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The Archotek Project
The Archotek Project focuses on a multiplayer experience, giving you the chance to play with your friends or with new people on dedicated servers. Play as the dinosaur as you explore vibrant and exotic locations within the game, taking control of unique species from the fossil record.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
“My PC sounds like a helicopter now. Worth it.”
— a player, Steam review · 156 hrs played“archotek project top 4 game in the world!!!!!!!!!!!""""”
— a player, Steam review · 74 hrs played“Sadly abandoned game. Could have really been something cool with it's charming art style and friendly community. The ecosystem mode which I was most excited for never came, and the game is these days just a nice-looking dinosaur walking sim. Devs claim the budget for this game…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-04). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
About the Future of Archotek
We have already mentioned it a couple of times on Discord, but here is the official statement about the future of Archotek (Read Me): https://trello.com/b/Ghz1JNVL/the-archotek-project-roadmap
Small patch for demo players
A couple of demo players reported having problems joining servers. We just rolled out a small patch, which hopefully fixed the error. Please let us know, if you are still experiencing issues.
Dev build now live on public branch!
We pushed all the changes that were being made on dev branch to public branch. Some additions are still incomplete, but being worked on and improved over the coming months. The new patch includes: - T
[Development Branch] Head Turning Update + Fixes and Performance Improvements
Hello everyone! Head turning has been added to the beta branch "development" and is awaiting testing. We also fixed some minor issues which got introduced with the last patch and did some small perfor
Aquatics on Dev Branch
Aquatic animals are available for testing on development (beta) branch! New animals: - Mosasaurus - Ophthalmosaurus - Leedsichthys - Dunkleosteus - Helicoprion - Mawsonia - Coelacanth - Doryaspis - Dr
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Dinosaurs · Simulation · Casual · Strategy · Indie · Multiplayer · Survival · Open World · Shooter (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Hungarian, Portuguese - Brazil |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64-bit or later (64-Bit ONLY) Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz or faster. Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R9 280X series card or higher. DirectX: Version 10 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 20 GB available space Additional Notes: Dedicated Graphics Card Strongly Recommended. This game won't run well on laptops, notebooks etc.