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SvennoJ on 24 November 2025
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I'm playing Firmament atm on PSVR2.



From the studio that made Myst and Riven, which shows. Very cool to walk through Riven like scenery. The puzzles are kept 'simple' by just having actions like shown in the picture. You connect with sockets you can reach to perform actions, with puzzles mostly consisting in figuring out the order in which to do things next to exploration. Operating cranes, walking things, aligning transformers and upgrading the tool to extend it's range and be able to manipulate multiple things at the same time.

Unfortunately the port to PSVR2 is rather bad. I'm playing on PS5 Pro and still get severe slow down in some places, dropping to 20fps on smooth turn, also affecting the turn rate. It's only a few places luckily, but probably avoid on vanilla PS5 :/ The social screen always runs at lower fps. I recorded some gameplay, running around smooth in VR only to find a stutter fest in the recording. It does some weird trickery where it renders a full 360 degree view it seems for every frame since when smooth turn chugs, turning your head is still smooth all the way. It must do some interpolation when running forward as well, it feels smooth yet when you concentrate on stuff next to you (looking sideways while moving forward) it looks like 30 fps.

No foveated rendering either and it looks a bit low detail in the headset. Sure it's the same as in the screenshots but textures and geometry look a bit rough blown up to 110 degrees fov. Not the wow factor Myst and Riven had at the time, quite a bit behind the detail in RE8. Yet what it lacks in detail is made up in scale. The environments are huge, draw distance as well, and thankfully smooth movement lets you run fast :) (There is teleport too, haven't tried it) A bit too fast at times as I've had to use reset to safe point numerous time when flying off the path lol.

Anyway, adventure games like this are awesome in VR!



Finding a way onto and operating that crane on the right in VR was mind blowing :)

Recommended on PC with beefy hardware, PS5 Pro if you can stomach some severe slowdown (or play with teleport / snap turn on PS5)