Pop-up Pilgrims is a fun little puzzle game for PSVR with cute graphics and a delightful soundtrack. The controls/hints/guide could have been a bit better presented, maybe with a short tutorial video or a bit more obvious for the player. Regardless, I realised my mistake and from then on I loved playing the game. It ran perfectly, I had a great time...
Pop-Up Pilgrims2018
Pop-Up Pilgrims
2018 63Worthwhile
Overview
Floating Cloud God and his devoted pilgrims have a big adventure ahead! Put on your PlaystationVR headset and discover a world of pop-up islands, colorful characters, and deadly demons, all uniquely presented as 2D graphics in a wrap-around 3D space. More than 50 stages curve around the player as they try to lead the pilgrims from platform to platform – left, right, in or out – to take on a cast of lively enemies and find a safe route to the exit.
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Worthwhile- Metacritic63from 18 reviews
- OpenCritic61from 10 reviews
Pop-up Pilgrims is a beautiful and charming game that is pleasant for a time, until players discover that it carries some backdoor punishments for not getting perfect scores on every level. Compounding the issue, the game never explains this unfortunate mechanic, instead allowing the player to discover how things work when they are already in the midst...
The highest compliment that can be said about Pop-Up Pilgrims is that it is not broken. At best, this is an extremely uninteresting and dull game. It plays like some kind of first-year student project that is only slightly elevated by some competent, yet generic art assets. VR is capable of so much more, yet here is a perfect example of a gross misuse...
The VR love child of Lemmings and Pikmin.
Pop-Up Pilgrims is a puzzle-platform that manages to be entertaining while showing numerous flaws, such as the scarce variety of situations the game has to offer. That, along with a questionable use of the PS VR, prevents us from fully recommending the game.