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Welcome to Paleo Pines, a charming island known for its friendly dinosaurs, quirky townsfolk, and mysterious past. Befriend dinos and enlist their help to fix up your ranch and farm crops to create your cozy dino sanctuary! Then set out with your companion, Lucky, to uncover the island’s secrets.
Paleo Pines is a dinosaurs, farming sim and exploration game
developed and published by Italic Pig.
Released on September 26th 2023 is available on Windows, Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
It has received 2,060 reviews of which 1,785 were positive and 275 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 5.24€ on Eneba.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i5-2300 or AMD Phenom II 830
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 or AMD Radeon RX 460
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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- OS: Ubuntu 16.04 or similar Linux distribution
- Processor: Intel i5-2300 or AMD Phenom II 830
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 or AMD Radeon RX 460
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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This game is adorable and worth it. I got so burned out on farming/ranching sims there for a while and I feel like this game is healing that. I specifically want to address some of the common complaints people have about the game, because those reviewers kept me from playing this game for a long time and I don't think they are a fair assessment of this game. 1. A lot of reviews complain about the pacing/how slow the characters move - I don't understand this. They must be missing something in the gameplay because by day 6 in-game I had four tamed dinosaur helpers and Lucky (your starter dinosaur) had leveled up enough that I could sprint all day on him. Past about the third day I didn't feel annoyed by character movement. There are literally dinosaurs valued for their speed as steeds and you catch one in the first or second game day. They're complaining about a game that requires playing to...play? I don't get it? You gotta go fast? Then get a dinosaur that goes fast (hint: YOU START WITH ONE). 2. Farming games are tedious - Stardew valley is so grindy I modded out/cheat coded half the stuff because otherwise I found the game unplayable on the second/third pass. I say this so you understand I am 10000% burned out on any game that requires grinding, especially farming games. This game is not grindy. I see a lot of people say watering is tedious etc....yeah. What do you think the dinosaurs are for? I have a tamed dino that waters 20 squares in two sprays. It takes like...30 seconds. Had him by day 6. Play the game. This is like complaining that a wood pickaxe breaks too fast in minecraft so the game is unplayable. "my farming game is to farmy, my dino game too dinoy. I have to feed my dinosaurs and water my crops waaaaaaahhhh" GTFO with that nonsense you sound ridiculous. 3. Graphics - I don't get this either. The graphics for this game are plastered all over the internet. You know what the game looks like before you bought it. It isn't a realism game. It's a cute game. Like complaining that the characters in Animal Crossing look weird so it is unplayable. The only critique I can get behind is the human character design - it isn't great. But ARK human characters are so bad there is a subculture around making them look as terrible as possible. Many games have this problem, and it certainly doesn't affect the playability of the game. 4. Characters are annoying - again, every game ever. Navi in OOT is the most annoying character in the history of gaming and that game is legendary. Just click A through the dialog if you don't want to read it. Jesus christ like WHAT are you complaining about?? It sounds like you don't want to play a game - you want to watch a twitch streamer play a game. So just do that and don't review bomb a game doing perfectly normal game things. Now here is my original review: The Good: -This game was designed through close work with the community and you can tell. There are so many little things in the game that are overlooked by larger developers ranging from mechanics to little details/character quirks -The pacing is perfect, not grinding but not too fast -The months are long so there isn't this pressure to min/max every day. You can take days to just explore/frolic -it reminds me of games from the 2000s as far as learning/exploring goes. The game doesn't overexplain or over tutorial things. It lets you figure things out, but still guides you down a path if you don't know what to do next. It takes a special kind of developer to hit this balance well, and they've done it. -Scratches the gotta catch em all itch, and they've built a lot of great features in to support this gameplay style -The oversqueezed, worn out farming sim game vibe is nonexistent here because you can use dinosaurs to help you farm. They took the idea of a farming sim and said nah, we're doing it differently. They really nailed it. -Responsibility fatigue has not come up in this game. You can easily manage exploring/farming/animal care/task work without getting fatigued or overwhelmed. This game was designed for you to relax and unwind. While you can min/max factory farm, you don't have to in order to be successful and have a great time. -The dinosaurs are literally the cutest models I've ever seen. I can't handle it. The triceratops makes me want to cry omg. The Bad: -The button mechanics are spongy and sometimes frustrating. There is a lot of contextual press-and-hold actions that my brain struggles with, and interacting with objects is gummy. Sometimes the character does what you want, sometimes you have to run in circles a little bit to get the right interaction angle. Not enough to be disruptive but can be frustrating when you're already frustrated/tired. Playing with a controller setup fixes most of this. -not so much a detractor for the game, but there are some things you take for granted in a farming sim that this game doesn't have. For instance, you can't go inside buildings or breed your dinosaurs. That's fine really, and I don't feel the game needs this, but I was kind of surprised at first. I think as long as you go into the game knowing it's different than the textbook farming sim, you'll love it. The Ugly: -the human character designs are horrible. I'M SORRY. They trigger some kind of ancient survival feeling in me. Their eyes are so scary. Their mouths so tiny. Their faces so....flat. I don't know there is something deeply wrong with them. It's weird to have this world that is so incredibly designed and then these weird looking human characters....lurking around. Waiting. Watching. Hunting. I wish they would change it but oh well.
Hmmmmm. Twenty hours plus in and it's a qualified positive. This is a sweet farming Sim with Dinosaurs. So sweet that it will put most players into a diabetic coma. Compared to this game Stardew Valley is Resident Evil. In fairness Stardew Valley is far sharper than its reputation. Two characters are clear alcoholics, one of the teenagers is hinted to be using drugs, and there are several dysfunctional relationships. Paeleo Pines makes the Stepford Wives seem abrasive. Twenty hours in and every character is cheerful and enthusiastic in a way that in real life would get really irritating. Technically it works fine. If I've ever had a crashing problem I can't remember. The basic game is very straightforward. The first thing is to hunt out special stones, preferably large ones, to keep your dinosaurs happy. These can be upgraded to sleeping areas with wood, stone, and fibre that can be found around your farm. They are also very rare and difficult to find. The first time I ran into serious issues was when I needed a dinosaur to break rocks. Beware ! You don't need just to get the notes in the right sequence to befriend them they also need to be the right size/ length. You also need to have the right cake from the girl in the village. These are expensive and other than the basic one are not available to you instantly. The first Styracosaurus wasn't happy without a companion, then the companion Styracosaurus stole its bed and the first Styracosaurus cleared off. Fortunately the second Styracosaurus is content with its little buddy who is mainly there just to keep it company. So I got the Styracosaurus, broke through the barrier to the next area, and remarkably little happens. That's the main problem. Whilst Stardew Valley has a clear dynamic and direction right from the start in Paeleo Pines things get past the first stage and then just beadle along. There isn't a great sense of urgency or purpose. There's a mystery around some artifacts which I investigated and the quest just petered out without any major resolution. I'm growing various crops and ... I'm growing various crops. Sometimes these are needed for missions on the mission board in the village centre. Mainly they just accumulate in your storage bin until you decide to sell a couple of hundred to improve your cash balance. Fertiliser is nowhere near as straightforward as Stardew Valley. The main problem is dinosaurs. These need to be fed and cared for so I'm not befriending any until I can identify what special powers they have that will advance the game. And this is where the game does irritate. It provides you with no guidance as to which dinosaurs to befriend in which order. And after opening several new areas with my Styracosaurus the contents have been pretty disappointing. After about a week's work with the Styracosaurus I finally have cleared enough stone at the back of my farmhouse to make a third pen but which dinosaur to put there ? For players who just want to bumble around planting and harvesting crops and interacting with their cute dinosaurs ... yeah, it's great. For those who want a proper structure with significant rewards for opening new areas ? So far it's not rocking my boat. S.x. 50 hour (roughly) update. What I like about the game. 1) The devs have done the passing on the days really brilliantly. You can tell the time of day by the quality of the light and it's very atmospheric. 2) The dinos are easy care. You need to keep them fed, clean up their ... poo (which then gets used for fertilizer), and ... that's about it. I have one large herbivore who because of the presence of a small carnivore in his enclosure needs a daily visit from me to keep him happy but now I have seven dinosaurs the fact they need limited care is great news. 3) The "Help Wanted" board in the village centre. A great way to make easy money and pick up seeds for very little whilst making valuable friends in the local community. Minor but helpful spoiler. The "secret pond" isn't the one next to Olwynn's house. You may also want to check the whereabouts of all relevant parties before accepting any quest. Some people are far more accessible than others. 4) The crops (3D) look reasonably good and fun to harvest. 5) Most quests are solvable reasonably quickly with proper inventory management and ensuring you don't sell stuff unless you've got 100 of it in storage - more for wood, stone and fibre which I'd never sell - only use for quests and help requests. 6) It's a pleasant, chill game. Literally nobody or nothing is working against you, nothing appears to be against the clock other than a couple of optional mini games. 7) Lucky your original and "main" dinosaur moves pretty quickly on what are large maps with no real shortcuts. 8) Your second dinosaur assists in watering which drastically increases the amount of crops you can manage. 9) Nothing so far has been cost barred as opposed to resource barred. 10) You can fall asleep in the wilderness with apparently no penalty whatsoever. Things I don't like 1) I've now opened up two new areas and ... meh. Nothing really exciting happens, characters become more unavailable. There's no great feeling of joy to achieving the opening of new areas. 2) Some quests are "Google first". They're so obviously "needle in an acre of haystacks" that no-one but an insane level masochist would try to solve them unaided. This is bad game design. 3) Seed prices are ridiculous after basic crops. Basic crops cost from about 4 to about 20 per seed. But some seeds cost over 200 a seed and you are really not getting full value on that investment. For cash it's about four of your first discovered crops that are worth the money. Everything else quests only. And the optional ones I'll duck for "rare" crops of which I have limited supplies. 4) One absolutely crucial quest involves recovering generally unreliable supplies from a far flung corner of the map which usually takes place in the dark. Not fun. 5) Your base character never improves except improving a relationship with one villager eventually improves inventory space. Very, very helpful. Everything else is geared to getting more dinosaurs which is resource heavy. 6) I haven't seen any torches yet. 7) A mystery which I still haven't solved due to it involving finding an awkward location in the dark will reveal "a mystery" as being down to the only person that could have been credibly involved and who had been telegraphed as such from an earlier quest. 8) I keep seeing "rare colour" dinosaurs. This possibly has crucial relevance later in the game but at present other chores are distracting me. 9) A pot that allows small dinosaurs to plant seeds must be reset every use and the dinosaur reallocated. This is annoying. 10) Whilst having a dinosaur to water the crops saves a lot of manual labour it doesn't solve all of it and I haven't seen an equivalent to Stardew's sprinklers yet. Like early Stardew you pray for rainy days. 11) Your main hardware supplier can sell you tons of furniture... but you have no access to the interior of your house or so far anybody else's. It seems like the relic of a more ambitious game left anachronistically in the game. 12) All those extra hours and I still have no real sense of direction in the game. I bimble along growing crops and fulfilling quests and ... I bimble along growing crops and fulfilling quests.
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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.
It's adorable. Gameplay is very simple, this would make a great young children's game for parents actually watching what their kid plays, but honestly its just a good time for everyone who likes cozy games! It's got all that cozy type gameplay you want for just relaxing, tame cute dinos with different abilities that help you explore the map and gather resources! My only complaint, is that there are no voices for ALL the dialogue in the game, and there's a lot, good reading practice for kids but it gets REALLY tedious when there's just so much to read.
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Paleo Pines is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
No, Paleo Pines is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Paleo Pines received 1,785 positive votes out of a total of 2,060 achieving a rating of 8.30.
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Paleo Pines was developed and published by Italic Pig.
Yes, Paleo Pines is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Paleo Pines is not playable on MacOS.
Yes, Paleo Pines is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Yes, Paleo Pines is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Paleo Pines is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Paleo Pines does not support VR.
Paleo Pines is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 2 DLCs available for Paleo Pines. Explore additional content available for Paleo Pines on Steam.
No, Paleo Pines does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Paleo Pines does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Paleo Pines is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Paleo Pines.
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