Time Machine VR Demo

Dinosaurs ruled the world for millions of years and went extinct in a relatively short time span, which makes them sound like mythological creatures. Although some managed to survive by evolving into smaller and smaller versions of themselves, which is how most birds are believed to have started, it’s a pretty big step from a velociraptor to a chicken.

Time Machine VR is an adventure game and a simulator designed specifically for virtual reality headsets, because it aims to provide you with a very immersive experience of how it would be to swim amongst the dinosaurs. The gameplay is simple and non-intrusive, so that you are always free to explore and admire the scenery instead of worrying about anything else.

However, there is a story to tie everything together. As it happens, a terrible disease strikes the human race sometime in the future, which threatens to kill everyone if a cure isn’t found in time. Thankfully, humans have already mastered time traveling technology, which is why they send one scientist back to the Jurassic era in order to study the dinosaurs and their genes, hoping to find a cure.

Most of the gameplay is about controlling your craft and following various species of underwater dinosaurs. You also have a few other tools at your disposal, such as probes and scanners, which allow you to get a better understanding of the environment and the creatures you come across. Naturally, some of them are pretty dangerous, but you get to do some neat tricks later on as well.

Lastly, the whole point of a VR experience is to make you feel as though you are actually there, and Time Machine VR definitely manages to do that. The atmosphere can be either extremely calming, or very frightening, depending on what mission you are undergoing. You are often very close to huge reptiles, so it should be heaven for every dinosaur enthusiast out there.

In the end, Time Machine VR could certainly use more content, but the game is still in Early Access as of right now, so it’s understandable. Other than that, everything is very polished and the experience is convincing, which is exactly what you want from a VR game.