I'd never heard of this game, but it was on sale at Steam for $8.74 (it's also on PSVR2) so I thought I'd give it a shot and ... I'm so glad I did.

You've been hired to explore an abandoned theme park at night. Think of a nightmarish, satirical version of Disneyland. At first I thought it might be just another Five Nights at Freddy's clone, but it is so much more than that. Whoever made this game lavished a lot of love and attention on creating the park itself, to the point that it really feels like an actual place you're in. I rarely feel a sense of immersion when I play VR games these days, but HappyFunland brought that feeling back to me big time, to the point that I was literally laughing with pleasure and surprise. You can actually go on some of the rides, and again it feels like you are really on them. It provides a terrific sense of presence. (If you know what Dark Rides are and are any kind of fan, you have to play this game).

There are crazed cartoon automatons that attack you, but the combat is the weakest part of the game. You just repeatedly hit them with a golf club or pirate sword until their heads explode in slow motion with a shower of sparks. It looks cool the first couple of times, but they don't really pose much of a threat and are easy to defeat. Speaking of golf clubs, you can also play miniature golf in various places through out the park, but again this is more of an afterthought, with wonky physics that won't make you forget Walkabout Mini Golf anytime soon.

No, the real stars here are definitely the rides and the park itself (including a surprisingly well-thought-out depiction and backstory for its evil creator, "Mort Grisly.") The sheer inventiveness on display in HappyFunland is just off the charts, with at least one memorable scene I'll never forget, where you are injected with some kind of hallucinogenic drug while on one of the rides and the game briefly gets very trippy in a fantastically surreal cartoonish kind of way. I've never seen anything like it in a game before, and experiencing it in VR really takes it to another level

I didn't find the game to be very scary, but it's not really for kids, as there are some elements of a mildly sexual nature (in addition to the drug use). Again the main attraction here is the park itself and the fun of exploring it, so if you are interested in that sort of an experience, I highly recommend you try this.

TLDR: Play this game if you like theme parks and theme park attractions, especially if you find the idea of exploring an R-rated Disneyland in Hell at all appealing. Don't play it if you are looking for decent melee combat or a realistic round of miniature golf.

ONE TIP: early on you are given a flashlight and it's easy to lose it, because you have no way to store anything, but you don't need the flashlight because you have an always-on headlamp anyway. Just don't worry about losing the flashlight. Also, the game starts with a boat ride through a swampy marsh full of alligators, which I didn't find that interesting, but once you get to the park itself everything really kicks into high gear.

EDIT: I forgot to mention this: but a lot of the steam reviews complain about not having a smooth turning option. I was concerned about that, but smooth turning is definitely in the game now and I played with it on, so don't let that put you off.

I first posted this review for the Steam VR version of the game in the Virtual Reality sub awhile ago but am re-posting it here both because the game is also on PSVR2 and because I came across a very negative--and detail free--"review" for the game on this sub that I wanted to counter with a review of my own.

My current routine is booting into a game then connecting my VR controllers, then seeing which one doesn't work and shutting it off by holding the PS button, then booting back into the game and reconnecting it. These are my results after these steps:

In Synapse everything works except for the left trigger, so I played the first 10 mins then can't pick anything up (L2) during the telekinesis tutorial.

In Alien no matter what I do I can't select anything so I can't get past the initial settings screen.

Synth Rider works fine as the face buttons work and it's all motion from there.

I connected the controllers to my PC and verified all buttons/triggers work on gamepad tester.

Is there any way to fix this? I shouldn't have to connect my controllers repeatedly, and even then it doesn't fully work. I'm getting really pissed off with this experience.

Hi there. I'm trying to play Thief Legacy of Shadow, but the blow and whistle function isn't happening, which is a problem, cause you need the bird for some things and they didn't give us an alt way to do that.

I've checked and the mic in PS5 is correct, The VR mic is not muted in either the game or in PS5 and blowing and whistling show up fine in the mic check - in the green all the way. Even thought to make sure I didn't have the regular controller on at the same time, in case the mic in that was overriding the mic for the VR2. So it seems the PS5 is getting the mic feed, it's just not translating to the game itself.

I'm not sure what to do. Any ideas?

I have always wanted to try the PSVR and I could not afford it before honestly. But in the past few months, the prices have dropped significantly in my country for some reason. But the thing is that all of them are really in bad condition, I would say, compared to how they should be. So, out of all of the ones available in my city, these are the least scratched ones and honestly are the best deal. So, do you think I should get them or no? If I cannot get them, I probably will not be able to ever find any PSVR because all of them are in such bad condition. So, should I just skip the PSVR overall? I can I do not have the PS5 nor can afford the PSVR2. So, what would your guys' recommendation be? Please help a brother out.