Paleo Pines

The dinosaurs are cute but the game feels a little unfinished and sadly boring

This game has a LOT of potential, but I like my reviews to be honest and genuine, so I will say some pros and cons. PROS: - The game feels cozy, and doesn't rush you in any way possible. - Some mechanics feel natural even when you leave the game for days and risk to 'forget' some controls. - The dinosaurs' designs are adorable and very creative, they almost feel like stop motion creations. - The harvesting and crops system isn't too unforgiving. If you forget to water a plant and it dries up, it simply gives back its seeds to replant and try again. - I find some of the dialogue genuinely funny for a family oriented game. - Can be somewhat educational with some of the plants' info. CONS: - The map is fundamentally useless. I don't know where I am half the time, and get lost easily. This goes for quest objectives too, as I have no idea where most things are! Sometimes I stumble upon them by accident while casually exploring. Also, some roads just kind of reappear and disappear into the grass. - The pacing can either be super fast, or super slow. No inbetween. This can easily discourage some types of gamers. - The player's stamina is atrociously scarce, and their running speed is not worth it. I always use the dinosaurs to run, and they don't have endless stamina either. You need them at a very high level in order to have a good mount. - Speaking of the player, They are UGLY. All options are ugly. There should be an update on the player model to allow more face and body types.

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

takes forever to do any thing Not enough stamina you like 50 so that mean you can only do 50 tasks a day kinda poop Doesnt help you at all to find out what youre doing No inventory space cause you need to hold a journal for no reason like who am i gonna pass this information to i mean theres more people thumb wrestling right no than playing this game at its peak 3 years ago maybe like a 2/10 and that being generous

I expected something... better, I want to like it, i really do, and have tried hard to do so. The controls are janky and quite a few things are not explained properly. There is even some info that should be in the game but isn't, like grow times and seasons for crops. The quests are tedious, lots of money is needed for almost everything but money is really difficult to get. The Graphics and designs for the Dino's are Great... but the humans need serious work. They look like lego men crossed with Facebook's terrible metaverse graphics, resulting in something that looks like Dolls that are trying to be realistic. I can't tell if they were making a game for under 10's or something accessible for everyone, either option they failed at. Major work needed i think to get this game where it needs to be.

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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.