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A Chair in a Room : Greenwater

PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation VR • 2016

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Quick resume

Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the sinister Greenwater Institute, known only as Patient No.

Global score

83/100

Genres

Adventure, Indie, Simulator

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    Pros

    • Immersive room-scale vr horror
    • Engaging psychological thriller story
    • Well-designed puzzles
    • Strong atmosphere and sound design
    • Effective use of vr presence

    Cons

    • Some physics and object interaction glitches
    • Short playtime
    • Requires large play space for best experience
    • Puzzle difficulty can be obscure
    • Limited replay value

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily out of interest and intrinsic motivation to experience the story and horror."

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Health, Story, Competition, Status. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Competition.

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    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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