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Dinocide

Dinocide

Dinocide is a classic NES inspired old-school single-player platformer in a prehistoric fantasy world. Dinocide tries to capture the drive and fun of that era and recreate it in a modern way!

Released Jan 21, 2016 Developer AtomicTorch Studio Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux ActionIndiePlatformerAdventurePixel Graphics
View on Steam ↗ $7.99 (US · as of 2026-05-13)

What players say

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53.7%positive227 reviews
Recommended · 35 found this helpful

“[b]Dinocide[/b] is a platformer with an emphasis on eating food to keep your health bar up. It gradually diminishes as time ticks by, so you have to continue to eat to stay alive. Taking damage will decrease a portion of the meter, so making sure you find food while navigating…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
Recommended · 28 found this helpful

“[b]Dinocide[/b] is an retro platformer set in an alternate prehistoric timeline. I haven’t played a platformer for a while so I must say, it felt good to play this. The story of the game is as follows, your lovely companion, which I assume to be your wife/partner, gets captured…”

— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played
Not recommended · 30 found this helpful

“This game will always be either extremely easy, or frustratingly difficult like the jungle levels where you are often expected to take random leaps of faith. At at least one point in the game you will be calling bull because of a death that should not have occured. Just save…”

— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played
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Latest official news

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Mar 23, 2026
From the creators of Dinocide - Cyberscape is now in Early Access!

If you enjoyed our previous games, we hope you will also enjoy our new game - Cyberscape ! You will explore large hand-crafted environments, uncover hidden routes, develop your operative's skills, and

Aug 12, 2019
CryoFall—our new game!

Hello, friends! This time we would like to share some news regarding another project we are working on! Currently, we are working on a game called CryoFall . It’s been in early access for a while now

Dec 28, 2016
Dinocide is now in Korean

https://atomictorch.com/Images/Upload/10316.png Greetings, friends! Today we have wonderful news for all the Korean players of Dinocide. Thanks to great help from Dollpin who generously provided Korea

Dec 28, 2016
Dinocide is now in Korean

https://atomictorch.com/Images/Upload/10316.png Greetings, friends! Today we have wonderful news for all the Korean players of Dinocide. Thanks to great help from Dollpin who generously provided Korea

Dec 21, 2016
New Dinocide update - 1.4.6!

https://atomictorch.com/Images/Upload/10316.png Greetings! Just a short update this time. We have just released a new version of Dinocide (v1.4.6). It mainly addresses a few issues that some players e

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Facts & details

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GenresAction, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG
Player tagsAction · Indie · Platformer · Adventure · Pixel Graphics · 2D · Funny · Classic · Colorful · Atmospheric · Family Friendly · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean
ControllerFull support
Estimated owners20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttp://dinocide.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 Processor: Dual Core 1.6GHz or equivalent Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: 128MB of Video Memory, capable of Shader Model 2.0+; generally everything made since 2004 should work DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 300 MB available space