Vacation Simulator A robot's idea of time off

Vacation Island comes in three flavors. Vacation Beach has simulated sand, a silicon sea and a Dock Shop for avatar accessories. Vacation Forest promises NATURE (over five unique trees, copy-pasted across acres of artificial space) plus a hiking trail to get properly lost on. Vacation Mountain tops it off with a lodge offering HOT LIQUID, HOT TUB and HOT AIR. Each area unlocks as you go, so the island opens up the more you play. The whole thing is bright, saturated and cheerful, and since it is all simulated, you never get sand in your hands.

Progress runs on memories, and the Bots have opinions about how you should collect them. Help them with tasks and the count goes up; enough memories unlock new areas. The tasks are proper hands-on VR work: build a sandcastle from a blueprint, catch a fish, paint a happy little tree, sculpt ice, throw snowballs, grill burgers and deliver the right sandwich to the right Bot. Some jobs send you across destinations, so the bread might come from the beach while the topping waits on the mountain. A few task types repeat between areas, which is the one trade-off if you play it all in a few long sessions.

The humor is the point. Robots earnestly reconstructing human leisure produce jokes like T-pose yoga, a snowhuman in need of knitted mittens, and a quiz where the correct answer to the meaning of life is "yes". Nearly everything can be grabbed, thrown or repurposed, and the physics make sure plans fall apart entertainingly. You also customize a virtual YOU for picture-perfect selfies, then clutter your room with the results. The writing is genuinely funny, and it plays for all ages: kids love it, and the sharper jokes about human society will sail right over their heads.