Switchback VR almost feels like a dream you would have after playing The Dark Pictures games characters from those games appear and then disappear again, and aspects of those worlds are remixed into something akin to horror tone poems. While the stories of those games are not directly related to this one, the various levels of Switchback are based on the four Dark Pictures titles released so far. Supermassive fans will find Switchback VR very familiar much like the way Supermassive’s previous VR outing Rush of Blood toyed around with imagery from the studio’s first smash hit Until Dawn, Switchback is something of a grand finale to the first season of The Dark Pictures. The quality of The Dark Pictures games varies between entries, but they can generally be expected to deliver a good time, particularly if the player is a horror fan who will enjoy the way Supermassive plays with various genre tropes. Switchback is part of Supermassive Games’ The Dark Pictures franchise, a fun series of short-ish horror games that mix and match various horror subgenres to intriguing effect. ![]() More than once while playing, I thought to myself “If Hell were real, this is what it might be like”. And I think that it is relatively certain that I will never visit anyplace like the worlds represented in Switchback. Something that I can’t get in a regular, flat experience something exhilarating and fun and kind of scary something that knocks my socks off, putting me into a new place that I would never otherwise visit. The Dark Pictures: Switchback is a perfect example of what I want out of a VR game. I prefer games that let me dip in for an hour or two, have a thrilling time, and then dip back into the real world. ![]() ![]() I often compare having a VR rig to owning an amusement park that fits in your living room you love rollercoasters, but you don’t want to live on the damn things. I mean, I do like a long game, but that’s not what I go into a VR experience looking for. Whenever people that don’t play VR games (and therefore have no stake in the conversation) start to complain about the shorter length of VR games, I struggle to explain to them why that’s fine with me.
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