I feel that the devs behind Oodlescape have a lot of potential, but I think they can do something a little bit better than this.

First of all, the Minecraft style graphics are fresh and definitely gives the game a uniqueness that you don't see much of these days in VR games. The lighting is surprisingly great. The enviroment (aka the room you try to escape from) feels well constructed and I can see the time and effort that they've put into making it into something that doesn't feel bland and boring.

But unfortunately when it comes to the actual puzzle solving part of the game there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason as to what you're doing. In most escape room games there's a rhythm to what you're doing: solve a minor puzzle which gives you access to some tool that helps in the next minor puzzle which gives you another tool or clue to the next minor puzzle, etc. In Oodlescape it was just kind of a random mess.

Right off the bat I knew I had to find 5 items that had letters on them that I would have to plug in into a machine that would allow me to escape. Finding the letters wasn't a problem at all (and to avoid possible spoilers I'm going to skip on how I got them) and I got all 5 of them within the first 15 minutes or so. A problem arose when I had to plug them into the machine... I, for the life of me, could not figure out which order they go into and I spent the next 30 minutes searching high and low in this room desperately trying to find some sort of hint and found nothing.
It was at this moment when I realized that I couldn't recommend the game, not because I couldn't solve the the combination of letters, but because there was no rhyme or reason to what I was doing, there was no rhythm to what I was doing.
When it comes to escape room games you want to be following a challenging trail of bread crumbs; meaning, you don't want the game to hold your hand, but you also want to experience that eureka moment when you overcome a challenging puzzle and have that excitement drive you into the next puzzle or objective. I didn't get that at all. I solved the scattered challenges around me with no problems, then hit a brick wall with the letters.
No rhythm, no eurekas.

BUT, I'm still very much interested in seeing what else comes from these developers. I feel everything was executed very well, up until the actual puzzles. I strongly believe that if the devs can make a more rhythmic puzzle solving experience that it'll be a hit.

I feel that the devs behind Oodlescape have a lot of potential, but I think they can do something a little bit better than this. First of all, the Minecraft style graphics are fresh and definitely gives the game a uniqueness that you don't see much of these days in VR games. The lighting is surprisingly great. The enviroment (aka the room you try to escape from) feels well constructed and I can see the time and effort that they've put into making it into something that doesn't feel bland and boring. But unfortunately when it comes to the actual puzzle solving part of the game there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason as to what you're doing. In most escape room games there's a rhythm to what you're doing: solve a minor puzzle which gives you access to some tool that helps in the next minor puzzle which gives you another tool or clue to the next minor puzzle, etc. In Oodlescape it was just kind of a random mess. Right off the bat I knew I had to find 5 items that had letters on them that I would have to plug in into a machine that would allow me to escape. Finding the letters wasn't a problem at all (and to avoid possible spoilers I'm going to skip on how I got them) and I got all 5 of them within the first 15 minutes or so. A problem arose when I had to plug them into the machine... I, for the life of me, could not figure out which order they go into and I spent the next 30 minutes searching high and low in this room desperately trying to find some sort of hint and found nothing. It was at this moment when I realized that I couldn't recommend the game, not because I couldn't solve the the combination of letters, but because there was no rhyme or reason to what I was doing, there was no rhythm to what I was doing. When it comes to escape room games you want to be following a challenging trail of bread crumbs; meaning, you don't want the game to hold your hand, but you also want to experience that eureka moment when you overcome a challenging puzzle and have that excitement drive you into the next puzzle or objective. I didn't get that at all. I solved the scattered challenges around me with no problems, then hit a brick wall with the letters. No rhythm, no eurekas. BUT, I'm still very much interested in seeing what else comes from these developers. I feel everything was executed very well, up until the actual puzzles. I strongly believe that if the devs can make a more rhythmic puzzle solving experience that it'll be a hit.