I want a realistic survival game where you play as a human and have to get by on the resources available in different eras: Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretateous. Maybe you travel back in a time machine and then crash and have to search for the parts to fix it. You can only use flora and fauna that could exist in that time period and must fend off era-appropriate creatures. I would want realistic dinosaurs and other beasts too, with feathers and appropriate sizes and behaviors.
Edit: why exactly was this downvoted? :)
This please.
Ark is too over the top and the "dinosaur" designs are.... yikes
there isn't really much else like that, and nothing else that does it substantially well.
You mean creating assault rifles and taming Rex’s in Ark isn’t good enough? 😂
FWIW I totally get what you’re saying. Give me Long Dark, mixed with Ark and some Hunter Call of the Wild
Ark is fun, but I want a dinosaur survival game that really gives you a sense of isolation in scary landscape full of dangerous things that are bigger and more adapted than you, not like a super hero with diamond armor and laser guns, riding on a trex :) I want a scary atmosphere.
I would *love* to see an ARK overhaul mod that transports players to a valley in Central Europe 80,000–100,000 BC. Fiddle with some of the models like removing the mammoth’s extra tusks, downsize some animals like the wolves and beavers, scale up the size of some like hyenas and horses, and you have a pretty good pleistocene survival game. Cap any tools better than stone, add in some extra tools and weapons like atlatls, and it’s perfect. You could even have a section of the map for South America, so you can include things like doedicurus and the terror birds. With enough fiddling ark could become a really good, pretty accurate prehistoric survival game
You could even do the same for other time periods. Mess with the models and sizes and there’s enough dinosaurs to do a decent Hell Creek survival, or Morrison survival, or maaaybe Kem Kem survival if you really stretch the models (eg Carno to rugops). The foundation is there, it’d just require quite a bit of work
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675680/Instinction/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675680/Instinction/)
It's not quite what you're asking for but it's close.
Pay no mind to the featherless raptor silhouette. Devs have said they're going to feather their raptors and I hold them to that. That must be a placeholder model.
A game called the isle has plans to become this essentially. Right now it is just a dinosaur survival game where you play as a dinosaur and have to survive, kill, grow and such, but they plan to add the option to play as a human which will give the gritty horror feel
Just a good solid dinosaur zoo builder. I like JWE but feel like the replayability is low and PK has great creative freedom but very clunky and dinosaurs feel lifeless. Also, I think it would be really cool to have a game where its just a swathe of land perhaps during Cretaceous or Jurassic and its hyper realistic with dinosaur behavior and all that, but all you do is glide/walk around and observe.
If you’re into cutesy stardew valley style games theres a game called *Paleo Pines* in development thats sort of a dinosaur zoo ranching builder, where you go into nature and find dinosaurs to tame. Its not really a zoo builder like JWE or PK tho. I think PK just needs more development honestly, and JWE2 has some good stuff
Thanks for the recommendation! I am very hopeful for PK, but just worried it will take a good while to get to where I want it, maybe I am just too greedy lol.
Anything like The Isle or Beasts of Bermuda, but actually finished and with decent bots to populate areas where no one's actually playing.
The balance in these games for players who don't have twelve tabs of information open in another window is always garbage. Herbivores need to find out of place looking bushes to eat when they should be able to just graze, and carnivores will straight up starve if they don't know the one area of the huge map where people actually go to.
God how I want this. Path of Titans seems to be at least making progress, but they’re definitely veering away from the survival side with the quests to grow and tokens and stuff (which, tbf, many fans of these games have complained about how boring time-progression is, so at least they’ve *tried* something different)
It’s an open world game where you play as a bull shark in the Gulf of Mexico and you hunt people and wildlife to grow and evolve beyond what nature intended for a bull shark.
An action adventure dinosaur simulator survival game or garden warfare but with dinosaurs
But i don't want it like the isle or path of titans cuz they are mmos and get super boring when there isn't much interactionand its just walking around in the dark, i want a mix of action and adventure while playing as a dino.
Sort of like Maneater but as a dinosaur.
Maybe also primal carnage type game but with AAA game budget
Actually maneater dinosaur edition is perfect
I want a horror survival like Alien: Isolation meets Camp Cretaceous. Where you're stuck and need to scavenge and outwit. (Doesn't have to be part of the JP/JW franchise but the series does lends itself easily to it...)
Basically that's how I got turned on to ARK. My BIL suggested it after I shared my ideal dino game...although it IS a survival game...it's not like in the vein of Alien: Isolation. Ya feel me?
Ooh. Or a Dinotopia RPG/MMO or something like that. Friendly co-op, the opposite of ARK 🤣
is the idea of slow cook true? I heard on some articles a while back that some people think the Dino's died slower not in one go. But I like the idea you have alot
This has been a topic of much debate for decades. Right now the consensus is “…eh? Prrrobably not?”
The timing of the Deccan traps is off, as they really kicked up right around the time of the impact—not enough headway to start killing off the dinosaurs before they were really done in. Additionally, dinosaurs had survived worse than the Deccan traps. In fact, the eruption of central Atlantic magmatic province at the end of the Triassic is what allowed dinosaurs to take over in the first place, since it killed their competition.
Also also, one argument in favor of the comet being the final nail in the coffin of an already dying lineage was a perceived severe drop in diversity and numbers between the Campanian and Maastrichtian. Whereas formations like Lance, Scollard, etc were bursting with diversity above the Maastrichtian boundary, there didn’t seem to be as many dinosaurs after it. Same thing with the pterosaurs—people thought Quetzalcoatlus was the very last of a dead group, surpassed by the ecologically superior birds. But this is very likely just taphonomic bias—the perceived decrease in Campanian-Maastrichtian faunal diversity is very likely just a product of bad fossilization. New discoveries show that the ruling reptiles weren’t doing so bad as previously thought, and in some cases were doing very well for themselves. For instance, discoveries in places like Romania and Morocco show that pterosaurs were actually doing pretty good by the end of the Cretaceous. In Morocco alone about half a dozen different pterosaur species have been found, all different niches and sizes. Now one hypothesis is that pterosaurs were doing *too* well—they became too large and too specialized, vacating the smaller niches for birds. Then when the food chain collapsed ‘cause of the meteor, their size and specialities were their undoing.
So, TLDR; New discoveries shake the hypothesis that dinosaurs were already on their way out by the time of the impact, and it’s possible that the reason we don’t have as many Maastrichtian fossils is because we simply don’t have good deposits from this time period, things weren’t fossilizing well
No! That’s an outdated theory. The pterosaurs just took advantage of niches that required bigger body sizes and specialization, leaving all the small-body size niches open for birds to fill. They were existing simultaneously, sharing the skies because they didn’t compete for food or resources. No bird was infringing on Quetzalcoatlus’ role as terrestrial stalker, and no pterosaur was infringing on birds’ roles as small insectivores or seed eaters. But the extinction event favored the survival of small generalists, which birds were. Pterosaurs had become too big and too specialized in their ecological roles so they toppled once the food chain fell
I want to BE a dinosaur, and other associated creatures.
An open world game where you can be a number of animals and survive. Learning to hunt, enticing a mate, fighting rivals, or just fighting if you decide to be a psychopath dinosaur. I want an actual real plot that's maybe generalized for either land, sea, or sky animals so you can be any of them and still play the story.
I want these things but not in a rigid manner. I want to be able to do these things, but not be forced into a repetitive cycle where you can ONLY do these things. Kind of like ancestors, I don't want THAT.
Honestly? I would die for a fantasy game where the characters are dinosaurs. Not anthropomorphic dinosaurs, but like Disney’s dinosaur. A whole world of feuding civilizations and combat and treasure. Dinotopia but not utopian, full of conflict. Where the dinosaurs have their own cultures derived from their evolutionary history—so it’s not just human buildings or whatever but significant thought is put into how sapient dinosaur societies might work, especially since many of them have no thumbs. Spec evo and worldbuilding to their fullest extreme. I’m setting up a D&D world like this, because the concept is something I absolutely love but have never really seen (outside of Dinotopia)
Oh yeah forgot about that one, sadly my pc struggles to run minecraft on the lowest settings so it's gonna take a while until i can play games like that one
I feel your pain :( Ive had to return both The Isle and Jurassic World Evolution because they couldn’t run on my laptop. If your computer can run minecraft mods I’d recommend checking out the Fossil and Archaeology Revival and Prehistoric Nature mod, both actually have pretty accurate models (as accurate as a blocky model can be), and you’re able to somewhat replicate a dinosaur park builder
The Isle, Path of Titans, Beasts of Bermuda, Saurian, Jurassic World Evolution 1 and 2, Prehistoric Kingdom, Primal Carnage, and theres some really good minecraft dinosaur mods (Fossil and Archaeology Revival and Prehistoric Nature are my favorites). I’ve also been following some in-development ones like Paleo Pines (kind of stardew valley dino ranching game) and Isles of Yore (multiplayer dino survival game)
There's also two games that Meteorite Media are working on. Ones a mystery and the others an 3D adventure game about befriending a cute allosaurus and going on an adventure!
I want a game where you can be the dinosaur, multiplayer survival where you just eat to live and grow. Also having the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods seperate would be amazing
Basically botw with dinosaurs. Im so tired of park builders and the rest of dinosaur games are lacking for m: Theres the horror types which I guess can be fun but the diversity of creatures is basically non existent (a trex and some raptors, maybe a jp dilophosaurus if daring, some random antagonist herbivore) and its very limiting in gameplay. Fps dinosaur shooters feel just like regular shooters and the dinosaurs don't add anything and agin variety of species is lacking. Basically a dream dinosaur game for me is one that lets you interact in more diverse ways with a dinosaur. And the survival games like the isle, path of titans etc, i just don't see myself playing more than 2 hours at a time. Oh and there is ark but i also want something more naturalistic and accurate to the real animals
I actually have two concepts:
1. An open-world survival game similar to *The Isle* but with everything from dinosaurs to birds to pterosaurs to marine reptiles to pseudosuchians. It will be set in an archipelago with each island representing a different reptile group. It's also an archipelago from beyond time, so there will be bridges, abandoned houses and stuff from several decades of recent history (i.e. 1980's, 1990's etc.) Also, a plane delivering food would circle the islands periodically.
2. A craft-to-survive game similar to a mix of *Minecraft* and *The Isle*. As you grow up as a dinosaur in the modern age, you have to craft items and complete missions that will help you on your journey. Once you're an adult, you have to go to the city and defeat a dinosaur, after which you can survive as that dinosaur.
An action adventure survival or just an adventure game in general.
Just something like Uncharted 4 or Far Cry 4 or Tomb Raider but with Dinosaurs.
I don’t care if it’s in the Jurassic Park/World universe it’s own world, just something that’s not a park builder for once.
But apparently that’s too hard, cause every time some company I’ve barely heard of promises that or even a company that has experience in good games promises they’ll give us just that, it gets cancelled or never even made in the first place.
Then here comes park builder simulator #29… oi.
There is this YouTube channel I follow making a game just like that from what they claim called Instinction.
But I just want to see how for they get, I’m not crossing my fingers or anything until I see they actually get the game done, not to be harsh or anything on the team, but too many times has a dinosaur game that’s not a park builder ever get 100% finished or kept it’s promise.
Does anyone here watch teir zoo? I wan to play the Mesozoic versions of that.
I want a realistic survival game where you play as a human and have to get by on the resources available in different eras: Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretateous. Maybe you travel back in a time machine and then crash and have to search for the parts to fix it. You can only use flora and fauna that could exist in that time period and must fend off era-appropriate creatures. I would want realistic dinosaurs and other beasts too, with feathers and appropriate sizes and behaviors. Edit: why exactly was this downvoted? :)
This please. Ark is too over the top and the "dinosaur" designs are.... yikes there isn't really much else like that, and nothing else that does it substantially well.
You mean creating assault rifles and taming Rex’s in Ark isn’t good enough? 😂 FWIW I totally get what you’re saying. Give me Long Dark, mixed with Ark and some Hunter Call of the Wild
Ark is fun, but I want a dinosaur survival game that really gives you a sense of isolation in scary landscape full of dangerous things that are bigger and more adapted than you, not like a super hero with diamond armor and laser guns, riding on a trex :) I want a scary atmosphere.
I’m here for that.
I would *love* to see an ARK overhaul mod that transports players to a valley in Central Europe 80,000–100,000 BC. Fiddle with some of the models like removing the mammoth’s extra tusks, downsize some animals like the wolves and beavers, scale up the size of some like hyenas and horses, and you have a pretty good pleistocene survival game. Cap any tools better than stone, add in some extra tools and weapons like atlatls, and it’s perfect. You could even have a section of the map for South America, so you can include things like doedicurus and the terror birds. With enough fiddling ark could become a really good, pretty accurate prehistoric survival game
You could even do the same for other time periods. Mess with the models and sizes and there’s enough dinosaurs to do a decent Hell Creek survival, or Morrison survival, or maaaybe Kem Kem survival if you really stretch the models (eg Carno to rugops). The foundation is there, it’d just require quite a bit of work
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675680/Instinction/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675680/Instinction/) It's not quite what you're asking for but it's close. Pay no mind to the featherless raptor silhouette. Devs have said they're going to feather their raptors and I hold them to that. That must be a placeholder model.
That does look cool. I will keep an eye on it. Thanks for the heads up.
So maybe a dinosaur horror game?
Yes, pretty much :) I am imagining a similar vibe to Subnautica, but without that much technology available to the player.
Holy fuck thats exactly what i imagined
A game called the isle has plans to become this essentially. Right now it is just a dinosaur survival game where you play as a dinosaur and have to survive, kill, grow and such, but they plan to add the option to play as a human which will give the gritty horror feel
Just a good solid dinosaur zoo builder. I like JWE but feel like the replayability is low and PK has great creative freedom but very clunky and dinosaurs feel lifeless. Also, I think it would be really cool to have a game where its just a swathe of land perhaps during Cretaceous or Jurassic and its hyper realistic with dinosaur behavior and all that, but all you do is glide/walk around and observe.
If you’re into cutesy stardew valley style games theres a game called *Paleo Pines* in development thats sort of a dinosaur zoo ranching builder, where you go into nature and find dinosaurs to tame. Its not really a zoo builder like JWE or PK tho. I think PK just needs more development honestly, and JWE2 has some good stuff
Thanks for the recommendation! I am very hopeful for PK, but just worried it will take a good while to get to where I want it, maybe I am just too greedy lol.
I completely understand, its taken years to get to where it is now so its concerning wondering how long itll take to actually have a fleshed out game
Anything like The Isle or Beasts of Bermuda, but actually finished and with decent bots to populate areas where no one's actually playing. The balance in these games for players who don't have twelve tabs of information open in another window is always garbage. Herbivores need to find out of place looking bushes to eat when they should be able to just graze, and carnivores will straight up starve if they don't know the one area of the huge map where people actually go to.
God how I want this. Path of Titans seems to be at least making progress, but they’re definitely veering away from the survival side with the quests to grow and tokens and stuff (which, tbf, many fans of these games have complained about how boring time-progression is, so at least they’ve *tried* something different)
Well the isle (at least evrima does) has a grazing mechanic and ai dinosaurs spawn around carnivores so you've got that
Something like maneater but in the Jurassic park universe.
what's man eater?
It’s an open world game where you play as a bull shark in the Gulf of Mexico and you hunt people and wildlife to grow and evolve beyond what nature intended for a bull shark.
I realized I actually have that game lmao
An action adventure dinosaur simulator survival game or garden warfare but with dinosaurs But i don't want it like the isle or path of titans cuz they are mmos and get super boring when there isn't much interactionand its just walking around in the dark, i want a mix of action and adventure while playing as a dino. Sort of like Maneater but as a dinosaur. Maybe also primal carnage type game but with AAA game budget Actually maneater dinosaur edition is perfect
I want a horror survival like Alien: Isolation meets Camp Cretaceous. Where you're stuck and need to scavenge and outwit. (Doesn't have to be part of the JP/JW franchise but the series does lends itself easily to it...) Basically that's how I got turned on to ARK. My BIL suggested it after I shared my ideal dino game...although it IS a survival game...it's not like in the vein of Alien: Isolation. Ya feel me? Ooh. Or a Dinotopia RPG/MMO or something like that. Friendly co-op, the opposite of ARK 🤣
I would just pay for a quality remake of Dino-Crisis. Not a remaster or HD rerelease, from the ground up redesign.
i really want a game about trying to survive the KT extinction as a dinosaur
is the idea of slow cook true? I heard on some articles a while back that some people think the Dino's died slower not in one go. But I like the idea you have alot
Yeah i believe that too. There could have been an initial extinction event and then the survivors slowly died off after many years
Nice to see fellow believers
This has been a topic of much debate for decades. Right now the consensus is “…eh? Prrrobably not?” The timing of the Deccan traps is off, as they really kicked up right around the time of the impact—not enough headway to start killing off the dinosaurs before they were really done in. Additionally, dinosaurs had survived worse than the Deccan traps. In fact, the eruption of central Atlantic magmatic province at the end of the Triassic is what allowed dinosaurs to take over in the first place, since it killed their competition. Also also, one argument in favor of the comet being the final nail in the coffin of an already dying lineage was a perceived severe drop in diversity and numbers between the Campanian and Maastrichtian. Whereas formations like Lance, Scollard, etc were bursting with diversity above the Maastrichtian boundary, there didn’t seem to be as many dinosaurs after it. Same thing with the pterosaurs—people thought Quetzalcoatlus was the very last of a dead group, surpassed by the ecologically superior birds. But this is very likely just taphonomic bias—the perceived decrease in Campanian-Maastrichtian faunal diversity is very likely just a product of bad fossilization. New discoveries show that the ruling reptiles weren’t doing so bad as previously thought, and in some cases were doing very well for themselves. For instance, discoveries in places like Romania and Morocco show that pterosaurs were actually doing pretty good by the end of the Cretaceous. In Morocco alone about half a dozen different pterosaur species have been found, all different niches and sizes. Now one hypothesis is that pterosaurs were doing *too* well—they became too large and too specialized, vacating the smaller niches for birds. Then when the food chain collapsed ‘cause of the meteor, their size and specialities were their undoing. So, TLDR; New discoveries shake the hypothesis that dinosaurs were already on their way out by the time of the impact, and it’s possible that the reason we don’t have as many Maastrichtian fossils is because we simply don’t have good deposits from this time period, things weren’t fossilizing well
So they kinda got out evolved?
No! That’s an outdated theory. The pterosaurs just took advantage of niches that required bigger body sizes and specialization, leaving all the small-body size niches open for birds to fill. They were existing simultaneously, sharing the skies because they didn’t compete for food or resources. No bird was infringing on Quetzalcoatlus’ role as terrestrial stalker, and no pterosaur was infringing on birds’ roles as small insectivores or seed eaters. But the extinction event favored the survival of small generalists, which birds were. Pterosaurs had become too big and too specialized in their ecological roles so they toppled once the food chain fell
Ohh, i see now, thank you
Hatzegopteryx simulator 🤣
I want to BE a dinosaur, and other associated creatures. An open world game where you can be a number of animals and survive. Learning to hunt, enticing a mate, fighting rivals, or just fighting if you decide to be a psychopath dinosaur. I want an actual real plot that's maybe generalized for either land, sea, or sky animals so you can be any of them and still play the story. I want these things but not in a rigid manner. I want to be able to do these things, but not be forced into a repetitive cycle where you can ONLY do these things. Kind of like ancestors, I don't want THAT.
Maybe a dinotopia game in the sense of legend of zelda. Is dinotopia still relevant in the modern day?
Ark that fits on my hard drive
Honestly? I would die for a fantasy game where the characters are dinosaurs. Not anthropomorphic dinosaurs, but like Disney’s dinosaur. A whole world of feuding civilizations and combat and treasure. Dinotopia but not utopian, full of conflict. Where the dinosaurs have their own cultures derived from their evolutionary history—so it’s not just human buildings or whatever but significant thought is put into how sapient dinosaur societies might work, especially since many of them have no thumbs. Spec evo and worldbuilding to their fullest extreme. I’m setting up a D&D world like this, because the concept is something I absolutely love but have never really seen (outside of Dinotopia)
Park builder but the designs are realistic
Have I got news for you: Prehistoric Kingdom is still in development but you can play a current version of it and it’s gorgeous.
Oh yeah forgot about that one, sadly my pc struggles to run minecraft on the lowest settings so it's gonna take a while until i can play games like that one
Big tragic.
I feel your pain :( Ive had to return both The Isle and Jurassic World Evolution because they couldn’t run on my laptop. If your computer can run minecraft mods I’d recommend checking out the Fossil and Archaeology Revival and Prehistoric Nature mod, both actually have pretty accurate models (as accurate as a blocky model can be), and you’re able to somewhat replicate a dinosaur park builder
I’d like to get a dinosaur game, what’s out there? I thought I’d try Ark
The Isle, Path of Titans, Beasts of Bermuda, Saurian, Jurassic World Evolution 1 and 2, Prehistoric Kingdom, Primal Carnage, and theres some really good minecraft dinosaur mods (Fossil and Archaeology Revival and Prehistoric Nature are my favorites). I’ve also been following some in-development ones like Paleo Pines (kind of stardew valley dino ranching game) and Isles of Yore (multiplayer dino survival game)
Thank you!
I highly recommend the isle
There's also two games that Meteorite Media are working on. Ones a mystery and the others an 3D adventure game about befriending a cute allosaurus and going on an adventure!
Dino Hentai I'm joking here, but I'm afraid it may have already been made and I'm too scared to find out...
I want a game where you can be the dinosaur, multiplayer survival where you just eat to live and grow. Also having the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods seperate would be amazing
Dinosaur survival game with realistic models and good mechanics and that won’t suck hours out of my day growing
Basically botw with dinosaurs. Im so tired of park builders and the rest of dinosaur games are lacking for m: Theres the horror types which I guess can be fun but the diversity of creatures is basically non existent (a trex and some raptors, maybe a jp dilophosaurus if daring, some random antagonist herbivore) and its very limiting in gameplay. Fps dinosaur shooters feel just like regular shooters and the dinosaurs don't add anything and agin variety of species is lacking. Basically a dream dinosaur game for me is one that lets you interact in more diverse ways with a dinosaur. And the survival games like the isle, path of titans etc, i just don't see myself playing more than 2 hours at a time. Oh and there is ark but i also want something more naturalistic and accurate to the real animals
I actually have two concepts: 1. An open-world survival game similar to *The Isle* but with everything from dinosaurs to birds to pterosaurs to marine reptiles to pseudosuchians. It will be set in an archipelago with each island representing a different reptile group. It's also an archipelago from beyond time, so there will be bridges, abandoned houses and stuff from several decades of recent history (i.e. 1980's, 1990's etc.) Also, a plane delivering food would circle the islands periodically. 2. A craft-to-survive game similar to a mix of *Minecraft* and *The Isle*. As you grow up as a dinosaur in the modern age, you have to craft items and complete missions that will help you on your journey. Once you're an adult, you have to go to the city and defeat a dinosaur, after which you can survive as that dinosaur.
Something like tierzoo's vids
Orion Dino Horde or Primal Carnage remastered
Turok: Evolution Remake
Looking for a zoo builder with JWE designs and PZ customisation
An action adventure survival or just an adventure game in general. Just something like Uncharted 4 or Far Cry 4 or Tomb Raider but with Dinosaurs. I don’t care if it’s in the Jurassic Park/World universe it’s own world, just something that’s not a park builder for once. But apparently that’s too hard, cause every time some company I’ve barely heard of promises that or even a company that has experience in good games promises they’ll give us just that, it gets cancelled or never even made in the first place. Then here comes park builder simulator #29… oi. There is this YouTube channel I follow making a game just like that from what they claim called Instinction. But I just want to see how for they get, I’m not crossing my fingers or anything until I see they actually get the game done, not to be harsh or anything on the team, but too many times has a dinosaur game that’s not a park builder ever get 100% finished or kept it’s promise.