Journey For Elysium
A VR mood piece built around one great idea: rowing a boat down the Styx. Worth an evening if atmosphere sells you, less so if you came for the puzzles.
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Best for VR owners who want a two-to-three hour atmospheric boat ride and will forgive lightweight puzzle design.
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About Journey For Elysium
If you liked The Room VR's slow, hands-on puzzle boxes, Journey For Elysium runs on similar instincts, except the whole thing floats. You spend most of it in a boat on the Styx, physically pulling the oars, stepping ashore to solve a light environmental puzzle, then rowing on toward Elysium while the game doles out your memories in fragments. The rowing is the star: it has weight and rhythm, and it sells the underworld as a place you are crossing rather than clicking through. The puzzles are the thinner half. Most are torch-fetching and lever-pulling meant to break up the paddling, and the story sits between atmospheric and undercooked depending on how much Greek myth you walk in with. It is short, closer to one long evening than a campaign, and it is VR-only, so the flat-screen crowd should skip it. Go in wanting mood and good hands, not a puzzle showcase.
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System Requirements
Minimum
- Processor
- Intel™ Core™ i5-4590 or AMD FX™ 8350, equivalent or better
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- GeForce GTX 1060, AMD Radeon RX 580, equivalent or better
- DirectX
- Version 11 Storage…
Recommended
- OS
- Windows™ 10 or later
- Processor
- Intel™ Core™ i7 or better
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- GeForce GTX 1070, AMD Vega 56, equivalent or better
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Storage
- 10 GB available space
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Game Info
- Developer
- Mantis
- Publisher
- Cronos Interactive
- Release Date
- Oct 31, 2019
