Did you think Green Hell was (somehow) too easy? Don’t fret, now you can have the added difficulty of playing in VR! Now, I have reviewed Green Hell before for PC, so I don’t want to repeat myself too much. For a quick recap, Green Hell is a pure survival game developed by Creepy Jar and Incuvo and published by Incuvo. Green Hell is an intense survival experience where you have to keep an eye on every meter and every health problem. You must ensure you get every food group, eating plenty of meat, nuts, and fruit while also getting enough water. On top of that, make sure you aren’t going insane due to insomnia, venom bites, leeches, or bleeding to death from lacerations or burn marks. VR makes this particular experience more interesting; in the regular game, you have a body menu to search your arms, legs, and chest for any worms, leeches, or abrasions. But in VR, you look down at your arms and can rip off any external stowaways or mend your wounds.

The VR version isn’t very different from the original game; the story experience is the same as the normal game. You play Jake, who has gone to an unexplored jungle with his wife, Mia. The anthropologists have the discovery of a lifetime, meeting an uncivilized tribe deep within the forest. Although, after some exploration, it doesn’t seem these people wanted the attention and fame that came from their discovery. Mia and Jake are separated, and Jake has to fight his sanity to find her. The VR game has a good amount of settings to adjust for those, like myself, who are sensitive to motion sickness. I recommend starting with teleporting rather than walking around to get used to the VR motion. You can also add a vision blur to the sides of your headset so when turning you won’t get as dizzy. It’s the standard settings you’ll see on most VR games, but it’s a necessity for someone like me. I’m happy to say that this time I was able to properly play the game with co-op. You can start multiplayer immediately. Though you won’t be able to play the tutorial cooperatively,

I do recommend one person playing through it, as this game’s crafting system is one of the more difficult things about this game. It’s a little more straightforward in VR; you craft by holding two items together. It’s the larger items that are a bit more convoluted; things like a bonfire have to be selected from your journal, which can be a bit annoying to navigate. Green Hell VR is an entertaining experience; there’s a lot to do, and you can easily spend hours in the game without noticing the time pass, especially when playing with friends. The game is still just as difficult as the regular game. Especially when it comes to dying, for starters, you lose everything when you die, and there isn’t a way to change this. It’s even more difficult in single-player; if you die, you go back to your previous save point, and save points are few and far between. You’ll have to make a hut to save, but that in itself is also difficult. At least in multiplayer, if you die, you won’t have to reset to the save point. However, it is a bit annoying to respawn without any items and no way to receive items. Of course, at the time of writing this, the game is still in beta, so there are still features that could be changed or added upon release. Green Hell is a very daunting game, especially by yourself. With multiple people, it was a little easier to explore and find where to go; of course, this also means we had multiple to take care of when it came to food, health, and sleep. Green Hell VR is an enjoyable experience, and I will be keeping the 9/10 score I’ve given the PC version.