Hello Cruel World

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Release date

August 1, 2024

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Akupara Games

In this VR horror puzzle game, it's just another day of you, your trusty stream chat, and a young woman trapped in an experimental torture-test to see when she'll break. Can you save her?

It was supposed to be simple. The Crab 'n Grab, a trashy seafood restaurant a thousand miles from the sea. But your chat kept telling you to take a look. That something more is brewing underneath the surface. That there's something ""there"" there. And after all, isn't it your job to dive headfirst into danger? Isn't that the thrill?

How thrilling do you find the skittering of ticker-taps of robotic legs on concrete? What about the voice coming over the loudspeaker? Who's keeping her prisoner? Why are they testing you? They've got livewire electrical shortages in Sector One, the rotten remains of the holding cells in Sector Three, and all those finnicky, experimental gadgets stored in Sector Four. Your chat seems to want you to keep pushing your limits and you'll have to if you want to be a hero. Do you?

Hello Cruel World puts your ingenuity to the test. Think fast, think on your feet, and think outside the box. Designed from the ground up to take advantage of VR's interactive capability, Hello Cruel World asks you: just how far are you willing to go to sate the curious thrill spurring you on?

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3.85

19 ratings

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The_Elite_Institute

August 4, 2024

2/5

F IN CHAT

"I really wanted to like Hello Cruel World, but after the horror-filled opening section, it suddenly turns into a series of rather tedious electricity puzzles. When combined with the bugs and soft-locks, it’s hard to really care about the narrative as it unfolds. Perhaps some of its issues can be resolved in a patch, but I don’t think it will be able to overcome the fundamental flaws that stop the game from being enjoyable." Full review at The Elite Institute

37 found this helpful

greg.boswell.79

August 3, 2024

5/5

Finally !!!! Been waiting for months

Looks fantastic, finally a great horror escape search and rescue puzzle game. Rarely a new game ever offers all this, excited more to come later. Wow just wow loving it, wish there were more suspenseful exploring sci-fi games like this. I'm milking it slowly as it's full of mysteries . Creepy chilling atmosphere lurks around every corner. Graphics are fantastic and surreal. The game makes u cover every inch trying to understand just what is happening down in the basement lab. Brillant story unfolding audio solid. Reminds me of red matter 2 full of intrigue. What's that voice I hear is it AI. I'd give it 10 stars out of 5. Developers spun a nice creepy story hear , Bravo. Most new games this year have been cheesy kiddy cartoony cash grabs only, so thankfully finally a mature adventure like this is here .

16 found this helpful

The_VR_Grid

August 1, 2024

3/5

Solving Puzzles in an underground lab!

Hello Cruel World delivers on puzzle solving in an unsettling underground lab. The puzzles typically involve connecting circuits and get steadily more complicated the further you progress, though I feel the lack of variety in the puzzle designs may get fatiguing. It's a great looking title akin to games like the Red Matter series but fair warning, the latter half of the game gets very, very challenging! Check out our review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9dZsxotk50

15 found this helpful

SolomonsPerez328

August 10, 2024

4/5

Pleasantly surprised

So I thought I was getting a horror game. But what we have is a puzzle game in a creepy atmosphere. It's an architecture type puzzle game like portal. It also reminded me of some of the laser puzzles on Alyx. The kind of puzzles that you just need your wits to figure out. Really having fun!

10 found this helpful

AAP07BALTEUS

October 29, 2024

4/5

Great, from non puzzle player/cool story

At first it was kinda hard for me to get into the game. And I was thinking maybe I shouldn’t have gotten this. BUT once you get far enough you start to learn the story and once I learned the purpose of the “facility” if you will, I was hooked and wanted to keep going and learn more. And I really liked the story and want to know more. For the puzzles there were around 2 or 3 that I could just not figure out for the longest time. But I found out that your can clip through walls so I may have cheated to continue in the game. My excuse is I was there for the storytelling.

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