The Isle

I really tried to love this game, as I was a dinosaur kid growing up. It has been nothing but a constant disappointment. The servers lag or disconnect on the regular, the developers are incredibly slow at releasing or updating or listening to their customers, and for some reason they can't have enough servers to support more than 400 people playing at once in NA. It seemed like the developers started to listen with the last map update but the game has only gotten worse concerning actual game play. Why does it take multiple years to release the only true apex predator that literally everyone wants to play, the T-Rex...

it was fun for a long time , but new updates and changes makes everything unfun . I dont recommend this game at the current state . bring me back old map at least i would see players all the time , now in the gateway and random spawns i see nobody , really bad updades no one asked for . games are supposed to be fun and enjoyable and not stressfull . Moving to path of titans until they fix all the issues , at least they listen to community and make changes to make the game fun and not realistic boring and lame

Can no longer recommend this game for new players.
Over five years of development and still the same messy spaghetti code, each update comes with more bugs and performance issues and I'm not even talking about the poor choices when it comes to balancing.

At first glance the game is absolutely stunning and is the most immersive experience I ever had when gaming, It's a hardcore survival experience which would have been wonderful if it wasn't for the horrendous optimisation choices and the devs tendency to add more and more new content without taking care of previous unsolved bugs/issues, which creates more problems that can cost you hours of progress!

I really love that game and wish the best for it's future but it's in a very bad spot now especially after the last update which turned it into a starving simulator for new players and large species, the map is way too big for 100 or even 200 players, and for many there's sometimes a dramatic lag and fps spike when encountering other players or even entering certain locations, personally for me, I keep getting 300 ping when I follow the West Rail Access road and it keeps going until I leave that area (official and unofficial servers).

Hope to see better days for this game because it's truly one of a kind.

game is in constant development with them usually being for things that should be coming after getting the animal count back up because they have been on an update for years and still have not managed to get any apex predators in the game. it really doesn't matter what hardware you have there are areas or times the FPS will drop to be unplayable. id recommend you watch some videos before you buy. as i type the game is a starving simulator with another fantastic "update".

Starving simulator 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, etc.
The game seemed promising when it first launched years ago, but has been getting worse with every update, in both performance and gameplay. The game commits the ultimate sin in gaming, it's utterly, irredeemably boring. Years and years of development and almost nothing to show for it.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☑ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☑ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☑ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
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Final Verdict:
Good game genre with a alot of potential. takes a bit to get the hang of the game and how everything works just keep on playing it and u might just figure out a way to grow and hunt.

I'm going to get jestered a lot from the fan-bois for this review, but F it. The people need to know about this.

The devs are in over their heads with this game. Scope creep is real and its clear that they cannot keep the ship floating for much longer without a giant overhaul.

To begin, when you first buy the game and load it up, you're going to load into legacy that isn't updated anymore and is several updates behind. ... like what?

You have to activate the beta of the game to play to any means with people and with the dinos that people actually want to play as.

AI is just broken. Just broken. The re-spawn timers aren't working as they should. You can go literally 2 hours without seeing another player or AI, and at that time, your hunger has just either killed you totally or you're on the brink of it. "but its a pvp game" Stfu, you need the AI as a baby or as a small meal to keep you going between the constant pvping you have to do just to enjoy the game. AI is a core part of the game and its just utterly broken asf.

Low hunger meter means that your stam takes three times as long to refill, leaving you just totally useless. so now you have to move 50 feet only to rest again for another 5-10 minutes (depending on size) to refill stam just to be able to move and hope you can find food. like WTF even is this? Don't even get me started on the 'broken bones' feature that is just... laughable.

Sever crashes several times a day where your dino can just be killed instantly after reloading. also sitting in a queue to load into the server for almost 45 minutes only to load under the map where your only option is to Alt+F4 to get out and sit back in the queue again for another 45+ minutes just to log in and see that something went wrong and killed your dino during those glitches and now you gotta start over. That's SUPER fun!

Or, the fact that its so poorly optimized that even on a really high end computer, the game RARELY lets you get above 45 FPS. If you try and adjust any of the settings, the game will force a restart where, you guessed it, gotta sit again for 45 minutes. Funnnnnnnn, right?

The devs are ultra slow on updates, and honestly what they are focusing on isn't what the community wants.
This is made so abundantly clear on The Isle Discord channel. 100+ posts about fixing x or y feature only for the devs to totally ignore it and focus on the next dino that gets released. Like who cares about elder skins? Why don't you fix the core features before adding more stuff to bug out later?

Even on sale, I wouldn't suggest buying this game. It isn't even nearly close to actually being worth the price it is, and for as long as this game has been in development, its clear that its never going to get past that EA tag on steam.

Sorry, but - The Isle devs, you **** the bed.

Do better.

Came back to the game with some new friends and cant choose a spawn location (Evrima), so we spend almost a couple of hours looking for each other to no avail. This sucks.

They refunded it.

I really wish to recommend this game, however in its current state it is a massive waste of money. In the 9 years of this games existance (Released in 2015) it has been in early access limbo. The game has had 3 full re-imaginings. I don't mean the art style changes or something I mean it in the terms of it may as well be a completely different game. Each time the game gets better sure I do give them that credit however everytime the game looses more playable creatures and each time the devs become more insufferable. I write this review as they currently delete reviews, and take away content creator badges for asking to revert a update that makes games crash every 10 minutes. If anyone ever so slightly critize them, you either get warned, banned, or attacked by people for no apparent reason. Their justification is that it is an early access game, an early access game in development for 9 whole years. A early access game that takes entire years for a singular creature to be added to the game. At this point it is not worth giving them more money. If, further down in development this game is in a proper state I may change this review, I also hope that the devs start taking critizism more professionally instead of warning and banning people because they want the servers not to crash every 10 minutes.

Had a lot of fun playing this game on Spiro, but now with the new map and every single update the game becomes less and less fun and ever more broken, the new map really seemed like the start of the end with every update being worse than the last.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME

I had very high hopes for this game when it came out in 2015. At the time it was still new and fresh, so I made the decision to wait until the developers had added a bit more and improved the game. After nearly 9 years, I finally decided to make the purchase and try it out for myself. Upon installing the game and opening it for the first time, I was met with a black screen. Strike one. After several google searches and a few youtube videos I was informed that if you wanted to play the game you would have to go into your steam files and directly run the .exe file. It worked, I was in and I was on my way.

I know the game has never advertised having any PvE experience but I thought maybe after 9 years they have added something for people who dont want to get immediately wrecked by a large dinosaur that someone has been playing for who knows how long. Nope, Strike 2. Then after realizing the base version of the game is absolute garbage, I dove a little deeper to find Evrima, and downloaded the version to see if it was any better, and it was, barely. The graphics were nicer, there were a few more options for Dinos and some small tweaks to the UI, cool.

The real killer was afer joining a "official" server, starting out as a smaller juvenile dino, I begin to starve. No problem right? Wrong. After looking around for some for of food just to stay alive in the game(which took around 30 mins), I find a chicken in a heavily jungled area. Then because the dinosaur is so small, Id go to chase the chicken and Id lose it due to being so small and not able to see anything in the underbrush. STRIKE 3.

This game is not fun and it seems like the development team is very unorganized and perhaps understaffed. I even went to check their discord, facebook, and website and all are down or invites are invalid. This game had an amazing concept but unfortunately I am deeply disappointed with the experience I have had and Im sure many others are as well.

if you want to play evirma, ask in the discord if your computer can run it before buying it :/
spec requirements have gone up for it.

So apparently there is no solo PvE, i was expecting a solo PvE mod in the likes of Ancestors, but every people in chat told me that AI was just there for eat and dont represent any danger, and that this game is 95% PvP. I'm too old for PvP games, i find coop and solo much more interesting. So until they add a solo experience, i can't review this game well, a big miss for this game in my opinion.

Game has been in development for 8+years now, had good progress for awhile only for the devs to completely start over without stating it anywhere on the store page, leaving the "Live Branch" to rot with the majority of the roster of dinosaurs. Not only do you have to search how to get into the evrima test branch for new content, it also runs poorly on most mid tier pcs, let alone the ones in the recommended specs and failing to update it in the slightest.

Overall the balance is awful in the newest updates, constantly playing favourites and bias towards certain creatures, such as nerfing carno into the ground so people only play cerato.

The game really needs more of the team to help it succeed, which yeah isn't always possible but when the isle dev team was larger a couple years ago, we got way more updates, instead of just stagnant progression.

Honestly in it's current state, I would never recommend this game, if you want a regularly updated dinosaur survival game, just go play path of titans.

I like the game but it’s annoying
as a new player cool game
just sucks it keeps crashing
Dev Team really need fix the error
game been in early Access for 8 years
I feel like I just wasted my money
I feel more like a Beta Tester
I'm not a player in this game
Please don’t buy this game

Love the game play and the design of the game pluss when playing evrima the graphics are really good. Side note better hide when your small or your gonna be a nice snack for a bigger dino.

Specifically talking about evrima, this sucks. They themselves have said they don't cater to players while also being upset when said players criticize their game. They wont listen to the community. Each update breaks some crazy things that you wouldn't even imagine happening. The Halloween event was empty because of the horrid updates.

These dinosaur survival game devs still haven't figured out a fun and compelling gameplay loop that actually incorporates PvE elements in to supplement the PvP world. Instead, we get an empty walking simulator with permadeath that has you waiting in a bush for 5-10 hours before you can participate in the game's only activity (PvP) with nothing to do in between except drink water and stare at pixelated grass and foliage. Even fixing the game's horrible optimization and ridiculous balancing won't be enough if they can't nail the gameplay and give people a reason to keep playing. I can't get my friends to want to play through this slog and the ones that did quit a couple of days in and I can't get them to return and I don't blame them. I genuinely want this game to have a future but if the developers don't stop acting like they're better than everyone else and finish the product we paid for, it can stay in the past with the dinosaurs.

I really really want to enjoy this game and give good review as I've spent almost 1000 hours on this game but I just can't at it's current state. The game has it's plus and cons - like every game. But there are some things I truly just don't understand right now. I might update this review later on if things take a better turn (unless I get banned for leaving this negative review as I've understood from the community lol).

Things I find bad at their current state:
1: The performance issues are awful, they truly are.
2: The devs are changing things that were ok at some point and now some of them are just really bad. E.g. I guess they wanted more interaction between players so they've reduced AI _BUT_ they also disabled a chance to pick your spawn point -> now you run in dead areas of map without finding any players OR AI and either die of mixpackers or hunger, trying to work your way to the hot spots you know you could find food from. Starving is the most frustrating and biggest problem for me right now, especially if I manage to grow my dino for hours to a full grown state and then I die because there is literally no food anywhere.
3: I've run into SO many cheaters in this game (I know right, cheaters in a DINOSARU sim?!) The reporting system is utter **** as you need to report trough Discord (there is no option to report trough game) and you should be recording your gameplay to prove that you died to a cheater. Like. Why is it so hard to make a report system ingame? By the time you maybe manage to start recording the game, you're already dead because of the cheater. It's ridiculous and so frustrating because first you grow your dinosaur literally for HOURS and die to a cheater and nobody gives a **** and that's basically your own fault because YoU DidN'T ReCoRd YOuR GamEPlaY. Duh. Also, if you try to warn other players on official Discord server of the cheater and tell their ingame location, your messages will be deleted. :)) So have fun dying to a cheater whom are free to roam around the map without any punishment at all!
4: Mixpackers are annoying problem too, as there are no rules at all for them on Official Servers. I truly would like to play on Official Servers as the community servers usually have way too much rules. But I guess this is just a me-problem. (Somehow I just thought the game was supposed to be somewhat realistic but maybe the herbivores and carnivores really did mixpack back in their days! *laughs in dinosaur*)
5: The queue times to servers are insane sometimes. When a new patch gets launched, DO NOT expect to get on a server even within hours. I don't understand why there ain't no more Official Servers as there is always queue to the existing ones, especially when new patches come out?? Queuing on normal days takes usually anything from 15-40 mins which is insane as your game will probably get bugged at some point so you need to restart and do the queuing all over again.
6: I think most of the people literally only want new dinos and performance issues to be fixed, but instead we are getting reworked maps etc. and the reworks are just not good. We still don't have got the elderly system either which I've been waiting for years.

I don't know. I really love and hate this game at the same time. I've found some amazing people to play with from this game though. I think it's the only good thing right now. I didn't want to write a review earlier but it just has been a big downhill for a while now. I'd recommend people to wait for the game to be more balanced in every possible way before getting it. As said, I might update this review later on.

I have 15 minutes of gameplay. It was great spending them and at least 30 mins more to read how to make this game to start. Go do this, go delete this file, open with note pad write -1 instead of 0 and etc. It was a great experience, but I would love someday to be able to start it and play for real.

P.s. Solve your problem as said above I would love to play your game for real, without the need of me becoming a developer myself.

I don't write reviews, and there was a time when I loved this game. I'm telling you right now, do not spend a second or a dime playing this. Its a total waste of your time and appreciation. The developers are completely delusional and clearly don't play the product they are developing. Mixpacking (playing different species, talking on discord, indiscriminately ganking and removing the few functional aspects of balance the game has) is completely ruining the game across all servers i've wasted my time on this week. There is no plan to resolve this ridiculous, unintended issue, and no acknowledgement from the devs, this will only will continue to get worse and it's already made the game unplayable. You will spend most of your time as a new player running around wondering where everyone is only to realize they are all in the same area of this needlessly large map, actively destroying the server with their play, then you will die over and over again, never getting the satisfaction of a good fight. If you'd like to wait 10-40 to get into your server, spend time learning an unbalanced system, struggle with sudden disgusting FPS drops (100 to 5) due to player density, and if you are ambitious attempt to deal with an echochamber kool-aid drinking community led by devs that truly don't care about glaring issues, then welcome to paradise. This is a poorly optimized time gambling game, made exponentially worse by a degenerate community. All potential is overshadowed by how miserable this experience has become, and it's truly a shame. Trust me, and do not start thinking it's going to get better. It's only getting worse. And it's a massive shame.

developers are stinky and the game would be better if the developers listened to the community more and stopped making things worse, the game is alright :)

Not now. ping gets to 180 out of no where. Queue time is crazy and servers sometimes just dont work.

Trash game. Horrible performance, boring gameplay and toxic playerbase. Do not recommend.

In the beginning of my journey with the isle it was incredible and I loved playing it so much. When I bought it there was only legacy servers which gradually upgraded to evrima. For awhile now I have been playing the new branch and let me tell you it’s not worth the $20. You enjoy the play style of stego, you won’t enjoy it now when the horde testing switches to the main branch. You enjoy having full diets and full belly all the time? You won’t enjoy it when horde testing adds it to the main branch. Never in my life would I have thought that my 1k hours played in this game would be destroyed by decisions to add things into this game. I use to recommend this game to literally anyone and everyone. Now I’m telling them to not even bother with it bc ITS NOT WORTH IT ANYMORE.

This game has been kicking the can down the road since 2016 and not only does it not have a gameplay loop, the map isn't finished. The devs just play with their dino dolls on private servers and post hundreds of 'Update' videos on dinosaurs that will never ever make it to the live version. Save your money.

current iteration is completely broken and laggy as hell, still nothing that can even come close to properly fighting stego, not to mention stego now has a one shot attack against everything except maybe deino not like it matters because it still shits on deino, and the servers are completely lag filled and have absolutely no work done to fix the latency issues.

I think it's very obvious that I would recommend this game considering how many hours I have in it. This game is very immersive and I personally believe that the community is amazing. I have seen and died to a few hackers and some rude people here and there, but that goes with every pvp game you play. They're still currently working on the game and the videos they have on there page is the old version. I will be honest and say that they are extremely slow on the updates and they have been in the early access stage for years. There's not a huge selection of dinosaurs to play right now, but the ones that they have out you can tell they put love into. Me personally I feel like this is the best survival dinosaur game out there that you are going to find right now. Hope to see even more players join <3

This game is slowly progressing into a better version of what it previosuly was. Slow roll out on updates but for content that it currently has, i would still reccomend it to those who enjoy a more realistic feeling dinosaur game.

Pros:
- Clean graphics & Animations
- Some what balanced so long as you're taking your time and learning your dinos & mechanics
- Affordable and fairly priced game for what it really is.
- Can always choose play style regardless of creature, wether to be a faster more agressive player or more chill and vibey. I would say its very free range and as a player, adaptable to your playstyle.

Cons:
- Very slow rolling out new dinos, updates , Fixed [though fixes has been more speedy lately]
- Could improve some performace and smoother FPS. [Overall could use a bit more optimization in certain areas]
- PERSONAL OPINION; Could have a better hunting, scenting system. [Slight tweaks and imporovemnts]
- Would love a better balance and availability on food for certain species


These are all personal opinons id rate it overall for the genre & mission of the game 7.8 out of 10 in its current state. Easily could get up to 8.5 - 9 with these small tweaks and additions in mind.

I would reccomend this if you like games like Ark, Path Of Titans, and any other dinosaur based game.

***Excuse my typos & grammar***

I'm shocked it took me this long to realised this game is nothing but a time waste and doesn't even reward a player with entertainment.

I'm sad I wasted 8 hours growing a croc to learn the game has 3 rivers so escape isn't a thing and that's after starting to try to grow one 16 times. Crocs kill on sight, cannibalism is the only solid source of food for these dinosaurs since the AI doesn't need water, they don't need to visit water and will sense you approaching even if you're underwater. AI will despawn on you and in front of you.

wasted time a cera, was killed by starvation 3 times before finally getting a kill against a dilo, later starved to death.

I decided to try the dilo and found out real fast it's poison doesn't do much damage, talked to other dilos and found out it summons ghost versions of yourself to attack the target, they do damage if they hit but they get stuck and stopped by EVERYTHING. Rock, stopped. Tree, stopped. Water, stopped. Blade of grass, stopped. Useless.

I grew the Troodon, its just a smaller version of the dilo who can jump. It's poison is just as useless and everything can kill you with one movement.

This is all just fighting other carnivores and every carnivore i've tried has pretty much the same experience.

Herbivores has a weird playstyle. It's fun growing one until you reach adulthood, now your time will be spent socializing and grazing with the occasional rush of going for a drink of water, hoping there are no crocs but also hoping there is just one to keep your group on their toes.

If nothing happens, all herbivores eventually become mixpackers, so they can get into fights while also rewarding a friend. If they don't become mixpackers, they will make the travel of death, going off on their own just to fight anything they see so they can fight until they respawn. To play a new dinosaur or start growing again.

That's just the game, I far too into the game when I learned about the Lead Dev and his enjoyment of the youth and how the dev team afterwards continues to gaslight players into thinking its normal to go after kids and then asked their players to ignore everything.

While alot of the time there are players who have WAY too much fun causing havoc and going on killing sprees... There are also just as many who are there to make friends and have fun with. It is because of those types of people that i Love this game. Helped me go through a really tough breakup, and now im married with my firstborn son on the way. Love this game!

Want to spend hours walking around, interacting with almost nothing, in a game that's been in early-access for a decade? Look no further.

its a work in progress that I've been following for years now. finally i picked it up, and the experience I've had so far has been brutally fun and adrenaline fuelled. and with updates further refining the gameplay and mechanics puts it above the other dino game i have played.

unpopular opinion but i don't enjoy the new night vision i preferred the previous version where it was black and white with colour splashing across the world when lightning struck! very stunning to look at and very scary. but i see why people prefer this version more.

another note is trying to convince my friends to play is really tough! i think this is down to the difficulty of meeting up after spawning in. however maybe there's an easier way to meet up i'm not aware of yet.

Incredibly unintuitive and boring. spawned in on a server that had 75 other players. saw a total of 3 other players in 2 hours. Spent most of that time running form bush to bush and drinking water. Then night time hits and you just go from a nice looking game to utter darkness with crappy night vision. And night last sooooo long. I just sat down and waiting all night to see what would happened and nothing happened beside getting hungry and thirsty again. Dino hit 100 growth and no clue what to do after that. nothing tells you to do anything. Character sheet lists random things and nothing is clickable. What the hell even is this game. Save youre money. much better games to play out there.

One of the best survival games i have ever played, bought it 3 days ago and i have 30 hours in this game. It is very good.

This game is fun, there is 4 versions but in reality 3. There is Legacy, Evrima, Spiro, and Hordetesting. Although I have not played Spiro the other 3 (2) are fun to play. But do be warned as growing a dinosaur will take hours upon hours. But from my experience so far I do recommend this game as it makes many new friends and foes. Please do consider buying this wonderful (but painful) game.

Play the official servers if you play, the unofficial servers will ban you for everything and anything and are almost always run by children.

Terrible game. You work for hours to grow a dinosaur. You learn to love this creature, help it live a full life, have children of it's own, only to watch it starve to death in a poorly placed hole you can't jump out of. 10/10 will do again.

This game is very immersive and fun, but I understand if its not for everyone. I think the best part of it is the social interactions and the interactions between players. For me, it almost feels like Journey. You can only communicate with calls with players from other species, and it allows for some close, special bonds. The game is no masterpiece, it has many flaws and jank, like getting stuck in terrain, server restarts, having to wait in queue sometimes... But it still has a special place in my heart. Each play session feels like a story. Here is something that happened to me that I will never forget:

- I was a baby stego, and met another baby pachy in sanctuary. He followed me, and we became travelling buddies. We went through many things throughout our journey together. We hid together at night as the raptors were closing in. He was fearless. He fought off attacking carnos and deinos, one time going up against 4 tenos at once. As we grew up, I went from a baby half his height to a towering giant, and it struck me that it is I who must now protect him. We travelled the world, searching for better food. We made friends with a little bird. We met other herbivores and chilled with them leisurely before moving on. I met another stego and had babies. My babies didn't make it, and my wife left. I told them that I'm not leaving this pachy behind because we've been through hell together. In the end, other baby creatures also joined our posse. In a desperate attempt to protect the little ones from a deinosuchus, I forgot that even though I was the protector of the herd, I wasn't invincible. A fully grown deinosuchus surprised me and dragged me to the depths. As I lay at the bottom of the river, drowning, on my last breath, I was crying in real life and thinking that I never got to tell the pachy I love him, and now I'll never see him again.
But I'm okay now, because I think he knows that in his heart, and there was no need for words.

2183 hours in this game and 2000 of it is waiting in a Q to be instructed that I forgot to wait in Q, or fatal erroring after 20 minutes. Mods in their official discord will ban you for asking a question or sometimes for no reason at all and will reject appeals with no reasoning. Game is just too broken to play still which kind of sucks because it had so much potential.

Horrible new player experience.
You buy the game, you download it, only to see it's nothing but botted Chinese servers.

Yep that's right. The devs haven't set the game to be the actual branch of the game you're supposed to be playing, the one the video on the store page is about, but a horrible outdated branch literally no one in the world is playing but bots.

Buy Path of Titans or Beasts of Bermuda instead.

I might recommend this game when it is beyond an alpha state, likely ten years in the future.

This game has a lot of potential. The community is great and the graphics are stunning, what few dinosaurs are in Evirma (the new build) are balanced and a lot of fun to play. The devs consistently put out dev logs and it's so fun to see everything being built. All of this to say, the servers suck. The servers are constantly being restarted and there's massive rollback every day. Over the past 3 days, we've had multiple server rollbacks from 6hrs to 24hrs+. And considering it takes certain dinosaurs (like the Deino) over 10+ hours to grow, it's definitely a frustrating experience. It's almost completely unplayable on AU servers because of the rollback. We've also had several server-wide crashes. These are the official servers, and they can't even maintain them enough to let their community play the game. Whenever you bring up the issue, you're told to just go onto an unofficial server - even though most people like playing on the official servers 'cause. you know, they're meant to be the good ones.
While I like the game (when it's working), I cannot in good faith recommend it in the state it's in currently. The community is fun and very friendly, and the best parts of the isle have been teaming up with other players and forming a massive raptor pack. So, if you're here for the gameplay - don't bother, you can't play the game. But if you're willing to stick out the bugs and server issues, there's a great community behind it.

This game continues to amaze me with how horrible the decisions of the developers are, with every update the game gets worse and worse. From unneeded balance changes to the developers not listening to the community and barely doing anything to fix the biggest problem, the performance, save yourself the headache and do. Not. Buy. This. Game

dogshit buggy barley even a alpha demo after 10 years, garbage

HACKERS!!!!! People are using WALL HACKS to see where all other players are. Playing Deino's its impossible to get full grown being hunted by cheaters all day and night. So many bugs still. I have an amazing bran new PC and this game runs form 5 fps to 40 fps at mostly low graphics. If i try to run it 3800 x w.e the game only shows in the top left corner of my screen and the other 3/4 of the screen is just glitchy looking. You starve, finally find something to eat then get glitched trying to eat it and now you cant eat, attack or pick anything up so you now have to relog. Oh wait there is a 50 player queue on either of the NA servers. So now i have a hour - 2 hour wait to get back in. They need to open another NA server, or get rid of the NO AI server that has 0 players in it and make another regular one. Its insane to expect player to wait for hours to get into a glitchy buggy game that they will due to bugs have to log back out of in no time flat. They also got rid of the ability to choose where to spawn so now you spawn in the top right corner of the map all the time which is really really really far from where everyone is playing. No way to kill yourself so you stand around for 10 mins to die from no food or water slowly. Clearly the devs suck or have no brains.

Its better to watch videos on the game than to play it. Its addicting yes, but hackers are insane, the devs have no worry about what the people say and with every update they mess it up even more. I would NOT recommend this game at all. Atleast not in 10 years.

I was so ecited for this game but in no capacity should it be eligible for sale. THIS GAME ONLY WORKS IF YOU ADD A SCRIPT. You shouldnt be allowed to sell a game you cannot play without tweaking it. Absolutely unacceptable.

Its overall a good dino game, but it is terrible to new players, with no tutorial or information in game, it is very hard for new player to figure out how to play on evrima and how each dino mechanic works. You can play 2 versions of the game, Legacy and Evrima, while legacy has more dinos and bigger maps, it has simpler mechanics, with long wait times to grow dinos, being basically a walking simulator, it only gets interesting while in a herd or group of carnivores. On the other hand, Evrima has many new mechanics, but they might be a bit too much and too complex for new players, one can only trully understand them through hours of gameplay or through watching tutorials on youtube, however, the mechanics makes the gameplay more interesting, with diets, patrol zones and migrations zones, it is no longer just a walking simulator, but rather a foraging and exploring simulator, and when the sun goes down, the game can quicly turn into a horror experience, with unkown sounds coming from the shadows and behind bushes, you'll never know when you're trully safe. One thing is common in both games is how it might be a bit unbalances, with juveniles easily killing adults, a new player could never know if a small dino is a threat or a meal. Still, is a game worth experiencing at least once, very fun alone and even funier with friends!
(also, sorry if my english is bad, its not my native language)

I was playing it side by side with my brother. As predator I was not able to find any other pray and died. Its beautiful big open world map, the sounds around you makes it quite nice but overall I find it boring: Walking/running, drinking, looking for pray, eat, repeat. I would not recomment it