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Calligram Studio’s Phoenix Springs is a point-and-click adventure game with a slight mechanical twist. Rather than have you scrounge your way through an inventory filled with physical clues and tools, the game presents you with something more like a mental map filled with various ideas. These ideas can represent people, places, or sometimes just concepts that you can connect to objects or people in the world—or just bring them up in conversation—in order to solve the mystery of what happened to your brother, Leo Dormer.

The story of the game starts out as a relatively simple noir-inspired mystery. Playing as reporter Iris Dormer, you’ll track down leads and interview subjects as you hop from your apartment to Leo’s former residence to an abandoned university. The game’s world is tantalizingly mysterious—certainly sci-fi, most likely governed by an authoritarian state—and it’s filled with...

The Meta Quest 3 originally launched last year, in October of 2023 and while it represented a pretty significant leap forward for VR gaming, its launch line-up left some players wanting for more content options. Thankfully, 2024 looks to be a stacked year for Meta Quest 3 content, with several great titles having already been released at the time of writing. We are going to highlight 4 of these that every Meta Quest 3 owner should check out as soon as possible.

Crumbling – The coolest roguelike title available on Meta Quest 3

If you enjoyed the Saturday morning cartoon feel of games like last year’s Hi-Fi Rush, and you also happen to enjoy the mechanics of a roguelike title, then Crumbling will be right up your street. The bird’s eye view that the game is played from really effectively conjures up nostalgic memories of playing with a curated selection of your favorite action figures lifted straight out of your toybox.

As the adage goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Viewfinder has at least a hundred of them to spare, but the real magic of developer Sad Owl Studios’s first-person photographic puzzle game lies in its artistic, interactive approach to science. Your character is immersed in a simulation created by four individuals—Mirren, Chi Leung, Aharon, and Hiraya—and is desperately searching for the results of a weather-related experiment that might somehow help reverse the devastating effects of climate change in the real world.

Wisely, the game doesn’t get bogged down on the technical aspects of the scientific and mathematical theories that your character wrestles with, or on the ins and outs of the teleporters that Chi Leung has engineered. Viewfinder ends up focusing more on Hiraya’s guitar hoppy than the botanical expertise that she was presumably hired to bring to the simulation. And the game...