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Become a real paleontologist, explore various environments and search for dinosaur fossils. Dig for and study the remnants of these majestic creatures to learn about their evolution. Build your own museum and experience an immersive background story.

Dinosaur Fossil Hunter is a simulation, mining and dinosaurs game developed by ▲ Pyramid Games and published by ▲ Pyramid Games and PlayWay S.A..
Released on May 04th 2022 is available only on Windows in 15 languages: English, Polish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish and Ukrainian.

It has received 855 reviews of which 649 were positive and 206 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel Core i5
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: RX 570 4GB VRAM / GeForce GTX 960 4GB VRAM
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 15 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX compatible
  • Additional Notes: System requirements may change during the development of the game.

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Feb. 2025
To preface my review: I love dinosaurs. Always have, always will. This game is absolutely perfect if you love dinosaurs, puzzles, comfort and adventure. I come to this game every time I've had a rough day at work, or I just need something positive in my day. The game has lots to offer and much enjoyment to be had. Now, I do have some gripes about certain things, but none of this affects the game itself. The advertising and public marketing has raised my expectations more than the game has delivered. I honestly expected more from this game. I was expecting dinosaurs and other reptiles from all eras, judging by the Brachiosaurus and Allosaurus skeletons in advertising. The game as it stands only contains cretaceous animals. The development team is also very quiet and rather unresponsive, which is concerning for a development team who had gotten crowdfunding support. The game is complete, but things like DLC and future updates, even just hotfixes are just hard to predict. And finally, this issue is more personal than anything, but the game itself, if played with every upgrade and with employees in your museum, is rather repetitive. Most of all I have multiple complete museums at this point and if I'm honest, the galleries in them are never fully filled, making it feel as if the game is incomplete. Above all else, I'm not letting these factors deter me, I still play this game quite a bit and enjoy every second of it. I'm just hoping we can see more content from this game in the future, the designer and raptor DLCs were promising and I'm hoping for more to come. I just wish I had a roadmap to see when these updates might come!
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Jan. 2025
i love this game i love dinosores i have books on them i have a wiki of them in one of my books and i have loved them since i was young this is a good and Educational game for young ones that are into dinos and would like to know more about them. 10/10 <3
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Dec. 2024
I wish steam had a mixed option. Pretty much the same as any other review will say. EXTREMELY repetitive. I think you could even say it falsely advertises itself a bit too. The prologue very much sets it up as this narrative focused game, so you'd assume that you are going to be following this narrative the whole game. You aren't. There's no more of it after the prologue, at least that I've found. Most of the games strengths come in how it is one of those repetitive task games where you don't have to think too hard, just like any cleaning game. This one takes the repetition to the extreme though, and really starts to get old fast. Good enough as a game, but there's definitely better games out there unless you REALLY like dinosaur anatomy. Passable as a game on sale though. Definitely not at full price.
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Oct. 2024
this game is everything I could ever want from a fossil hunting game and more. god I love fossils.
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Sept. 2024
It's repetitive, but it's nice to zone out and listen to an audiobook as I dig out an entire hillside. Speaking of...yeah, the extra tools and such are kinda pointless if you just can dig all the dirt and stone away from the entire location. Still, I enjoy it, probably not for everyone. The decoration is okay, I would have liked to hang the pterandons from the ceiling but oh well. I feel the biggest missed opportunity was in education. It would have been fantastic to say...get a little description of each bone as I'm assembling it. Just a little blurb of text in the corner saying what it is called. Also would've loved more details on each species we assemble. Like...the target audience is clearly dino nerds, let us nerd out! It's also a little buggy with the workstations, controlling where you are in relation to the bones/rotating the bones so you can get everything assembled only works half the time. Oh...and I really hate the driving bits. Just let me spawn at the dig sites. But still...overall it's chill, and I enjoy it.
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Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
7.3
649
206
Online players
13
Developer
▲ Pyramid Games
Publisher
▲ Pyramid Games, PlayWay S.A.
Release 04 May 2022
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