The game’s gigantic machines will leave you scratching your head as you run back and forth just to make sure the figurative pilot light is on. While you have some narrative-based voice recordings and found notes to go by, you’re basically on your own when it comes to puzzling, meaning you won’t be babied by a ‘helpful robot’ who feeds answers into your ear. Image captured by Road to VRįirmament dishes out real moments of awe between serving up maddeningly complex puzzles-basically a Cyan Worlds game through and through. Who-style atop wind-swept mountains and steampunk botanical gardens just waiting to be explored (and fixed).

You’ll have plenty of time to ponder meaning that as you teleport between the four realms via the game’s conveniently located conveyance pods, which automagically shuttle you Dr. In an ancient cosmological sense, the word was also used to refer to the sky, or the vault of the heavens fixed above Earth. In this respect, Firmament is kind of an old dog with a few new tricks, as it brings modern beauty and narrative finesse, although the game’s VR implementation sadly feels like a bit of an afterthought.Īvailable On: SteamVR, PSVR 2 (coming later)įirmament: from Latin firmamentum-that which strengthens or supports. Firmament was created in the spirit of Myst, the studio’s genre-defining puzzle adventure which maroons you in a strange realm with some very imposing architecture, all of which houses a smorgasbord of some patently challenging puzzles.

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