While the game provides interesting visuals and presents interesting ideas for how future VR MMOs could be organized, Ready Player One: OASIS Beta feels much like its title implies: buggy and incomplete. Many times when booting in-between games, I would get pop-ups from SteamVR which acted as though I was starting the game up again from scratch or the game would boot me back to the SteamVR home entirely before sending me right to the game I had requested. In one notable instance, a game didn't work at all. Many features are promised to be "coming soon," yet this game clearly has not had an update in quite some time. The games on offer here are all oriented towards earning high scores, much like other VR titles which were coming out at the time, but to the modern player, there is little of value beyond the visuals or the novelty of a few of the games (such as trying out an officially licensed VR version of Gauntlet, even if it doesn't resemble its arcade counterpart in the slightest).

Much like the movie it's based on, this is a game which relies mostly on references and visual spectacle, but lacks in any real depth. Even though it is a free game, your time is much better spent elsewhere. For arcade-styled VR titles which invoke 80s nostalgia, look elsewhere. For a solid tie-in game, look elsewhere.