A quirky game that sees you control your character like a puppet.

Human Fall Flat was a puzzle game released in 2016 by No Brakes Games.

In it, you took control of a blobby character and help navigate them through various settings full of obstacles, by physically interacting with the world around you. This included things like pushing buttons, climbing things, breaking stuff, and other things one might consider delightful game level mayhem.

Now, this delightfully witty game has made its way into the virtual reality (VR) space – thanks to SneakyBox – hitting Quest series of headsets and Steam Oct. 31, and releasing for the PlayStation VR2 (PSVR2) on Dec. 5.

The game features 18 levels of single player fun, as you guide your character across various scenarios. However, here in the VR version of the game, you get to become one with your character as each Sense Controller makes each of your arms control the corresponding one with your blobby friend.

Since you’re playing this game in a made for VR third person perspective, you get to play the game feeling like a puppet master. Now, there could be an argument made that there was a missed opportunity to play this game in first person as the blob yourself, but considering the silliness you get to experience with your character – and especially playing with others in multiplayer VR – this was the right choice for the game.

This control scheme is quite intuitive, as you get to experience physicality in this game on a completely different level than that of the flat version.

By moving your arms around, you’ll notice that your characters arm will mimic the actions. This is obviously the main way to control your character as you find ways to navigate yourself around the obstacles in your path. Do you need to climb something – then you better start reaching up and grabbing, while making movements as if you were physically pulling yourself up. What if you just need to get through an object in your way – there’s probably a tool nearby that you can hold onto and smash your way through.

The game not only does an impressive job of allowing you to connect to your character in an immersive way, but it inspires you to think objectively and find creative ways to make it towards your goal.

In addition to the physical interactions, you’re able to push buttons on the controller to do things like bend over, among other things.

Those picking up the game need to know, it’s going to take a few levels to get use to the controls here. While things are intuitive and it becomes remarkably fun to watch as you try to control your blobby friend, you should not let the learning curve encourage you to rage quit after you’re unable to mantle the first obstacle in your path.

Remember, the VR version of the game here tries to bring you closer to your character than the flat version of the game. You need to get use to not just moving your arms around, but to the intricacies of grabbing onto things and pulling yourself up – among the many other types of physical interactions available to you in the game.

Now, we’ve spoken a lot about this way you interact with the game world around you. That’s because in this puzzler, the gameplay and way you go about solving the settings around you are essentially all there is to the game. This should not be a problem to VR gamers, especially to those who enjoy a good escape room and some of the other puzzle games available on these headsets.

There is no real story in Human Fall Flat VR that helps to tie things together. Instead, what makes you want to push on and keep going, are the quirky and fun ways you can keep moving your blobby friend along throughout each of the ever changing levels. Each level comes with new puzzles that are meant to make gamers stop and think, and this is all one really needs to keep moving through the game.

Most people don’t stop and give up on those popular escape room games, so why give up here?

Really, the only downside to the game here are the graphics. Playing on the PSVR2, and knowing what this headset is capable of, it was a little bit of a shame that things aren’t quite as sharp as they could be. Of course, the minimalistic design of the game does mean that the world around you isn’t as detailed as some other games you may play on this headset, but graphics aren’t ugly and should not be considered a dealbreaker.

Overall, Human Fall Flat VR, is a funny and imaginative port of a now eight-year-old flat screen game. The VR interactions built in here already bring this to another level over the original version, but being up close to the action brings you closer to the hilarity that will inevitably ensue, after your attempts to help your blobby friend go awry.

Human Fall Flat VR, was reviewed on the PSVR2 after receiving a press key.