You can control your fantasy characters in Westworld Awakening.
You can control your fantasy characters in Westworld Awakening, the VR game from HBO and Survios.
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Westworld Awakening hands-on — Here’s one of the VR games we’ve been waiting for

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

It’s a good thing that HBO never shipped a virtual reality experience it created a few years ago as an early attempt to take its Westworld show into VR. In the meantime, VR has matured, and now Westworld Awakening is now ready for prime time.

Westworld Awakening, available today for $30, is a more ambitious game than its previous effort. I played about a half-hour of the game, starting with the beginning and moving on to a later scene in the game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.