Using your hands for shadow theater, Silhouette is one of the most unique VR puzzle games of recent times, and it’s available now on Quest 2.
Developed by Team Panoptes, best known for the PC VR game Panoptic, Silhouette presents a casual adventure game exclusively controlled by hand tracking. Your objective is to guide shadow creatures to safety, manipulating light, walls, and environments with your hands. It contains 28 different puzzles spread across four distinct environments, and Team Panoptes previously told UploadVR that it takes 3-4 hours to complete. You can watch the release trailer below:
We had favorable impressions in our preview of Silhouette last year, praising the uniqueness of its hand-tracking mechanics.
It’s a basic puzzle concept – variations of which we’ve seen in other non-VR games before – but it’s the combination with hand tracking that offers something new and immersive. Casting shadows allows you to discover creative solutions to puzzles, such as using your shadow to create bridges or block streams… It’s an approach that avoids the frequent disconnect that the found in many hand-tracking experiences, where a virtual interaction with a virtual object attracts attention. to the absence of any physical object in your real hands.
Silhouette is available now on the Meta Quest platform for $9.99.