"Word down the grapevine is that their lead map developer resigned because he wasn't being paid, and the owners of BOB were trying to haggle the signed and agreed upon payments down even lower. It would be interesting to see someone actually investigate this, because while I don't really want to say too much more and get myself in trouble with the BOB Devs for something or other, it would be good to know how much weight there is behind it."

Dev banned a user for their steam review because it had the above paragraph on it. Citing libel (which it absolutely isn't). Proof in the imgur library below.

https://imgur.com/a/beasts-of-bermuda-really-cares-P8gDx13?third_party=1#_=_

Banning users for a negative review and trying to scare them with "Libel is illegal" is toxic.

Enjoy this review. It won't be editted or removed
@Predatoria

If you avoid the most toxic servers and part of the player base, it's awesome. You have to find a good server that fit your play style. Some servers are impossible to enjoy if you don't already know the people there or have enough friends to play with, since people are gonna want to kill you before you get anywhere.

For me, Walking With Dinosaurs (WWD realism role-playing server) is the answer. There are rules in place to give every dinosaur a chance to live and thrive. There are big para herds roaming around, I had never seen that before I joined this server. Here you won't find a big group of huge dinosaurs killing everything in their path, that's not in the group. It's really great to get to know this mostly friendly part of the Beasts of Bermuda player base, it's the least toxic server I have been able to find so far. And I ain't gonna leave now, good luck finding a great server for you to join! God knows it's not easy to find one.

Pretty game that has potential, but my personal experience with game play has not been positive. And not for the lack of content. There is currently no single-player option and one must join a server in order to play the game. I picked the server with the most people in so I could enjoy playing with/against other dinos. Unfortunately, these servers tend to have asinine and piddly rules that are easy to break (i.e. accidentally laying down so your body clips into the ground, or drinking at a water source that other people have "claimed" [which is allowed by the game mechanics, but not the middle-school-age-acting groups of people who bully other people out of "their" area by telling on them and threaten to get them banned]).
Confusing when you're told you're breaking rules that you don't even know exist.
Less of a dinosaur game and more of a RP popularity contest which newcomers are excluded from.

(Edited 7-13-21) So this is something that is long, long overdue. I would like to say that with 882 hours on record at the time my review was made, and 1910 by the time my review was updated, that I have seen a lot of the game, both good and bad. It's rapidly becoming a game I have regretted.

There are things that have come to happen that I wish hadn't, and some that I have enjoyed. I'm going to update them as is- the positives and the negatives.


1. Beasts of Bermuda (BOB) has a lot of freedom other games don't. You want to make a dino that is entirely speed? You want to do the zoom? You can do the zoom. Outrun all the other dinos with your speed. Be the meme.

2. You can make any color of dino that you want. Bright pink? You can do it. Bright blue? Yep. You wanna play camo dino and hide from the world? Absolutely.

3. The community. This one is a good and a bad, so keep this in mind. The community can be very good, if you find a great server. I for one found an absolutely amazing group of people to play with, and met people that I would genuinely call my friends for the first time in a great many years.

4. Limitless growth. It isn't really limitless- you reach 100.0 and that's it, but feasibly your dino actually starves to death before then, but it's actually a great lot of fun try and striving to reach 2.0. On official servers, 2.0 is a huge achievement. Unofficial servers are different and shouldn't be treated the same.

(Edited 7-13-21) Although you're more punished for growing bigger than 1.2 now... But that's something you should learn by browsing youtube. It's full of plenty of people who will educate you on how the game actually is, better than the store page ever will.


(Edited 7-13-21) Warning: Hard truths are difficult pills to swallow.

Edited (7-13-21) 1. I've edited this one again, because I no longer fear the repurcussions. I was given what appeared to be a game wide ban until I complied with Predatoria's wishes and removed the original comment, otherwise he would not remove said ban. Whilst also being very rude to me during said discussion, to boot.

The original cause of the ban is long since a thing of the past that people don't really discuss anymore, but point stands- this happened, in the game. Be careful what you say if you buy it- you don't have freedom here.

2. The constant clan wars and unfair justice system. Kind of self explanatory there, but I'll extrapolate. Do not play BOB if you want or expect any degree of fairness from the moderator team. They had to recently add a rule to the official bob discord that the, and I quote, "-Placing real world money bounties on players." was not allowed. I was a player that had a bounty on me, and was terrorized and harrassed for months by a select number of people that I won't name.

People who lost weeks upon weeks of growth in the game weren't permitted revives, either, even with video proof.

The punishment they received when it all came to light? A short ban, where upon returning, they immediately tried to attack again. And no repercussions, to my knowledge, came of that either.

3. Blatant favoritism. The admin and moderators will deal devastating punishment to anyone outside of their friend group for the slightest of things.

No mixpacking is allowed on official- mixpacking is specifically stated as groups of people not allowed to group together (acro and a rex for instance) assisting each other in hunting another creature. I've seen this rule broken before, many times- but no one stepped in, even with video proof, to make right the things that were targeted.

4. While this one isn't as bad now, there is still an unpleasant amount of distrust between players to staff. There are a scant few that are somewhat decent. But they are a few gems in a field full of rot. If you were to talk to the general populace, you'll find that most of them turn to other players for help instead of moderators.

I've done it myself when my dinos have gotten stuck.

You should not fear the people who are supposed to help you.

5. The community. Like I said, this is good and bad. The good is- friends. Absolutely friends. The bad? The unregulated toxicity that can run rampant, and has to be kept in check by players instead of the people supposed to regulate it.

6. The fact that the development of the game seems to be guiding it towards an Isle 2.0, despite the player base as a large not wanting that.

The lead developer is pretty obviously in dislike for the people growing big dinos- and at every turn, more or less makes an update that manages to punish them. You don't get a good game, or keep a player base for long term, if you punish the people for doing what you made the game for- to play it and grow big. To have fun, make friends, and to create a unique social community within each server that's brought to life.


(Edited 7-13-21) A new patch came out today, so I am extrapolating a little on this.

I'm not going to go into the previous upgrade, with fires and how nothing can out run them- but more into the factor of today's update.

A poll was placed on the official servers regarding the populace's thoughts on implementing mixherding limitations. The general consensus was "I would not change official play, but would allow server owners to config variables for mixherding." alongside "Some species should naturally dislike each other."

They took these results, and today, immediately implemented hard limitations. As in, because of the location and types of some species (read, Semi-aquatics being a death sentence on a mountain) it is complete and total segregation of said dinosaurs.

This is basically the Isle 2.0- and removes a critical aspect that made BOB, well, BOB.

On top of this, it was expressed many times that people didn't like an update to one of the menu's updated looks. It wasn't until people were complaining IN GAME to the DEVELOPER that they listened to these complaints.

This is not a game you should buy if you want your voice heard.

That being said, it is still fun. It does have aspects that are fun and free. But don't get attached or expect anything you say to be heard.

I don't know if this is an aspect they are going to keep, as they're only intending to 'test' it, but given how they haven't 'fixed' the rivers with the dirty water update... I wouldn't hold out hope for it.

Buy it at your own risk, folks. When I first joined, this was a 9/10 game. Now, I'd rate it a 4/10 game.

I will compare this to the isle here because the games are so similar it would be dumb to try and not do that.

Gameplay: BoB's gameplay, compared to the Isle's gameplay, is insanely robust at first glance, but falls short of what you'd expect. It's got the same be-born, live, nest and survive baseline as the isle, but executes it much more effectively I think. For starters, your dinosaurs aren't lumbering hunks of titanium-based gravity-well-inducing lead-meat that can't trip over a small stone without causing a mass extinction event. The movement of all dinosaurs is solid, very solid, without being overpowered or too unrealistic. Things move as you expect them to, and it doesn't take 200000000000 years to get from one section of the world to the next. Also, caves are a thing, and there's purpose to them. Beyond that, the vast array of dinos is a nice thing. While the game lacks certain notable creatures like the Isle has, the ones in BoB are purpose-built and diverse which makes each one of them feel like you're playing a new game in a sense, as opposed to the isles "Pick one of these big things that do the same thing just about" approach to balancing their dinos. And with the wide array of builds you can create, in-depth color systems, and bloodline-traits, the game feels much more active and involved and you'll spend less time just sleeping to grow as in the isle. There's always something to be doing, and that's great. Plus, the little Oris can dig mincraft-worthy burrows, farm, and decorate so literally like... The isle has NOTHING comparable to that. It's awesome and I love that it was implemented, even if it is a bit OP.

Mechanics: Okay, so... Forget the isle, because the isle has like 5 mechanics and 2 of them revolve around exploiting turning-radius limitations so it's not even a battle there. OH MY GOD BOIS THIS IS THE GAME!!! Unique species-based traits can turn your lumbering T-Rex into Moby ♥♥♥♥'s arch-nemesis of the seas, you can give your tanky-anky access to the f***ing speedforce from DCU and throw everyone off their guard. The number of potential builds here is just... It's crazy. And you can combine them all (should you survive that long) into a super-beast that rewards players for playing smart and actually surviving to that point. It's not as flashy as the elders-system of EVRIMA, but it works. That being said, it's not going to be as crazy as i've stated from the get-go. While you -can- make highly specialized builds, it takes a lot of time past the adult-stage and some commitment to get there. Effectively, this lets you optimize your dino for scavenging, escaping, defense, ect. but it can be expressed in those excessive ways if you hyper-specialize the stat changes of each trait. The comfort mechanic also mitigates greifing and tail-turn battles effectively, something the Isle needs to take note of. There are robust storms that force players out of their comfort zone and give some under-used ones huge advantages for short periods of time. There is so much more than just eat-drink-sleep in this game, it's realistic while still being manageable and I love that. On top of that, the growth mechanic is way better executed here than in the isle. No more will you spend that 6 hour grow time alt-tabbed watching bad porn to pass the time, you're pretty capable at-spawn to make use of all the game has to offer and there's a lot to keep you engaged while you grow. The color-scheme system also encourages camouflage tactics, which is really cool because you CAN actually hide in this game if you utilize it correctly.

Graphics: Meh. Not even close to as good as EVRIMA is, but even old-isle has better looks. Still, it's not the worst thing ever and is very playable.

Optimization: Eeeeeh.... It's aight. I mean I have a 2k series machine and it still stutters from time to time. But again, it's very playable and only really hindering in high-speed air battles.

Fun!: Abso-lutely. I had more fun playing this game in the last 12 hours than i've had playing the isle in years. There's just so much more to keep you engaged and active, and it's less of a ego-battle between different dino-mains due to the shorter grow times and different builds. Overall, 7/10. Love the game, can't wait to see it grow. Yes, EVRIMA will quite possibly make this entire game obsolete if they don't update the engine physics and overal textures, but EVRIMA -might- be complete by 2025. This is done NOW and the devs are way more active. Get it, no doubt.

I want to preface this with... I love Beasts of Bermuda. I have played over a thousand hours across multiple alts.

There is not really another game like BoB out there right now. The infinite growth and ability to spec out your dino a new way every time you die really helps mitigate frustration when it happens, and makes it really feel like an accomplishment when you spend a month on the same creature and hit 2.0. The mechanics are deep, with a lot of area for exploration and complexity born from nesting. There's no end game to BoB besides that which you create for yourself in nesting and getting the perfect dinosaur to high growth.

Unfortunately, the good can not excuse this laggy, buggy mess of a game that should be ashamed to call itself playable. Every new patch introduces game breaking bugs that reduce the game into a chore. That 2.0 dino you spent MONTHS on? It's dead because it drowned on land. Lag is so prevalent in this game that you will die to others that are nowhere near you... A lot. You will glitch through the map and die. It's a mess. It looks ugly. It runs like a truck with no wheels. Your computer will beg for mercy every time it starts.

Worst of all, are the devs. These people looked across the servers, saw that the highest population servers were ones with a high meat spawn rates, and decided that people should not be allowed to play the game the way they want to. In the pachy patch, IE the famine patch, devs took away server owner's abilities to decide what the spawn rate of gores should be on their own server. Deciding that people are "playing the game wrong" they completely removed that option to limit control that server owners had to make their server unique and perfect for their player base.

Sniffing across the map, you'll be lucky to find any meat these days. Best you will find are the small ribs from a respawning player, or the carcass of another poor sap who starved. You are expected to hunt, which is all well and good when you don't take into account the spread of players. On most servers, the max number of people playing at a time is 60. These are players spread across land, water, and air.

Say, you spawn as a rex, ready to take on the world. What is there for you to hunt? 10 people are playing water dinos, chances are you won't see them unless they've come to drown you into the depths and eat you. 10 are playing ptera, which will fly away and give no food if you do manage to snap one up. Another 5 are on velo, too small and too quick to be worth hunting. Of the people left, 25 of them are herbies, all grouped together at the same lake and protected by massive apatos. The ten left are all carnivores bigger and hungrier than you, that kill you before you even show a scent, the telltale sign that you are a freshspawn.

No one is playing anything but herbivore because of these conditions. Not the other herbivores either, just apato. The other herbivores can't even hit 1.2 without being nonstop hunted by starving carnivores. When they do manage to hit 1.2 they can't last long. It's miserable.

But hey, it's what Pred wanted his game to be.

--EDIT--

A new patch was released. This one limits growth after 1.2, making it so that dinos grow extremely slow now. You know the one draw of the game? Growing your dino big so you put points in?

Well, bad news. You don't get to.

Unless you're in whatever group of people are most plentiful on the server so you can get an OP nested egg and have the biggest numbers, you're screwed. You can't grow and rule on any dino if you try hard enough anymore. It's just rexes killing everything in sight because they're starving.

Have fun.

Thought the game was pretty good at first, still think it's pretty fun, if you can find a proper server..
The servers I've been on have had their own rules ontop of the game rules.
Such as you have to do a specific roar before you start hunting someone as a carnivore, which makes no sense if you're playing a trex who's an ambush predator with no stamina to hunt down most things.
Even going as far as to having a file with their rules of roars and whatnot.
Which just makes the game feel one-sided as a herbivore basically has to do nothing but just survive according to the game rules.
But as a carnivore you have to announce you arrival, not steal meat from weaker dinosaurs and if you even got a single roar wrong, enjoy your ban!

i love it

Great concept, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ community. Dont buy this unless you want to get ganged up on by no lifers over and over again just to loose hours worth of progress and never get anywhere... 165 hours in this game as a solo player, at most 5 hours was spent not getting killed by people who just had more numbers than you.

If you are a solo player, do not buy this.

As someone who has played games like Beasts of Bermuda, The Isle, Path of Titans, etc., I have a lot of experience with the state of games like these. At their cores, they all suffer from similar flaws, like being very group-friendly and difficult for solo players, incredibly long and grindy, and often poor at displaying information in-game.

Beasts of Bermuda offers a skin customization system with a lot of freedom. This allows you to fine-tune your character's unique appearance down to the specific color shade, as well as skins being mixed through nesting, which allows for some fantastic skins. However, this does also mean you will see A LOT of very obnoxiously colored players. Neon colors that don't compliment each other at all , patterns overlapping to create unsightly blobs of color, etc., though this is unavoidable when players are given full freedom to their skin customization.

Beasts of Bermuda also offers a skill tree. As your character grows, you gain points that can be used to unlock stat bonuses, such as increased movement speed, increased damage, etc. However, this does have some problems in "late game," which I will discuss later. It's not as intuitive and character-defining as other games with skill trees, but it's a neat addition that distinguishes it more from others within the dinosaur survival sim genre.

Some of the BoB character models look fairly nice as well. Models like their Megaraptor, Tyrannosaurus, Parasaurolophus, and Apatosaurus are outstanding, with exceptional levels of quality when it comes to fine detailing like scales. However, there are problems too, which I will also discuss below.

Beasts of Bermuda's growth system is functionally infinite. As you play, you will continue to grow as long as you are alive. This has led to consistent problems that compound together. As you keep growing, you will be able to get closer to maxing out your skill tree. This throws off a lot of balancing already, as what is supposed to require players to pick and choose what they slot in. This is amplified by the fact that characters are not balanced well around infinite growth, with larger players being objectively stronger in EVERY aspect compared to smaller ones.
This is further complicated by the fact that the game's own Comfort mechanic greatly benefits group play. As such, coordinated groups with large characters continue to keep growing and making each other stronger, which results in large groups essentially owning servers.

On top of this, nesting grants a ton of extra stat bonuses, which further feeds into the problems faced by large-group infinite growing. Players grow faster near group mates, and after being hatched they gain disproportionate stat bonuses, which leads to players further tightening their grips on a server.

Furthermore, these stats are not broadcasted well in-game, so there's not a good way to tell if a player has a substantial advantage over you or not. Add in the fact that players often aren't alone, and you have an experience that strongly encourages group play in a way that is actually detrimental to solo play, as opposed to being favorable but not borderline-required.

The previously-mentioned Comfort mechanic also presents a lot of problems. Weather, "incorrect food," nearby non-grouped players, etc. can all have a negative impact on Comfort. When your Comfort drops low enough, you'll start taking damage. Enemy players can "comfort bomb" others, causing them to essentially die of discomfort without any actual PvP engagement.

Combat in Beasts of Bermuda is by far the worst out of the three "big titles." Movement feels awful, with no momentum post-movement causing everything to feel jittery and artificial, so maneuvering mid-fight can be a chore, there is no player collision, so it's not uncommon to see smaller players essentially hiding inside larger ones and being virtually untouchable. Growth stage differences and selected skills have massive impacts on PvP, which like mentioned earlier are not displayed very clearly. Even basic game balancing is pretty rough, which further complicates the problems listed.

The game itself is hard on the eyes. While some dinosaur models are outstanding, other character models are incredibly old and look really bad compared to the others. The maps look particularly bad too, with lighting being a strain on the eyes and a general look and feel that is almost comparable to older games or amateur Roblox projects. This game's visual aesthetic easily pales in comparison to that of The isle and Path of Titans.

Various communities are also particularly bad to deal with. I have friends who have faced WEEKS of harassment, both in and out of game, due to them owning a unique limited-time skin. I've seen incredibly volatile communities, which explode at many changes to the game that have at least attempted to make it more enjoyable (often because it directly affects the ability to essentially treat BoB as an idle growing simulator to reach ridiculous growth sizes). Official servers have rules, but these are not listed in-game, and are instead found elsewhere, which is absolutely not ideal at all.

Even further, I've seen this game host several fundraisers for merchandise, which they have directly said would be to fund specific development stages, as if the game was struggling immensely for funding. Furthermore, the developers have opened a PayPal donation service, which just feels shady. This genre is riddled with scammers, the development team going directly to PayPal as a means for funding, alongside frequent plush fundraising events, raises concerns on the financial situation of the game and the longevity of it. Donations and fundraisers are awesome, but when they're this frequent and this far into the game's life, it raises eyebrows, as it makes the game appear to be running out of funding.

Many core problems with the game have existed for many years, and the devs refusing to actually change these to make it a more enjoyable experience is incredibly hindering. Having played it long enough, Beasts of Bermuda is, at base, a multiplayer group-focused growing simulator, and a server-domination PvP experience mixed in. It's incredibly difficult to have an experience in a small group or as a solo player, much more than others within the dinosaur sim genre, as the game's own core mechanics directly hinder it. Infinite growth, poor mechanic and combat balancing, generally low-quality maps and character controls, etc. make Beasts of Bermuda feel like a new amateur project, not a game that has been in "Early Access" for roughly 6 years. Six years.

I can't deny the improvement that has been made, but to say that the game is in a better state now than it was before is just untrue. The same problems continue to arise like they have for the past few years, I really can't recommend Beasts of Bermuda to anyone. I would genuinely recommend The Isle and Path of Titans instead, as their maps, characters, mechanics, etc. are, while still flawed, much more fleshed out and better-balanced than those seen in Beasts of Bermuda.

Admittedly, I haven't played the game's most recent update, but I've already seen videos and watched people play the game, and these problems are all still evident, and I feel that it's still appropriate to write a review on the product.