Last Labyrinth - izigame

Game Info

"An escape-the-room adventure game that can only be experienced in VR, Last Labyrinth was created specifically for the VR age. Players must work to escape a mansion full of hidden dangers with a mysterious girl that appears before them. Development of Last Labyrinth is being spearheaded by Hiromichi Takahashi, director and producer of the acclaimed Doko Demo Issyo (PlayStation 1999) series and co-creator of Toro (the Sony Cat). Working alongside Mr. Takahashi is a diverse team, many of whom are industry veterans with resumes featuring titles that are household names around the world. Debuting at TOKYO GAME SHOW 2016, the Last Labyrinth preview demo created a lot of buzz, with a long line of attendees waiting to play. Media outlets from around Japan and abroad covered the announcement of the game, and 4Gamer.net nominated Last Labyrinth for the Tokyo Game Show 2016 Media Award in the Indie category. The interest continued to grow at Laval Virtual 2017, where Last Labyrinth received the Best VR/AR Contents award. Last Labyrinth will make its return to the TGS VR/AR Area at Tokyo Game Show 2018 with a special demo version. And, in Spring of 2019, the full version of Last Labyrinth will receive a multi-platform, worldwide release."

Name

Last Labyrinth

Companies

Amata K.K.

Released

11/12/2019

Platforms

Meta Quest 2, Oculus VR, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, Windows Mixed Reality

Engines

Unity

Type

Puzzle, Adventure, Indie

Social Networks

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Reviews

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 6:22:10 PM

2 Steam users votes up

Talis

Steam user

Day 8 of the October Horror Reviews: Last Labyrinth
Ever wanted to feel absolutely powerless while someone else does all the heavy lifting?
Ever wanted to yell at a little girl because she picked up a block you just had her put in the right spot?
Ever wanted to feel stupid when you don't figure out a puzzle and then watch yourself die in multiple horrific ways?
You can do all that and more with Last Labyrinth!
Last Labyrinth is the passion project of a small dev team in Japan... with a surprising cast list including Stefanie Joosten.
The game really feels like a brutal test of your problem-solving skills, with an equally brutal punishment if you don't figure it out. Every level has a unique death, and some of them are pretty gruesome.
You're stuck in a chair. Bound to it, unable to move other than holding a little button in your hands that runs the laser pointer attached to your head, and using your head to basically be your communication with someone who does not speak your language. You communicate with this person by pointing at what you want her to do, and nodding or shaking your head as she points at what you're pointing at.
Your job is to make it through a labyrinth of various puzzles that get progressively more difficult as you go along, some of them require a pretty functional understanding of mathematics, some of them require a bit of common sense, etc.
Interestingly enough, the game doesn't actually punish you for dying: In fact, if you die at every level, you get to see a grail slowly fill up with your blood and you get an achievement... plus, probably a special ending? Still figuring that part out!
Graphics are great, they feel foreboding and mesh very well with the sound design, not only that, but all the assets seem pretty original which is another big check but a lot of horror games nowadays just copy-paste assets from other places.
Speaking of: Technically, this isn't a recent game. This one came out in 2019, but it's still one of those games that endures and can be both very frustrating and very rewarding. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a game that makes you work quite so hard to figure out minute details. 7/10