My second VR game completed! A Fisherman’s Tale is a first person point and click adventure game set inside a lighthouse. Only the twist is, inside the lighthouse is a model of the same lighthouse only that lighthouse is the lighthouse you’re in. In turn, the lighthouse you’re in is therefore inside a larger lighthouse.
A similar premise was used in the game Maquette, although the scope there was much larger, complicated, and not in VR. Being in VR it feels a lot more claustrophobic, partly because you’re right in the game but also because the lighthouse is pretty cramped.
Puzzles are mostly of the sort where you have to take an object and put it somewhere, but the various scales of lighthouses (lighthousen?) means that you sometimes have to shrink or grow them by dropping them and picking them up from a different lighthouse “level”. There’s a plot about fishing and storms and stuff, which are actually a metaphor for something else, and it’s clear that you’re not a real person but some sort of puppet lighthouse keeper which makes things a little surreal. That and the talking fish.
It’s a nice little game which can be a bit fiddly to navigate (mainly with moving around – it does that VR “teleport” thing which is tricky in an enclosed space), but is clever and funny.
