Arken Age

Arken Age
Information
VR/AR	Virtual Reality
Developer	VitruviusVR
Publisher	VitruviusVR
Platform	SteamVR, PlayStation VR2, Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 3S
Device	Valve Index, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality, PlayStation VR2, Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 3S
Operating System	Windows, PlayStation 5, Meta Horizon OS
Type	Game
Genre	Action-adventure, Shooter, Sci-fi
Input Device	Tracked motion controllers
Play Area	Room-scale, standing, seated
Game Mode	Single-player
Release Date	SteamVR and PlayStation VR2 - January 16, 2025; Meta Quest 3 / 3S - October 30, 2025
Price	US $29.99 (Meta Quest)
App Store	Steam, PlayStation Store, Meta Horizon Store
Website	https://www.vitruviusvr.com

See also: VR Apps and VR Games

Arken Age is a single-player sci-fi virtual reality action-adventure game developed and published by the Canadian studio VitruviusVR. It launched for SteamVR and PlayStation VR2 on January 16, 2025, and a Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S version followed on October 30, 2025. The game is built exclusively for VR and centers on physics-based melee and ranged combat, exploration, and crafting inside a terraformed world called the Bio-Chasm.

Road to VR named Arken Age its PSVR 2 Game of the Year for 2025, citing the game's diegetic design.

Gameplay

Arken Age is played from a first-person perspective with full artificial locomotion, and players can freely jump, crouch, climb, and swim through its environments. Movement options include stick-based locomotion with snap or smooth turning, plus a seated mode and three difficulty settings.

Combat is physics-based and uses Arkenite-infused swords and guns. Players start with three customizable, paintable weapons and can collect more than 30 weapon mods over the course of the campaign. Notable weapons described by the developer include a throwing axe with eye-tracking recall, a deployable saw blade, and a chargeable bow. On PlayStation VR2 the game uses the headset's eye tracking for features such as a sniper scope and for triggering wrist-flick deployable climbing picks, and it uses the Sense controllers' adaptive triggers and haptic feedback.

The campaign spans more than two dozen distinct areas and includes boss fights against corrupted enemies and large creatures. Reviewers noted the game's emphasis on hands-on, physical interactions: weapon upgrading and modding are done at a dedicated in-game upgrade station rather than through a menu, and crafting consumable syringes involves collecting fruit from trees with a torch and feeding it into a funnel. Players consume food and use a pickaxe through animated, physical actions rather than menu commands.

Story

Arken Age is set in the Bio-Chasm, a terraformed realm created to harvest a substance called Arkenite Energy. The player controls a biological being of mixed Nara and Hyperion origin who investigates the disappearance of the Grand Arborist. The plot involves an alliance with the Nara alien race against the antagonist Hyperion and his corrupted soldiers. In his review for UploadVR, Henry Stockdale described the narrative as often predictable, with an open-ended conclusion.

Development

VitruviusVR is a virtual reality studio based in London, Ontario, Canada, founded in 2014 by Blake Stone and Colton Kadlecik. Its earlier titles are Mervils: A VR Adventure (2016) and Shadow Legend VR (2019). The studio announced Arken Age on November 21, 2023, describing a single-player adventure with customizable melee and ranged weapons, physics-based combat, boss fights, over two dozen areas, and a roughly 10-hour campaign. The game was developed for PlayStation VR2 and PC VR headsets and was built to use VR-specific hardware features such as eye tracking and the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers.

A Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S port was announced in 2025 and brought forward to an October release. VitruviusVR head Blake Stone said the Quest version retains full content parity with the Steam and PlayStation VR2 editions while running at a native 72 frames per second so that the physics and combat would feel equally impactful on the standalone hardware.

Release

Platform	Release date	Notes
SteamVR (PC VR)	January 16, 2025	Supports headsets via OpenXR and SteamVR
PlayStation VR2	January 16, 2025	Uses eye tracking and Sense controller adaptive triggers and haptics
Meta Quest 3 / Meta Quest 3S	October 30, 2025	Native 72 FPS, full content parity per the developer

The Meta Quest version is priced at US $29.99 on the Meta Horizon Store. The Steam release supports 15 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, and Italian.

Reception

On Steam, Arken Age holds a "Very Positive" user review rating, with 90% of more than 630 user reviews being positive.

Henry Stockdale of UploadVR scored the game 4 out of 5, calling its VR-first design exceptional and singling out the haptic feedback during combat; he wrote that parrying an enemy's sword attack "leaves a lingering vibration like your blade is actually recoiling." He criticized a long tutorial, a predictable story, and occasional technical issues such as a sword sticking with the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers, and he noted that the intense motion makes the game unsuitable for VR newcomers.

Road to VR selected Arken Age as its PSVR 2 Game of the Year for 2025. The publication praised the highly diegetic design, writing that the upgrade station and the torch-and-funnel crafting were "ultimately arbitrary work, and yet so much more satisfying and fun than using a laser pointer to click a button." UploadVR also named it its overall VR Game of the Year for 2025, writing that "Arken Age delivers clever VR-first gameplay design for a great sci-fi adventure."

Arken Age was nominated for Best VR/AR Game at The Game Awards 2025, where the award went to The Midnight Walk. It was also nominated for the Coney Island Dreamland Award for Best AR/VR Game at the 2026 New York Game Awards.

System requirements

The minimum PC requirements listed on Steam are a 64-bit version of Windows 10 or 11, an Intel Core i5-7600 processor, 8 GB of RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 or GTX 1660 Ti class graphics card with 6 GB of video memory, and 30 GB of storage. The recommended configuration is an Intel Core i7-9700K, 16 GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 or higher.