De-Extinct: Jurassic Dinosaurs - A Ruin You Can’t Stop Rebuilding
Somewhere Between Fossils and Firearms
I didn’t come here expecting to care. I thought I was just installing another mobile survival builder. You click, you upgrade, you ignore the ads. Rinse, repeat. But De-Extinct: Jurassic Dinosaurs caught me off guard—not because it’s perfect, but because it’s too weird to be boring. There's something... broken about it. In a good way.
The first time I dropped onto the island, it felt like the usual setup. You gather survivors, build fences, drop turrets, research genetics. Fine. But then you hear it—a roar, not scripted, not in a cutscene, just... there. It doesn’t care if you’re ready. That’s when it clicked. You’re not in control. You’re just the idiot with a clipboard and a squad of mercenaries trying to outwit a dinosaur the size of a shuttle bus.
Hope Is a Wobbly Fence
So yes, you’re rebuilding a park. It’s a cliché, sure, but this one feels like it was already doomed before you touched it. The shelters go up, only to get trampled. You assign scientists, and half of them act like they’d rather be studying moss. Still, you keep going. Because when you finally see that first baby Velociraptor hatch—it’s not about power. It’s about promise. A dumb little animated raptor makes you believe the island might be okay someday.
Except, of course, it won’t be. That’s part of the hook. You recruit survivors who are more chaotic than useful. A tourist with a drone. A trainer who thinks she can whisper to a Carnotaurus. And somehow, you try to shape them into a squad. Half of my team ended up as Dinoriders. The other half kept asking if we had coffee. Neither group was wrong.
The Island Is Watching
Exploration in De-Extinct: Jurassic Dinosaurs isn’t elegant. It's clumsy, full of surprise ambushes, rainstorms, and mysterious crates that always seem a little too convenient. But it works. You tap around, scan for resources, stumble into traps, and sometimes find abandoned research notes that hint at a bigger story—one the game doesn’t spoon-feed you. I respect that.
There was this one moment—northwest cliffs, I think—when my squad triggered an event that spawned a mutant-looking Stegosaurus. It wiped half my team, including a guy I actually liked. And I just stared at the screen, not even mad. Because the game lets you fail without ceremony. There’s something raw about that.
Science, Chaos, Repeat
The research system is messy. Not in function—it works fine—but in its implications. You’re unlocking genes, cross-breeding species, building behavioral matrices. But no one ever stops to ask: should we? It’s subtle, almost accidental, but I started feeling uneasy the deeper I went. Especially when I got a notification that a Psittacosaurus hatchling had “adapted unexpectedly.” That’s never a good phrase.
Still, the mechanics are solid. You get a hundred dinosaur species to collect, contain, or—let’s be real—watch break out of enclosures you thought were secure. Some are allies, most are threats, all are unpredictable. It’s not a zoo. It’s a test tube on fire.
It’s Lonely, But It Talks Back
There are other players, I guess. You can team up, send help, or fight over control zones. But it’s not the multiplayer that sticks with me. It’s the silence between actions. The island feels alive. You’re not the hero. You’re the most recent intruder. The dinosaurs don’t care about your tech trees. They outnumber you. They outgrow you.
And maybe that’s why I kept playing. Not for the upgrades. Not for the base aesthetics (though some of the decorations are oddly charming). But for the tension of being in a place that actively resists your presence. You rebuild anyway.
So What’s the Point?
I’m not sure. And I kind of like that. De-Extinct: Jurassic Dinosaurs isn’t polished, not really. It’s ambitious, erratic, sometimes frustrating. But also strange enough to matter. It’s Jurassic Park with a headache. It’s Firewatch if the woods had claws. It’s a game where I kept losing but didn’t uninstall.
Sometimes, that’s the best praise I can give.
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