VR SPOTLIGHT: STIFLED BRINGS ECHOLOCATION TO VIRTUAL REALITY
It seems a bit counterintuitive to play a VR horror game about losing the ability to see, but Stifled is proof that sometimes it’s what you can’t see that scares you the most.
Stifled is a game that forces you to navigate using sound. Although it’s not perfect, it’s an interesting concept to explore, even if the VR implementation isn’t as fleshed out as it should be.
Stifled is about sneaking around in the pitch black with various nasty creatures that want to see you dead. The twist is that your character and the creatures are both equally blind in the darkness, but the moment anything makes a sound, the area around the source is illuminated, which allows you to see the environments in an artistic take on echolocation.
This system is incredibly cool in practice, especially when you enable the optional microphone support, which lets Stifled listen to every sound you make as you progress through the story.
Although the echolocation mechanic is undeniably unique, the groundbreaking game design kind of slows down from there.
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