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BARCELONA—After trying out VR porn for the first time, the obvious next port of call was the other barb of the early-adopter pincer attack: VR games. At MWC in Barcelona there were myriad virtual reality gaming demos, from on-rails shooting games, to full VR-and-HOTAS Elite: Dangerous setups, to whacky HTC Vive stuff. But there was one game that really intrigued me, way out in the hinterlands of Hall 7: Lost Cities VR, the world’s first VR board game.
Lost Cities, developed by Campfire Union, is a game for Gear VR that’s based on a board game of the same name. The board game itself is fun, simple, and very popular. Both versions of the game are played in exactly the same way, except the board game allows for up to four players and the VR game only supports two (for now).
I won’t go into the exact rules of the game, but it’s pretty straight forward. Each player starts with a hand of cards (see image above). You take it in turns to pick one card from your hand, strategically place the card in one of five areas in front of you, and then pick up another card from a shared stack of cards. When all the cards have been drawn, the game ends, the scores are tabulated, and one of you wins. It’s one of those games that’s incredibly simple to pick up, but a huge strategic game-space opens up once you play it a bit.
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