler that concerned related merchandise physics-based challenges, and there is an instantly relatable premise that is simple to be taught. Whereas Does It Stack? additionally helps a totally immersive VR mode and native co-op, my latest single-player demo showcased 4 combined actuality phases on Quest 3.
The better problem solely entails stacking these objects to succeed in a sure top, and you start with a handful of pre-determined objects of 4 completely different colours. Not each object wants utilizing to succeed in this purpose, and with the ability to full ranges via a number of strategies gives some inventive freedom. Multicolored objects, like a yellow desk with purple legs, create welcome strategic concerns.
You’ll be able to’t brute drive your solution to the purpose by stacking matching coloured objects collectively, although. Even when they solely contact briefly, two objects of the identical colour touching create an explosion that may jeopardize your total stack. It is a good twist, although this could trigger frustrations when objects by chance contact whilst you’re simply transferring them to a distinct location.
The place issues get tough is on the more durable difficulties, and the second problem introduces a puzzle component. One degree required topping the stack with a cheese wheel, whereas one other degree wanted the final merchandise to be blue. That does not sound so unhealthy at face worth till you see which particular objects you have been granted.
There’s not a lot else I can say till I’ve seen the broader options like multiplayer, but it surely’s an easy premise that works nicely in combined actuality. Cybernetic Walrus knowledgeable me that Stack can be the primary recreation in its new “Does It” collection, although they could not verify particulars on what’s coming subsequent. As somebody who loved Tumble VR in 2016, I like what I’ve seen.
Does It Stack? arrives this fall on the Meta Quest platform.