Latest dinosaur VR games

By: Jake Rajala

Humans have been around for 5-7 million years. Of course, we can thank Stanley Kubrick for showing human ancestors beyond millions of years. Humans have barely been on this green earth in comparison to the monster dinosaurs, who roamed this planet for 165 million years! There have been books to document the existence of Dinosaurs, such as “The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs”. Let’s not forget that there have also been movies to feature dinosaurs, like “Jurassic Park” and “Night at the Museum”. With that enunciated, it’s somewhat cloudy if there are dinosaur games, particularly in VR.

The answer to my question above is absolutely! Steven Spielberg may not be the mind behind the VR dinosaur projects, but they stand out. There is “Jurassic World Aftermath”, which came out in 2020 and it features a user running for their life against velociraptors. A whopping 95% of Google users like the game! Furthermore, Meta Store handed the game a 4.4/5. There is also a non-commercial game where a player is running and being chased by a T-rex. Overall, It’s quite sexy to witness the two sides separated by millions of years trying to share the setting! On a side note — It may not be helpful to have Barbasol in the virtual experience.

Let’s not forget that there is a VR attraction of Jurassic Park in Miami Seaquarium, which is arguably the best VR experience of dinosaurs in the world. It’s also a whopping 60 minutes of an experience! It’s $79.99 to witness the Seaquarium and the dinosaur world together. It takes around 4 hours to visit the entire Seaquarium, so there is plenty of time to fit in blood-thirsty velociraptors!

There are a couple of other prominent VR games. Island 359 is also a survival game where the user is stuck on an island with dinosaurs looking to take his head off. The game garnered worse reviews than Jurassic World: Aftermath. If you don’t want judgment day to come, there is a peaceful VR dinosaur game called Nature Trek. The user can walk around, enjoy nature, and walk alongside triceratops, and not get torn apart by the teeth of a dinosaur. The hippie game brought forth a Steam rating of 9/10!

The dinosaur realm is the perfect blend of beauty and terror. With that said, people deserve to see and have a passion for life that didn’t exist at the same time as humans. Dinosaur films, despite failed attempts to live up to the original Jurrasic Park, can fuel inspiration for any viewer. Nonetheless, the VR experience provides a more intimate feeling with robust dinosaurs than ever shown before.