26 Best Dinosaur Games to Play on PC, Console, and Mobile — From Survival to Horror

The best dinosaur games on PC, consoles, and mobile: survival with taming, park-building strategy games, shooters, and horror titles about prehistoric reptiles that people are still playing today. Entire eras are placed under the player's control here — from taming a Tyrannosaurus in an open world to building a park packed with tourists and escaping from a hungry raptor in a dark corridor. This list focuses on games where dinosaurs are not just background decoration but the main attraction. All titles are grouped by genre and platform so everyone can find something suitable.

First, a quick note on what is not included: Roblox clickers, children's coloring games, Minecraft mods, or that browser dinosaur game that runs when the internet goes down. Only substantial dinosaur games worth launching a PC, console, or phone for.

If you just need a quick shortlist, here is the top 10: ARK: Survival Evolved, Jurassic World Evolution 3, The Isle, Dino Crisis, Turok, Path of Titans, Jurassic World Evolution 2, Exoprimal, Horizon Zero Dawn, and ARK: Survival Ascended. Below is the full list of 26 games, including free-to-play and mobile options.

The biggest category is dinosaur survival: light a fire, build a base, tame a creature, and try not to become someone else's dinner. This also includes simulators where you play as the dinosaur itself and grow from a helpless hatchling to the top of the food chain. Below are games about humans surviving among prehistoric predators as well as games about life on the other side of the teeth.

ARK: Survival Evolved is the game that effectively turned “survival plus dinosaurs” into a genre of its own. You wake up with nothing on the shore of a mysterious island where dozens of dinosaur species roam the jungles, and the first few hours are spent gathering stone, wood, and fiber, then building a campfire and a shelter. After that comes the main attraction: almost any dinosaur can be knocked out, fed, and tamed — a Stegosaurus can carry supplies, a Pteranodon can fly you across the map, and a tamed Tyrannosaurus turns raids on neighboring players into a one-sided massacre. The game keeps players hooked with tribes, creature breeding with inherited stats, and raids on enemy bases, all layered over a surprisingly elaborate science-fiction storyline. It is demanding, occasionally unfair, and undeniably cult-classic material, with busy servers to this day.

A remake built around moving the original game to Unreal Engine 5. ARK: Survival Ascended features the same islands and the same obsession with taming dinosaurs, but with completely reworked lighting, vegetation, and water: jungles are denser, caves more intimidating, and sunsets over the ocean can make you stop hunting for a few minutes just to stare at the scenery. Beyond the visuals, the developers redesigned the interface, added cross-platform play, and plan to gradually bring over all maps and expansions from the original. If ARK always appealed to you in concept but looked too dated, this is the excuse to finally build your own dinosaur army.

Nobody gives you a rifle here: in The Isle, you are the dinosaur and live through its entire life. You hatch as a tiny juvenile, hide among ferns, learn how to drink, eat, and call to others of your kind, then slowly grow into an adult — assuming something does not eat you first. The Evrima branch focuses on harsh realism: stamina, thirst, herds, scents, and sound across a huge map create an oppressive sense of wilderness without rules. This is not a theme-park attraction but a grim survival simulator where encountering another player's Carnotaurus can make your heart race. The Isle has built a dedicated role-playing community around that feeling of inhabiting a genuine prehistoric ecosystem.

If The Isle feels too punishing, Path of Titans offers a friendlier but still deep take on life as a dinosaur. It is an online survival RPG where you choose a species, develop it through quests and waypoints, migrate across a huge continent, and join herds formed by other players. There is character customization, skill trees, and modded servers for almost every style of play — from hardcore realism to almost purely social role-playing. Another advantage is that the game runs on PC, consoles, and smartphones, with progression carrying across platforms, so you can continue playing as your dinosaur on a phone while away from home.

Beasts of Bermuda expands on the idea of “living a dinosaur's life” by making the environment itself part of the challenge. Weather is a full gameplay system here: storms, lightning, and strong winds batter the islands, while your dinosaur has to find shelter, regulate its temperature, and avoid losing the rest of the herd in bad conditions. A breeding system lets offspring inherit colors and traits, while communication mechanics encourage players to stay together. The result is a niche but carefully designed simulator for players more interested in the everyday life of a herd in an unpredictable world than in constant combat.

This is a project for players who take dinosaurs seriously and want paleontology rather than fantasy. Saurian is set in the real Hell Creek Formation in what is now South Dakota, 66 million years ago, and the developers painstakingly recreate the flora, fauna, and climate of the period. You can play as Dakotaraptor, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, and other animals of the era, living from a fragile juvenile to a fully grown adult: searching for food, escaping predators, and monitoring your physical condition. It is a slow, atmospheric simulation of a single life, closer to a nature documentary than a theme-park ride, which is exactly why fans of scientific accuracy value it.

The second major category is about building and maintaining your own dinosaur park. Here, you are not running from prehistoric animals — you decide where to breed them, what to feed them, and how to stop them escaping during a storm. The genre is dominated by the Jurassic World Evolution series and its more relaxed indie competitors: some emphasize cinematic disasters, while others focus on building a dream zoo and taking care of its inhabitants. Speaking of the movies, if you are interested, we also have a ranking of the Jurassic Park movies.

The third entry in the flagship park-management series and the biggest dinosaur release in recent memory. For the first time in the series, Jurassic World Evolution 3 lets you raise dinosaurs from infancy: juveniles require separate care, grow before your eyes, and gradually change the character of each enclosure, while growing attached to a T. rex you raised from a hatchling feels very different from simply placing an adult into a pen. The game features more than 90 species, an advanced behavior system, familiar characters from the movies, and the same signature tension when power fails during a tropical storm and a predator is already sprinting toward the visitors. You can build the park as a perfectly managed attraction or as a dangerous spectacle constantly on the verge of disaster — the game supports both approaches equally well. It is currently the most ambitious dinosaur park simulator and the obvious starting point for anyone who wants modern visuals and the largest amount of content.

The sequel that refined the formula and remains a fan favorite. Jurassic World Evolution 2 added a campaign set after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, a Chaos Theory mode based on iconic scenes from the movies, and much more convincing dinosaur behavior: they get sick, fight over territory, escape, and hunt. Building enclosures, managing science and genetics, and constantly balancing spectacle against visitor safety make it an excellent strategy game for dozens of hours. If you want classic park management without necessarily moving to the newest entry, this is still a strong choice.

This is where the modern wave of dinosaur park games began. The first Jurassic World Evolution delivered what fans had wanted for decades: the actual Five Deaths archipelago, recognizable music, actor voice performances, and the chance to build your own licensed Jurassic park. Dinosaurs are created from DNA, their genomes are improved, they are placed in enclosures, and then you hope a storm does not knock down the fence next to the T. rex. Its systems are simpler than those of the sequels, but this was the game that revived the genre, and it still works well as a relaxed introduction.

A flexible prehistoric zoo builder for players who felt Jurassic World Evolution did not offer enough freedom. In Prehistoric Kingdom, enclosures are built manually, terrain can be sculpted freely, and the animals require genuine care: you have to monitor their welfare, provide environmental enrichment, and choose suitable companions. Dinosaurs are joined by mammoths and other extinct animals, so the park can gradually turn into a museum spanning multiple prehistoric eras. The project is still growing in Early Access, but it already creates a rare sense of managing a living, inhabited reserve rather than a collection of exhibits behind signs.

The most charming game in this section: Parkasaurus is designed to delight rather than scare. Its cartoon dinosaurs stare back with huge eyes, while your job is to keep them happy by choosing the right enclosure climate, planting suitable vegetation, giving visitors good viewing spots, and avoiding financial collapse. Beneath the soft visuals is a fairly serious management game involving science, finances, and escaped animals, but the overall tone is warm and almost meditative. It is an excellent option when you want to build a dinosaur park without the pressure and disaster-movie chaos of Jurassic World.

When you would rather shoot than build, dinosaur action games take center stage. This section includes legendary 1990s shooters revived through remasters, cooperative battles against hordes of prehistoric creatures, and even mechanical monsters that vaguely resemble ancient reptiles. It covers both dinosaur hunting and “robot dinosaur” games. If it leaves you wanting more shooting without the prehistoric theme, check out our list of the best first-person shooters.

Turok is the shooter that showed players in the late 1990s just how much fun it could be to blast dinosaurs with bows and plasma weapons. Nightdive's remaster gave the classic action game cleaner visuals, proper modern controls, and reliable performance on current systems while preserving the spirit of the original. You play as Turok, a Native American warrior and guardian of the barrier between our world and the Lost Land, where raptors roam jungles and ancient temples. Nonlinear levels, hidden secrets, and a famous arsenal that includes the Tek Bow and devastating Chronoscepter still hold up remarkably well — this is a genuine genre classic.

A sequel that raised the bar in almost every respect. Turok 2: Seeds of Evil became bigger, darker, and more inventive, with enormous hub-like levels, memorable bosses, and, of course, the infamous Cerebral Bore, which drills directly into an enemy's skull. Nightdive handled this remaster as well, improving the visuals, replacing the original's heavy fog with much longer draw distances, and modernizing the controls. For fans of old-school shooters about dinosaurs and monsters, this is essential — and a reminder of just how imaginative action games of that era could be.

The finale of the classic trilogy, which many players never got around to finishing, has also returned in modernized form. Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion Remastered lets you choose between two protagonists with different weapons and playstyles, follows a story about a new threat to the Lost Land, and once again throws hordes of reptiles and mutants at the player. The remaster brings this somewhat forgotten entry up to modern standards, so it is now possible to play through the entire Turok saga without digging up decades-old hardware. A solid shooter for anyone looking to finally complete the legendary series.

Capcom took an absurd idea — flood an arena with thousands of dinosaurs — and built a fast-paced team action game around it. In Exoprimal, hordes of dinosaurs and genetically altered Neosaurs pour through dimensional rifts, while players in high-tech exosuits attempt to contain the chaos under the supervision of a temperamental AI called Leviathan. The main mode pits two teams of five against each other in a race through objectives: sometimes you need to wipe out a swarm faster than your rivals, while other missions have both teams confronting the same gigantic creature. The story, incidentally, unfolds directly through matches and becomes surprisingly elaborate. It is a loud, spectacular cooperative game with a truly ridiculous number of dinosaurs on screen.

A pure asymmetric “humans versus dinosaurs” battle. In Primal Carnage: Extinction, one team plays as mercenaries armed with flamethrowers and sniper rifles, while the other controls dinosaurs of different classes, ranging from agile raptors to a gigantic T. rex. Each side demands a different approach. A jetpack-equipped human can catch enemies off guard, while a pack of Velociraptors can tear isolated opponents apart in seconds — success depends heavily on coordinated play. It is a simple but energetic multiplayer shooter that works particularly well for an evening with friends and still has a dedicated audience.

The quintessential “robot dinosaur” game. In Horizon Zero Dawn, a distant-future world has been overtaken by mechanical animals whose silhouettes and behavior often resemble prehistoric creatures: herds of Tallnecks wander across the plains, while Thunderjaws look like heavily armored mechanical Tyrannosaurs. Armed with a bow and an assortment of traps, hunter Aloy investigates the collapse of the old civilization and the mystery of her own origins while stripping defeated machines for parts. Its huge and beautiful open world, memorable protagonist, and distinctive battles against gigantic machines turned the game into a modern classic and make it a natural fit for anyone searching for robot dinosaurs.

Dinosaur horror is a surprisingly popular category in its own right, turning prehistoric creatures from prey into a genuine source of terror. Cramped corridors, failing lights, a predator breathing somewhere behind you — these games are about how frightening it is to be unarmed next to a nearly perfect hunter. The section includes both the genre's defining classic and newer projects carrying on its legacy. Horror fans in general should also check out our large list of the best horror games of all time.

The game that effectively established dinosaur horror. In Dino Crisis, special agent Regina lands on the secret Ibis Island, where experiments involving a new form of energy have pulled living dinosaurs out of the past, instantly turning its cramped laboratories into a death trap. The formula is classic survival horror: scarce ammunition, puzzles involving doors and codes, careful resource management, and the constant fear that a Velociraptor could suddenly leap around the next corner. The difference is that instead of slow zombies, you are being hunted by fast, intelligent predators that are much harder to escape. For years, the game was largely kept alive through emulation, but it is now available on PC again and remains surprisingly enjoyable to play.

The sequel traded the original's tense thriller atmosphere for frantic action, and many fans love it even more as a result. Dino Crisis 2 sends the player to a lost jungle base, floods the screen with dinosaurs, and introduces a scoring system that rewards fast and stylish kills: the more efficiently you slaughter enemies, the better the equipment you can obtain. The pace is much faster, there are more enemies, and raptors and T. rexes are joined by additional prehistoric creatures. With both games now available on modern platforms, playing through the duology back to back is easier than ever.

A modern answer to the question of what a first-person dinosaur horror game should look like. Fossilfuel 2 traps the player at an isolated northern facility where ordinary, non-mutated but extremely deadly dinosaurs are slaughtering the staff, and survival depends on understanding their behavior: light, sound, and scent can reveal your position, while ammunition is always in short supply. A raptor here is not disposable cannon fodder but a cunning predator that learns from your mistakes and waits in the darkness. The game relies on isolation and the genuine fear of being hunted by an intelligent animal rather than cheap jump scares — exactly what fans of tense survival horror are looking for.

A cooperative horror game for up to three players where dinosaurs take the role of near-perfect movie monsters. In Deathground, a squad enters a facility with a specific objective, but raptors and a T. rex already roam its corridors with advanced, unpredictable behavior — they hear footsteps, react to noise, and prevent players from simply memorizing a safe route. You have to move quietly, turn off lights, distract the creatures, and get the entire team out alive. The project is still being developed in Early Access, but it already works well as a cooperative dinosaur horror game for an evening with friends.

Dinosaurs have long since made their way into your pocket, and there is no shortage of mobile games — most of them free-to-play. On a phone, you can catch prehistoric creatures in augmented reality while walking around your neighborhood, build a park on the go, hunt gigantic animals, or fight other players while riding armed dinosaurs. Below are some of the best dinosaur games on Android and iOS.

If you played Pokémon GO, you will immediately understand the appeal of Jurassic World Alive: dinosaurs are discovered through augmented reality while you walk around real-world streets. You locate creatures on the city map, collect their DNA, create hybrids, and send teams into turn-based PvP battles. The game works well as an excuse to walk more and collect hundreds of species, while the Jurassic World license brings in familiar characters and creatures. Free access and regular events make it one of the most addictive dinosaur games on mobile.

A classic mobile park simulator that has remained popular for years. In Jurassic World: The Game, you build your own island park, breed herbivores and predators, feed and upgrade them, then send them into arena battles against other dinosaurs. There is less management here and more collecting: much of the appeal comes from acquiring rare and hybrid creatures, each with its own animations. Simple, colorful, and highly addictive, it is an easy way to pass the time while traveling and does not require a powerful phone.

A legendary hunting series that several generations of players grew up with, Carnivores adapted particularly well to smartphones. Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter drops you into quiet, scenic reserves, gives you a rifle, sniper rifle, or bow, and asks you to track dinosaurs properly, taking wind direction, cover, and animal awareness into account. There are no endless hordes or action for its own sake — just you, the silence of the wilderness, and the tracks of an enormous trophy that may notice you first at any moment. Meditative and tense at the same time, it remains one of the defining dinosaur hunting experiences on mobile.

A multiplayer action game for anyone more interested in spectacular battles than park management. In Dino Squad, players ride combat dinosaurs, equip them with heavy weapons, and clash in team-based PvP matches across destructible arenas. Each dinosaur effectively functions as its own class with a specific role: some absorb damage, some attack from range, and others charge straight through enemy lines, so team composition can determine the outcome of a match. Fast battles, weapon upgrades, and a collection of weaponized dinosaur tanks make it a strong choice when you want quick prehistoric combat directly on your phone.

The full ARK experience now fits in your pocket. ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition brings the familiar “survive, tame, build” loop to smartphones: gather resources, knock out and feed dinosaurs to tame them, construct a base, and team up with other players against the local wildlife. It is a more compact but still faithful version of the full survival game rather than a separate casual spin-off.

PC has the widest selection. For survival and taming, there are ARK: Survival Evolved and The Isle; for park management, the Jurassic World Evolution series through its third installment; and for action, the Turok remasters, Exoprimal, and Primal Carnage: Extinction. Dinosaur horror is its own category, with the PC return of classic Dino Crisis and the modern Fossilfuel 2.

Yes, and many of them are free. On Android and iOS, Jurassic World Alive lets you catch dinosaurs in augmented reality, Jurassic World: The Game focuses on park management, Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter is built around hunting, Dino Squad offers multiplayer action, and ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition brings the full survival formula to smartphones. Online survival game Path of Titans is also available on mobile.

If you want to play as a dinosaur yourself and grow from a hatchling into an adult, look at The Isle, Path of Titans, Beasts of Bermuda, and Saurian. If you would rather tame dinosaurs and build an army of them, ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended are the obvious choices.

Most free options are on mobile: Jurassic World Alive, Jurassic World: The Game, Dino Squad, and ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition can all be played without an upfront purchase. Free-to-play dinosaur games are less common on PC, so mobile is the easiest place to start without spending money.

Older hardware should handle the Turok and Turok 2 remasters, the Dino Crisis duology, the cozy park-management game Parkasaurus, and multiplayer shooter Primal Carnage: Extinction. All of them are relatively undemanding and can run even on a laptop.

Yes, it is an entire subgenre. Its defining classic is Dino Crisis, where special agent Regina tries to survive among dinosaurs inside cramped laboratories. For something more modern, try Fossilfuel 2 or the cooperative Deathground, while Instinction and The Lost Wild are among the upcoming projects expected to expand the genre.

Saurian stands out for scientific accuracy: it is set in the real Hell Creek Formation 66 million years ago, with species and environments reconstructed using paleontological research. The Isle and Beasts of Bermuda are close in spirit, with their emphasis on the everyday survival of a wild animal.

Which dinosaur games do you think are missing from this list? Tell us in the comments which titles we should add to the ranking.

Dinosaur games are enjoying a resurgence, and alongside the titles already available, there are several major upcoming projects worth watching. The genre is still evolving: studios are working on new dinosaur survival games, distinctive prehistoric horror, and large-scale shooters built around hunting ancient predators. If the released games in this list are not enough, these announcements are a good reason to start a wishlist now and keep an eye on their development. Below are three projects worth following, each targeting a different niche, from cooperative action to tense dinosaur horror, and any of them could shake up the genre once released.

A full-scale revival of the Turok series from Saber Interactive. This time, the developers are promising a cooperative action-adventure shooter with open areas, dinosaur and mutant hunting, and a strong focus on playing through the game together. For fans of the classics, it is the most anticipated opportunity to pick up a weapon against prehistoric creatures again.

An atmospheric survival horror game where an unarmed protagonist hides from dinosaurs inside an abandoned facility. The focus is not on fighting but on avoidance and tension: intelligent predators hunt you down, while truly safe hiding places are hard to find. It is one of the most stylish upcoming dinosaur horror games.

A project openly positioned as a spiritual successor to Dino Crisis. It combines first-person shooting with adventure elements, puzzles, cinematic presentation, and, of course, plenty of dinosaurs. If you are waiting for another large-scale story about surviving among prehistoric predators, this is one of the games to watch.