Jurassic World Evolution
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $44.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 25.3h
- Value
- $1.78/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.49, set in December 2020. It has been discounted 78 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 6 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 67) beats it on value, while it beats Planet Coaster 2 ($49.99, scores 31).
The press gave it 69; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
3 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 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.
The drop-off
95% 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
260 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
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have top end pc, all my other games play no problem, this one just doesn't want to start after having played over 100 hours on it. not my job to debug your game, fix the ♥♥♥♥ or get f'd. highly suggest boycotting of publishers/dev teams that put out games like this and leave them in this state. not spending another dime on anything from frontier.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Jurassic World Evolution scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/648350/jurassic-world-evolutionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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