nDreams mystery adventure game, The Assembly, will be available to download on the PlayStation Store for PS4 (PlayStation VR) today. PS Plus subscribers can also enjoy an exclusive 25% discount until 27 October, 2016.
The usual price is $29.99 / €24.99 / £19.99.
The Assembly trailer
The Assembly is a character-driven interactive story which involves solving puzzles, interacting with characters, and making choices. In our preview, we played through the first couple of chapters.
This is what we had to say:
“There is much in the way of intriguing mystery and conspiracy in the early chapters I played with novel ways of implementing the puzzles Madeleine faces into the design of the facility.
The set piece experiment she undergoes in this preview build sees you trying to solve a whodunit murder case by examining evidence and listening to statements. It makes for a fascinating scene that feels smart without being too obtuse.
In fact, there was just the one odd moment in the Cal chapters that left me stumped simply because the game had failed to catch up with the fact I’d already read an email that was supposed to spark progress to the next chapter. A small design flaw really, as the other objectives were far more straightforward to solve.
Here’s hoping that’s an aberration, because things could be quite promising for nDreams’ current foray into virtual reality.”
Stay tuned for The Assembly review.
PlayStation VR launches worldwide today, and arrives with a host of exciting virtual-reality games. While the hardware is impressive, PS VR will live or die by its games, but we’ve got high hopes for the future with dozens of titles currently in development.