Primal Reign

Primal Reign

The Games Shed · May 29, 2017 · Free to Play, Action, Indie, Multiplayer, VR

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About Primal Reign

✦ AI summary

Fight off ten relentless waves of prehistoric beasts and reanimated mummies attacking from every direction in an ancient Egyptian tomb with no cover, no safe angles, and only your firepower and positioning to survive. This rebuilt VR wave shooter strips away distractions to focus on what VR does best — physical presence, spatial pressure, and intense moment-to-moment combat.

Primal Reign returns — rebuilt from the ground up.

What began in 2019 as a small experimental VR project has evolved into a bigger beast, we are expanding the IP, With Primal Reign: The Age of New Kings entering early access, we have a free playable demo as well as an extended playthough as a thank you should you wish to supports us through early access. This is exactly why we wanted to re-visit Primal Reign and bring it inline with the new story and give the original tomb a make over with new art, new enemies and lots of new weapons.Set deep inside an ancient Egyptian mummification tomb, the battle converges around a single Explorer.You are Harriet; a British Archaeologist who has found herself separated from her partner Ron — alone, outnumbered, and surrounded.For ten ferocious waves, prehistoric beasts and reanimated mummies pour in from every direction. There is no cover you can rely on. No safe angle. No mercy. Only instinct, movement, and firepower.

Core Experience

10 escalating waves of relentless enemiesPrehistoric creatures and ancient Egyptian mummies attacking from all sidesA tightly designed single-arena tomb, built for spatial awareness and constant threatLimited health with unlimited ammunition — survival is about positioning, not hoardingEnemies can (and will) approach from any direction — including behind you

Trench tools at the ready, we're going back in.

This rebuild focuses on what VR does best:Physical presenceSpatial pressureImmediate feedbackEvery weapon, enemy, and movement decision is designed to keep you engaged during intense combat, this is for VR veterans.

Interaction

Multiple firearms suited to frantic close-quarters combatBazooka and explosive barrels for crowd controlStronger enemy behaviourSharper focus on fun first gameplayRather than abandon it, we rebuilt it — and released the updated version free as a thank-you to the VR community that supported us early on.

AHEAD: PRIMAL REIGN – THE AGE OF NEW KINGS

If you enjoy this wave shooter, be sure to check out our upcoming story-driven VR action game:Primal Reign: The Age of New KingsA full narrative VR experience set in the same universe, featuring:Story-led gameplayCinematic moments built specifically for VRA playable demoAn extended Early Access gameplay segmentAvailable now on Steam.

Primal Reign — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Mar 31, 2024
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8 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 28, 2025
"Primal Reign" is a badly made VR tech demo with an Egyptian dinosaur, so let's just bash genres together until a decent idea crops up. Wait, didn't Serious Sam do that already? Yeah, they did. Wow, so this is a Serious Sam knockoff, only worse in all respects. What do you do in the game? Wave your arms around in VR to shoot/stab dinosaurs. The developer couldn't work out locomotion in VR properly so you teleport around jankily enough to make you throw up. VR exclusivity is typically the refuge of the lazy dev, those who believe slapping VR compatibility on something immediately removes all other requirements for quality... and this isn't to say you can't make a good VR game, take a look at Half-Life: Alyx, but like I said, most of the time VR exclusivity is a lot like Epic exclusivity... publish it in a way nobody will see it because you know you have a bad product, right? The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than…
2 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 2, 2025
Игра Primal Reign - это увлекательная, хоть и немного сыроватая, попытка вдохнуть новую жизнь в жанр RTS. Идея скрещивания различных видов динозавров и использования их в качестве юнитов выглядит свежо и интересно. Графика, конечно, не поражает воображение, но стиль приятный, а модели динозавров вполне детализированы. Геймплей предлагает классическую формулу строительства базы, сбора ресурсов и наращивания армии. Однако, механика мутации динозавров добавляет тактической глубины, позволяя создавать уникальные комбинации юнитов с различными способностями. Кампания интересная, хоть и немного предсказуемая, но предоставляет достаточное количество вызовов. Из минусов стоит отметить не самую лучшую оптимизацию, иногда встречаются просадки FPS даже на достаточно мощных системах. Также баланс может быть немного несбалансированным, некоторые юниты оказываются слишком сильными, а другие - малоэффективными. В целом, Primal Reign – это игра с большим потенциалом. Если разработчики продолжат работать над оптимизацией и балансом, а также добавят больше контента, то она вполне может стать достойным представителем жанра RTS. Рекомендую попробовать всем любителям динозавров и стратегий в реально…
Recommended Jul 27, 2025
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Not recommended Apr 19, 2023
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Recommended Jun 29, 2021
a game amazing thank you so much to bring us this game in vr i love the temple egyptian , the dinosaures the weapons a great experience

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