Richie's Plank Experience similar games & best alternatives

Richie's Plank Experience

PlayStation VR, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, Oculus Quest • 2017

Should you play it?

You're on a plank, 80 stories high. Knees shaky, palms sweaty. You have a choice. Do you walk or do you freeze? Richie's Plank is the only VR experience that lets you clone any real-world plank into the virtual world for 2X the immersion.

What works
  • Highly immersive vr experience
  • Effective demo for vr newcomers
  • Unique flying and firefighting modes
  • Strong sensory stimulation with props
  • Active developer engagement
Things to keep in mind
  • Limited long-term replay value
  • Relatively short and simple gameplay
  • Some graphical and control bugs
  • Price considered high by some
  • Potential motion sickness in flying modes

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Richie's Plank Experience: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Progression.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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  • Competence

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  • Survival

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