Don’t pet the animals in Paper Beasts. Oh, they don’t chunk (hell, I don’t even know if they’ve mouths) however I wouldn’t need you getting a papercut. After a quick stint on Playstation VR, Pixel Reef’s attractive papercraft sandbox has lastly discovered its option to PC – a splendidly weird menagerie of folded beasties to poke at, puzzle with, or just observe with idle curiosity from behind the consolation of your costly plastic headset.
Buried deep within the web, far beneath the shitposting, apparently lurks a whole ecosystem of origami animals. So goes Paper Beasts, which duties you with serving to these creatures by fixing puzzles, or else merely sit again and watch folded life take its course.
Coming from From Dust designer Eric Chahi’s studio Pixel Reef, Paper Beasts provides up a beautiful simulated ecosystem to instrument about in. Each animal, from carboard-plated tortoises to multicoloured brutes, has its personal behaviours and interactions. While there’s a beautiful journey mode that has you serving to these critters out, it’s a pleasure to easily watch these papercraft friends push in opposition to one another within the game’s Sandbox – one that permits you to go full god-mode by summoning creatures and sculpting the land nonetheless you fancy.
Paper Beast’s PC model comes with just a few visible upgrades – sharper shadows, improved water and sand rendering – and provides a steady motion choice alongside the unique’s teleportation. It additionally sports activities a beefed-up Sandbox that provides extra space, extra doable entities and a brand new beast to throw into the combination.
Of course, I’m afraid you’ll want one among them whopping nice plastic tellies strapped to your face to play Paper Beasts. Soz. If you do have one and are bored with thwacking headcrabs about, you may choose up Paper Beasts on Steam, Viveport and Oculus. Annoyingly, the costs differ by retailer – however count on to pay between 15 and 20 quid, with a free demo out there on Steam.
