Hide The Corpse Review (Quest)
Summary: Hide The Corpse is a thrilling VR game where time is of the essence as you race to find a hiding spot for a body before the cops make it to the crime scene. Withhold evidence and wash away your fingerprints to get away with your crime and unlock more puzzling and demanding levels.
4.6
Crime Time
Tamper with evidence and evade law enforcement in this intense and wacky VR game about covering up your crimes. Hide The Corpse is a casual, action, simulation game developed and published by Realcast, released on September 17th of 2024, and supports Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest Pro, as well as Meta Quest 2. By the name, Hide The Corpse sounds a bit morbid and rightfully so. The main premise of the game is hiding a body from the police, but under that lies a kooky game and its enthusiastic dynamics create a celebration for the world of VR overall.
VR is a great extension in the video game landscape. It allows an additional layer of play that you can’t get through normal means. If done correctly, you can easily drown into the game’s world and feel fully immersed. Sometimes VR games have a hard time registering that sense of absorption for the player due to an incorrect balance of the game mechanics and a variety of elements with the gameplay. Hide The Corpse successfully constructs an entertaining game area and is able to take a simple theme and a minimalist approach and get you actively involved in your environment in clever ways.
In Hide The Corpse, you are dropped in a space, whether it be a room in an apartment building or an art museum, and are given the task of hiding Gus, a recently deceased man who is unfortunately our ragdoll victim. The goal is to find a hiding spot to stash the body in before the cops arrive at the scene in 4 minutes to snoop around. The problem is that it is hard to move Gus around as his body continuously flails to and fro in a stark and dramatic fashion. The game can get really intense with down to the wire moments and literal seconds left before the officers arrive.
Besides hiding the poor unfortunate soul, you also need to get rid of any incriminating evidence that may compromise your involvement with the crime. Gus has a variety of items like sunglasses and a comb that need to be gathered up and disposed of in some way. You also leave fingerprints on everything that you touch so you will need to go back with a scrubbing sponge to get rid of them. If you fail to hide the body appropriately, the cops will find it and you fail the mission. How much time you have left, Gus’s belongings successfully hidden, and the amount of fingerprints left, are all accounted for at the end of a mission and you are appropriately given points based on how well you did. The higher your score, the better grade you are given and receiving A and S ranks unlocks bonus costumes for Gus to slouch around in, adding an incentive to actually participate and be precise with your execution.
The game isn’t necessarily hard, but there is a gratifying challenge here that delivers a compelling rhythm while achieving your vice. Gus’s body has weight to it, so you can only push and pull him a certain way so much before he drops. Aligning his different body parts to fit in a puzzling spot, open a hidden safe, or get out of a particular jam is incredibly comical and utilizes the VR space in a great way. Oftentimes I would walk around with my hands hilariously held up so I wouldn’t accidentally touch anything leaving behind fingerprints. Along with the time limit, you can hear police chatter as they make their way towards your location, straining your decision making and accuracy even more. Once you get in the groove, the challenge dwindles down with understanding and the absurdity constructs an addictive playfulness.
Points tallying up, the plop of dropping something, and the creaks of opening up hidden doors all add a cartoonish flair that blankets the game with a farcical vibe. Cleaning your fingerprints emits a satisfying pop sound that makes you want to try to cleanse everything in sight. A lot of the music has a jazz undertone with a lot of spy thriller type of influence. Graphically, the game looks great and is super colorful. Environments are varied and include an underwater shipwreck covered with vibrant sea anemones and crusty barnacles and a garage lathered with oil and towers of spare tires. I also never experienced any graphical hiccups or slow down during my time playing this game.
Final Thoughts?
To put it simply, Hide The Corpse is just pure fun. It’s what you want when you want to play a VR game. In all manners and facets, it’s the quintessential VR experience. The premise and goal is instantly captivating, running around the playing field and rummaging through your environment is amusing, and finding new hiding spots to jettison your dead weight. The set up for this game is expandable and makes it easy to add new things as well like corpses, levels, and challenges. The only downside to this game is that I wanted additional content and not because there wasn’t enough, but because I just wanted to play more. Hide The Corpse is a must play for VR vets and newcomers alike and will sit perfectly beside your favorite VR titles.
About the Author
Nay Clark Gaming holds a special place in my heart and I never stop talking about video games. I really love all types of games and have an interest in games that have complicated stories and lore because I enjoy untangling the mystery of it all. When I'm not gaming, I unsuccessfully try to control three amazing and incredibly bright kids.
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