Step into the lush, perilous wilds of Primal Planet, where pixel art pulses with prehistoric life and every roar tells a story. This in-depth exploration of the newly launched metroidvania plunges you into a world of savage tribes, ancient aliens, and dinosaurs that don’t just chase, they emote. From the first T. rex ambush to the quiet moments of family bonding, Primal Planet crafts a survival saga that’s as heartfelt as it is ferocious. Whether you’re soloing as a cave dad or teaming up in co-op with your dino sidekick Sino, the journey is anything but primitive.

Primal Planet Review Pros

• Awesome pixel art graphics. 
• 273.44MB download size. 
• Steam achievements. 
• Own in-game trophies. 
• Full controller support. 
• Display settings – fullscreen. 
• Accessibility options – Tirtorial text, highlight Sino, Passive Sino, and blood platter on or off. 
• You can remap the controls. 
• Local drop-in and out co op support. 
• In-game cutscenes and character interactions. You can skip cutscenes and click through interactions. 
• Fast loading times. 
• 2D game world with animated backgrounds. 
• The map unlocks as you discover the world. 
• Your backpack shows everything you can get and has a tally of how many you have and what the most you can carry of one item is. 
• Action survival gameplay. 
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play. 
• You can pause the game. 
• You play as a Caveman who is looking to find his family in the prehistoric era. 
• Sino the Dino is your partner who will attack enemies with you. 
• EXP earned pips up every time from killing dinosaurs to finding secrets, ape breaking down pillars. 
• Item hitbar can be bought up to swap items, eat berries and food to replenish health or throw the food to distract dinosaurs. 
• Cmpfires can be built using wood on the empty campfire, and then you can craft and spend skill points. 
• Both you and Sino have skill trees and points. 
• Simple hack and slash combat, you can roll through attacks and get different weapons that have their own style. 
• You and Sino have your own health bars, and you can feed Sino in single player. 
• Nods to a certain Jurassic-themed film. 
• Spears can be thrown at walls and used as platforms; you can also pick the spears back up. 
• Roll jumps allow you to jump further. 
• Very tight responsive controls. 
• You can kill literally anything for experience points. 
• The exp bar shows on screen at all times. 
• Weapons have durability meters in them. 
• The game has Metroidvania roots; you will need to do a lot of backtracking with new items and tools.
• Puzzle elements from platforming to simple elemental hazards, like you need fire, but water puts out fire, help me. 
• Day and night cycle. 
• You can craft and use traps, poison and fire weapons to help in the world. 
• Light fire pits so you can keep dipping your weapon into it. 
• Fire spreads, so shoot long grass to make it spread. 
• Campfires act as respawn points. 
• A strong lighting model is used. 
• Has cool little features like finding map cave drawings that only show once you light up the area. 
• Cook resources to have health items with you. 
• You can wall jump from the off and then add more abilities.
• The camera can be moved around with the right stick, not by a huge amount, but it’s enough to see what’s coming. 
• Creatures and animals will fight amongst themselves. 
• There are full underwater sections, plus you get an oxygen level, so you can revisit the Sonic water level nightmares from days gon bye. 
• It’s a game that is fun to play and is more difficult on the combat side than the survival side.

Primal Planet Review Cons

• There is no Colourblind support, or text size or anything like that. 
• No Invert axis and sensitivity sliders. 
• The game doesn’t have online co op or Steam Play Together support. 
• Crafting an item is fine, but it seems you can’t always stack them, meaning I can have a bunch of torches. 
• Having to find food all the time sucks the fun out of it, especially as using the campfire or dying doesn’t replenish your health bar. 
• Early on, the game is quite harsh as it doesn’t give much in the way of guidance or explanations on how and why things work. 
• So many secret areas, it’s almost comical. 
• Never sure what has been saved when you die. 
• When you have other people with you, they can sometimes get stuck in a loop where they cannot get to you. 

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Primal Planet

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Developer: Seethingswarm

Publisher: Pretty Soon

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