Paleo Pines

I've been playing cozy games since Harvest Moon, and lately I've felt BURNT OUT! Paleo Pines was suggested to me time and time again, and I wrote it off as just another cozy game.

Boy was I wrong!

Not only is this game easy to pick up and play and understand (all important when your time is limited as a busy adult), but it's genuinely fun. The environment is bright and soothing, the music is wonderful, and the creature design is adorable (and dinosaurs TERRIFY me). Things have been tough lately, but I was really surprised at the ease and joy this game brought me.

I'm excited to play more and I'm happy I found a unique cozy game that doesn't feel repetitive! I highly recommend it!

Super cute dinosaur game! I love collecting new dinos in different colors, organizing my ranch, and exploring! I have zero complaints about this game.

Paleo Pines is one of my new favorite games on Steam! I've always been a fan of the cute & cozy, but this is all of that and more! The dinos are adorable, the quests aren't repetitive, farming isn't the entire point of the game (I love farming but some games it seems like its all you do and it takes up your entire in-game day), and there is a story to follow so you have some direction, even though its pretty open-world.
Love!!

I had watched the development of this game since the first piece of concept art surfaced on my tumblr a long long time ago. i patiently waited for it to come out, stalking discords, wikipedias and social media pages for 4-5 years straight! it felt SURREAL when it finally came out and i was able to play the demo and then finally indulge in the full version the day it was released. i'm not even joking when i say paleo pines is my #1 favorite game ever made. the artstyle and gentle colors are so pleasing. i'm a huge fan of moonglow, sky blue, portals, pearl and sunray colorations! my only qualm about this game is that the dinosaurs sound like a bunch of apes. not dinosaurs. but that's only a qualm to me because i'm really into huge visceral roars as a stim noise! and this game doesn't have a scary bone in it's body so the monkey noises do fit better into the vibe of this cutie little game than huge thunderous rumbles do! The developers deserve so much more attention and support for this diamond gem of a game! If you're thinking about trying to play i say give it a try. you will fall in love with the art and your best dinosaur friends!!

Cozy, cute, and easy-going!

Great, slow paced game.
PROS
Dinosaurs
cute art style
Memorable characters

Cons
Slow paced
Hard quests
Confusing mechanics

Absolutely love this game since I played the Demo!
They did an amazing job on the models and animations, the story line is awesome and very well done.

dinos are cute and gameplay is fun. i like that the dinos can help you do the farming tasks a lot. it feels like a very fresh take on the farming sim genre due to how integral dinos are to its progression. if you like creature collectors and farming sims, i feel like paleo pines is a pretty good blend of the genres.
normally i don't play farm sims w/o romance, but i feel like paleo pines is well-written enough that it doesn't really need romance. besides, i'm busy decorating my farm and collecting dinos anyway.

sometimes crashes on steam deck if you play it for several hours in a row. should be fine as long as you save regularly.

I Am Decently Surprised at the quality of game I randomly found scrolling through steam. Growing crops and taming dinosaurs? What a deal, I was intrigued by the taming system that I have rarely seen, using a Flute? Who would've thought? Overall this is a well done game if you are wanting to have a relaxing yet new experience.

Cosy ranching/farming game but with DINOSAURS, sometimes the graphics are a little glitchy but it is SO WORTH IT. YOU CAN PET THE LITTLE DINOS AND MAKE THEM YOUR FRIENDS

I honestly love the exploring and the treasure hunt for the collectibles. The dino's are cute and the graphics are bright and cheery. I'm taking my time with this, it feels like rushing would be a waste

This game is absolutely adorable and very fun! I like collecting and exploring open world games, and Paleo Pines scratches both itches. Lots of cool dinosaur skins of varying rarity to try and collect and well as cool items hidden in nooks and crannies to discover. All in all a very cute, entertaining game!

Unfortunately, I can't give this game some middle ground, so let me put a HEAVY asterisk on my "No" recommendation.

I actually rather enjoyed the game. The issue is...it began to cause motion sickness. Oddly, it didn't at first, so I played it quite a bit before suddenly I can't even turn it on anymore. Usually when a game makes me motion sick, I know right away.

So I am not recommending it for anyone who might be motion sick sensitive as you may encounter the same issue I have: enjoying a game for it suddenly to be a real problem for you.

If you have never had motion sickness issues gaming, then it's a lovely game!

Love this cute little farming sim, very relaxing.

Super enjoyable - a top favorite cozy game for sure!

Hello! This is my first Steam review so here we go!
I found out about Paleo Pines from the YouTuber BestInSlot and followed his updates on the game's release. I played about 25 hours a bit after it was released and it was really fun. I took a bit of a hiatus from the game due to an overall gaming burnout but a flame has been rekindled. I have been a fan of dinosaurs since I can remember. I'm also a fan of cozy farming games like Stardew Valley, and this game is the best of both worlds. The publishers at Italic Pig seem passionate about Paleo Pines and I can't wait to see what future updates or new games look like! I just got done playing on a new save file for the last 5 hours and I can say that I'm having even more fun than before. I will say though, the character designs are middling and the begging customization choices are not good either. I'm not too taken aback because I'm, to be honest, ONLY here for the dinosaurs and I'm sure most players are too. But it can't be helped to call out the human designs. I love the dino patterns and colors. I like there is LGBTQ+ representation without it being forced. It also has nice scenery and good graphics for the art style.

(Checks my playtime) Is 400 hours enough to convince you that you might enjoy this game?

No? Well, I guess I'll say a few things about it then. This game scratches a collecting itch in my brain. And an organizing itch. It's fun to rearrange the ranch to get it juuuust right. There's also a diverse selection of critters to tame, with each of them having different skills that can help you in the wild AND on the ranch. You can completely automate farming with the smaller dinos!

The story is cute and the npcs are fun. It's exciting to come across an ultra rare dino.

Only thing I wish it had was the ability to expand the ranch so you don't have to release dinos... 46 is not enough for me 🥺

I've been really enjoying this relaxing dino farm game. The dinos are more scientifically accurate than the jurassic park movies, lol. This game does have some flaws, like minimal instructions, which can cause some confusion and frustrations, particularly because there are few online discussions about the game. I personally think the biggest improvements the devs could make to this game is letting players mark up the map (let me note where I've found stuff!!), and offering more saddle color options. Overall though, I would recommend this game, particularly if your interests run toward dinos and stardew/AHNH.

Absolutly love this game its a nice game to just sit down and relax too.

Cute, I like he idea, and it is cozy. However, sometimes it really feels like Fetch Quest: The Game.

I want to focus on exploring, finding dinos, and faring, and it's beginning to get exceedingly frustrating at how quickly quests pile up, mind you quests that feel very useless. It's kind of exhausting playing this game sometimes.

This is super fun and relaxing game. I enjoy not knowing what dinos you will get each day and running my route to check for rare and ultra rares. The npc characters are fun stories and quests to keep you engaged. I look forward to future updates and them adding more content to the game!

This is a delightful mix of elements of ACNH, Stardew Valley, and Pokemon. Befriend and collect dinosaurs that each have skills that can be utilized around your farm or world. There are currently three maps to explore with different terrains and varieties of dinosaurs, as well as three different seasons.

Foraging - this is the kind of game where the same items will spawn in the same location. There are differing forage options per season, but they're always located in the same spots.

Farming - pretty basic with no real unique elements besides being able to assign helper dinosaurs to plant and harvest crops for you. Crops are used for cooking, feeding to befriend dinos, and questing fulfillments.

Questing - my least favorite part of this game as the quests really just involve you running between different characters to deliver items. There aren't really any adventure quests, puzzles, mini games, etc. It's just "this character needs stone delivered" type quests.

Once you unlock the third region, things really slow down and you're not able to gather resources as quickly. It becomes much more of a resource grind at that point in order to pay for more dreamstones, habitat decor, and ranch decor. The DLC added some extra interest when it comes to new dinosaur coat colors, but otherwise just added a few cosmetic items. Hoping that the developers are able to find a new reliable backer to help them continue this game as it certainly has room to grow and become even more enjoyable to a wider audience.

This game is so cute! I love the different dino designs, and i am really enjoying exploring the world

When I first discovered Paleo Pines, it seemed fun, cute, and exactly the casual game I was looking for.

Unfortunately, this game was not for me, and I can’t recommend it.

Positive:
- The dinos look and behave really cute.
- The music sounds nice and adds value to the game.
- There are many color varieties of dinos you can discover and befriend.

Negative:
- Although you can collect different color varieties, it’s limited by the amount of dreamstones you can find in the world. Without a dreamstone, you can’t keep a dino, so you’re not really able to “collect” them.
- The dinos have stamina, and once it runs out for the day, there’s no way to replenish it. You’ll have to wait for the next day to use them as helpers again. Apparently, you can replenish a dino's stamina by feeding it the right treat. My bad.
- The overall story lost my interest quickly, and I ended up button-mashing just to move on.
- The NPCs weren’t engaging; their dialogue felt boring and clichéd, so I didn’t feel like talking to them more than necessary.
- Some tasks and controls weren’t intuitive and weren’t explained well by the game.
- The quests were mostly “fetch this and bring it to that specific NPC.”
- There’s no option to enter or decorate your house.

In summary, the aesthetics are nice, and the dinos are cute, but the overall gameplay wasn’t fun.

So cute & so sweet. I get to collect dinos and learn their names! Some quests could be explained better, and somethings don't land perfectly, but overall I can't stop talking about how much I love this game.

If you're looking for your next low stress, cozy, game without a time lock...go with Paleo Pines!

One thing I don't enjoy is the lack of quest notifications. You know about the main quest, but there are other character quests that come up and you will only find out about them if you happen to be in the area with that character and see the exclamation point above their head. It doesn't trigger anywhere you find them and the journal doesn't tell you to talk to them at a certain time, you can only find out when you're where the quest starts at the right time. (For example, Mari has a herd quest that only triggers when she's at her home, probably after you complete something else.)

Honestly, the devs fell flat on a lot of "how-to" parts of the game. Trick or Treat DLC? After Agami tells you about it, good luck figuring out what the next steps are or what the rules are, she's never going to tell you again, you have to check the wiki.

Don't get me wrong, I still love the game, but I would be livid if I had started this earlier and didn't have google solutions from previous players to answer my questions.

i love this game and have it for the switch as well. finding it much easier to play on the computer! The dinosaurs are so cute and the soundtrack is lovely.

This is one of the cutest and more original games I've played in a while. Sure it has some similarities with other farming sims but it also has dinos that you can ride. I do think this game is still a bit rough around the edges (mainly some animation and a few mechanics) but I'm sure it'll only get better with time and possible a better pc (currently playing on a laptop). If you like stardew's farming, animal crossing's cuteness, and dinos you'll like this game.

Best little cosy game to play for all your dino loving needs!

its fun relaxing and super cute! the dinos are super super cute and the music is amazing! the gameplay is super easy to understand and

I absolutely love this game. Its so cute and fun to play, all the different dinosaurs are so cute.

Good game up there with ark and path of titan, hope you guys get the polisher to make the sequel

I love this game so so so much! It's so beautifully made, with obvious love and consideration put into it by the developers, which is exactly what we need more of in the gaming industry <3
The gameplay is super fun and engaging, and you'll end up playing this game for hours! There's lots to explore, collect and style, and there's always something new to keep you engaged!
Please support this game and the developers, as I truly believe they will continue to make great things in their future!

I highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys cute dinosaurs and relaxing farm sim games!

I adore the artstyle and graphics of this game. The world and it's creatures are super cute and the game's visual style just screams "cozy". The music in the game is also pretty nice, not a major aspect of the game but support the relaxing vibes of the gameplay well! And don't even get me started on those cute little dinosaur noises!

Talking of dinosaurs: They are the main selling point of the game. There's a big selection of them available and a LOT of different color variations of each dinosaur! I personally like to "shiny hunt" the ultra rare color variants and everytime I find an ultra rare color it makes me super excited!

The basic gameplay loop is pretty simple and I find the easiness of farming relaxing! I absolutely LOVE that the dinosaur friends - both big and small - actually can help you at your farmwork! These dinos aren't just cute but also very essential and helpful to run your farm!

The NPCs have some nice personality to them and some of them struggled with stuff that personally resonated to me. Especially Marlo's storyline sticked with me and resonated to me a lot.

The biggest beef that I had during my hours of play was the fact that there's a lot of collectibles in the game, and I have no way of checking which items I've already found and from where, which made it frustrating to hunt the last remaining few with internet guides.

Overall I really recommend this game for anyone looking for a cute and cozy farming sim with the dinos being the focal point!

utterly adorable, delightful little farming game. extremely cute art style, the dinosaurs are all incredibly huggable, and it's lovely to make friends with them and keep them happy and pet them. really good game.

I love the cute simple style of the game and the relaxing atmosphere! I like they use some less known species such as corythosaurus and some gorgonopsids!

One feature I'm iffy on is the time restricted dino spawns and how fast the day/night cycle is. I saw a rare color of deinocheirus or Duck as I call em, and I wasn't sure if I could even house him but I didn't want to lose the rare spawn to i tamed it anyways.

Started playing and couldn't stop for 30 hours. I love this game, I love using the dinos to do work around the farm because it is so much easier and I love going out and seeing what rare dinos are out that I want to take home. I also bought and played the Halloween DLC already, which was cool, although I do have some tips for that as it's not fully explained in-game: First, the "trickster" is the person with an unlit stack of three pumpkins, and if you find them first, everyone gives you 3 candies instead of 2. Once you collect candy from all the vendors and friends, you can put the candy out for dinosaurs BUT you need to put out a full stack of 10 for them to do anything. There are a few mechanics and things I had to look up for this game, but overall I actually do like that it doesn't hand-hold too much through the game. There is more info in the help tab on the menu as well, but some things are just easier to Google.

I tried the demo, expecting to be satisfied with that and set it down after a few runs through, but I got hooked. Maybe it's the adorable aesthetic, or maybe I enjoy having to actually earn my dinos' trust before they'll do anything for me other than eat the food in their trough, but I really enjoy this game. I wish the controls were a little more intuitive, or that I could change the key binds(coming from Stardew I keep pressing E, which does nothing here), but aside from that I'm having a blast. I just got to my first Triassea picnic, and lucked out to get 3 rares on day 2 of it!

Paleo Pines is a good game for very young children and people that will enjoy it for what it is and nothing more. I have been following the development of this game since its concept in 2019 and am THOROUGHLY disappointed, especially with the recent DLC releases. It's clear that the devs are more interested in selling plushies and merch than improving their game. The human characters are uninteresting and stiff, the dinosaurs have 0 personality other than 3-4 animations. The game. The gameplay loop is dull and monotonous: care for dinos, water plants, and go forage/look for new dino colors. Thats it. Every few days you can sell your crops for some money to break up your rigorous routine but thats the whole game. you scoop poop and look for pink t-rexs.
Originally I was hoping that when the new dlcs announced they were finally going to add this swamp region that characters mention a couple times, especially with the addition of sarco, i thought maybe you could ride it to the swamp, give dinos a new ability. No. just clothes, decorations, and a halloween reskin of the dinos.

Overall, i was really hoping for a good dino farming sim, and instead got a low effort paleo cash grab.

Pros:
- The dinos ARE very cute
- The game has the potential to be GREAT

Cons:
- Clunky controls / Boring gameplay
- Low effort dlcs / updates
- Focused on merch not their game
- After a certain point a lot of dino skills see little to no use as there's nothing to use them on later
- for being a very simple game it can run a bit clunky sometimes
- Quests are boring, most being fetch and delivery quests.

If you are going to buy Paleo Pines i suggest waiting for a sale as currently, it is NOT worth $30, maybe more like $15 MAYBE $20 if the devs started caring.

This has been on my wish list since 2022 and I finally snagged it on sale, about a year after it released. And like many games that I say "that looks cool, I'll add that," it ended up being a disappointment. This is NOT a $30 game AT ALL. This is borderline unfinished. Getting myself motivated to play this after the first go was very difficult, but I gave it an honest try.

My experience of 2.6 hours and half a month in game: Immediate frustration and confusion at the controls and then disappointment upon seeing the human NPCs (why are their names the same color when speaking? They couldn't even so much as make them distinct??). I kept getting lost in the map because all the hills and bushes looked the same with very few landmarks. I needed more cash because everything was very expensive but the only way to earn money was to grow crops, which took days, and the only thing to do in between waiting was smash debris and do quests. But the quests are fetch quests and some were even "grow a bunch of crops" quests... and some involved picking plants I never even found despite scouring (dandelions). After a while I just started waking, watering the plants, then sleeping, so they'd grow and I could finally get money to buy things. Bought a$100 ($100!!!!) pastry to befriend a new dino, just to be rejected when that dino didn't even like them. Got frustrated and called it a night because I just wasn't having fun.

Pros:

- Cute dinos and pretty environment. You get to ride the dinos which is awesome.
- ... I can't think of anything else.

Cons:

- Unpolished, clunky controls and UI. Why is the character on a grid when walking but when moving a dino forward you can turn smoothly? That was a clear choice made and it was a bad one.

- The human characters look kinda... unappealing and samey. They look cheap and uninspired, just uncanny to look at.

- It's in the same genre as Stardew Valley but... not very fun. Slow grinding, boring surroundings, flat characters, fetch quests with little reward, items are too expensive, you can't skip the eating animation when trying to befriend dinos... etc.

Overall I wish I could say "meh" instead of no. Because really this game, from what I've seen, is just... meh. It's a little cute and riding dinos is fun. But everything else is just unfinished, unpolished, uninspired. It's missing that special something to make it worth playing, and riding dinos, especially with such poor controls, is just not it. There are way better games in this genre out there :(

Fun, cozy farming game with dinosaurs. What more could you need ? Admittedly I feel like theres not much to the game but if youre looking for a cozy game with cute creatures and low stakes then youll love it. Devs are active and making content for the game still which is always a plus

Bought this game, and immediately played it almost 10 hours straight, not a wink of sleep. First farm is me-farm. Cozy li'l happy place. Needs more dinos to be fully complete. Have plans to do a shamrock-only farm later.

Second farm, went full Mega Man-ia. X and Zero are happiest li'l Troodons, as are the Four Guardians. Rock, Roll, Blues, and Bass cover the whole range of sweetest-to-sourest tiny-ceratopses. Miscellaneous other characters also chilling in dino form, including my dear Dynamallosaurus. Been albino-hunting for 8 very specific dinos for irl and in-game months so I can have all eight Gentle Judges make sure Omega stays out of trouble. Sigma's almost lvl 20, Lumine will be next.

✨Maximum replayability, 10/10, would dino-farm again.✨

(accidentally tamed two of the same stego-color, wish there was a way to write dinos out of Mari's recall-book...)

The game itself is cute and fun.

However, locking entire festivals behind paid DLC is scumbag behavior. If they want to charge people for full DLCs I think that's fair, or if they want to charge people for cosmetic items for the player I also believe that's absolutely fair. Locking gameplay mechanics and events behind a price-tag however in an already very bare-bones game with little to no replay ability does not give me hope for the future however.

Unfortunately I can't recommend a game that price-gates things so basic to the farming sim genre as festivals.

I like the game. It's cute and has dinos, but:

- The game is out now for about 1 year, but still feels like on the beginning of an early acess. In this time it got one update.
- So the whole game feels unfinished and there is the question how much there is comming next ... and when.
- The game is definitly not worth it's full price.

So sadly I can't recommend this game. It's simply unfinished and the devs seems to want to promote their plushies, or are very unexperienced. I hope the best and wish the best, but I worry about the game.

It's such an amazingly cute game - i'd recommend it for everyone. I personally found fun in collecting rare dinosaurs and trying to 100% the game. No matter if you just want to enjoy a sweet, comfy game or if you want to actually get into grinding. I'm so excited for the new DLCs too <3!

Not much to do. The world is pretty empty. Extremely repetitive gameplay.

Paleo Pines is an incredibly beautiful and relaxing game to enjoy. I have loved this game from its beginning and am looking forward to seeing where the devs take it.

Still looks like early acsess to me. Clunky controls and navigation, no voice acting, flat characters, and empty world. The only positve thing in this game for me is a lot of dinos. Got it for 50% off and despite that still got a refund.

This game is adorable and charming. It's a nice cozy game the does a lot for the collector in me. Having the dinos help with farming and exploration is great. The designs for the dinos is so cute and they gave them adorable animations and reactions. Named NPCs have multiple lines if you choose to keep talking to them which was a nice touch. I love how my Ouranosaurus wiggles in happiness! I have recommended it to friends. I love it.

This game is really nice, and I'm always a fan of cozy games, but Paleo Pines can't really hit that farming game niche for me!
Its a very beautiful game, but at this point, its extremely bare bones, and more of a "dino pattern collector" than a farming sim.

There's very little that motivates me to play in the game. I got all the dinos i like. My farm is pretty neat, and tidy, and im guaranteed to get all of my daily quests done. I'm just waiting for the season to pass!

On top of that, the game over-explains certain functions, while others are left to be understood by the player through guides. It was overwhelmingly hard to understand how to tame other dinos, and the "treat taste preferences". After a while, the slog of having to re-discover the pattern of dinosaur i wanted, just to scare it off, and THEN use up all of my treats to unlock the next treat quest was just miserable


I have great hopes for this game, and maybe I'll amend my review in the future, but at thus point, i'll be finishing my cosplay and shelving the game for the future

It's a little tough to get a hang of the controls and such, but once you get into the groove of things it's a really fun and cute game! It immediately stole my heart for having my favorite dinosaur sooooo... :D