Black Mirror: 6 Best & 6 Worst Inventions

Playtest introduces us to something that older video gamers across the world have been dreaming of ever since they watched Lawnmower Man then plugged their Virtual Boy headsets into their Gameboys and learned the hard way that virtual reality was not yet a viable way to play games.

Nowadays, that's all changed and VR is finally taking off. While not specifically part of its popularity, it certainly helps most players that nothing needs to be implanted into the brain stem in order to play whack-a-mole.

Having said that, if games the style of the survival horror game in Playtest were real, there would be queues miles long to get the "mushroom" pierced into the back of their necks. The game learns from the player, reading their brain activity to find what scares them, slowly ramping up the fear and keeping them just on the cusp of that experience without taking it too far or becoming boring.

While more augmented reality than virtual reality, games like these are the dream that players think of each time they pick up a VR headset and get ready to truly enter another world. Just, maybe not that particular game.