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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 14.8 hrs on record (11.7 hrs at review time)
Posted: 1 Nov, 2024 @ 10:07pm

Early Access Review
A dinosaur park builder that put the dinosaurs before the game. A double edged sword.
  • No DLC to hide half the game behind for an extra $100
  • Dinosaurs that strive for realism
  • Passionate hard working dev team
  • Nigel Marven
The park building and enclosure decorating are top notch, the buildings can be spawned in already made or created piece by piece. Enclosures follow a region rule like other games that limits what ground types and foliage can be present depending on what regions the dinosaur lives in. Both can be utilized to create unique parks just like the ones in the screenshots if you know what you're doing.

The dinosaurs are gorgeous, like a lot of games you can easily just watch them and see them enjoy the enclosure you made for them. A majority of the attention this game got feels like it was put directly into the dinosaurs, which I don't feel like I can complain about.

But the downsides start when you begin to look into gameplay. Here is a list of things off the top of my head that has bothered me:
  • Crashes from placing objects, moving buildings or deleting things.
  • Render distance causes visible tree shadows to flicker, along with abrupt lighting changes in general.
  • AI feels unfinished and neglected. Basic would be an understatement
  • Staff management is unintuitive and annoying.
  • The music, for me at least, doesn't say "Prehistoric Kingdom" it sounds very generic

But these by no means make me regret buying this game I've already got my park up and going and just got my pair of T-rex' all settled in and with plenty of more space to expand and put in more dinosaurs I'm excited to see all these other dinosaurs I haven't got yet.
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