Not bad, but not as good as it looks
I love point & click adventures and I enjoy sci-fi dystopian settings, namely cyberpunk. This game was an obvious purchase for me, from the get-go. The pixel art looks great in trailers and screenshots, too, which is a sweet bonus.
Then I installed and tried the game and... well... it's not bad, you can do way worse than VirtuaVerse, but it clearly isn't as good as it had led me to believe.
Gameplay-wise, it's a traditional 2D point & click. If you ever played one of those, you should be fine with VirtuaVerse. Nothing wrong or broken, in this department.
Puzzles, on the other hand, while not obtuse like some in other games of the genre, aren't the easiest, most sensible or even the most interesting ones around, and I found they DO, in fact, break the otherwise relatively good pacing of the game. kiralein said they haven't seen a single "stupid" puzzle in the game, well, I came across some pretty annoying ones pretty early on, already, so I guess your mileage may vary, on this subject. The game surely doesn't ease you in, it starts with pretty involved puzzles right from the start -- which is nice, if that's your thing, but it definitely isn't mine.
Story is OK, writing is mediocre (I'm guessing the devs aren't native English speakers, because some of the dialog is very cringe-inducing), the protagonist is not very likeable, interesting or relatable.
Art, well... it's subjective, but I was expecting something more like Desert Child (which I think has some of the best pixel art), and what I got was something that feels lazy and not that good-looking. Music is fine, if you're into this sort of thing. If you're like me, though, you can at least turn it off.
The game is not well optimized. I more than meet the system requirements, but I always get huge load times between scenes (and you'll be switching scenes A LOT). We're talking roughly 10 seconds of black screen. Hopefully they address this.
All in all, I recommend it. Just don't set your expectations too high.
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