Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
Skip · Action · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 18.9h
- Value
- $1.06/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, RX 570 4GB VRAM / GeForce GTX 960 4GB VRAM, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become a real paleontologist, explore various environments and search for dinosaur fossils. Dig for and study the remnants of these majestic creatures to learn about their evolution. Build your own museum and experience an immersive background story.
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
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in August 2026. 40 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 23 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Survival: Fountain of Youth ($27.99, scores 45) beats it on value, while it beats Out of Ore ($24.99, scores 42).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 18.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 488 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 169 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
94% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
9 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 16:54 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
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This is the game I would have dreamed about as a kid. 10/10! there is so much content and every piece is so interactive and the customization, this game gives you so much for such a good price given the $60 - $70 you would have to spend for a similar sized game
Still very bugged, can't remove or move the first exhibit, physics are laughable, it feels like the devs just gave up, which is very sad because I had such high hopes when I first saw it on kickstarter...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter scores 43/100 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/864700/dinosaur-fossil-hunterReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 1.
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