Statik is a VR game that forces you to figure out how to free your hands.
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The PSVR’s Statik will drive you nuts or make you puzzlegasmic

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Statik drove me nuts in a very short time. In this PlayStation VR game, your hands are trapped inside a box, and you have to give them out. It’s a puzzle game that takes brainpower and patience.

In some ways, it’s like you’re in a straitjacket, and you have to be Houdini. Your hands are inside a box that is like some strange contraption. You are sitting in a chair with a camera pointing at you, and an unhelpful scientist is observing you.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.