Paleo Pines
Fair · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 24.1h
- Value
- $1.24/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 or AMD Radeon RX 460, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Welcome to Paleo Pines, a charming island known for its friendly dinosaurs, quirky townsfolk, and mysterious past. Befriend dinos and enlist their help to fix up your ranch and farm crops to create your cozy dino sanctuary! Then set out with your companion, Lucky, to uncover the island’s secrets.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 33 in the 3 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Amber Isle ($6.24, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Russian Village Simulator ($29.99, scores 42).
18 of the 632 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 145 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 24.1 hours; clearing it takes 106, which is 4.4 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
61% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
73 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 20:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
even though I was really looking forward to this game because I love dinosaurs, I ended up refunding it. the quests are often vague and confusing, and I had to look up pretty much everything online since the game doesn't explain things well enough. the entire inventory and journal system also feels way too complicated for me. it took me half my playtime just to figure out how to complete the first quest, and I only...
play t if you REALLY llike cute dino's i am not having a great time with some of the bugs i encountered and some of the mechanics personally but the dino collecting s keeping me going and they are very very cute the walking and traveling tho eh EH meh and the first event has been .. an experience and the BUY DLC banner is glaring at me from the start screen everytime a bug softlocks me and forces me to reload s...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Paleo Pines scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1202200/paleo-pinesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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