Jurassic World Evolution
Jurassic World: Evolution is a game that is stilted, sterile and constrictive in its park building gameplay, level design and soundtrack. Being a spiritual successor to 2003’s Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, it somehow manages to come short of doing certain things better than its predecessor even with the impressive and amazing visuals, increased dinosaur roster and DLCs.
Its park building management is incredibly shallow and the game feels largely incomplete despite the current dinosaur roster size and especially without the DLC packs.
– Real player with 128.9 hrs in game
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5 hours in and I love it. Been awhile since a game made me stay up to 3AM
– Real player with 87.8 hrs in game
Jurassic World Evolution 2
I was going to wait till after christmas to see if this was going to get better, but with down right frustrating stuff going on here, nah this needs to be done now. This is abysmally annoying compared to the first.
I’ll start off with the pros:
Paleobotany is now a part of paddock building itself, very welcome very nice. Good step up.
Automation on the park vehicles is a lot better now… for the most part.
Slightly bigger maps, though it may not seem like it where 1’s were stretched out into long thin lines, these are all most compact and lumpy.
– Real player with 188.1 hrs in game
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Overall I recommend this game with an asterisk which I will go into a bit.
Mechanically, the game is an overall improvement on a base level from the previous game, at least as far as the core functions of the dinosaurs, park building, and pinning down what your guests need to get a five star park is. Makes it a lot more engaging then simply plopping down a hotel, arcade, clothes shop and restuarant near every viewing gallery. Guests wants are communicated slightly better and paths, shelters, etc. make even a bare bones five star challenge park look like a beautiful well done theme park in contrast to previous games where its a mess of buildings and hotels huddled in one place to artificially inflate a rating with a big multisectioned square of fences with nothing but diplos and dilophos in them.
– Real player with 125.2 hrs in game
Prehistoric Kingdom
Take control of limitless power to build, manage and grow the ultimate zoo for extinct animals in Prehistoric Kingdom.
Design and decorate beautiful habitats using an array of powerful creative tools. Grow jungles, carve rivers and raise mountains across the enormous playable area to create the perfect park for your specimens.
Unlock your creativity with robust modular building tools to construct housing and shelters by hand.
Take up the role of park manager by developing the infrastructure to care for guests, animals and staff alike. Ensure resources and safety is kept in-order to delay the inevitable!
From the majestic Woolly Mammoth to the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, undo the rules of extinction by breeding a diverse selection of prehistoric wildlife.
Find new creatures and genetic skins by discovering genetic material from all over the world, unleashing unseen levels of customization and choice.
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Dinosaur Fossil Hunter: Prologue
This exceeded my expectations, and was very satisfying to play. For a free to play demo, I think this is great for a sim. A nice backstory, and a great taste of the full game. The idea of going from GPR to dig, encasing the fossils, shipping them, THEN cleaning the bones and building the displays was the entire spectrum, and it’s hands-on, not teleporting to the site. You have to drive there, set up the perimeter, and dig that stuff out yourself! Inspect what you dig, encase it in plaster, put it in the case, ship it, it’s the entire process, and that’s what I want in a sim. Also, you get achievements for a demo! One of them is still vexing me, but I’ll get it. Photos in the slideshow have images not in this prologue, but there is plenty here for an afternoon of fun, and I’m going to purchase day one. There’s a bit of noise about the lack of an avatar driving the car, but that is not an issue for me, and will likely be fixed in the full release of the game. Perhaps if/when gender and identity issues come up, but honestly there is no spoken dialogue, and gender-neutrality should be important in a game like this. Put tinted windows on the dang car, with a shadow, and it’s not an issue. There is enough depth and flexibility in gameplay for me.
– Real player with 6.4 hrs in game
Nauseatingly bad.
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Don’t get me wrong, there’s a good idea for a young children’s game here. Visually it’s interesting and there’s an attempt at adding variety with mini-games.
Unfortunately everything about it is just done poorly. The controls are slippery with a terrible lag even after turning up mouse acceleration. The camera is nauseating and just kind of floats and drifts, not always in the direction you wanted to go. I can’t go more than a few minutes without a glitch either visually or functionally, with something getting stuck on something or something falling through something. I’ve seen amateur games with more polish and less problems.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
Play a free prologue version now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1339460/Dinosaur_Fossil_Hunter_Prologue
ABOUT THIS GAME
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter is a storytelling simulator where you live a real paleontologist’s life. Explore different lands, search, uncover and study uncovered fossils, and prepare the skeletons to build your own museum. You will learn many interesting facts about these extinct creatures that walked the Earth millions of years ago.
Game features:
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Drive off-road vehicles in locations inspired by U.S. landscapes
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Use various exploration and excavation tools to search through deformable terrain
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Prepare fossils to showcase in your own museum
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Learn about numerous dinosaur species while studying their detailed skeletons
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Follow an intriguing storyline
TRAVEL THE UNKNOWN
Hit the road to search for fossils of extinct species that once ruled the Earth. Enjoy diverse landscapes across the United States, where you’ll force your way through mud, water, and various environmental hazards. Destroy rocks, drain bodies of water, and search for your prize in a vast terrain.
EXPLORE EXCAVATION AREAS
Collecting fossils is not that easy, especially if you have to dig by yourself. Use your georadar to search for clues and discover the remains of extinct species, adding to your insight of the Earth’s distant past. If you think all you have to do is find the right area, you’re wrong. It’s just the beginning! Use multiple tools, such as a chainsaw, shovel, or pickaxe, to achieve your goal. But, be careful! These bones can be very fragile.
PREPARE DELICATE FOSSILS
Precious fossils are very delicate, so you need to carefully clean the bones to ensure that nothing gets damaged before assembling a complete prehistoric skeleton. Manage your know-how using the portable in-game tablet and become a world-renowned paleontologist.
DESIGN YOUR OWN MUSEUM
After your dinosaur skeletons are complete, it’s time to customize your museum. Arrange the interior, grow plants, and decorate the building with various displays. Design your own prehistoric diorama. Choose all the elements for the set, from small plants to rocks and even types of soil. Arrange dinosaurs to create thrilling, dynamic settings and give them life to stoke the imagination of your visitors. Become a truly brilliant curator of your own private museum!
Parkasaurus
Okay, so I’m a huge fan of zoo-based park management games, right? I’ve spent a good portion of my childhood pretty much wasting away on them. Zoo Tycoon, Wildlife Park, Jurassic World Genesis, Zoo Empire, you name it. But I’ll be honest, when I first saw Parkasaurus, I really did not think I would enjoy this game all that much. Probably because it’s been so long since we’ve had a really good zoo management game (ZT2 Ultimate Collection is still considered the best by many zoo management fans, myself included, and that was released in ’08, so 10-11 years ago now), coupled with my own initial dislike for the ridiculously huge-eyed goofy art style and the fact that it’s solely focused on dinosaurs. Personally, I just didn’t have high expectations here.
– Real player with 319.3 hrs in game
☆The Old(est) Fashioned ‘Zoo Tycoon'☆
Parkasaurus has been on my wishlist for I dont know how long.
Right now, it’s the steam summer sale and I’ve been looking at games to distract me during the long heated summer hours.
I’ve been interested but I never really wanted to put £20 on it, like, it looked fun, but it’s…isometric? …Ehhh….
What I hadn’t realised was that the game is actually full on, low-poly style 3D! It’s not completely isometric art, and I appreciate that so much for a reason I’ll explain down below. I have played 4.5 hours so far, definitely going back for more, and this has let me play through two campaign levels (there’s loads left to do!) and the tutorial level.
– Real player with 25.6 hrs in game
Wildlife Park 2 - Dino World
very fun game although i personally think it needs some more dinosaurs like some kind of sauropod and galimimus. also carnotaurus would be awesome! either way this game is fun and if you learn how to do it right u can go without ever feeding ur dinos! (I dont mean hacking or glitching dont do that XD)
– Real player with 109.9 hrs in game
I am most pleased with Wildlife Park 2 as i have been playing for years and i am so glad that it has come to steam and i will have many more memorable moments in the future. Simply intriguing, Fascinating and mysterious as i am still learning more about the game.
My favourite thing to do is make an ecosytem of herbivores and predators that maintain healthy populations and feed themselves , and thus continue to survive by providing a proper genetic diversity for themselves. This way i can observe how the AI reacts and responds when left with little to no contact from the user.
– Real player with 107.0 hrs in game
ARK: Survival Evolved
dont read or watch anything people say about this game or company there all lying and you will get lots of spoilers and make you play the wrong way even most reviews will be spoiling and tutorials or almost any youtube video except this one
this review is objective all im doing is laying out the facts if i got something wrong tell me
about
a story driven pve sci fi rpg about a mysterious island and you must find the mystery of the island and escape
content
unbelievable amount 100s of hours of content and you can replay countless times because each time you play will be completely different a long story lots of areas to explore so many items(over 1000) and so many enemies(over 100 not counting bosses)
– Real player with 4302.0 hrs in game
When the game was released, this game was my favorite survival game, maps, jungle, tame dinosaurs, crafting, almost everything.
But since they created the TEK tier and the new maps, everything is gone.
It looks more like galactic fights than a survival game with dinosaurs. The essence that made it great has been lost.
Now when fighting pvp, either you are in a tribe with 5 friends or more, with a lot of tek or you do nothing. I recommend playing it in the Primitive Plus mode or else on PvE servers
– Real player with 2754.0 hrs in game
Jurassic Architect
The earth has been deteriorating more and more for many years. The development of civilization has depleted most of the earth, and the sky no longer lets in as much sun as it used to. The only solution was to combine the forces of the world’s greatest powers and the construction of a portal that would allow humanity to once again move to the times of natural fertility. Unfortunately, not everyone can get there. First of all, it will be necessary to send appropriate groups of people who will build and secure the settlement in order to be able to attract more people to it over time.
When creating our settlement, we must remember to provide it with all the necessary resources. The areas from this era provide not only various rock deposits, but also ideal conditions for renewable energy sources or soil for numerous crops.
It is only up to you what kind of people you want to create a new civilization from. Qualified scientists, soldiers, mechanics, farmers - there is a job for everyone if you provide them with a roof over their heads.
This era provides plenty of essential resources, but the presence of dinosaurs is not always positive. Some of them can be harnessed to work in mining, others can be ridden or placed in arenas to the delight of the inhabitants, but you have to defend yourself against others, constantly strengthening the fortifications of your settlement.
Lead a group of colonizers and create a new civilization in the age of the dinosaurs. The fate of mankind depends only on you!
Wildlife Park - Wild Creatures
the more creatures you please the happier you are.
– Real player with 91.0 hrs in game
This is by far my favorite game to play now. I was a HUGE fan of the Zoo Tycoon franchise, and being that it isn’t available on Steam (and my laptop has no disk drive) I downloaded the original “Wildlife Park” to see how I like it. I LOVED IT, so I downloaded the “Wild Creatures” expansion. Having loved that so much as well, I play this game more than any others I’ve gotten from Steam.
Bottom line: LOVE the original title and the “Wild Creatures” expansion more than I ever loved Zoo Tycoon and it’s entire franchise.
– Real player with 26.2 hrs in game