Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Review: Satisfying, Repetitive Attention To Detail

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Dinosaur Fossil Hunter is a fossil hunting, cleaning, and assembly simulation for PC on Steam similar to House Flipper. Developed and published by Pyramid Games, Dinosaur Fossil Hunter offers paleontology fans the chance to play through the process of fossil discovery with hyper-realistic graphics, detailed excavation processes, and exciting exploration. However, issues with the game's driving mechanics and sometimes repetitive tasks can make immersion difficult, and occasionally dull.

Players get started in Dinosaur Fossil Hunter as an aspiring paleontologist with a dream of creating a large museum. Unfortunately, the main character can't be customized, requiring all players to follow the same basic story direction. The narrative has a surprisingly important part in setting up the game, which differs from other realistic games like Cooking Simulator, which offer minimal story elements to drive gameplay. Players learn that their main character has loved dinosaurs, fossils, and the puzzle of skeleton assembly since they were a child. This love drives them to take a risk and set out on a fossil dig in their early twenties, with the hope of making the passion a career.

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Dinosaur Fossil Hunter uses the narrative prologue to give players a crash course in the key mechanics of the game, offering a glimpse into the complex processes that will be present once they embark on the paleontology journey. However, the simulation experience extends past simply digging and assembling ancient skeletons. In gameplay similar to Microsoft Flight Simulator, players will need to drive an off-road vehicle to their dig location, remove road obstacles, and locate areas