Jurassic World Evolution
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$44.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$11.2475% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.78/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 55,361
- Critics
- 69 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 8% Strategy
Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.24 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 25.3h
- To 100%
- 70.2h 2.8x the story
- Achievements
- 73
Price and sales
- Sales
- 79 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $4.49 December 2020
- Sale every
- 35d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 84 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 92% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
95% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 79 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Jurassic World Evolution 2 ($59.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Prehistoric Kingdom ($29.99, scores 52).
More about Jurassic World Evolution
The press gave it 69; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
4 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 2,038 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
25.3 hours to finish it, 70 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
This first instalment in the jurassic world evolution games in my opinion, is VERY Good! when challenging, this game feels very rewarding! the dinosaurs look amazing and the narration can be fun. though some of the quests are silly and irritating, the game still feels like a love letter to jurassic park fans everywhere. somehow better than the second game in my opinion, I've replayed this multiple times and feel...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
100% Complete | 198h at review JWE absolutely nails the fantasy of running your own dinosaur park. Building enclosures, breeding dinosaurs and watching everything come together feels exactly like what you'd want from a Jurassic Park management game. It looks great and fits comfortably within the franchise, making it easy to lose a few hours just building and improving your parks. The management systems are a little...
**ABANDONED GEMSTONE, BE AWARE OF MANY BUGS, BUY IT DURING A SALE** PART 1 This is a tough review to write because initially I was gonna recommend this game, but after some consideration I decided not to. JWE3 is already out and this game has basically been abandoned by its devs, so if you plan on buying it just to try it out, get it during a sale. Boy, it has been such a beautiful journey. I know I'm writing this...
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About the game
Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Legacy GPU: GeForce GTX 660) / AMD Radeon 7850 (2GB), 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Jurassic World Evolution scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/648350/jurassic-world-evolutionReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.