do not buy this game. this is maybe the least fun game i have ever played in my life. it is an exercise in tedium and frustration. gameplay consists of sitting around and doing nothing for hours, with the only action happening when you're being killed by a group.

if you play solo, you get killed by a group. if you play in a herd, you sit in one place and chat with each other.

there is an idea of a good game in here somewhere, but this is not a dinosaur simulator or anything even close to that. it's just a dinosaur-themed melee arena game with a growth mechanic. there is nothing that encourages natural behavior in this game. every scavenger and herbivore in this game has the intelligence, communication skills, and coordination abilities of human beings. this leads to things like marauding groups of pachycepholosaurs and both species of pterosaurs picking off whatever they feel like at their leisure.

i can't blame the players for playing like this, because there's nothing in the game to discourage this behavior. the private servers have attempted to correct this on behalf of the devs via individual server rules, but these rules are often bizarre, esoteric, and numerous to the point of comedy. eventually i asked myself why i was going through the trouble of remembering all these rules in order to play a game i wasn't enjoying.

i also can't blame the players for getting bored and killing whatever they see, because that's really all there is to do in this game. you have to eat and drink the food and water scattered across the map, that's it. those are the only things that you are actually required to do in this game. dead meat is even scattered on the map for the carnivores. the only optional thing to do is kill other players. it sucks losing an old character, but at least you didn't really have to put in any real work, just idle time.

right now this is an idle game that becomes an arena game once you've idled a character for a long enough time. the next time i'm in the mood to sit around and do nothing while also playing a video game, i'll play Crusader Kings 3. at least that's fun.

do not buy this game. this is maybe the least fun game i have ever played in my life. it is an exercise in tedium and frustration. gameplay consists of sitting around and doing nothing for hours, with the only action happening when you're being killed by a group. if you play solo, you get killed by a group. if you play in a herd, you sit in one place and chat with each other. there is an idea of a good game in here somewhere, but this is not a dinosaur simulator or anything even close to that. it's just a dinosaur-themed melee arena game with a growth mechanic. there is nothing that encourages natural behavior in this game. every scavenger and herbivore in this game has the intelligence, communication skills, and coordination abilities of human beings. this leads to things like marauding groups of pachycepholosaurs and both species of pterosaurs picking off whatever they feel like at their leisure. i can't blame the players for playing like this, because there's nothing in the game to discourage this behavior. the private servers have attempted to correct this on behalf of the devs via individual server rules, but these rules are often bizarre, esoteric, and numerous to the point of comedy. eventually i asked myself why i was going through the trouble of remembering all these rules in order to play a game i wasn't enjoying. i also can't blame the players for getting bored and killing whatever they see, because that's really all there is to do in this game. you have to eat and drink the food and water scattered across the map, that's it. those are the only things that you are actually required to do in this game. dead meat is even scattered on the map for the carnivores. the only optional thing to do is kill other players. it sucks losing an old character, but at least you didn't really have to put in any real work, just idle time. right now this is an idle game that becomes an arena game once you've idled a character for a long enough time. the next time i'm in the mood to sit around and do nothing while also playing a video game, i'll play Crusader Kings 3. at least that's fun.