Wanderer
A world in ruin. Can you prevent it?You are Asher Neumann, an unwitting hero thrust into a time-bending journey to change the course of history. The search begins for your grandfather’s lost apartment and the mysterious artefacts that are hidden within. With the discovery of an unusual wrist watch, you forge a friendship and unlock the power to traverse time and space. Will you have what it takes to navigate the secrets of the past and prevent the collapse of civilization?A gripping narrative with unique interactions, Wanderer takes you back through the ages to reshape humanity’s fortune. Experiment alongside frenzied inventors, play to an endless crowd of hippies, defend ancient civilizations from invasion, decode covert messages in the midst of war and uncover the secrets of the space race.Built from the ground up for VR, Wanderer has a unique blend of escape room style puzzles, tactile hands on interactions and action arcade sequences to bring you the ultimate time travel adventure.Are you ready to walk in the footsteps of those who have gone before you?In addition, on PS5™ consoles: PlayStation Camera adaptor for PS Camera is required (no purchase necessary) go to Playstation.com/camera-adaptor.
Steam User 13
This game delivers. The devs are bold in their vision and fearlessly do it all.
Steam User 10
1.5hr in and this is an amazing game. The environment and immersion is similar to Half Life: Alyx, and the puzzles are even better. I am a huge fan of VR puzzle games, and my main disappointments in this genre are in the length of the game and the complexity of the puzzles. I like to struggle, and I don't like when solutions are a guided experience.
Wanderer has a good guided experience and many unique, bite-size puzzles that leave me stumped. The bite-size puzzles don't progress you in the story, or bring you any advantage, but they unlock unique experiences that you can only find in VR. Today I found a fishing pole, a hook on a wall, and cockroach on the floor. I put each together and tossed my line into a small body of water. I got a frog. While I was trying to figure out what to do, I accidentally held it up to my face and my character licked it — causing me to hallucinate. There are puzzles inside of puzzles, and from a completionist perspective, they are very accessible and entertaining. Trophy hunting is even fun in this game.
I highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys the puzzle genre, and anyone who appreciates the immersion of Half Life: Alyx.
Steam User 4
I don't want to get too hot take-y here but...... this is the best VR game I've ever played. At least as far as narrative-driven ones go. Even better than Alyx. At it's core, it's a puzzle solving adventure game, but with a lot of care taken so the puzzles are great for VR.
The premise is fantastic: you start in an apocalyptic future caused by someone travelling to pivotal moments in time and altering events. So you have to travel behind them and set things right. (Think Quantum Leap for all you 80s people.)
The narrative sounds fine for a game but for VR... it's so fantastic to suddenly appear in historically significant events and live that out. Such an awesome VR premise. There are 5 primary moments, as well as 2 main "home base" settings, all of which are beautifully rendered in Unreal. It's triple A quality.
Most of the puzzles involve using items from one era or another in another era, so you're bouncing back and forth using hi-tech solutions to low tech problems... or vice versa. It has a generous hint system if you want it, but everything is very intuitive. Most difficulty is honestly just keeping track of where and *when* (cuz, time travel, you know) you left some random doohickey.
All the systems work really well together, and just every aspect seems so well polished for VR. I cannot recommend it more highly.
Steam User 5
Wanderer should be on every 'must play' list for PCVR games it's amazing.
Game is beautiful, the VR interactions are on point for the most part, the story is great, the puzzles range from easy to actual thought required. YOu'll be jumping through time and sometimes the thing you need to solve the puzzle was in another timeline. I tended to just pickup everything and stockpile it in my home base area.
There's a lot of random interactions as well that you can do to play around with. Such as putting or driving an RC car on the moon, shooting guns and bows even a trippy frog you can lick. There are things to collect to unlock different cosmetics and add inventory spaces.
There are some puzzles that tilted from challenging to frustrating, the 'bomb puzzle' in the temple is one that gets a bad rep. And for me the shooting bits i dunno, the aiming just didnt work for me and reloading the mag is a bit sketchy. There were a few times i found myself in a timeline where i could not proceed just kept dieing. In these cases you're not suppose to be there 'right now' go to another timeline.
However overall, i loved this game from 5 minutes in to the 12 hour or whatever it took me to finish.
Highly recommend!
Steam User 4
Escape room style puzzles + time travel + excellent sound and graphic design + compelling narrative = a fun VR experience
I didn't find the watch character as annoying as some people seemed to
Steam User 5
6.5-7/10. Get on sale.
Shame its not higher but its buggy as hell. I had to restart chapters 6 times even while playing in 2023, after all these fixes. Either ground ate items, i got teleported in who knows where and couldn't proceed or some random shit was going on. Like half of problems would be solved with proper inventory, but yea another vr dev that goes "who needs inventory, player should keep track of over 9000 items in virtual world. You forgot where you placed? Like we give a shit"
Ah also NPC's animations are half life 1 era.
Steam User 3
Polished, well made, good graphics and story. Can't expect more from a puzzle game. One of the best vr game I have played.