Primal Planet

The beginning might feel a little awkward. There's like three or four story events that unfold before the game becomes fully open to start exploring. The story elements are at least pretty gripping. Even if you feel a little lost from the start, I suggest staying course and it'll pay off. Once past the story/tutorial opening, the game makes you explore and figure out the world you're in. It's pretty fun exploring, leveling, and collecting resources. The crafting and town upgrading is very streamlined and easy to deal with. The combat works, but kind of turns into dodge then attack then repeat those two moves. You still have to pay attention to the enemies, but your forced to use your invincible dodge, attack quickly, then dodge again. It's almost like button mashing. I wouldn't say it kills the gameplay experience. You can still get hit by enemies doing this. It's just that if you don't, you'll probably get murdered quickly. It still feels rewarding to slaughter your enemies to upgrade your character and dino companion. Exploring is also rewarding, especially if you don't look up guides to figure out what to do. There's a decent amount of backtracking, but it doesn't feel cumber…

Primal Planet is a really weird dinosaur metroidvania about a caveman getting his kid back with the help of his pet dino. Beat it and 100%ed achievements in 11 hours using a game controller. Difficulty is Medium, but can be brutal in the beginning. Story - Dinos vs Aliens Vs Really Big Mosquitos, and you're just a dude with occasional food poisoning and a spear. The story was loose through most of it, but I'm glad the creator added more at the end to make it extra weird. Graphics - Pixels. Reminds me of Kingdom: Two Crowns. Music - Tribal and some tracks played louder than others during my playthrough. Really really grew on me throughout. Bought it at full price (6$). It's now stuck in my head forever. Gameplay - Took a little to get use to the controls, especially filtering through and using items with the shoulder buttons in the thick of a battle. Kept knee-jerk confusing 'use item' and 'stab spear' for some reason, or throwing torch instead of waving it. Took me half the game to realize there were two maps. In the early-game, the dinos and other beasts hit really hard and when you die, you go back to the last camp with one health. Sometimes that can put you…

This game is great. Ive just started back playing games on pc and its harder than I thought it would be. I think I need a controller for this game to make it easier for me but the game itself is awesome.Give it a try if you are new and are tired of getting gunned down on first person shooters like me.

Really enjoyed this game! Fun big map to explore, lots of cool dinos and other animals to encounter! Very enjoyable game in the genre. Love all the little creatures and things you can smash along the way too! Important to have something silly and fun to do as you're travelling, I think! These days I'm wary of crafting mechanics in games, but it was very easy and quick to do in this game, so I appreciated it. Cool idea having the campfires do upgrades and crafting. The animations of the characters are really well done. Lots of lovely gestures and body language in many of the characters and creatures featured here, especially since there are so few pixels to work with in lots of cases. Really enjoyed the Jurassic Park Megadrive/Genesis game influences! That game was one of my favs back in the day, so it was cool to see the hidden secret, and the similar animations on the raptor, as well as the little compies :P I liked recruiting other cave people to help, and building more huts and things, and character upgrades. It was neat having some things to build towards. Moving the entire village was also a neat feature. The map feature was mostly good. I think the only QOL ch…

The item management is a little bit clunky. but combat is fast and responsive. movement as well. i am having a good time with it.

Fun little metroidvania that you can play locally with a friend or partner