Dinosaur Forest

Dinosaur Forest

Skip · Multiplayer · 2017

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 4, under the fair line, at $0.99.

Length
1.4h
Value
$0.71/hr
Reviews
58% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
1.4h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
3.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.71
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$0.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
58%
792 reviews, as of Sep 28
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Geforce 9600 GS, Radeon HD4000, Shader Model 3.0, 512 MB, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Dinosasur Forest is a fast paced chaotic first person wave-based shooter that pits players equipped with some basic weapons against species currently inhabiting the Unknown Planet.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews58% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$0.71/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length1.4 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 300 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

March 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $0.27. 92 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 74 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

It is cheaper than 95 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dinosaur Hunt ($0.99, scores 18) beats it on value, while it beats Guardians of Orion (Phase 2) ($0.99, scores 0).

This site sampled 300 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 464 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 66 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 1.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 4, 2.6 times as much.

The drop-off

18% start to 10% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Dinosaur Forest scores 4/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/506730/dinosaur-forest
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperRacing Bros
PublisherANPA.US
GenreMultiplayer
Released2017
Achievements1317