You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/llXOfKBwHdo

This is approximately a 30 minute experience. It's a narrative-driven horror mystery where you are transported from scene to scene and you must find the highlighted objects through gaze-based navigation. Once you do, you will open the area to the next scene. Each highlighted objects mostly has text tidbits relating to your predicament and background to the location or story. There are some audio tidbits in here as well.

Most of the scenes are static and in black and white (although they are in color towards the end). These are 360 stereoscopic photos. Unfortunately, the scales are off for these scenes. There isn't much gameplay as you're simply looking around for highlighted objects to gaze into them so you can open up the next area. You do NOT use motion controllers at all. There is no locomotion and you must physically turn around (no smooth or snap turning).

The game does automatically save your progress after each scene. However, I would recommend finishing the game in one setting. Despite the negatives of this experience, I enjoyed the journey. There is a nice story here with a good mystery that is well-paced. There is good ambient sounds and even the voice actor did a nice job. The musical soundtrack is excellent (although limited).

I recommend this game. I think it's a great bargain for only .99 cents. However, it is not for everyone given the lack of gameplay and the gaze-based navigation nature of the experience. Plus the scales being off is a turn off. Despite that, this experience oozes atmosphere and it's a journey well-worth taking, especially at the bargain price.

Rate 6.5/10.

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My first vr game and this wasn't disappointing was playing on a oculus quest 2. Wardwell house is a horror game that you are looking to find a way out from this massive forest that is on a island that you got stranded on. Game play is a 360 vr point and explore game with text.this game is pretty ok was there wasn't lot of jump scares that would make you cry. I would recommend if you are highly new to these sort of games but the story line is interesting part of wardwell house trying to figure out what is going on while exploring and look for materials. I just wish you can actually interact with your hand this would of improve the horror and the realism of this game. I am giving this game a 7/10

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Wardwell House VR is a Free VR game that is using 360 degree photos. It worked on my HTC Vive system, sounded ok, played ok, looked ok. You have Gaze control only, looking for hotspots at each step. Interesting story that takes around 40 minutes to complete.

Try this free experience.

This is like a VR text adventure, but not really interactive (in this case). As simple as these experiences are but together, I love them. I have a huge respect for even just 360 pictures, and with the right soundscape, mood, and narrative, you can really create a spooky experience by chaining it all together. I wish there were hundreds of these in the Cardboard days, and that I could enjoy them now, but I don't know if this style of VR experience cought on back then (where it would have run well).