Umurangi Generation VR
SandboxExperience the award-winning creative sandbox photography game in VR!
Set in Tauranga, Aotearoa off the back of an impending crisis, life is bleak for those living in the city. As a courier for the Tauranga Express who is also an avid photographer, you have the freedom to travel around the city to document the impending doom through the lense of your camera.
▼ Making Use of VR for a More Personal Experience
Observe the doom and gloom sprawling across your sights, move around and interact with the environment in a more natural manner. Unlike the standard non-VR version, dress yourself in the skin of your choice, get the attention of people around you with a simple snap of your fingers, and pose with gestures in photos and selfies.
▼ Awaken Your Creative Side
The game presents you with a list of objectives called "Photo Bounties". Simply snap away to complete all Photo Bounties before delivering the parcel to proceed to the next stage. Each photo you take will be judged on its color, content, and composition.
▼ Full creative control
With a strong emphasis on the freedom to expression, the game does not set rules on what makes a good or bad photo. Take and edit photos with the various tools available to you to produce your own unique snaps. The whole point is for you to explore and have fun with your creative side!
▼ What is an 'Umurangi'?
Umurangi is the Te Reo word for Red Sky.
| comfort | ⦾ Moderate |
| age rating | 17+ Mature |
| website | playism.com |
| developer | ORIGAME DIGITAL |
| publisher | PLAYISM |
| connection | Internet required for download |
| app version | 1.163 |
| languages | English ∙ Chinese ∙ French ∙ German ∙ Italian ∙ Japanese ∙ Korean ∙ Maori ∙ Spanish |
Reviews 6
A NEW GENERATION
"Umurangi Generation VR is a perfect fit for virtual reality, and it manages to pull it off quite well for the most part. The reprojection does cause some unfortunate visual issues, and jumping is even worse than the flat version, but it’s still a really profound and meaningful game that is well worth experiencing."
Read the full review over at The Elite Institute (dot) net!
wil you add real time shadows?
This game is very very cool and having read the Washington Post review I'm excited to play it, I'm a photographer and I love it. But I hope for a quest 3 graphic update and I'm waiting before playing it.
Can you add real time shadows on Quest 3 please? :)
Awesome game
I loved the Xbox Version and I love this one too my only problem is whenever I fell out of the map / went somewhere I shouldn’t when it respawned me my height was set to the floor and I’d have to restart the level to fix it but everything else was amazing
Huge fan of flatscreen but vr is a mess
Genuinely a great time but the controls are incredibly clunky. But if you are a fan of the flat screen version you’ll love this.
I love this game, but needs patching
I really love this games vibes and storytelling and camera mechanics, to where i cannot rate it bad despite the technical issues. Its a nice relaxing time with great music and fun gameplay to me. You take pictures in a crappy future. Events unfolding are evocative and fun to explore.
But It has its issues on quest right now for me. The graphical fidelity on the quest 3 is distractingly bad on the later levels, a lack of lighting effects and textures to where its hard to read wall graffiti it's so pixelated. It also explains things very poorly compared to the PC flat version. (And the postcards feel finicky as heck)
This is all nothing compared to what hurts me the most though, focus is just not done properly in this version. You can't have a background out of focus. Its simply all in focus or similarly blurry. It just feels lesser in the quest vr version compared to the PC, which has depth and better lighting (which is huge in photos to me). But its just so much more fun to take pictures in vr. Kneeling and rotating and getting the perfect angle.
Don't let that stop you from playing it if you love photography though, or want to try it. Playing it has been an experience I've loved and I will continue to go back and take more pictures for fun, and look forwards to potential patches.
Excellent game that just isn’t ready
when I take a photo while looking through the lens, it instead shows the same sideways photo of a wooden post 😔