Paleo Pines

In my humble opinion this is one of the best casual farming games ever made!! besides being super beautiful and cute with colorful and adorable graphics, the game itself is amazing. its not just another stardew clone like most of them, its actually much better!! the biggest difference is that besides taking care of your farm and crops, the main focus is also getting dinosaurs as pets and mounts, and thats a really fun process that is part of the core gameplay. from finding a dinosaur while exploring nature (there are more than 30 different species, including T-rex, Ankylosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Velociraptor, Dilophosaurus etc) to earning its trust by petting it and feeding it the right food it likes, then bringing it back to your farm and building a fenced area with a feeder for it. after that you take good care of it by feeding it, petting it and spending time together for several days until it likes you enough to let you ride it. each dinosaur has unique abilities, like breaking rocks to gather stone, destroying debris for materials, running fast across the map, digging the ground quickly and continuously to make planting easier, filling its mouth with water and watering your crops much faster, and more. its a super creative game and in my opinion it doesnt even compare to stardew and similar games, its way better and way more fun, without putting so much focus on talking to every single person in town and all that annoying stuff!! i'd rather deal with nature, animals and even dinosaurs than have to deal with people even in a game!!

I don't normally make reviews, but this game deserves it. I am a very mentally ill person, smiling is even hard for me more often than not, but this game never fails to make me grin. You genuinely get attached to the characters and feel like you are making a difference in their lives. You feel like you matter. The game is very forgiving and nothing has true consequences. I get excited to wake up now, because it means I get to discover more of this amazing game. This game has helped me through one of my worst ruts in my entire life and has made me feel more than I have in years. I cannot thank or recommend it enough.

This game needs a lot of polishing. First of all you cant jump. Why? Every gamer knows that jumping makes you run faster. Im not saying dinos need to jump just the player character. Second. The fact that player character stamina does not regenerate and you can't even eat is outrageous. Third. You cannot stop and smell the roses in this game, you need to grind and grind fast too because the day does not wait for you. Tame new dinos, find everything to make your dinos happy otherwise they might run away, and farm so you dont become broke. Also complete quests, and cook something for the villagers so they like you. Fourth. Why am I expected to build new pens for my new dinos when everything is covered in rocks, logs and debris? I can't even clear it out because either my dinos are out of stamina or i need a dino that i wont have for a long time. Fifth. The map shjould be more interactive. I'd like to see the name of the zone my mouse is on, and id like to be able to view any zone's map no matter where i am.I will continue playing but i might burn out quickly at this pace.

Its just boring I bought this game because my friend played it a lot and she seemed to really like it. So, when I was looking for a new farmsim to try I got this game. However, I simply don't like the gameplay loop at all. Taiming mechanics and crop rotation seems cool until you realise there's nothing else to do in the game. All of gameplay is simply: do a quick ineraction, then wait a couple of in game days for results, then hand in items to npc and repeat the loop. Were in other games there's mining, and fishing and bug catching, that gives a player something to do, in Paleo Pines you just plans the crops, go befriend a dino, wait for dino to trust you enough, use dino to get to new area to tame next dino. But in between there's nothing to do. Your days are empty running around huge map with no interest points or dynamic encounters. Like, I totally thought game was in beta, until I looked it up. Idk, maybe it's ok for some, but I was totally disapointed. Also, money is a real limit on how fast you can grow, because, again there's nothing but crops and forage to make you money and those are spaced out by in game days as well. I had days were I simply water my crops, tend to dinos and go back to sleep to go to the next day, because I can bring myself to go on the same cirle run around the map for forage that always spawns on the same spots. My advice is to look up actual playthoughts before you buy the game, because what I imagined and what game actually is from my friend's description turned out completely different

A lot slower and child-like than i personally wanted. refunded cause i preferred games like amber isle and palia and thought this would be like it due to suggestions. Not my personal cup of tea.

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I really wanted to like this game. It is such a fun concept: Harvest Moon meets dinosaurs! What's not to love? Well, there's the art style for one. I found the art style to be questionable AT BEST, but hoped the gameplay would make up for it. The art style was a warning. As much effort went into every part of this game as went into the characters and their animations. So... none. Everything is so tedious and takes a ridiculous amount of stamina to do anything (including running, which is STILL extremely slow). The areas look like custom TF2 maps on trade servers or some of the indie MMOs I've seen Josh Strife Hayes review. If you're familiar with either of those... that's not a good thing. The characters try SO hard to be LOL SO QUIRKY AND MILLENNIAL. And they are obsessed with wasting your time. Just tilling the soil and watering crops is so tedious. Oh yeah, and if you let go of the button a millisecond too early? Well, all the watering progress is reset. The game doesn't let you actually befriend dinosaurs (and remember: Dinos are your friends, not work animals! Very important lesson, there, and don't you forget it!) until you do the tutorial for it, but it doesn't auto-start the tutorial. You have to talk to a very annoying character and then hunt down an even more annoying character to start it, and even then, it doesn't tell you the most critical information (that there are different Poppin flavors and different dinosaurs like different Poppin flavors, so if you don't have the right one, you just wasted that time and carrots) in the tutorial. Which would be okay if it didn't come up with the VERY FIRST dino. And even AFTER you befriend a dinosaur and take it home, you have to wait until the dinosaur decides you can ride it (dinosaurs are FRIENDS, remember!). Pokemon figured this thing out 30 years ago. The inventory is a disaster. It's also telling that the info box that pops up telling you about the default tool buttons (why not just make a tool belt?), "Press 1 to [Prompt_Key6] to quickly equip important items." That's the kind of sloppiness to expect from this game in every aspect. And the journal! Most games, if they want to gate information behind gameplay (say, information about potatoes) would just have the journal be a menu screen and either planting potatoes gives you that information or you are able to fill out more information as you grow more potatoes or experiment. This game? You have an actual journal item that you MUST have with you at all times taking up valuable space in your inventory and any time you come across anything new, you have to take out your journal (key 1) and manually make note of it. This game is the same price as Palworld or Slime Rancher 2 and twice the price of Stardew Valley. And it's not worth a tenth of that. Frankly, I wouldn't even play it if it was free. And that hurts, because I love the idea. I just hate literally everything about the execution. They just had a "major update" and it addressed nothing of the new player experience and almost nothing of the core gameplay issues. That "major update" is almost entirely just shiny trinkets for players who have apparently never played a well-designed game before and finished the game in order to bring them back. The message is this: They don't want any new players. So don't give them any. Take the money you'd spend on this game and get a better game. I wish I had.

It's just not very good. I've tried to push though but: 1. The longer it goes on the more it becomes poop shoveling simulator 2. Graphics glitch 3. Audio glitches 4. Map is poorly thought out and hard to navigate 5. NPC s are just not fun to interact with 6. UI is frustrating 7. Taming mini game is more luck than skill or has been badly explained to me. 8. I'm not searching this map for 20 tiny stone fragments to continue the main quest. 9. What even does the broom do? 10. Tiny dinos are useless until an NPC unlocks them as helpers. 11. Why is flour which uses two wheat worth less than one wheat?? 12. Why are most of the decorations for pens household items? 13. But I can't go in my house? 14. I'm sick of tidying up poop It could be good, but it's not. It's like a decent first draft. Something that was published not because it was good, but good enough.

I was immediately put off by the character art style, but I've learned to look past art style after a similar thing happened with Wind Waker over 20 years ago (and it became one of my all time favs). I'm big into dinosaurs and farming games in general, so it's no surprise I'm really enjoying this. That said it did take a bit to get used to, and I had to restart & challenge myself with an Ultra Rare dinos only playthrough for it to really start to grow on me. I'm taking my time and Ultra Rare hunting, so I've got a ways to go still to 100% the game.

Honestly this game was pretty disappointing, I wanted to like it because the concept seemed really cool and pretty original. The farming and base controls are clunky and it’s very easy to hit a progression stall. Definitely not worth the $30