
A 2D ecosystem and survival simulation where you can manage the ecology of an evolving island or survive on it as a human, facing realistic survival mechanics and a deep character progression system.
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DinoSystem is a 2D top-down ecosystem and survival simulation. Play as a godlike overseer managing the ecology of an evolving island populated by dinosaurs — or as a human trying to survive in it, facing realistic survival mechanics and a deep character progression system that tracks your body’s physical adaptation over time.
Every element on the island follows biological and physical rules. Nothing spawns from thin air: will you hunt the last dinosaur of its species for a steak, or protect it from extinction and ensure its eggs hatch? These are the dilemmas you'll face — if you don’t go extinct first.
To learn more about the upcoming features planned for 1.0 and beyond, check out the development roadmap. Feel free to join the discussion and suggest new ideas!
God Mode: Control the island's ecology, change the weather, trigger disasters, and observe how nature reacts.
Survival Mode: Start as a stranded human. See how long you can survive — and how your body changes with your lifestyle.
True ecological simulation: animals and plants are born, grow, reproduce, and die. No artificial “spawns”.
Seasons and day/night cycle: gradual transitions with sun angle, temperature, and light dynamically affecting the environment.
Advanced weather model: dynamic rain, fog, storms, snow, wind, and sandstorms, driven by real variables like humidity and air pressure.
Realistic water cycle: puddles form, evaporate or turn into lakes depending on temperature, humidity, and sun exposure.
Terrain evolves: fertility, vegetation, and water presence can transform areas over time.
Dynamic fire system: reacts to weather, spreads with fuel and wind, and affects all nearby objects and characters. Wildfires triggered by lightning can spread and destroy forests.
Animal AI: survival-driven behavior with reproduction, parenting, foraging, and territorial conflict.
Procedural island generation at game start, based on player settings.
Real decomposition: items decay based on weather and environment, not artificial timers.
Dynamic body evolution: your appearance and abilities change based on fat, muscle, and diet. Adapt for winter, combat, or speed.
Needs are systemic, not scripted: thirst, hunger, and fatigue respond to climate, weight, exertion, metabolism, and more.
Complex skill system: skills improve with use and decay with neglect.
Crafting & building: create gear, weapons, clothes, and build shelters (or find a cave).
Food system: nutritional values matter. Protein from meat helps muscle growth — but don’t forget to cook it!
Many more features will be added throughout development. Follow the roadmap, and get involved in shaping the game!
If you experience poor performance despite having a dedicated GPU, Windows might be running the game on the integrated graphics.
To ensure optimal performance, open Settings → System → Display → Graphics, search for DinoSystem.exe, and set it to use your High Performance GPU (usually your dedicated graphics card).
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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(Follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42150626-Jarl%27s-Game-Treasury/]my curator[/url] for more reviews like this) DinoSystem is a standout among survival games. At first, it appeared like yet another half-finished early access title as there's not a lot in the way of content. Only a handful of animal and plant species, and a crafting menu so small it only fills 1/4th of the screen. But once I engaged with the game and learned how it worked, it quickly became my favorite of this genre. What it lacks in quantity, it makes up for in depth. Unlike the average survival game, everything here is simulated. Nothing spawns out of nowhere, every single plant and animal must reproduce naturally. Dinosaurs lay eggs from which young ones hatch, mammals have a funny mating animation as they copulate and make young, plants drop seeds which grow into new trees, etc. Plants require water and sunlight. Animals require water, food, and sleep. After they've eaten, they poop, which fertilizes the ground for plants to grow better. Everything interacts with everything else at all times. You are dropped into this ecosystem and have to survive as best you can. The various animals will treat you as just another part of the ecosystem. Herbivores usually ignore you, unless you threaten their nests or attack first. T-rexes, the apex predator of this game, will hunt you when hungry and are almost impossible to defeat unless you're really prepared. Little scavenger dinos and mammals will approach you when you carry food and try to snatch it out of your hands, but are easily scared off. The fact that everything is simulated means no event is random. Everything happens for a reason. You might come across the carcass of a triceratops that died of old age, and eagerly cut away as much meat as you can carry back to your shelter. When you return to get more, you find a flock of troodons (small scavenger dinos) eating the corpse, and there's barely anything left for you now! My favorite part of the survival gameplay are the changing seasons and how they challenge you in different ways. Spring is easy, as rainfall gives abundant water, trees start bearing fruit, and dinosaurs lay eggs. You can steal dino eggs for food, gather fruit and nuts from trees, or isolate young dinos from their herd to get easy hunting kills. Then summer comes with hot and dry days, drying up watering holes and making it hard to stay hydrated. Some dinos will likely die from dehydration and you can harvest their corpses. Autumn brings relief with rain, but the dinos that hatched in spring are now grown enough to be not so easy prey. You should make sure to have a proper shelter before winter comes, for the freezing cold will bring your body temperature down. Most dinosaurs hibernate in winter, so they're easy to isolate from the herd and kill if you find their sleeping spots. Water won't be a problem as you can drink snow, but trees bear no fruit in winter so you may lack vitamin C! Every species of dinosaur acts differently across the seasons. Triceratops tend to be docile most of the time but become aggressive in spring when they fight over who gets to be the herd's alpha male. They live in herds and will defend their nests if you steal their eggs. Tyrannosauruses are solitary hunters, but in spring they will try to mate with females, and fight each other if two of them want to mate with the same female! Once hatched, t-rex mothers guard their young, but occasionally the young will move away from their mothers to hunt small prey on their own... which gives you the opportunity to hunt them down! The living ecosystem is the best part of this game. Every season feels different, every animal behaves different. Overpopulations will usually self-correct as some animals die off from lack of food, but theoretically an entire species can go extinct if things go bad for them. All males or females were killed and only one sex remains? That means no more offspring. Large herds may drink up all watering holes in a dry summer, and when they find no more water, a lot of them will die of dehydration. They may also eat up all ferns in an area and turn it into a wasteland. Once no more food is found in their current area, animals will migrate elsewhere. I could keep going on about how awesome the simulated ecosystem is, but the examples above should suffice. If you like survival games for the survival aspect rather than the crafting, you will love this. If you like simulated systems, you will love this. Oh, one last thing: your character is subject to some detailed simulation levels, too. Your skin color changes based on sunlight exposure, tanning under the sun and getting pale when you remain in the shade. Your hair grows slowly, and you can cut/shave it down with a sharp stone. Long hair keeps you warmer, which is good in winter but bad in summer. Food does not fill your hunger meter immediately but is slowly digested. The types of food you consume matter, too, as different foods contain different vitamins. Consuming a lot of protein promotes muscle growth. Physical activity makes your muscles sore, but also promotes their growth. The level of detail in every aspect of simulation is amazing. This has become probably my favorite survival game of them all. Dealing with the different challenges of each season is fun, and watching the ecosystem live around you never gets boring. The landscape around you keeps changing based on what the wildlife is doing! Nothing is random, everything has a directly observable reason. Easily one of the best survival games on the market.
Picked a fight with an triceratops and two more joined the fight to gang up on me and kill me. 10/10
Me eat shroom. Brown good. Blue bad—BIG BLEH! Drink water—BAD BLEH! Sleep tree. Belly angry all night. Day two: Pick bush snack. Go water. Uh-oh! Big tooth Tyranno drink all water! Name him Punk Face. Run for puddle. Trike horn yell, ‘MOVE!’. Me find new water. Day three, new water. No find. Day four, fire stick? No fire. Day five, sneaky Trodoons come. Me maybe die. But spear sharp!
if i was developing this game, i honestly think i would've ghosted it by now. it has a genuine micro-audience: sometimes there's not a single person playing it and the last screenshot uploaded to the community was almost 4 YEARS ago. you should buy it though; the developer has stuck with it and it's a neat kind of survival game. it's definitely not a deep game, there are no pillars of technology or whatever and you dont start off with sharp rocks and end up with helicopters. it's still absolutely worth a buy because it's very cheap and the survival is genuine. there are no spawning enemies, there's actually no spawning animals at all (aside from the smallest creature in the game, i think). you have to survive, and so do the animals. if you kill every male triceratops, they will eventually die out because they cant reproduce. there are no tricks behind the curtain, it's very genuine. but like i said, it's not a deep game. once you've built a house and killed something big enough to make a bow, clothes, backpack, whatever. the rest is setting yourself some kind of goal, like levelling a skill, building up your muscles or killing a t-rex. there's also the asteroid option which randomly causes an extinction event where the sun will get hidden for months and everything will struggle to survive but that's about the extent of it. your mileage may vary, but im completely fine with it, especially since it's so cheap that it's not fair to expect a lot more (not to say it's not fun, it is). basically, just buy it. [spoiler]still gets more updates than project zomboid despite being a universe apart in terms of manpower and income[/spoiler]
Weird janky dinosaur survival game, very charming. Developer has been updating and adding stuff to this for more than a decade, truly a project made with love and passion.
Haven't played much, from what I have played- it's pretty good. Voting up since the developer has been putting out a lot of updates and not abandoned after all these years.
To date, in my entire gaming experience, I do not think that I have found a more enjoyable survival game for the "price to enjoyment" ratio. Although this game may be simple in comparison to "survival" games made by large studios, the developer has created an experience that is highly repeatable and extremely satisfying. In this game, things don't just spawn randomly; everything is part of a living ecosystem that will either flourish or fall into decay. As the player you have the opportunity to become a master cultivator of a lush tropical paradise, or the sad survivor of a desolate wasteland. This game is absolutely worth every penny and I would much rather play Dinosystem than most of the recycled crud that major game studios call "survival games" today.
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Underrated gem
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