MissChiefVR
2025年7月26日
Two Idiots in a Van and a Facility
EDIT TO ADD: There are two tutorial videos on my YT channel to help you get started (@misschiefvr). A Wolf in VR also has a couple videos of his attempt at playing. -PLATFORM: VR headset + smartphone (no, "not" your iPad, Karen). -GENRE: Co-op Puzzle Mayhem. -MY CURRENT STATUS: stuck in a van, shouting at my friend again. Let me just say it: Elsewhere Electric is my favorite panic-inducing, brain-melting, friendship-testing VR puzzler right now. It's not just a game, it's a communication skills exam disguised as a sci-fi escape room. And I’m here for it. SETUP: This is a two-player co-op experience. One player (the Installer) throws on the VR headset and stumbles blindly through a mysterious (very dark) facility, while the other (the Operator) sits safely in a van, tapping furiously on a smartphone like they’re trying to order pizza during a blackout. Note: "Smartphone." Not tablet. Not iPad. Not your cousin’s weird Android phablet. A smartphone. Ask me how I know? (Hint: 45 minutes of confusion and one deeply regretted FaceTime session.) iPhone 12 and newer is needed to use the mobile app. I can’t speak for Android because I enjoy things like software updates, functioning group texts, and not accidentally opening the calculator instead of the camera. GAMEPLAY: There’s no intro cinematic. No long-winded mission briefing. No mysterious narrator with a gravelly voice telling you “everything changed when the lights went out.” You're just... working here now. Congrats! It’s your first day, and corporate has left zero instructions. Classic. From the get-go, you and your partner are surrounded by cryptic symbols, weird machines, and increasingly passive-aggressive equipment that refuses to function without the correct arcane button sequence. There is no hand-holding, unless you count yelling “WHAT DO YOU SEE?” every five seconds. The Operator gets a (ancient) sci-fi dashboard full of buttons, toggles, and obscure data panels that definitely look like they do something. Spoiler: they do. Just maybe not what you "want" them to do. Don’t button mash. Trust me. This isn’t Mario Party. This is a serious workplace. Kind of. The Installer, meanwhile, gets to walk around a maze of rooms, decoding ancient pictographs, reconfiguring doors, and trying not to panic when the ceiling whispers something at them (jk). Oh yeah, there are invisible creatures. They're technically harmless, but emotionally? They’re a lot. They don’t attack “you,” they just loom. And drink. They’re basically terrifying little emotional support cryptids. DIFFICULTY: This game is "hard." Like, “take notes, draw diagrams, question your self-worth” hard. You will need a notebook. Or an actual whiteboard, if you're feeling spicy. Some puzzles rely on pure observation; others are about syncing actions across devices. All of them will make you wonder why you didn’t go into accounting instead. The symbols aren’t fixed. They’re procedurally generated for each profile. So if you rage-delete your profile and start over (no judgment), don’t expect the same symbols. The code changes. The puzzle gods are watching. That said, the moment you and your partner finally figure out what a button does, or decode one of the game’s many weird symbols, you’ll feel like you just invented electricity. Together. FINAL THOUGHTS: Elsewhere Electric is brutal, confusing, and absolutely brilliant. It throws you in the deep end and says, “Figure it out, nerd.” It’s not for the faint of heart or the short of temper, but if you and a friend are up for one of the most clever and genuinely "cooperative" VR games out there, it’s worth every shout, scribble, and scrambled clue. Bring your brain. Bring your buddy. And for the love of the invisible drink demons, "bring a phone, not a tablet." RATING: 4.9/5 — Couldn’t solve the final door, but now my friend and I communicate exclusively in obscure symbols. Worth it.
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