Dinosaur Forest

Dinosaur Forest sounds like a small dinosaur game built around wandering through a prehistoric setting, probably with exploration or light adventure at its center. By our assessment, that kind of premise lives on charm and on the appeal of moving through a forest full of creatures that belong to a different age. The honest limit is that games with this setup usually have a narrow scope, so once the novelty of the setting wears off, the design has to carry the rest. In play, that often means a gentle pace and more mood than complexity. It sits closer to a simple adventure or children’s game than to anything heavy or systems-driven. Dinosaur Forest is the kind of title where the name does a lot of the work, and the rest depends on how much there is to do in the world itself.