Recent reviews by Dash

After having played it a good long while, and aiming for many of the achievements, I can say that I liked this game.

It is not Operation Genesis 2, nor is it a Phone style game as many people ignorantly claim.
Jurassic World is its own game that is similar in some ways to Op Gen and other Tycoon games.
You have a number of tasks from 3 competing advisors to keep you busy, as well as progressing to the ultimate goal of 3 or 5 stars at the island where you are working.
Your ratings are taken as a whole from how many dinos you have, the variety of them, how rad they have been modified, and a large mix of ratings from the tourism aspect of the island that rates everything from your food, to fun, to the visibility of the guests to actually see the dinos.

How does it Play?:

There is not a lot of "waiting" in the game as some negative reviews claim.
Upgrades are all literally instant.
Dinos can take 30 seconds to 8 minutes to be born depending on size.
Fossil teams take 2 minutes.
Thats it. You will spend the majority of your time building and adjusting the park, leveling the terrain, sending ranger teams out to medicate dinos, change the food bins, or the acu team out to tranq dinos.
Almost every building has upgrades you can earn and apply to it.
Daytime does not roll over, which some people complained about. You can however, adjust the time of day to whichever one you want, when in sandbox.

The Bad:

Not much disappointed me in the game. If I had to pick something it would be the music: the music was good and they'd play nice stuff when you released a dino or were zoomed in near structures. BUT Jurassic Park theme is what you'd expect to be hearing when zoomed out during gameplay but instead you have some very soft, vaguely similar instruments. Why do I hear the JP theme when I boot up, but not when I'm managing the island?! Come on now!

When you take your favoritism to one of the 3 advisors too high, the others decay so much that they may perform devastating sabotages on the island. If you want to zerg a specific advisors tasks for a research or goody, this puts you in a very tight spot. You'll need to keep them balanced which can feel slow and a pain, but it was probably done to keep players from zerging the stuff they wanted too quickly.


There's usually not a high abundance of space on the challenge/survival islands. You usually have barely enough space to make most of the new dinos you've discovered by then, but I personally wanted a bit more room. In fact its noted in most Survival Islands that part of the challenge is done by limiting your space. Well, okay. Which I suppose is the point, but sometimes you wish you could go wild before the 5th island. Sandbox has a decent amount of room which is great, I'm just a little sad it wasn't near the ocean like in the Jurassic World movie.


The good:

The UI handles itself really well. You can actually play the entire game with just the mouse if you're busy snacking or something with the other, though thats not optimal. The game even detects which Ranger Team is closest if you press R to pull them up, so you dont have to stress (normally) about clicking the correct team if you just panned across the entire park to fix some remote fence (Nice!).

There's a lot of cool dinos and you can customize their colors in various ways after unlocks. Its nice to be able to mix things up like that and also be mixing dinos who are different species but get along well. So you can have Raptors hanging around with Indominus rex. You can have Deinonychus sharing a pen with Metriawhateversaurus, and you can have loads of diff herbivores packed into a similar space.

The game is voiced by many characters from the movies including Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcom, which makes survival mode very fun, hearing all of the little comments when you progress or have things go wrong, or release a new dino and get told about it.

The building in this game is very easy with some nice defaults, but you can toggle various other stuff to get trickier, and tearing stuff down and rebuilding, even in Survival Mode, is easy once you've accumulated the funds. Usually by the "end" of each island even in Survival, you'll have enough money stacked up to remake the entire island from the challenge into whatever you dreamed it should have looked like before you were poor.

You can manually pilot the Jeeps or the Helicopter and even skin them. You can also take photos from the jeep which you get PAID for (excellent if you have a few minutes to kill). This is way cooler than it sounds, because there are even achievements for doing wacky things with the vehicles. So eventually you'll probably make yourself a Jeep Track just to get your "Initial D" on or sick jumps.

You can freely swap between the different islands, your save is a "career" rather than "per map", which is great if you want to return to somewhere else once you are more experienced, and really dress the place up!

I recommend this game and its quickly became among my favorites. I understand that people who were bigtime fans of Op Gen were expecting a sequel, but Jurassic World is its own game of a similar vein, thats why its not called Op Gen 2.

I used to like this game, but the recent addition of the creator club is an attack on both the industry and the fanbase. Do not buy this game, do not support the developers and publishers in this action. Avoid it entirely unless they remove creator club from the product.

Out of all the open-world survivals games I've tried (close to 15), this is by far the superior one. With active devs and a number of extras to do. The recent expansion with the large desert biome has made it feel like double the game.

Considering most everyone I know has spent time ranging from 300 hours to 2000 hours on the game and it costs 20-40 dollars depending on if you get expansion, its probably one of the best buys on all of stream.

Its extremely unfortunate to see an overly-inflated negative score for it, from trolls.

I bought this game because it seemed to have a vaguely "PSO" feel despite being a top down action RPG.

The most important detail of this game is that no matter what you are doing in it, you don't feel bored and even legwork doesn't feel like "a chore". It is consistently engaging at all times.

I have enjoyed the gameplay, dungeons, and puzzles more thoroughly than any classic "Zelda" type game, which I would consider this products closest relative.

The gameplay is a mix of Ragnarok Online, Platforming, and Zelda. There is amazing depth to the abilities and their use, and fights are engaging because of specific ways to handle each enemy. You gain the ability to "swap" to entirely different skill trees in real time, affecting the element of your attacks and current stats. You essentially create your own classes around these features.

The puzzles are very logical and do not have "vague solutions", bringing consistent entertainment to someone who likes to stop and think.

Highly reccomend, best single player game I've played in about a year.