ARK Park

This is a cool VR demo with five tiny but beautiful Jurrassic park like domes. There is also a simple wave shooter section and a small dinosaur museum.
It has very little content and no replay value when you have finished the game the first time. Dinosaurs are scripted and mostly does not react to your presence or your actions. Visuals are OK but slightly blurred even with high quality and Steam supersampling. Definitely not worth the asking price, but it works well as a VR demo for friends that are new to VR. Buy only when on sale!

Excellent graphics. Probably the best I’ve seen in a virtual reality dinosaur game. Very well polished title over all. My only main complaint is that your movement speed is a bit slow, which I found annoying.

There have been negative reviews of this game, and ultimately I can understand, but when you go into this thinking it's going to be another buggy mess of an ark spin off you ignore the sheer beauty of Ark Park itself.
In its own bizarre way, I become immersed 1000x more than I would with Ark generally. I fear death and dinos and the dangerous world I inhabit, something that Ark failed to give me.
The game runs flawlessly and I occasionally forget I am in a game somehow, and I appreciate that.
Most reviews here are with minimal gameplay, 20 minutes after release, claiming that Ark Park doesn't know what kind of game it is.
Is it a survival game? An fps? An educational experience? Why can't we get it into our heads that maybe a game can just be good. Ark Park is all three and it does that wonderfully.
I myself will play more and update this review, but right now a solid 8/10.

I refunded this game but after playing the real ark game I see who it's for. To any moderate or higher ark survival enthusiasts out there, i recommend this game for at most 10$. visually its great but thats it. You're paying for a tech display. And for my first ark experience this sucked, I expected it to be the game cause around the time i bought this thats what the standard was. Skyrim Vr, Doom Vr. etc. This one did things differently in a bad way. It took the license of the franchise and turned it into an interactive, heavily scripted museum/theme park. For a what this game lacks in... well... the game part... its strengths are in the presentation. Well not even that... Only if you only go through each segment once, then the presentation is great. Comparing this to the many other options out there worth the same price this is a vr demo to them. I get it, employees need to get paid and i can tell they put a lot of effort into this. Unfortunately at the end of the day people expect a fleshed out game and not so much a collection of mini-game concepts not thoroughly explored enough. I want to see something like this succeed because i love the whole idea but i paid for this at full price and what i got out of it disappointed me.

if you are into VR experiences rather than full on VR games then this would definitely be for you but if you're expecting it to be JUST like ark surivival where you are able to fight and tame dinos, then I'd suggest to lower your expectations because it is more or less like jurassic park VR

It's a little unpolished in parts, but it's basically VR Jurassic Park, which, let's all agree, is why you are here reading reviews. Sure, the actual game play is a little weak, there is very little plot and the majority of areas are not even battle areas. So what? The graphics are good, the prehistoric creatures are fun and not so terribly inaccurate as to be cringe worthy and the controls and locomotion are good. If you're here for something else, then move along, but if you just want to get chased by a therapod or ride a triceratops, this is worth the price.
PS: The kids LOVE this. I just wish it had "short person mode"

Disclosure: I've never played Ark: Survival before, and it's a shame really, because I've heard so many great things about it. This game, on the other hand, has quite a reputation of being underwhelming . Just reading the reviews, they tend to be quite dino-sore. Personally, I found it to be pretty fun. There I said it. But it definitely has flaws between the claws. Let's no go crazy after all.
I never expected this to be like Jurassic Park, I just wanted to see some dinosaurs in virtual reality. The minute I see the word dinosaur, I click - hey, don't be such a judgasaurus; I enjoy the simple pleasures. And I wasn't disappointed. Maybe for a whopping $40 (get it on sale!) it's not worth it at all, but since you only get about two hours' worth of good content, hit steam up for a refund so when your wife looks at the credit card charges and asks you, "Honey? Did you spend $40 on a dinosaur game?" you don't have to sit there with your sweaty red headset lines across your forehead and go, "Yeah, and I got veloci-ripped off."
"Now eventually you might have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, right? Hello? Yes?"
Oh yes, make no mistake, you will see dinosaurs on this tour, in a handful of locations. But instead of going to each location one after the other, like the textbook way of game-making, you have to go into your menu, prepare to be loaded (for a few minutes) and eventually find yourself in small virtual locations where you can interact with your surroundings, collect items, and throw objects at dinosaurs. You can also feed the dinos and scan them into your inventory, however doing so is cumbersome at times, when the thing you're supposed to scan won't sit still, and your scanner takes 100 years to load it in. Also, you have to scan it in the face, which I'm sure is not enjoyable for the dinos, and not enjoyable for the player because I swear to god every time you try, the thing you're trying to scan turns around or walks away, and then you have to restart the level for it to respawn again.
But there aren't just dinos in the game! There are also monkeys, gorillas, beavers, and spiders. How the hell they thought to include that particular cast of characters beats me, but I'm sure if I played the original game I'd understand a little better. If you have arachnophobia (like this reviewer) but love dinosaurs, you might have a NOPE moment or two, but overall it's not too bad. At one point you go on a ride in a jeep through the lush jungle, total Spielberg style (albeit without the good acting, but let's not nitpick) which is pretty amusing, and at another point you lookout into the vast pterodactyl-filled sky, while a non-rideable hot air balloon waits for you at the edge of the cliff. You can touch, but you can't fly. Not so amusing.
There is a battle mode where you shoot dinosaurs, but they don't attack you necessarily, they're more concerned with the glowing machine behind you, so you end up firing your guns at the backs of dinos while they go about destroying your machine and not giving two flying f**ks about you. It's very bizarre. Devs, you got a little too ambitious with this one. When it comes to shooting dinosaurs, I'm about as disinterested as to what the shiny thing behind me is as the dinosaurs are with me. I just want to blast a killer T-Rex in the head before it devours me and spreads my limbs across the map - is that too much to ask? Yes? Okay then...
The graphics are fine people. Never once did the game crash on me. Never once did my computer, which runs on the low end in terms of graphic cards, ever pull a fast one on me mid-experience (and I call this an experience because it's hardly a game). Granted, my computer's not too prehistoric, but reading the reviews I thought it would get stomped on. Nope. All good. (Radeon RX 580 which is below specs I believe. Still ran fine with an i5 as well)
It should also be noted that the game is really short. But if you're inviting someone over to experience VR for the first time, short is good. And I gotta say, even if it doesn't meet your expectations, it's fun to have a friend over and in a fit of boredom, say, "Hey. You wanna see dinosaurs in VR?" This is a perfect entry-level experience that may not be worth the cash, but during a steam sale pick it up so you can call up all your Jurassic World buddies and make them instantly jealous.
In conclusion: it's not a bad dino VR experience. But it's also not the dino VR experience we've been waiting for. Don't worry too much about that last part, though. After all: Life, uh - finds a way (sorry, had to squeeze that in somewhere).